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To Be Good Is An Art

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by Viktoria Vidali on February 3, 2012

in Quotations

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. ~ Seneca

[Image: Shop window at dusk, Rome, Italy.]

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Return

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by Viktoria Vidali on January 15, 2012

in Monthly Post

As the days begin to grow shorter following the Fall Equinox in North America, migrating monarch butterflies set out on their long journey ~ as far as 2,000 miles ~ to escape the cold of Winter. They are the only butterflies to regularly migrate both north and south as birds do.
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Happiness Revealed

by Viktoria Vidali on December 9, 2011

in Great Things To Share,Videos

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Perennial Joy

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by Viktoria Vidali on December 5, 2011

in General,Monthly Image Post

What is your source of perennial joy? Do you have one? What thought, memory, image, or understanding can you rely on, do you trust to rekindle the wonder and magic for life you once felt as a child?
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One Dazzling Moment

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by Viktoria Vidali on November 4, 2011

in Quotations

When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert (from her biography of naturalist Eustace Conway)

[Image: View of Whidbey Island from Port Townsend, WA.]

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Great And Immeasurable

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by Viktoria Vidali on April 29, 2011

in Quotations

If you can stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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Stay Close To Nature

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by Viktoria Vidali on April 1, 2011

in Quotations

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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Beautiful Mountain

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by Viktoria Vidali on November 1, 2010

in General,Weekly Image

Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Monte Bello Open Space Preserve (It. “Beautiful Mountain”) is a spectacular place for hiking, mountain biking, picnicking, photographing, and for enjoying panoramic views of Santa Clara Valley and beyond.
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Things Will Happen

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by Viktoria Vidali on October 11, 2010

in General,Weekly Post

When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,
and when we escape like squirrels
turning in the cages of our personality
and get into the forests again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us
so that we don’t know ourselves.
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Something Of The Marvelous

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by Viktoria Vidali on July 9, 2010

in Quotations

In all natural things, there is something of the marvelous. ~ Aristotle

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