Thursday, July 30, 2009

Light Moment

When you were born, you cried
and the world rejoiced.
Live your life
so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.


- White Elk

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Light Moment

“Hope is like a road in the country; there wasn't ever a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”

- Lin Yutang

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Light Moment

“The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.”

- William Shakespeare

Monday, July 27, 2009

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Light Moment


“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”

- Mother Teresa



Offer someone a compassionate smile today. I bet they need it!

Friday, July 24, 2009

Light Moment

“There are times when silence has the loudest voice.”

~ Leroy Brownlow

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Light Moment

“How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!”

~ George Elliston

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Light Moment

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

- Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Monday, July 20, 2009

Light Moment

This is now.

Now is, all there is.

Don’t wait for then;

Strike the spark, light the fire.

- Rumi from poem entitled “Begin”

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Light Moment

“Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed!”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Light Moment

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Friday, July 17, 2009

Light Moment

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.”

- Thomas Edison

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Light Moment

“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”

- Ryunosuke Satoro

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Light Moment

“We confuse attachment with love. Attachment is concerned with my needs, my happiness, while love is an unselfish attitude, concerned with the needs and happiness of others.... A relationship free of unrealistic grasping is free of disappointment, conflict, jealousy, and other problems, and is fertile ground for the growth of love and wisdom.”

- Kathleen McDonald, "How to Meditate"

Painting is entitled Mother with Child by annie b. For more of her work, please go to: http://www.annieb-art.co.uk/

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Light Moment

“The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.”

~ Brian Greene

Monday, July 13, 2009

Light Moment

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”

- Pablo Picasso

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Light Moment


“It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.”

~ Mother Teresa


Saturday, July 11, 2009

Light Moment

“A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows the corners.”

- Irish Proverb

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Light Moment

“Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.”

- Greg Anderson

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Light Moment

“On the spiritual path no one has higher or lower status than anyone else.”

- Nizam al-Din

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Light Moment

“The power to question is the basis of all human progress”

~Indira Gandhi

Monday, July 6, 2009

Light Moment

“You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

- Christopher Robin to Pooh

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Light Moment

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”

- Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Light Moment

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

- Nelson Mandela

Happy 4th of July!

Friday, July 3, 2009

Light Moment

“Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.”

- Beca Lewis Allen

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Light Moment

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

- Dr. Seuss

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Light Moment

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

~ Alan Watts