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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 22:48:33 +0000

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

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 18:27:54 +0000

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

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 23 May 2021 22:33:07 +0000

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

Gregory Bateson

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 23:36:27 +0000

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Edmund Hilary

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 23:37:53 +0000

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

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 23:39:18 +0000

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things are connected.

Chief Seattle

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 23:51:24 +0000

Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated, they represent a bridge between the invisible and the visible.

Paulo Coelho

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 23:34:59 +0000

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

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 24 May 2020 22:40:20 +0000

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

Church of Sant’ Agostino

CherryPie — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 20:26:33 +0000

The Church of St. Augustine is located in one of the loveliest corners of Taormina. We are talking of the famous Piazza IX Aprile reached along the equally famous Corso Umberto that runs through the city of Taormina. From here you can admire the Gulf of Taormina and the imposing profile of Etna which dominates the eastern area of Sicily. Built in 1448, the Church of St. Augustine was founded after the city was liberated from the plague, as a sign of devotion to Saint Sebastian. With the arrival of the Augustinian friars of Taormina, the church was enlarged and took on the appearance of a convent no longer facing San Sebastiano but in St. Augustine. Entering inside the church will immediately notice the ceiling characterized by the presence of wooden beams with the side arches and Corinthian columns fake. The original Gothic-Sicilian style late through a transformation phase around 1700, when the great pointed arch of the main entrance was replaced with a stone lintel of Taormina. Today, the original facade, it remains only a small rosette and the top of the arched portal. The church of St. Augustine is now used as a library.