Wisdom Circle: October 20, 2014

Wisdom Circle 10202014

– photograph of painting by Richard Jacobus

How much better it is
to carry wood to the fire
than to moan about your life.
How much better
to throw the garbage
onto the compost, or to pin the clean
sheet on the line
with a gray-brown wooden clothes pin!

– Jane Kenyon

 

Wisdom Circle: October 6, 2014

HIChapel Rainbow  Temple Rainbow2

Rainbow over Christ Chapel, Holy Innocents and Temple Sinai on the eve of Rosh Hashanah

 

If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors,
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.

– Lao-tzu