In the stillness of mind..

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted.

Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

~ Hans Margolius

Let the waters settle, and you will see stars and the moon mirrored in your own being. 
~ Rumi

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O! Thou Heavenly Creatures...

HAIL, beauteous stranger of the grove! Thou messenger of Spring!
Now Heaven repairs thy rural seat,  And woods thy welcome ring. 
~ John Logan

Blyth's Reed Warbler

Delightful visitant! with thee  I hail the time of flowers,
And hear the sound of music sweet  From birds among the bowers.
~ John Logan

Paradise Flycatcher

What time the daisy decks the green, thy certain voice we hear:

Hast thou a star to guide thy path,  or mark the rolling year?
~ John Logan 

Egret

Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear;
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No Winter in thy year! 
~ John Logan

Chestnut tailed starling

Orange headed Thrush

I just want to stroke them, to see them glisten,

I want to see them alive,and to talk with them on my shoulders

But Impossible. They can't be touched,

they can only be felt like a heavenly whisper or movement,

~ Pablo Neruda

Purple Moorhen

O could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing,
Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the Spring.
~ John Logan

Western Reef Egret

Tern in flight

A Sunset Dream!

How fine has the day been!

How bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run!

Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun,

And there followed some droppings of rain:

But now the fair traveller's come to the west,

His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best;

He paints the skies gay as he sinks to his rest,

And foretells a bright rising again.

~ Isaac Watts (1674-1748 AD) – a well known English hymn-writer, theologian & logician