Some people think they have discernment when actually they are just suspicious.
Suspicion comes out of the unrenewed mind; discernment comes out of the renewed spirit.
–Joyce Meyer, Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is an image from Pixabay.
As Aristotle said, ‘Excellence is a habit.’ I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he’s ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.
—Criss Jami, Killosophy
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s water flowing along the sidewalk into a storm drain. This was taken in 2016 on a bright fall afternoon, no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my Kodak Share digital camera.
The truth is messy. It’s raw and uncomfortable. You can’t blame people for preferring lies.
–Holly Black, Red Glove
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Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall.
–Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this blooming redbud on a lunchtime walk around the Richmond capital buildings. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my Kodak Share digital camera. I like how the background came out a little blurry…
Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall.
–Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a lovely sunset taken during a trip to Delaware in August, 2008. A simple snap from my Kodak Share camera.
Renew thyself completely each day.
–Henry David Thoreau
Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this container of pansies on a lunchtime walk around downtown Richmond, VA. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my Kodak Share digital camera. And it’s even a little blurry…
They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other
–Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a maple sapling growing between stone pavers in my backyard. Taken on an overcast day with no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
–R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a glass sun-catcher that hangs in my office window. Taken on an bright morning with no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.
–Pearl S. Buck
Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this blooming redbud on a lunchtime walk around the Richmond capital buildings. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my Kodak Share digital camera. I like how the background came out a little blurry…
I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.
–Brené Brown
Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is an image from Pixabay.
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