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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 10h

10/24/25 PM TM

“You may not control all the events that happen to you,

but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

~ Maya Angelou

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious.

The desire to reach hearts is wise.”

~ Maya Angelou

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 22h

10/24/25 AM TM
“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary.The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
~ Franz Kafka

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 1d

10/23/25 PM TM

“Remember that not getting what you want

is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”

~ Dalai Lama

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 1d

10/23/25 AM TM
“In our times, it is radical to choose to sit still and be silent,

to resist an identity of busyness, ceaseless motion, and noise,

and to reclaim our sanity and humanity

by coming home to ourselves.”

~ Sumi Loundon Kim, Buddhist chaplain, Yale University

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 2d

10/22/25 PM TM

“Constant kindness can accomplish much.

As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”

~ Albert Schweitzer

“Be kind whenever possible.
It is always possible.”

~ The 14th Dalai Lama.

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 2d

10/22/25 AM TM

Invictus

By William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
…

DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 3d

10/21/25 PM TM

“If you yourself don't choose

what thoughts and images

you expose yourself to,

someone else will.”

~ Seneca

“It is the mark of an educated mind

to be able to entertain a thought

without accepting it.”

~ Aristotle

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 3d

10/21/25 AM TM

“Right is right even if no one is doing it;

wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”

~ St. Augustine of Hippo (354 - 430)

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 4d

10/20/25 PM TM

“Whatever is beautiful, whatever is meaningful
Whatever brings you happiness
May it be yours this Diwali
May your coming year be fulfilled
With good fortune, harmony, perfect health and bliss.
May the divine grace shine on you to give happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.”

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 5d

10/19/25 PM TM

“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done.

One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow.

Today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.”

~ The Dalai Lama

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 5d

10/19/25 AM TM

Still Water

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us, that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer,
perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

~ William Butler Yeats

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 6d

10/18/25 PM TM

“It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong;

not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich;

not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned;

and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.”

~ Sir Francis Bacon

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 6d

10/18/25 AM TM

“If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking

“If I can stop one heart from breaking,

I shall not live in vain;

If I can ease one life the aching,

Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin

Unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.”

~ Emily Dickenson

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 7d

10/17/25 PM TM

Lakota Prayer

“Wakan Tanka (Great Spirit),
teach me how to trust my heart,
my mind, my intuition,
my inner knowing,
the senses of my body,
the blessings of my spirit.
Teach me to trust these things
so that I may enter my Sacred Space
and love beyond my fear ...”
~ Lakota Prayer

DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 7d

10/17/25 AM TM

Bhagavad Gita, 6:17

“For him who is moderate in food and recreation, moderate of effort in actions, moderate in sleep and waking, for him is the Yoga (meditation practice) which destroys sorrow.”

Maharishi: “for this will result in the state of inner peace and freedom from bondage.

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 8d

10/16/25 PM TM

“Go back and take care of yourself.
Your body needs you, your feelings need you,

Your perceptions need you.

Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it.

Go home and be there for all these things.”

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 8d

10/16/25 PM TM

“Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.”

~ Rachel Carson

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 9d

10/15/25 PM TM

Dawn Revisited
“I sometimes forget
that I was created for Joy.
My mind is too busy.
My Heart is too heavy
for me to remember
that I have been
called to dance
the Sacred dance of life.
…
That we might
Dance
and that our dancing
might be contagious.”
~ Hafiz

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 9d

10/15/25 AM TM

If the only prayer
you said in your whole life was,

“Thank you,”

that would suffice.

—Meister Eckhart, German Catholic priest,

theologian, philosopher and mystic.

When we give cheerfully

and accept gratefully,

everyone is blessed.

—Maya Angelou

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 11d

10/13/25 PM TM

“Fortunate are they whose minds

are distressed for the misfortunes of others.

More fortunate still are they who are able

to relieve the misfortunes of others,

themselves remaining undisturbed.”

~ Maharishi, Bhagavad Gita, II:27

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 11d

10/13/25 AM TM

OURCHESTRA

“So you haven’t got a drum, just beat your belly.
So I haven’t got a horn—I’ll play my nose.
…
By playing what we’ve got!”
~ Shel Silverstein

DIVING BOARD
“You’ve been up on that diving board
…
Doin’ everything… but DIVE.”
~ Shel Silverstein

DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 12d

10/12/25 PM TM

The Little Prince
It's madness
to hate all roses
because you got scratched with one thorn,
…
to give up all attempts
because one of them failed.
It is only with the heart
that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 12d

10/12/25 AM TM

The Way It Is

“There’s a thread you follow. It goes among

things that change. But it doesn’t change.

People wonder about what you are pursuing.

You have to explain about the thread.

But it is hard for others to see.
…
You don’t ever let go of the thread.”

~ William Stafford

DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 13d

10/11/25 PM TM

ABOUT CROWS

“The old crow is getting slow.
The young crow is not.
Of what the young crow does not know
The old crow knows a lot.
At knowing things the old crow
Is still the young crow's master.
What does the slow old crow not know?
How to go faster.
…
~ John Ciardi

DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM) @kellyminn.bsky.social · 13d

10/11/25 AM TM

Self-Observation Without Judgment

“Release the harsh and pointed inner
voice.
…
What's needed here isn't
more prodding toward perfection, but
intimacy - seeing clearly, and
embracing what I see.
Love, not judgment, sows the
seeds of tranquility and change.”
~ Danna Faulds

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