Sunday Morning Quote for November 9, 2014

Why not go into the forest for a time, literally? Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books. 

- Carl Jung

Sunday Morning Quote for November 2, 2014

Creativity is the fire of love.

- Hali Karla, contemplative artist

Sunday Morning Quote - October 26, 2014

"Take care you don't know anything in this world

 too quickly or easily. 

Everything is also a mystery, 

and has its own secret aura in the moonlight,

 its private song." 

- Mary Oliver

Sunday Morning Quote - October 19, 2014

 The aim of life is to live, 

and to live means to be aware,

joyously, drunkenly, serenely,

divinely aware.

- Henry Miller

Sunday Morning Quote - October 12, 2014

 Originality does not consist in saying 

what no one has ever said before,

but in saying exactly what you think 

yourself.

- James Stephens

Sunday Morning Quote for October 5, 2014

A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. 

For in being what God means it to be, it is obeying Him. 

It 'consents', so to speak, to His creative love. 

It is expressing an idea which is in God 

and which is not distinct from the essence of God, 

and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree.

- Thomas Merton

Sunday Morning Quote for August 31, 2014

 We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time... in people and in things and in nature and in events... but we don't see it.

- Thomas Merton (1915-1968), Trappist Monk

Sunday Morning Quote for August 24, 2014

It is the marriage of the soul with 

Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, 

and gives birth to imagination.

- Henry David Thoreau

Sunday Morning Quote - August 17, 2014

"I don't know how anyone can live without finding some small place of enchantment to turn to."

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Sunday Morning Quote - August 10, 2014

We are the children of our landscape;

it dictates behavior and even thought

in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

Lawrence Durrell, Novelist

Sunday Morning Quote - August 3, 2014

While you are upon earth,

enjoy the good things

that are here.

John Selden, English Statesman (1584-1654)

Sunday Morning Quote July 27, 2014

To those who have not yet learned the secret of true happiness, 

begin now to study the little things in your own dooryard.

- George Washington Carver

Sunday Morning Quote July 20, 2014

Yesterday is a dream.

Tomorrow but a vision.

But today well lived makes every yesterday

a dream of Happiness.

And every tomorrow 

a vision of Hope.

Look well, therefore, to 

this Day.

- Sanskrit Proverb

Sunday Morning Quote July 13, 2014

Saturday Iris by Susan Ernst. The first of what I hope will be an ongoing series.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

 - Rumi

Sunday Morning Quote July 6, 2014

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,

 through which God speaks to us every hour, 

if we only will tune in.

- George Washington Carver (1864-1943), American scientist

A New Series - Sunday Morning Quotes

I posted yesterday, but it has been a while since I have done anything regular here. I've decided to do a weekly post entitled Sunday Morning Quote. My aim is to share quotes that I find inspiring or that speak the thoughts and feelings I sometimes have a difficult time articulating.  I will try to find a photo from the Hortus Conclusus to fit or compliment it.

Please feel free to add a comment if the quote inspires or speaks to you as well.