Do Good Anyway .......

Beautiful words from Mother Teresa

“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”
Mother Teresa

and Happy Chinese New Year to everyone !! The Year of the Dragon ;)
Much abundance and good fortune to all
The colorful and beautiful celebrations will be going on in San Francisco for a couple weeks !

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Rose

 

 

 

"That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty,
He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful."
- Rumi

I've been going through some big life changes this spring and summer , and moment by moment remembering to stay connected to my heart and the beauty there, and the unchanging deep peace and clarity beneath all the situations of life

Two Pears

 

 

Study of Two Pears

by Wallace Stevens

Opusculum paedagogum. The pears are not viols, Nudes or bottles.They resemble nothing else.
They are yellow forms Composed of curves Bulging toward the base. They are touched red.

They are not flat surfaces Having curved outlines.They are round . Tapering toward the top.

In the way they are modelled There are bits of blue.A hard dry leaf hangs . From the stem.

The yellow glistens.It glistens with various yellows,Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.

The shadows of the pears Are blobs on the green cloth. The pears are not seen. As the observer wills.