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The home is a sacred place where you can communicate with the four elements of the universe: earth, water, air and fire," says writer and kitchen mystic Laura Esquivel,"
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Lift up your worries and ask for grace to get through the rest of the day.
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If, as Herod, we fill our lives with things, and again with things; if we consider ourselves so unimportant that we must Jill every moment of our lives with action, when will we have the time to make the long, slow journey across the desert as did the Magi? Or sit and watch the stars as did the shepherds? Or brood over the coming of the child as did Mary? For each one of us, there is a desert to travel. A star to discover. And a being withi..
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As Kathy sang of friends who had been taken for granted, sweethearts she had known, and a wonderful world full of strangers just waiting to make a connection with us (while we turn our eyes away), something deep within me stirred. There was so much I was taking for granted. I didn't want to continue to live unconsciously. The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appre..
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Summer's lease hath all too short a date. --WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Aficionados
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step in overcoming the consequences of any misfortune." Being"
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There are voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON It's
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Then make sure there's at least three moments today that fulfill mind, spirit, and body with what you alone must have.
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In order for us to awaken and "to begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses," Ackerman urges. "The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern."
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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror. --ANTONIO PORCHIA
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Because of all the love he and his family bestowed on their home, "it had a heart and a soul, and eyes to see with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benedictions. We never came home from an absence that its face did not light up and speak out in eloquent welcome--and we could not enter it unmoved."
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It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me. --MARY ANTIN Like
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Lovely July... with the evocative murmur of honey bees on the wing and the smell of sun tan cream. --C
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I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. --ST. PAUL In
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Hospitality is one form of worship. --THE TALMUD Like
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Meditation, creative movement, moments of self-nurturance that bring contentment--all can become positive habits of well-being.
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In the sultry summer months, when the windows are closed to keep in the air conditioning, wait until the evening when it cools down. Be sure to open the windows after a summer shower for a delightful scent. If
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Native Americans burn sage bundles to purify their surroundings and to invoke a blessing on the sacred space of their dwellings.
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If we are willing to learn our lessons gently, they patiently await us in countless ways.
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What would summer be without the contemplation of the preserved, the pickled, the potted, the candied, the brandied--the fabulous foodstuffs of fancy pantries? Like
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A hobby affords us a marvelous opportunity to awaken our natural talents.
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Desire, Ask, Believe, Receive," the mystic Stella Terrill Mann advises."
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The Great Creator does not play favorites; each of us came into being to carry on the re-creation of the world through our gifts.
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But if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself. --CARL JUNG Do
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The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart, The secret anniversaries of the heart... --HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW This
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Gardening is an instrument of grace. --MAY SARTON Gardening
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Feng Shui: The Chinese Art of Placement and Interior Design with Feng Shui,
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Take pictures off a wall and clear tabletops and mantels for one week to experience "the fullness of nothing."
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Today, no matter where or how you live, look upon your home through the eyes of Love. Walk around the rooms and offer thanks for the walls and roof that safely enclose you and yours. Pause for a moment to consider all the women who have lost their homes through death, divorce, debt, or disaster. Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that, at this moment, all you have is all you truly need. MAY
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us. --VIRGINIA WOOLF In
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A confused mind cannot direct deft hands and what is more confusing than a cluttered, disorderly place to work? What is more uninviting, too? The grateful appearance of order--this is the one important way women judge each other's housekeeping. And every efficient housekeeper knows that in no room does it count for more than in the kitchen. --WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION,
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When we are authentic, when we keep our spaces simple, simply beautiful living takes place. --ALEXANDRA STODDARD We
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I'd rather have roses on my table, than diamonds on my neck. --EMMA GOLDMAN The
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Potlucks are a marvelous simple pleasure worthy of revival.
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Soul Food: Classic Cuisine from the Deep South that it's "a legacy clearly steeped in tradition; a way of life that has been handed down from generation to generation." --
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Hands to work, hearts to God. --SHAKER AXIOM
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One of the reasons women often don't feel successful is we never give ourselves credit.
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We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us. --WINSTON CHURCHILL The
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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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Nobody can duplicate your work because there's no one in the world like you. They can imitate, but they can't duplicate. Your work is born of your sensibilities, temperament, experience, emotion, passion, perseverance, attention to detail, idiosyncrasies, and eccentricities. When you're authentic, so is your art.
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souls should have a pantry, however modest
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Answering a Higher Call Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. --BUDDHA
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Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it. --RAINER MARIA RILKE
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to live well is to work well.
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