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«First you need only look: Notice and honor the radiance of Everything about you... Play in this universe. Tend All these shining things around you: The smallest plant, the creatures and objects in your care. Be gentle and nurture. Listen...»
«I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...»
«I believe in the sun when it's not shining, I believe in love even when I feel it not, I believe in God even when he is silent.»
Author: Irish Sayings | About: Belief | Keywords: shining
«A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.»
«Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.»
«Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.»
«Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.»
«It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stony street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun»
«How doth the little crocodile / Improve his shining tail, / And pour the waters of the Nile,/ On every golden scale!»
«If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.»