Inspiration

The Nature of Inspired Living

‘Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed and a giant oak in an acorn…’ – William Arthur Ward (1921 -1994)

‘Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow…’ – Alice M. Swain (1897 – 1938)

‘The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre…’ – D.H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930)

‘Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient and unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant and elegant…’ – Morihei Ueshiba (1883 – 1969)

‘Any landscape is a condition of the spirit…’ – Henri-Frederic Amiel (1821- 1881)

‘For mountain and stream, tree and leaf , root and blossom; every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity…’ – Hermann Hesse (1877 – 1962)

‘If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the ease if a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength…’ – John Ruskin (1819 – 1900)

‘To watch corn grow, or blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read to think, to pray are the things that make men happy…’ – John Ruskin (1819 – 1900)

‘Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul…’ – Henry Ward Beecher (1813 -1887)

‘Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it…’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

‘I am certain of nothing but the holiness if the heart’s affections and the truth of the imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not…’ – John Keats ( 1795 – 1821)

‘Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope, we know it…’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)

‘Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough…’ – William Shakespeare ( 1564 – 1616)

‘You are the tree; Your branches have blossomed forth; From the very small and subtle, You have become manifest…’ – Sri Guru Granth Sahib (1563- 1606)

‘No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen…’ – Epictetus (AD 55 – c 135)