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06/14/2026

We try to take life at our own conscious pace
rather than get caught up in a rush.
-Robert Burton

Friends, wait for God.
-Epictetus

Take time to pause.
-Shakespeare

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Helios on His Chariot, H. A. Weissenkircher,
(1685) Austrian

06/13/2026

What is Presence but essence aware of itself?
A simple, gentle child.
-Robert Burton

The purpose and essence of the known life, the transient,
is to form and decide identity for the unknown life.
The permanent.
-Walt Whitman

Childhood is the kingdom, where nobody dies.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Cantoria (detail), Luca della Robbia

06/12/2026

Right now we are caterpillars becoming butterflies.
-Robert Burton

The essence of being is becoming.
-Heraclitus

The Child is the father of Man.
-William Wordsworth

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Caterpillars, Butterflies, and Flower,
Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, 1705,
Maria Merian

06/11/2026

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly,
but rarely admit the changes it has
gone through to achieve that beauty.
-Maya Angelou

The wakeful heart is one that has lost itself in the real.
-Rabia

The lower self is all about becoming bigger
while the higher Self is all about
becoming inconspicuously smaller.
-Robert Burton

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Immortality, Erastus Dow Palmer

06/10/2026

Putting your nature in order is like tuning
a stringed instrument. If the string is too tight
it will snap, and if it is too loose it will not respond.
-Wang Chongyang

Higher forces carry a wand in one hand,
and a club in the other, and we experience both.
-Robert Burton

Only when yin and yang are harmoniously combined
is it possible to accomplish things. With yang strong on the inside
and yin submissive on the outside, it is possible
to reach the realm of pure yang with no yin.
-Liu Yiming, hexagram #11 Tranquility

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Benzaiten, Japanese Goddess of music
Ogawa Haritsu, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

06/09/2026

Image:
The characters for Golden Flower [金华】contain the character for light 【光】-

I have a beautiful child who is like golden flowers.
-Sappho

The golden flower is light. What is light?
It is symbolized by a golden flower,
which hides the word light in it.
-The Secret of the Golden Flower

There is an enormous amount of love hidden in essence,
and, if we do not express negative emotions,
then conscious love is allowed to flower.
-Robert Burton

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06/08/2026

There is no need to discuss
The principles of dharma;
Just listen carefully to the wind
Outside in the pines and the cedars.
-Zen Master Ryonen Genso

When one becomes quiet,
one starts seeing things.
-Robert Burton

Here my spirit in its dress of stillness
stands before you, - oh, do you not see?
Rainer Maria Rilke

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Wind from the Sea, Andrew Wyeth, 1947

06/06/2026

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains
and troubles is, to school an intelligence
and make it a soul?
-John Keats

Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.
-Euripides

We always need what we are given whether
it be a pleasant experience or rough friction.
-Robert Burton

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Between Wealth and Love,
William-Adolphe Bouguereau

06/05/2026

Try to allow for being weary of the struggle. It will pass.
-Robert Burton

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you.
All things are transient.
-St. Teresa of Avila

Continue because you must.
Johann von Goethe

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Sleep, Jean-Bernard Restout

06/04/2026

All men and women are designed to crack
so that presence may emerge.
-Robert Burton

The wound is the place
where the Light enters you.
-Rumi

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
-Leonard Cohen, Anthem

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Ancient of Days, William Blake, 1794

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