Cherie's Place » Taormina 2019 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life… Tue, 05 May 2026 22:40:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2024/08/18/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-658/ http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2024/08/18/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-658/#comments Sun, 18 Aug 2024 18:45:09 +0000 CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=27118 In the heart of a volcano, one can hear the whisper of the Earth.

Fahad Ahammed

Etna

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Elizabeth Aston

Mount Etna

]]> http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2024/07/07/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-652/feed/ 11 Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2024/02/25/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-639/ http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2024/02/25/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-639/#comments Sun, 25 Feb 2024 23:44:44 +0000 CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=26373 A human being is part of the whole, called by us “universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

A Drop in the Ocean

]]> http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2024/02/25/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-639/feed/ 10 Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2022/04/10/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-606/ http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2022/04/10/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-606/#comments Sun, 10 Apr 2022 22:48:33 +0000 CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=24760 One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend only a little of this mystery every day.

Albert Einstein

Etna

]]> http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2022/04/10/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-606/feed/ 4 Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2022/01/31/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-598/ http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2022/01/31/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-598/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2022 01:18:25 +0000 CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=24321 I don’t climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself.

Nanao Sasaki

Misty Mountain

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J. Krishnamurti

Etna Sunset

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John Muir

Etna

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Gregory Bateson

Forces of Nature

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Rumi

Field of Dreams

]]> http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2021/05/10/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-576/feed/ 4 Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2021/03/28/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-573/ http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2021/03/28/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-573/#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2021 21:56:20 +0000 CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=23441 Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

George Bernard Shaw

Etna

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