Saturday, July 31, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Becoming human
Mensch werden ist eine Kunst – to become a human being is art.
Novalis (Georg Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg)
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Home again
We have circled and circled till we have arrived home again, we two,
We have voided all but freedom and all but our own joy.
Walt Whitman, We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Life
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
Elizabeth Gilbert, Comitted: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
Beauty
My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness.
Michelangelo
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Time
Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Freedom
Freedom is indivisible.
Desmond Tutu, John Allen, Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Time
Sometimes the difference between a truth and a myth is nothing more than time.
Youngme Moon, Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Be broken
Let sorrowful longing dwell in your heart.
Never give up, never lose hope.
Allah says, “The broken ones are my beloved.”
Crush your heart. Be broken.
Shaikh Abu Saeed Abil Kheir, aka Nobody, Son of Nobody
Monday, July 19, 2010
Our hearts
Shall we compare our hearts to a garden – with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds, swooping birds and sunshine and rain – and most importantly, seeds?
Greg Livington
Sunday, July 18, 2010
We
We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Feeding
There’s hunger beyond food that’s expressed in food, and that’s why feeding is always a kind of miracle.
Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Friday, July 16, 2010
Faith
Faith, for me, isn’t an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.
Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Transition
Each transition brings with it a feeling of unfamiliarity and a moment of disorientation. … Today I encourage you simply to sit through whatever period of transition you are going through. Stay there a moment. Notice what is going on for you, acknowledge the disorientation and bring all your attention to the present.
David Kundtz, Everyday Serenity, Meditation for people who do too much
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Seeing
Wherever you go, what matters less is what you are looking at, but how you have committed to see.
Youngme Moon, Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Don't hurry
Don’t hurry, don’t worry. You’re only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers.
Walter C. Hagen
Monday, July 12, 2010
Creative solitude
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl Sandburg
Sunday, July 11, 2010
God's promise
God’s promise was never that life would be fair. God’s promise was that, when we had to confront the unfairness of life, we would not have to do it alone for God would be with us.
Harold S. Kushner, The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-Third Psalm
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Tranquility
The mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
Indira Gandhi
Friday, July 9, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
The starting point
The way to keep criticism from devolving into cynicism is to make it the starting point rather than the puncuation mark.
Youngme Moon, Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Abundance
The age of abundance is over not because of things are no longer abundant, but because abundance has lost its status as our reigning aspiration.
Youngme Moon, Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
One chance in life
When we dismiss or deny the hopes of others we forget that they, like us, have only one chance in this life.
Alexander McCall Smith, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Monday, July 5, 2010
Listening
Until you hear the whole story, until you dig deeper, and listen, you know only a tiny part of the goodness of the human heart.
Alexander McCall Smith, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Healing
... the healing
of all our wounds
is forgiveness
that permits a promise
of our return
at the end.
Alice Walker, Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Conversation with God
The partner in the dialogue with God is not the individual human but the human species as a whole.
Gordon Kaufman
Friday, July 2, 2010
Love
No matter what race of people we come from, we all desire the same things. We all have the same passion. We want to love. When we nurture the spirit, the spirit will guide us. Spirit is and always will be about guiding humanity to what each of us wants and craves, which is simply to love one another.
David Courchene, Jr., Neeghani Aki Innini (Leading Earth Man), Anishnabe Nation, Eagle Clan (Manitoba, Canada)
