love the moment

One with true virtue always seeks a way to give One who lacks virtue always seeks a way to get To the giver comes the fullness of life to the taker just an empty hand Tao 79 Who can offer an abundance to the world? One who has Tao Such a one can give like the heavens Tao 77 In the end, The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go Tao 75 Give like you own the world, because you do. All the beauty of spring, all the tenderness of babies, all the sweetness of love is there for you. And me. And even for those we dislike. Do not forget the wonders of now. They await you. If you will notice them. Remember birds. Recall honeysuckle. Honor the fallen flowers. They served honorably in the battle for your attention. dg Sent from my iPod

One who knows the truth that underlies all things lives in a world without danger To him, every word reflects creation every moment brings knowledge. Sent from my iPod

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but everyone is not entitled to their own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan It amazes me to read or hear the blather that proceeds from the mouths of pundits or politicians that reaches the world at large unchallenged. The idea of a considered remark seems - in today's world - passé. The idea of a rigorous mind engaged in a vigorous debate based on fact - rather than feeling - seems similarly out of style. When Rudy Gulliani can state - unchallenged - that no terrorist attack ocurred while George Bush was president is both amazing and disturbing. Did history already forget 9/11? I suppose I should not be surprised that our fixation on 15 minutes of fame trumps all other considerations. But surely those called Christians should be immune to such deception being as they are called "people of the book". Purportedly, both they and those of the Jewish faith rest their beliefs - not on whim or fancy - but on w...

"Though the Tao of Heaven has no favorites it always sides with the one who has a pure heart" Remember the good things That came to you unexpectedly The smile or kind word that came when you needed it most Remember all those things you feared that never came true There is a goodness in trees and birds and soft spring breezes that you cannot comprehend Remember the early morning light Magnificent That splayed reds and pinks across the sky - even on a cold morning It announced the joys that awaited you Remember dg Sent from my iPod

The message of Easter is the lengths to which God will go to find his lost ones.   There is no act so bad but that God will look past it - to the future good of that lost child, finally found.   Even those that crucified Jesus were offered forgiveness because they - like us - "knew not what they do..."   No matter how dark the days while we remain in the tomb of our making, the triumphant truth of Easter is that we, too, can always leave that tomb and enter the light of a reborn day. No matter how dead has become our heart - either through neglect or injustice - know this.  We can still live! No matter how much sorrow comes from bearing our personal cross, the message of Easter is that joy awaits - unseen and as yet, unknown. Do not stop believing even when no one else does.   In the end, if we choose it, Easter's Resurrection awaits us all.

One who gives freely Without attachment Gets a full life in return One who gives with a secret hope of getting Is merely engaged in business dg Sent from my iPod

I'm reading a collection of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson.  I find them very relevant to us, here and now, even though he wrote a in the 19th century - instead of the 21st. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. To be great is to be misunderstood. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. I must be myself.  I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart appoints. I cannot sell my liberty and my power to save their sensibility.