My Photo Journal: A Joyful Walk Through Wild Bergamot Paths

I believe that joy is at the core of my being.
I know the joy I seek is already within me.
I commit to it with a lightness and ease that evaporates all barriers.
I will create joyful moments with every heartbeat.
― Adrienne Enns, Intentional Days: Creating Your Life on Purpose

Isn’t it amazing?
We journey through our lives, make mistakes,
say the wrong things, and many times live with regret.
We’re human we’re going to make mistakes,
but the blessings God sends our way, most of them never asked for,
they just intervene, giving us the joyful light we need.
― Ron Baratono

This beautiful life we're living is the destination,
and the richness of the trip we take is up to us.
― Sagel Urlacher, Yin Yoga & Meditation

When you do things from your soul,
you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
― Rumi

Photos of wild bergamot growing in great masses under tree canopy were taken whilst on a walk at Farewell Park in Oshawa, Ontario.

Photo © FieldandGarden.com. All rights reserved.

Printable Vintage Art: A Walled Garden in Bloom by Annie Pressland

A Walled Garden in Bloom, early 1900s
by Annie Pressland (1862–1933)

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It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Our life depends on the kind of thoughts we nurture. If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like. If our attention is turned to the circumstances in which we live, we are drawn into a whirlpool of thoughts and can have neither peace nor tranquility.
― Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Live

Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly, digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

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Printable Vintage Art: Cap Martin (Côte d´Azur) by August Neven du Mont

Cap Martin (Côte d´Azur), 1908
by August Neven du Mont (1866–1909)

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When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
― Herman Hesse, Bäume: Betrachtungen und Gedichte

I imagine what it must be like to stay hidden, disappear in the dusky nothing and stay still in the night. It’s not sadness, though it may sound like it. I’m thinking about people and trees and how I wish I could be silent more, be more tree than anything else, less clumsy and loud, less crow, more cool white pine, and how it’s hard not to always want something else, not just to let the savage grass grow.
― Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things

My digitally enhanced version of the above painting can be downloaded as a high-res 7” x 5” @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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