The Red Wheelbarrow

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

- William Carlos Williams

The relegation of myth and fairy tale to childhood is a recent phenomenon.  Before the twentieth century, myths and fairy tales were the repository of the wisdom of a whole culture. The people in such societies had a profound understanding and respect for the psychological forces symbolized by these tales, and that understanding enabled them to experience a living spiritual dimension in everyday life.

- Robert Johnson

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.  - Charles Dickens

How did it happen that their lips came together?  How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill?  A kiss, and all was said.

- Victor Hugo

Truth is one; paths are many.

- Sri Swami Satchidananda

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings.  It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

- George Eliot

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.  - St. Francis of Assisi