The Quickening
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of...
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The Blue Flower
Literature, Nature, Transcendence
The Blue Flower
Literature, Nature, Transcendence
Welcome to The Blue Flower! The Blue Flower is a passion project of contemplative writing, an inspirational blog where I reflect on and synthesize observations, ideas, and experiences that heighten awareness, quicken the imagination, and fuel spiritual curiosity. The blue flower is a literary symbol, originating with German Romanticism, that represents a longing for beauty and the transcendent. You can learn more about the significance of the blue flower as a symbol in my "About" section.
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This Sacred Possibility
*This is part of a two-part series on transcendent living: examining how we can focus on the half we can control in any situation (our...
The Half You Can Control
“A little thought will show you how vastly your own happiness depends on the way other people bear themselves toward you. The looks and...
Nature's Secret
“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson No one likes to wait. I have had a lot of experience with...
Sacred Spaces: Without and Within
“To have a sacred space is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t...
Outside the Machine
*This is the third in a series on Slowing Down. “Knock, knock, knock. Must, must, must. Must go, must sleep, must wake, must get up –...
The Unfolding of a Year
”I shall there unfold and take out whatever it is I have made here; something hard. For something has grown in me here, through the...
Possess and Consume
“Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language and yet one that we are culturally cut off from...
Homecoming
“Whether it’s Mama’s house, Auntie’s front porch, Grandmama’s kitchen, or Sister’s cramped apartment, go back to the place where you are...
Wanting What You Have
"Try to want what you have instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want.” ~Abraham L. Feinberg Every day we have...
Out of the Mud
“How significant that the rich, black mud of our dead stream produces the water lily -- out of that fertile slime springs this spotless...
Less and Less
“The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.” ~Annie Dillard I...
Everyday Transcendence
“Between the stimulus and the response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our...
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