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The Universal Language

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
- William Arthur Ward

Beauty in Imperfection

Wabi Sabi is a way of seeing the world that is at the heart of Japanese culture.
It finds beauty and harmony in what is simple, imperfect, natural, modest, and mysterious.
- Mark Reibstein, Wabi Sabi

Back to Burma

This is Burma, and it is unlike any land you know about.
Rudyard Kipling, Letters from the East (1898)

Life in Black and White

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The Life of Things

While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.
- William Wordsworth,
Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
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Gift of Grandparents

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. 
Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.  
- Alex Haley

The Healer’s Art

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness.
Conviviality is healing.
To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.
- Wendell Berry

Eloquence of the Eye

The soul has an interpreter – often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter – in the eye.
- Charlotte Bronte

Family and Friends

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender-these form the wealth of home.

-Sarah J. Hale