July Meditation

Trees are sanctuaries.  Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to 

listen to them, can learn the truth.  They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach

undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

-  Hermann Hesse,  Wandering

July Meditation

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

-  John Burroughs

July Meditation

In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude

and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them

once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an

experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense

of the sacredness of all creation.

-   Sigurd Olson (1899-1982)

July Meditation

The inability to stay quiet is one 

of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

-  Walter Bagehot, 1870 

July Meditation

There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden,
but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.-   Minnie Aumonier

June Meditation

"Friends are the sunshine of life." -  John Hay

September Meditations

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to everything else in the world. 
     John Muir

August Meditation

Without music, life would be a mistake. 
     Fredrick Nietzsche 

August Meditation

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.  Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. 
          Martin Luther King

August Meditation

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

July Meditation

When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love. 

Marcus Aurelius 

June Meditations

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. 

Marcus Aurelius

May Meditations

When the power of love is greater than the love of power, the world will know peace.

     Jimi Hendrix

May Meditations

Raise your words, not voice.  It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

     Rumi

May Meditations

This above all: to thine own self be true, 
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not be false to any man.

     Shakespeare 

May Meditations

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

     Victor Hugo

Meditation

"Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before!  What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store?  What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more?

Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Meditation



“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
― Abraham Lincoln

Meditation



Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

     Abraham Lincoln 

Meditations October 2

"Animals are not just living things; they are beings with lives. Next time you are outside, notice the first bird you see. You are beholding a unique individual with personality traits, an emotional profile and a library of knowledge built on experience. What you are witnessing is not just biology... but a biography."

(Jonathan Balcombe)
Charles Littleleaf Native Flutes