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Sunday, October 31, 2010
Blessings abound
I deal better with curses when I remind myself that blessings abound, just as I deal better with my shadows when I remember that forgiveness is real.
Parker J. Palmer, The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life
Saturday, October 30, 2010
A place called community
We expect a theophany of which we know nothing but the place, and the place is called community.
Martin Buber, Between Man and Men
Friday, October 29, 2010
Carrying a sun
Hasta el más pequeño de los seres lleva un sol en los ojos.
Even the smallest of creatures carries a sun in its eyes.
Antonia Porchia, Voices, translated by W.S. Merwin
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Questions
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot, Choruses from The Rock
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
By invocation
We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension. But this energy, in an ultimate sense, is ours not by domination but by invocation.
Thomas Berry
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Wound
Habla con su propia palabra sólo la herida.
Only the wound speaks its own word.
Antonio Porchia, Voices, translated by W.S. Merwn
Monday, October 25, 2010
Birthing your images
You must give birth to your images.
They are the future waiting to be born.
Fear not the strangeness you feel.
The future must enter you long before it happens.
Just wait for the birth,
for the hour of new clarity.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Theological Reflection
Theological reflection is the discipline of exploring individual and corporate experience in conversation with the wisdom of a religious heritage . . . Our reflection is rooted in our human drive to understand, to make the truest and richest meaning possible of our lives.
Patricia O’Connell Killen and John de Beer, The Art of Theological Reflection
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Self-parent
The self-parent is the part of us we develop to respond appropriately to the inner child, to fill the gaps in our development and allow us to proceed in life as an integrated, whole person.
Christina Baldwin, One to One
Friday, October 22, 2010
Home
Where is home? On the one hand, “home” is a mythic place of desire in the diasporic imagination. In this sense it is a place of no return, even if it is possible to visit geographical territory that is seen as the place of “origin.” On the other hand, home is also the lived experience of a locality.
Avtar Brah, Cartographics of Diaspora: Contesting Identities
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Our own beauty
To really accept the beauty of the world, we must have a place in ourselves that understands our own beauty, that accepts the experience of beauty and ecstasy from within.
Christina Baldwin, One to One
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Questions
The presence of questions already indicates the presence of dialogue: someone in your mind is asking; someone in your mind is responding.
Christina Baldwin, One on One
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Photography
Photography is the poetry of the moment, illuminated by the beauty of light.
Paul Sanderson, poet & musician
Monday, October 18, 2010
Memory
Memory is the layer of richness we spread over our lives like icing. Memory explains to us what things mean, why we have feelings about certain people, moments, or events.
Christina Baldwin, One to One
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Light
We light a light
in the name of the God who creates life,
in the name of the Saviour who loves life,
in the name of the Spirit who is the fire of life.
J. Philip Newell, Celtic Treasure: Daily Scripture and Prayer
Saturday, October 16, 2010
My road
Before I travelled my road I was my road.
Antonio Porchia, Voices, translated by W.S. Merwin
Friday, October 15, 2010
Raise your eyes
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
Antonio Porchia, Voices, translated by W.S. Merwin
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Inner child
There is in each of us a continuing presence of the child we once were. ... The first child in need of "raising" is the inner child.
Christina Baldwin, One to One
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Live the questions
Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. … Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Empty/Full
He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.
Antonio Porchia, Voices
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Hope
I pin my hope to quiet processes and small circles, in which vital and transforming events take place.
Rufus Jones
Friday, October 8, 2010
Alone
Our disasters come from letting nothing live for itself,
from the beginning we have to pull everything, even
friends, into ourselves, and let nothing alone.
Robert Bly, The Morning Glory: Prose Poems
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Imagination
Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.
David Mura, Japanese American Writer
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
World-changing work
People teach as an act of construction and reconstruction and as a gift of oneself to others. I teach in the hope of making the world a better place.
Bill Ayers, To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Now I Become Myself
Now I become myself. It's taken
Time, many years and places;
I have been dissolved and shaken,
Worn other people's faces . . .
Mary Sarton, Now I Become Myself
Monday, October 4, 2010
Arts in a city
The purpose of the arts in a city is to make a city fall in love with itself. Such a city knows passion as its source.
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Municipal Mind: Manisfestos for the Creative City
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Feeding others
To feed others means acknowledging our own hunger and at the same time acknowledging the amazing abundance we’re fed by God.
Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
Forgiveness
Forgiveness is not a moment. It is a way of life.
Commissioner Christine Macmillan, Salvation Army International Social Justice Commission
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