Living in Hope

It's a bit stressful this month, we've been meeting too many people with too much to say and with little thought about how it affects others, or indeed themselves. I love how this image brings some harmony to the day, little shoots of hope for the future.

'Harmony is tuning of our lives to those around us and the natural world that sustains our wellbeing. We listen and watch so that we can move in time with that Great Dance in which we all have a small part.

To live in harmony requires that we be conscious of the hopes and needs that surround us and flexible in our own course of action. In a harmonious relationship each party at times sets aside his or her own desires to nurture the relationship itself. We can be in harmony with others only when we are in harmony with ourselves--living true to our deepest sense of what is real and what matters.'

Wisdom commons