Apiarian

"Were I to be the founder of a new sect,

I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee, advise them to extract the honey of every sect."  

- Thomas Jefferson

Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.

~ Rumi

With every breath I plant the seeds of devotion ;

I am a farmer of the Heart.

~ Rumi

The roots of love are eternity. The leaves of love are creation.

~ Rumi

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity.

- John Muir

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

- Mencius

Take someone who doesn't keep score,

who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,

who has not the slightest interest even

in his own personality: he's free.

~ Rumi

"We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience."

~John Dewey (1859-1952)

We are stars wrapped in skin,

The light you are seeking has always been within.

~ Rumi

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

- Carl Jung

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.

It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home,

a stranger into a friend.

- Melody Beattie