Sunday Dinner: Wonders

Magnolia stellata

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“A man should hear a little music,

read a little poetry,

and see a fine picture every day of his life,

in order that worldly cares

may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful

which God has implanted in the human soul.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”

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Socrates

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“It is a happiness to wonder; –

– it is a happiness to dream.”

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Edgar Allan Poe

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“When we try to pick out anything by itself,

we find it hitched to everything else

in the universe.

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John Muir

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“The invariable mark of wisdom

is to see the miraculous in the common.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“When you don’t cover up the world

with words and labels,

a sense of the miraculous returns to your life

that was lost a long time ago

when humanity, instead of using thought,

became possessed by thought.”

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Eckhart Tolle

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Photos by Woodland Gnome 2018

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“Incidentally, the world is magical. 

Magic is simply

what’s off our human scale…

at the moment.”

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Vera Nazarian

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Sunday Dinner: “Just For a Second…”

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“Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things,

just sit still and let the world exist in front of you –

sometimes I swear that just for a second

time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt.

Just for a second.

And if you somehow found a way to live in that second,

then you would live forever.”

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Lauren Oliver

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“It is looking at things for a long time

that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”

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Vincent van Gogh

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Photos by Woodland Gnome 2016