A Gift of Calm

There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity,

a silence that is a fountain of action and joy,

It rises up in wordless gentleness and flows out to me

from unseen roots of all created being.

- Thomas Merton (1915-1968)

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Sepia Filipiniana

Occasion: An afternoon walk in Manila

Location: Intramuros, Manila

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Lights of the Temple

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Stronger

The one who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.

- Japanese Wisdom

Real Strength

Nothing is so strong as gentleness; Nothing so gentle as real strength.

 - St. Francis de Sales

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Tomorrow

You can destroy your future by worrying about tomorrow.

- James Joplin (1943-1970)

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Free

The best things in life are free.

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Be

If you want to be happy,  be.

- Leo Tolstoy

True

True beauty must come, must be grown, from within ....
- Ralph W. Trine (1866-1958)

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Focused

The quiter you become, the more you can hear.

- Baba Ram Dass

Here and Now

How simple and frugal a thing is Happiness:

All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness

is a simple, frugal heart.

- Nikos Kazantzakis (1885-1957)

Lovely Time

Every Moment

Every moment there is news coming out of silence.

- Rainer Maria Wilke (1875-1926)

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Much Silence

Much silence has a mighty noise. 

- Swahili Proverb

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