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First Sip: November 2014
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Friday, November 28, 2014. A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still. Friday, November 28, 2014. Labels: Poems and Quotes. Thursday, November 27, 2014. It’s never what we do that matters, but rather, how we do it. The secret ingredient isn’t ambition, but love. We make a gift of our lives, of ourselves, in simple ways – by being kind, by being compassionate, by paying attention, by being useful in whatever way we can, wherever we happen to be, in whatever time we have. Labels: Poems and Quotes.
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First Sip: Great Things Have Happened
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Monday, April 20, 2015. Great Things Have Happened. We were talking about the great things. That have happened in our lifetimes;. And I said, "Oh, I suppose the moon landing. Was the greatest thing that has happened. In my time." But, of course, we were all lying. The truth is the moon landing didn't mean. One-tenth as much to me as one night in 1963. When we lived in a three-room flat in what once had been. The mansion of some Victorian merchant prince. Our kitchen had been a clothes closet, I'm sure),.
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First Sip: Greet Yourself
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out. Like a welcomed season. Onto the meadows and shores and hills. Open up to the Roof. Make a new water-mark on your excitement. Like a blooming night flower,. Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness and giving. Upon our intimate assembly. Change rooms in your mind for a day. All the hemispheres in existence. Lie beside an equator in your heart. In your thousand other forms. All the hemispheres in heaven.
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First Sip: It Goes On
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Friday, May 8, 2015. In three words I can sum up everything. I've learned about life: it goes on. Friday, May 08, 2015. Labels: Poems and Quotes. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Offers a small helping of inspiration to accompany the first few sips of your day. May these words and images serve as touchstones that inspire you to live in deeper happiness, clarity and peace. Would you like to receive these daily quotes in your inbox? If so, please contact First Sip. Please also visit Inside Out.
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First Sip: Stream of Life
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Monday, May 11, 2015. The same stream of life that runs through my veins. Night and day runs through the world and. Dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that. Shoots in joy through the dust of the earth. In numberless blades of grass and. Breaks into tumultuous waves. Of leaves and flowers. It is the same life. That is rocked in the. Ocean-cradle of birth and of death,. In ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs made glorious. By the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the.
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First Sip: February 2015
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Friday, February 27, 2015. Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. Friday, February 27, 2015. Labels: Poems and Quotes. Thursday, February 26, 2015. Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to. Is better than the one to come? Thursday, February 26, 2015. Labels: Poems and Quotes. Wednesday, February 25, 2015.
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First Sip: True Colors
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015. I pray that each of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss willingly and that our fall is cushioned by faith - faith that at the bottom we will be caught and taught and turned toward the light. I pray that we don't waste precious energy feeling ashamed of our mistakes, or embarrassed by our flaws. Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Labels: Poems and Quotes. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Would you like to receive these daily quotes in your inbox?
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First Sip: Moments of Happiness
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015. In our most ordinary days we have moments of happiness, moments of comfort and enjoyment, moments of seeing something that pleased us, something that touched us, moments of contacting the tenderness of our hearts. We can take joy in that. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Labels: Poems and Quotes. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Would you like to receive these daily quotes in your inbox? If so, please contact First Sip. Please also visit Inside Out.
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First Sip: The Parable of the Open Cup
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015. The Parable of the Open Cup. One day some people came to the master and asked, “How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness and death? The master held up a glass and said “Someone gave me this glass, and I really like this glass. It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! 8220;One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table.
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