Blossoms In The Mist Quotes & Sayings

Into the Volcano (Wood 2008) holds out the promise of — Teri S. Lesesne

Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist.
Pink dragonflies fall from the air
and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter.
Like the smile of a child separated
from his mother's milk for the very first time.
from poem Blood and Blossoms — Aberjhani

Each of us has his own way of classifying humanity. To me, as a child, men and women fell naturally into two great divisions: those who had gardens and those who had only houses. Brick walls and pavements hemmed me in and robbed me of one of my birthrights; and to the fancy of childhood a garden was a paradise, and the people who had gardens were happy Adams and Eves walking in a golden mist of sunshine and showers, with green leaves and blue sky overhead, and blossoms springing at their feet; while those others, dispossessed of life's springs, summers, and autumns, appeared darkly entombed in shops and parlors where the year might as well have been a perpetual winter. — Eliza Calvert Hall

I'm very much open to the possibilities. — Matthew Lewis

There is no cure for the ills of the world except the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. — Joseph Fielding Smith

The Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years. — Robert M. Price

Any master skill in practice is about comprehending myriad elements and fitting them together in inspired ways that satisfy the objective. — Marian Deegan

Although we do nothing for God unto others perfectly, He nonetheless smiles upon and empowers our best efforts".

~R. Alan Woods [2010] — R. Alan Woods

I need this conversation. They say silence is golden. Maybe it is, although I'm not sure it's worth that much. It has its price certainly; you have to pay for it. — Andrzej Sapkowski

My bridled soul leaps under the pressure of desires,
Chained i am by this organic-societal form from galloping free
My mind heaves me to safety,but heart is ready for doom...
An all knowing glance pierced deep through my skin
Smiling at my ailing and confused form,
Invading my senses, feeding them to the eternal fires... — Gayathri Jayakumar

If I hear any more loud voices, you will both be auctioned off on eBay. I could use the extra money. — J.R. Rain

Meditate upon all the perfect light within your own mind! Do this repeatedly and the radiant Bodhisattvas of Wisdom and Laughter will visit you and change your karma forever! — Frederick Lenz

When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

Approaching the Start of Civil Exams

Perhaps I was once a young Chinese scholar
approaching the start of civil exams,
my mind grown weary and sad from seclusion
with books on syntax and poetic style.

All that I knew were the mist-covered mountains
and sweet white blossoms of mountain apples
that grew in the valleys of my province.

But I had been gone over six years
busy with studies in the Heavenly City
empty and thin despite my work.

I showed my verses to an older poet
who told me a truth I longed to believe:
all knowledge is futile and barren
which does not open the love of your friends. — Jim Chapson

Christmas magic is silent. You don't hear it---you feel it, you know it, you believe it. — Kevin Alan Milne

Don't look at the sun, but rather what it illuminates. — M.L. Wonder