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September 18, 2018 By W. Lee Baker

Get a Gift

Everyone likes to get gifts, right? You feel remembered by others, honored, and cherished. What’s not to like? And giving gifts to people we love, revere, or with whom we want to be closer is enjoyable, one of the best rituals of life. Whether you get or give gifts, it’s a win-win. Everyone feels good… [Read More]

Filed Under: Meditations, Noticing in everyday life

September 4, 2018 By W. Lee Baker

Hey, What’s the Idea?

Has someone ever challenged you to explain what the *$% you are up to? The noble idea that it’s OK for people to agree to disagree is a challenge for lots of people. Good luck. Being part of a family, tribe, group, or nation is a comfort zone for everyone. Mostly there is agreement to… [Read More]

Filed Under: Meditations, Noticing in everyday life, Spirituality

June 5, 2018 By W. Lee Baker

I Know What I Want, or Do I?

Sometimes I wonder if I’m doing the right thing. Life is coming at all of us in a fast stream. We swim as fast as we can just to keep up. I am “mature”, that is past middle age and have the scars to prove it. I may have a different point of view than… [Read More]

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MEDITATIONS

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night: to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring… these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

John Burroughs

Everything is beautiful in its own way. Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter’s day. And everybody’s beautiful in their own way. Under God’s heaven, the world’s gonna find the way. There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older,it’s time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Ray Stevens - 1939

We return thanks to our mother, the earth, which sustains us. We return thanks to the rivers and streams, which supply us with water. We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines for the cure of our diseases. We return thanks to the moon and stars, which have given to us their light when the sun was gone. We return thanks to the sun, that has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye. Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit, in whom is embodied all goodness, and who directs all things for the good of her children.

Native American

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

Rumi

Watch nature, because it is your greatest teacher. It moves and flows and moves on again. There is an incredible beauty out there in the mountains, in the forests, to teach you it’s silence, it’s beauty, it’s humility. Stay aligned to that.

Stuart Wilde ~ 1946

If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor, then everything will become easier for you.

Rainer Maria Rilke

When the days become longer and there is more sunshine, the grass becomes fresh and, consequently, we feel very happy. On the other hand, in autumn, one leaf falls down and another leaf falls down. The beautiful plants become as if dead and we do not feel very happy. Why? I think it is because deep down our human nature likes construction, and does not like destruction.

Dalai Lama

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

Hermann Hesse

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FROM W LEE BAKER

I am a testimonial to waking up from the deep sleep buried in clouds of doubt. I wandered lost until I found my way into this life, and I am ever thankful and reverent of the mistakes and losses along the way. Now I hope to offer inspiration to others who find this story.

– W Lee Baker

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