Poems Summer 2007                                             
 

Suddenly it became clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.

Eric Lander

The outer world is necessary for the inner world; they’re not two worlds but a single world with two aspects: the outer and the inner………………..We need the sun, the moon, the stars, the rivers, and the mountains and the trees, the flowers, the birds, the song of the birds, the fish in the sea, to evoke a world of mystery, to evoke the sacred.

Thomas Berry

Nothing wholesome can be achieved by force.

Donna Holleman

Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.

Anon

We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.

Anais Nin

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

In the Navejo tradition, a child’s birthday is the celebration of the first time that child laughs. At that moment, the Navajo believe, the child’s soul attaches to the body.

Binghamton Press & Sun

The only limit to our realisation of tomorrow will be the doubts of today.

F.D. Roosevelt

I do not have to tie myself in knots to gain illumination

Buddha

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share, and sought advantage over no one.

Robert Brault