Each Day

RCC_5615, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Each day forces us

to totter on planks we hope

will become bridges.

Kevin Hart

Truth

RCC_5622, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Falsehood has an infinity of combinations,
but truth has only one mode of being. 

Jean Jacque Rousseau

Living

Orchid 2 (2013.1.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Living is the original art.

Mark Nepo,

As Far As the Heart Can See: Stories to Illuminate the Soul

Prayers

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I believe that all prayers that come from the heart converge in God’s infinity, where all persons are loved if they themselves love.

Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility

Love

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Only love is big enough to hold all the pain of this world.

Sharon Salzberg

Becoming

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Become what you are.

Greek Proverb

Silence

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Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere – in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.

Mother Teresa

in the ordinary

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson