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“Once in a blue moon a magnificent opportunity comes along to take things to the next level. This rare moon will illuminate your inner being. More light, more power, more love. Give yourself full permission to expand and upgrade. Dig deep, the past no longer has a hold over you. Your soul is well prepared for this shift. Enjoy!” ~Carrie Marie Bush (Image of Blue Moon by PublicImage at depositphotos.com)

Happy Memorial Day! “The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.” ~Mike Honda (Image by Anastasiia Malinich at depositphotos.com)

“To direct the mind towards the basic unity of all things and to divert it from the seizing of differences – therein lies bliss.” ~Tejo-Bindu Upanishad

Happy Mother’s Day! “I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.” ~E. M. Forster (Image by serezniy at depositphotos.com)

“If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same? Doing to others an act you’d rather not have done to you reveals a powerful internal conflict.” ~Alexandra Katehakis (Photo by VGeorgiev at depositphotos.com)

“The key to nature’s therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There’s amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted – but that’s not your act of creation, it’s your act of joining in.” ~Victoria Coren Mitchell (Image courtesy of Robin Hitt)

“I think if you’re not a conservationist before you go to space, you’re at least partly a conservationist when you come back. Because when you see how thin that atmosphere is, that protective layer that we have here, you think, wow, we really have to take care of this because it does look so fragile from space.” ~Mike Foreman, former NASA astronaut Happy Earth Week! (Image by NASA, taken from Artemis II)

“I wish we could send every elected official into space because they’re bound to come back with a different perspective. … When I looked back on the earth as we orbited in the space shuttle, I looked through the eyes of a politician. And when I looked, I did not see political division, and I did not see racial division, and I did not see religious division. What I saw was we are all in this together as citizens of planet earth. And that is a profound effect on someone who

Happy Easter! “All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can’t see. … This moving through the dark into blossom is the threshold to God. … The courage of the seed is that once cracking, it cracks all the way.” ~Mark Nepo

“Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.” ~Louis D. Brandeis (Image of March 28 No Kings protest by Loren Elliott for The New York Times)