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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
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)
Thursday, July 1, 2010
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