The Shape of Light: THE JOYS THAT ENDURE

Thursday, April 26, 2018

THE JOYS THAT ENDURE

American Goldfinch

Upstate South Carolina

One thing is certain, and I have always known it — the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about . . .

May Sarton

At Seventy: A Journal

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John "By Stargoose And Hanglands"April 27, 2018 at 4:34 AM
Well, I haven't always known it. Like most people I spent a long time chasing after well-publicised phantoms before I settled down to enjoy what was right before me all the time.
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GeorgeApril 27, 2018 at 5:30 AM
I know what you mean, John. Such a relief to discover that everything we need can be found in the present moment, wherever we stand.
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VOICES OF INSPIRATION

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ~ Ansel Adams

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world. ~ Henry Miller

You don't take a photograph, you make it. ~ Ansel Adams

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. ~ Dorothea Lange

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~ Confucius

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. ~ Pierre Bonnard

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. ~ Henry Miller

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. ~ William Blake