RON HENGGELER |
January 5, 2024 |
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Reflections and thoughts for stepping into the New Year |
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Oh friends, put aside these sounds!
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If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.Chad Sugg |
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I live and love in God's peculiar light.Michelangelo |
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North Tower of the Golden Gate Bridge |
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Mark Anstendig |
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What we think, we become.Buddha |
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Ring out the false, ring in the true.Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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Detail of a mural at Coit Tower |
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Buddha |
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.Socrates |
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.Hans Christian Andersen |
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.Voltaire |
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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.Joseph Campbell |
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Shut your eyes and see.James Joyce |
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Tower of the Bay Bridge viewed from Yerba Buena Island |
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Pink TriangleTwin Peaks |
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San Francisco Davies Symphony Hall |
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Heide |
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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.Neil deGrasse Tyson |
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Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.Walt Whitman |
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Pioneer MonumentCivic Center Plaza |
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.Emily Dickinson |
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Stephen |
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San Francisco City Hall |
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The future is always beginning now.Mark Strand |
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.Joseph Campbell |
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Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.Rumi |
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Market & Grant |
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Peter |
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San Francisco Federal Building |
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.Henry David Thoreau |
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Velocity Arts & Entertainment |
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St. Joseph's Art Society |
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In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.Aaron Rose |
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Isaiah |
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.Henry David Thoreau |
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GregangeloGregangelo Museum |
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Mural at Coit Tower |
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Photo by Mark Anstendig |
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Rincon Tower |
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.Jane Goodall |
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.Jack Kerouac |
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Apple Cider PressMusic Concourse, Golden gate Park |
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Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.Ernest Holmes |
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We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.William Shakespeare |
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Fort Point |
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Historical Ships Museum at Aquatic Park |
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On 17th Street in Mission District |
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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.Henry David Thoreau |
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