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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Spritual Journey
We call spirituality a journey and speak in metaphors of travel, yet many of us never leave the neighbourhood.
Christina Baldwin, Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
This Road
I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.
Narihara
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Becoming
We always were who we have become, and we are always becoming who we always were.
Christina Baldwin, Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice
Monday, January 25, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Pleasure & Sorrow
I walked a mile with Pleasure;
She chatted all the way;
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow,
And ne’er a word said she;
But, oh! The things I learned from her,
When Sorrow walked with me.
Robert Browning Hamilton
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Doors of Percepion
If the doors of perception were cleansed, said Blake,
everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
But the doors of perception are hung with cobwebs of thought,
prejudice, cowardice, sloth. Eternity is with us, inviting our
contemplation perpetually, but we are too arrogant to still our
thought and let divine sensation have its way.
Evelyn Underhill, Practical Mysticism
Friday, January 22, 2010
Our Lives
If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble and trusted, this is recognized by others. If our lives demonstrate something else, that will be noticed too.
Rosa Parks, civil rights activist
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Success
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Process
When you focus on the outcome rather than the process, you can easily miss the target by ignoring all the little clues along the way that point you in the right direction. … The biggest distraction of all is focusing too intently on the goal.
Gary Fong, the accidental millionaire: how to succeed in life without really trying
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Look
Everywhere is perfect if only we have eyes to see it.
("Look beneath your feet," says the sign at the entrance to many a Zen temple.)
Pico Iyer
Monday, January 18, 2010
Saint or Communist?
When I feed the poor they call me a saint. When I ask why so many people are poor they call me a communist.
Dom Helder Câmara, late archbishop of the Brazilian Diocese of Olinda and Recife
Sunday, January 17, 2010
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Making room for the other
The classic sign of God's mystery is to entertain, to make room for the other.
Kathleen Noris, Dakota
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Eating
Eating with the fullest pleasure – pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance – is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.
Wendell Berry
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
Emergency
Inside the word emergency is emerge; from an emergency new things come forth. The old certainties are crumblng fast, but danger and possibility are sisters.
Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
Sunday, January 10, 2010
i thank You God
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
e. e. cummings
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
Simplicity
Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.
Duane Elgin
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Silence
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
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Thousand Faces of the Divine
All I know is there are a thousand faces of the Divine, and a thousand ways to pray. Every minute of life presents an essential choice: to avail ourselves of this relationship, or to close up in isolation.
Christina Baldwin, The Seven Whispers: A Spiritual Practice for Tmes Like These
Monday, January 4, 2010
Still Small Voice Within
Only when we are silent can we begin to hear the voice that is truly our own – what the Quakers call “the still small voice within.” … The source of this voice – which may be without sound, and yet is heard – is called by many different names: the inner guide, guardian angel, spirit guide, the collective unconscious, or just plain intuition. Actually all of us hear the whispering of this voice every single day of our lives, but many ignore it.
Rick Fields, Chop Wood, Carry Water
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Laughter
At the height of laughter the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
Jean Houston
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Unimagined Bridge
As once the winged energy of delight carried you over childhood's dark abysses, now beyond your own life build the great arch of unimagined bridges.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Friday, January 1, 2010
Lasting Change
Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.
Eknath Easwaran
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Hope
Hope is hope against the evidence. Hope arises in a break with the past. There is a kind of cut and the past is let go of. There is a difference between simple expectation and hope. … Expectation is based on the pattern you see in the past…. I think that hope is a kind of birth — it doesn’t come out of what went before, it comes out in spite of what went before.
Alphonso Lingis, Philosopher
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Light
I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beams.
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Monday, December 28, 2009
The Mid-Point
In my understanding I saw God in a point. In seeing this I saw that God is in all things. God works in creatures because God is in the mid-point of everything.
Julian of Norwich
Sunday, December 27, 2009
The Black Church
The black church, not because of the color of our people but because of our historical experience, ought to be the conscience of the nation.
Churches call ministers, but it takes time to grow a pastor.
Gardner Calvin Taylor
Saturday, December 26, 2009
To Hope
To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk. ... Hope just means another world might be possible, not promised, not guaranteed. Hope is for action; action is impossible without hope.
Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Friday, December 25, 2009
Truth about stories
The truth about stories is that that's all we are.
Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Seven Whispers of Spiritual Common Sense
Maintain peace of mind.
Move at the pace of guidance.
Practice certainty of purpose.
Surrender to surprise.
Ask for what you need and offer what you can.
Love the folks in front of you.
Return to the world.
Christina Baldwin, The Seven Whispers
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Colonialism
Colonialism is a denial of the reality of self in favour of an imaginary special position inside the mythology of someone else's empire. That special position can never exist because empires have their own purpose.
John Ralston Saul, A Fair Country: Tellng Truths About Canada
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
New Life
My boat strikes something deep.
At first sounds of silence, waves.
Nothing has happened;
Or perhaps everything has happened
And I am sitting in my new life.
Rumi
Monday, December 21, 2009
Longing
If a person feels a longing to be at one with the universe,
it is as if the universe feels the same longing
to be at one with the person.
If I sense a great aching in my heart to be in love with God,
it seems that God must be in some mysterious way
share that aching for me.
Gerald May, Will and Spirit
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Prayer
Prayer is not a pious gesture at all.
It is a respnse to the One whose heart beats with ours.
Joan Chittister
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Wisdom
There is in all visible things
an invisible fecundity,
a dimmed light,
a meek namelessness,
a hidden wholeness.
This mysterious Unity and Integrity
is Wisdom, the Mother of all,
Natura nautrans.
Thomas Merton, Hagia Sophia
Friday, December 18, 2009
Life
Life should not be measured by the breaths we take, rather by moments that take our breath away.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Right where you need to be
You've been right where you need to be.
Maybe you've been there all along.
Melody Beattie, Journey to the Heart: Daily Meditations on the Path to Freeling Your Soul
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Mealtime Prayer
For all we eat,
and all we wear,
for daily bread,
and nightly care,
we thank you God.
Amen.
Anonymous, A Year of Grace: 365 Mealtime Prayers by William S. Kervin
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Story you are tending
What's the story you are tending, the one you'll never let be put out?
Let's start there.
Tell me that story.
Christina Baldwin, Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story
Monday, December 14, 2009
Wisdom
What event or experience in you life have you ridden to wisdom?
Let's start there.
Tell me that story?
Christina Baldwin, Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Quietude
Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
Marian Wright Edelman
Saturday, December 12, 2009
in the ordinary
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friday, December 11, 2009
Language
We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we’re capable of – to explain the pains and glory of our existence.
Maya Angelou
Thursday, December 10, 2009
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