365 Thoughts of Harmony with the Seasons

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JANUARY

MAY

SEPTEMBER APRIL

NOVEMBER FEBRUARY JUNE OCTOBER

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS - ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

4th January

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

– Heraclitus

5th January

When you make friends with the present moment, you feel at home no matter where you are.

– Eckhart Tolle

4th February

On the highest peaks, you realize that snow, sky, and gold have the same value.

5th February

A peak reached is the boundary between the finite and the immense.

18th March

Unlike the butterfly, we alternate between the cocoon and the butterfly many times.

– Charlotte Joko Beck

19th March

Dare to become who you are.

– André Gide

20th March

Your time as a caterpillar has expired. Your wings are ready.

Joey Martina

6th

May

The most beautiful flowers often bloom from seeds planted in cold, damp mud.

7th May

The creative power of nature is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.

23rd May

If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.

24th May

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

29th

June

Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

30th

June

The most characteristic sign of wisdom is a constant joy; its condition is like that of things above the moon: always serene.

23rd August

You are here, right now, the result of all the previous pictures you have painted for yourself, and you can paint new ones.

24th August

When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present.

26th October

Love what you are, as you are. Never compare yourself to others.

– Sergio Bambarén

27th October

In youth we learn; in age we understand.
– Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

23rd December

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

– Clive Staples Lewis

24th December

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

– Thomas Mann

PHOTO CREDITS

COVER: Shaiith/Shutterstock

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Introduction

Manuela Perugini

Edited and Graphic Designer

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