Professional Photography by Geoff Hansen

Harp Music by Ralph Thomas

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Plant yourself firmly in the Tao and you won't ever be uprooted.
Embrace Tao firmly and you won't ever be separted from it.
Your children will thrive, and  your children's children.

Cultivate goodness in yourself, and goodness will be genuine.
Cultivate it in your family, and goodness will flourish.
Cultivate it in your community, and goodness will grow and multiply.
Cultivate it in your country, and goodness will be abundant.
Cultivate it in the world, and goodness will be everywhere.

How do I know the world works like this?
Because of what is within me.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments, love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the start to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rose lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come,
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous;
Love is never boastful or conceited; It is never rude or selfish.
It does not take offence, and it is not resentful.
Love takes no pleasure in other people's faults
But delights in the truth;
It is always ready to excuse, to trust to hope.
It is always ready to endure whatever comes.
True love does not come to an end.

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