Ingrid Goff Maidoff - Tending Joy

Celebrating Poetry, Beauty,
& the Sacred Essence of Joy

Posts Tagged ‘joyful quotes’

One Hundred Fortunes Raffle

We wrapped fortunes this week, and I fell in love with them all over again.  Enter a comment below, and let me know if you’d like to be in the raffle.  I’ll draw two or three winners on Friday the 6th.

 These beautifully wrapped packages contain 100 Fortunes: useful, smart and sometimes witty proverbs and pith sayings from throughout time and around the world.  Each is a blessing and a bit of wisdom for living a deep, wide, rich and contented life.  Perfect for party favors, office gifts, conversation starters or personal reflection, these fortunes will bring you wisdom to draw from throughout your many days.

Summer Splendors, Photos and Quotes

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This post is inspired by a quotation I clipped from the top of the Vineyard Gazette newspaper, and which I have had pinned to my wall for many years as wonderful words to live by: 

To let no bird fly past unnoticed… to have the mind a storehouse of sunsets,
requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.

~G.K. Chesterton

Here are a few summer photographs from life here on the Vineyard, mixed with quotations from my One Hundred Fortunes Collection.

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We are not separate from Being.  We are in it.  ~Plotinus

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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
D.H. Lawrence

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. ~Goethe

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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
~Henry David Thoreau

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In every human being, there is a special heaven
whole and unbroken.
~Paracelsus

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At the center of your being you have the answer.
You know who you are
and you know what you want.
~Lao Tzu

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The only wealth is life.
~Henry David Thoreau

New Gifts: Bliss Boxes

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I’ve been waiting patiently for the arrival of these boxes so I could wrap them and fill them with 52 inspiring quotations, carefully selected to help bring us back to our centers.  I call these BLISS BOXES, and I’m so happy to share them.  Click here for product detail page.

A Sacred Pause

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Ask me for a certain amount of dollars if you will.
But do not ask me for my afternoons.
~Henry David Thoreau

A Sacred Pause

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 Within you are gardens, rare flowers, peacocks,
 the inner music; Within you a lake of bliss,
on it the white soul-swans take their joy.
~Mirabai

translated by Jane Hirshfield
Women in Praise of the Sacred

 

A Sacred Pause

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From within or from behind
a light shines through us upon things,
and makes us aware that we are nothing,
but the light is all.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson