Views and Observations

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.
~Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. ~Robert Lynd

You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.
~Anthony J. D'Angelo

lunchtime
overlooking the road ahead
a hawk

~Haiku by Jane Reichhold

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. ~Joseph Joubert

In order to see birds it is necessary to become part of the silence. ~Robert Lynd

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
~Rabindranath Tagore

Finding Shadows

“To think of shadows is a serious thing.” ~Victor Hugo

"If you stand straight do not fear a crooked shadow." - Chinese Proverb

“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” ~Swedish proverb

Carl Jung believed that "in spite of its function as a reservoir for human darkness—or perhaps because of this—the shadow is the seat of creativity."

Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree, but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight. ~ The Talmud

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. ~Buddha

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ~Abraham Lincoln

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” ~Carl Sandburg

“Where there is much light, the shadow is deep” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"May your joys be as bright as the morning,

And your sorrows merely be shadows that fade,

In the sunlight of love." ~Irish blessing