Richard Manley-Tannis

✨ The latest inspiration has been added to the #ShineOn Collection! As you this day of opportunity, which piece illuminates your journey?🌟
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Final February #Verse ...
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Kin
we share Stardust's DNA
Recall from whence we come
we're imbued to vision & dream
& make manifest what otherwise
is mere potentiality
Be bold!
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Inspired by the responsibility to dream reality into being …

#MicroReflection
We recognise a shared duty to imagine futures and bring them into life. Together, we accept that ideas gain strength through courage, effort, and care. Like a stained-glass window held by lines, our unity catches light only when every piece is set, colour deepening as parts align. When we choose to act with purpose, possibilities turn into change that shapes families, communities, and cultures. We understand that imagination alone is not enough; commitment gives it weight. By trusting our collective insight and taking risks, we move beyond comfort and create meaning. Progress depends on willingness to try, learn, and resiliently persevere together.
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The rituals or reverence
which we daily enact
whether in private or public
individually or collectively
speaks to the Universe
Truth Eternal
Love
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Inspired by worship’s potential to openly welcome …

#MicroReflection
How do shared practices shape meaning across our lives?

We often gather in moments when we repeat sacred acts that steady us during change. When done with care, these moments guide our conduct, strengthen bonds, and remind us of values beyond mere convenience. We learn patience by showing up, courage by standing together, and humility by listening. Over time, these patterns teach responsibility and hope, even amid uncertainty. When communities act with intention, everyday choices become signals of care, purpose, and belonging. By honouring mindful practices, we open space for welcome, healing, and unity, shaping a future rooted through respect and compassion for all across shared experience, both human and Nature’s companions.
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There's no Try
a prophet says
The tests will come
easy they are not
& realising that
alone they cannot be met
reminds us that together
we overcome
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Inspired by fostering community’s resilience …

#MicroReflection
We choose to gather with open hearts and steady purpose. When we lean into faith instead of fear, compassion pushes back against callousness. In quiet resolve, we learn that strength grows through shared care and patient listening. Our steps are guided by hope, humility, and service. When burdens feel heavy, grace expands through kindness freely given. We lift one another through presence and mutual trust. Growth flows from unity of spirit, shaped by love and responsibility. May we move with one another with intention, attentive to the needs of our community, carrying light and courage so our resilience meets both known and unknown trials.
#Lent #Wilderness #LentPhotoADay
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Though Stability's Veneer
tempts with us
with a narrative false
We've oft journeyed
as a wilding people
through chaos
to find Wisdom' Revelation
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Inspired by Holy Communion in the wilderness …

#MicroReflection
Why do we keep moving when the map fades?

We stand like a group crossing open plains, guided by shared stars rather than paved routes. Unfamiliar ground invites patience, cooperation, and trust. When shelter is scarce, we learn generosity and careful listening. Each step across rough land strengthens resolve and reveals hidden skills. Hope grows as we notice paths forming behind us. By caring for one another, we turn uncertainty into direction. Our collective spirit adapts, learns, and endures. Together, we move forward with confidence, carrying light for those beside us. Even vast horizons become welcoming when we realise our shared purpose is to ever create Justice’s Arc .
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🌈 A new image has joined the #Rainbow collection! May we celebrate #diversity and #dignity. What motivates you to do good things for others? Share your stories of #Pride, #LGBT, and unity. 🌈
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Within Torrent's discourse uncivil
that threatens to dehumanise
we must answer those
needing sanctuary
to not just aspire
but be the Higher Good
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Inspired by nurturing Summum Bonum …

#MicroReflection
How do we choose kindness when public voices grow harsh and careless?

We stand together as a shared conscience, shaped by care and courage.
We learn that protection of others starts with listening and presence.
We reject habits that strip dignity and replace them with patience.
We act not for praise, but for responsibility to each other.
We shelter hope through steady choices, small acts, and moral resolve.
We understand that compassion demands effort during conflict.
We hold space for mercy, fairness, and courage.
We commit to living values that lift humanity together.
We choose service over fear, every day.
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We don't know
until appointed time
when in response
to Other's suffering
we must
with great resolve
model Hope's eternal promise
in Shadow'd Apathy
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Inspired by the fortitude of tenacious determination …

#MicroReflection
Together, we experience moments that test character and call us beyond comfort. Our choices reveal values long held quietly, showing who we become during strain. We learn that action matters most where voices falter and paths feel unclear. By standing present, we lift each other through steady care and shared courage. Small acts, repeated, shape our communities and renew trust. We are reminded that responsibility arrives without warning, asking steadiness rather than applause. In choosing care over withdrawal, we build meaning that endures, guiding future steps and strengthening bonds across time. Our shared presence shapes tomorrow and affirms purpose as the moment demands.
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We're Divinely beautiful & tenaciously fragile
As we experience the mortal coil
through eyes Holy
we recognise the Mystery
that intimately binds
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Inspired by the joy in knowing our intrinsic essence …
#MicroReflection
How do we embrace strength and vulnerability at once as we move together in life?
When we walk with care, it is revealed that resilience and tenderness share the same space. We learn that connexion grows when we stay open to wonder, connection, and responsibility. What shapes us is not certainty, but attention to one another and to the larger story we inhabit. By choosing respect, humility, and gratitude, we protect what is easily harmed while nurturing what endures. In our shared awareness, we find purpose, courage, and balance, reminding us that living well requires both firmness and gentleness, carried collectively, day by day.
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#Quotes #Memes #CarlSagan #Uniqueness
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Inspired by painting dreams into being …

#MicroReflection
Art is just one of many mediums that helps us to translate the gifts of our imagining and dreaming into reality. Art is also a metaphor, in this instance the practice of painting, that can help us appreciate that such translation is not just bound to the canvas, but to other tangible and concrete things such as a new vaccine, a more energy efficient engine or a process that helps people have difficult conversations. Dreams are just the beginning, making them real is the next step in our role to care and nurture for ourselves, one another and Creation.
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#Quotes #Memes #LewisCarroll #DoTheImpossible #BelieveInYourSelf
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#Quotes #Memes #WilhelmReich #Love
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Inspired by knowledge’s journey toward wisdom revealed …
#MicroReflection
Humility, wisdom, and knowledge are interrelated. In a world a flood in information, it is easy to forget that introspection, reflection and action are ancient practices that hopefully form us as leaders and beings of compassion.
In a Google search world, too often information becomes a commodity. But when wisdom extends from such knowledge, it has been my experience that humility often follows. This path seems as important now as in any moment of time in which our species has considered whether to dominate or coexist …
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Inspired by bridge building …

#MicroReflection
I believe one of the central tasks for the spiritual journey is to take that inner work and seek and model healing in the world. If the inward exploration stays internal, then the suffering of the world only becomes something to avoid and to further entrench inside of ourselves. Finding the balance between reflecting and doing must be a practice that we commit to in order not only help ourselves awaken, but to journey with those who long for such liberation but may not know how to begin on their own.

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Through ancestral relations
reaching back in time imagined
& forward to what might be
our collective wisdom dispels
truths that dignity diminish
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Inspired by wisdom that liberates …

#MicroReflection
We stand within many stories shaped by those who came before us and those yet to come. Together we learn that insight grows when voices meet, challenge harm, and protect human worth. Through listening across lines of experience, we can reject ideas that diminish people or rationalise violence. We can choose learning that liberates us, names lies, and builds respect. Our shared choices show care through action, not slogans. When we act with humility and courage, we strengthen community. In this communal effort, we carry responsibility to teach, to question, and to live values that allow everyone to rise.
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🌟 Fresh inspirations have been added to the #Joy photo collection! How have you lived joy today?
Share your moments of light, courage, or affirmation—it’d be a gift to see them.
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🕊️New visuals are coming to the #Joy Photo Collection. As you navigate today’s journey, which images resonate on this day of possibility?
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