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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
Hope
You get what you hope for, but what you hope for isn’t something you can always recognize.
Zadie Smith, In Conversation with Zadie Smith by Eleanor Wachtel
Sunday, August 29, 2010
God of Abundance
O God of abundance, you feed us every day.
Rise in us now, make us into your bread,
that we may share your gifts with a hungry world,
and join in love with all people,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Empathy
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
… what those lines suggest is that if we had complete empathy, if we could understand how people are from the inside, we would be capable of loving them as God loved them.
Zadie Smith, In Conversation with Zadie Smith by Eleanor Wachtel
George Eliot, Middlemarch
… what those lines suggest is that if we had complete empathy, if we could understand how people are from the inside, we would be capable of loving them as God loved them.
Zadie Smith, In Conversation with Zadie Smith by Eleanor Wachtel
Thursday, August 26, 2010
How To Be Alone
Lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless, and lonely is healing if you make it.
Tanya Davis, How To Be Alone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Serving
The thing about serving is that it’s not about you.
Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
What we are
Life is what we are; what we do is what we are and become.
Lama Surya Das, Buddha Is As Buddha Does
Monday, August 23, 2010
This world
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect in every moment.
Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Works of art
Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing to be so little appreciated as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and fairly judge them.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Spiritual practice
The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it – exactly and completely.
Dainin Katagiri Roshi
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Perspective
To figure out what was really happening behind the clichés, I’d learned, meant a practice of looking not at the centre but at the edges of things – at the unlikeliest and weakest people, not the most apparently powerful.
Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Monday, August 16, 2010
Winds of grace
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
Sri Ramakrishna
Sunday, August 15, 2010
You
Remember one thing only: that it’s you – nobody else – who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you.
E. E. Cummings
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Practice Compassion
If you want others to be happy,
practice compassion.
If you want to be happy,
practice compassion.
The Dalai Lama
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Care
Unless someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It’s not.
Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Conversation
Conversation isn’t, after all, a moment: It’s a process, and it keeps happening, with cycles of acceptance and resistance, epiphany and doubt.
Sara Miles, Take This Bread, A Radical Conversion
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Identity
An organization’s identity includes current interpretations of its history, present decisions and activities, and its sense of its future. Identity is both what we want to believe is true and what our actions show to be true about ourselves.
Margaret J. Wheatley, Finding Our Way: Leadership For an Uncertain Time
Monday, August 9, 2010
Balance
You cannot balance one thing; you balance a diversity of things. And diversity is the engine of the evolution of living things, including living civilizations.
Chinua Achebe, Home and Exile
Sunday, August 8, 2010
God
God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.
Mary Baker Eddy
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
Stories
The only thing that keeps us from floating off with the wind is our stories. They give us a name and put us in a place, allow us to keep on touching.
Tom Spanbauer
Thursday, August 5, 2010
To be alive
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Falling in love with a revolution
I’d learn that it’s possible to fall in love with a revolution – then doubt it, fight with it, lose faith in it, and return with a sense of humour and a harder, lasting love. I would have to learn the same thing about church when I was much older, and it would be no easier.
Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Gift to the world
People who are at ease with themselves are a wonderful gift to the world. They model for us with a power that words can never match.
David Kundtz, Everyday Serenity: Meditations for people who do too much
Monday, August 2, 2010
Seeing well
If you want to see well, you must not stand in one place. ... And this is the way I think the world's stories should be told – from many different perspectives.
Chinua Achebe
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Self
So many of us define ourselves by what we have, what we wear, what kind of house we live in, and what kind of car we drive … if you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf, a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self.
Linda Henley
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