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Friday, November 19, 2010
In the Other
In order to discover ourselves, we need to see ourselves in the other, to understand the other in order to understand ourselves, to enter into the other.
Antonio Faundez, Learning to Question: A Pedagogy of Liberation
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Beyond forgetting
let me remember beyond forgetting
that my life is not a solitary thing –
it is a bit of the rushing tide
a leaf of the bending tree –
Winston O. Abbott
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
You
History is already different because you are here.
The world has already been changed because you showed up.
Larry Ward
Thich Nhat Hanh, Together We Are One: Honouring Our Diversity, Celebrating Our Connection
Monday, November 15, 2010
Simplicity
I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity,
but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Seeing & Being
You will see what you are capable of seeing, and you will be what you are capable of being.
Christina Baldwin, The Seven Whispers
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Collective Consciousness
Each of us contributes to the collective consciousness. As we heal our own suffering, we also heal the collective consciousness, so that it becomes healthier, more compassionate, and more just for future generations.
Sister Jewel
Thich Nhat Hanh, Together We Are One: Honoring Our Diversity, Celebrating Our Connection
Friday, November 12, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Communication
We cannot be truly human apart from communication ... to impede communication is to reduce people to the status of things.
Paulo Freire
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Maturity
Maturity is being able to decide what we believe, based on delibrate decisions about what has meaning.
Christina Baldwin, One to One
Monday, November 8, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
"I"
Just as it is known
That an image of one’s face is seen
Depending on a mirror
But does not really exist as a face.
So the conception of “I” exists
Depending on mind and body.
But like the image of a face
The “I” does not at all exist as its own reality.
Nagarjuna, Precious Garland of Advice
Saturday, November 6, 2010
The soul of one
El alma de todos sólo es el alma de cada uno.
The soul of all is only the soul of each one.
Antonia Porchia, Voices, translated by W.S. Merwin
Friday, November 5, 2010
Language
It is through language that we create our world, because it is nothing until we describe it. We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we describe.
Joseph Jaworski, Synchronicity
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Spirituality 101
Spirituality 101: Pay attention! You may discover that what you wanted is right in front of you, a secret hidden in plain sight.
Parker J. Palmer, The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
The shadows
Las sombras: unas ocultan, otras descubren.
The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
Antonia Porchia, Voices, translated by W.S. Merwin
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
Seeing
Vemos por algo que nos ilumina; por algo que no vemos.
We see by means of something which illumines us, which we do not see.
Antonia Porchia, Voices, translated by W.S. Merwin
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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