Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity…
John Muir
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Filed under Holidays, Taormina 2019
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
10 Comments CherryPie on Jun 6th 2021
Filed under Holidays, Taormina 2019
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Out beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
Rumi
4 Comments CherryPie on May 10th 2021
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
George Bernard Shaw
2 Comments CherryPie on Mar 28th 2021
Filed under Holidays, Taormina 2019
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Edmund Hilary
6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 21st 2021
Filed under Holidays, Taormina 2019
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson
6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 14th 2021
Filed under Faith Foundations, Science & Nature, Taormina 2019
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
If you imagine yourself as separate from the world, the world will appear as separate from you and you will experience desire and fear. I do not see the world as separate from me and so there is nothing for me to desire, or fear.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 7th 2021
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Everything that in nature is great, everything that is pleasant, everything that is terrible, it is comparable to the Etna and Etna is not comparable to anything.
Voyage en Sicilie, 1788 Dominique Vivand Denon
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 24th 2021
