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Thursday, December 9, 2010
Words
Lo que dicen las palabras no dura. Duran las palabras. Porque las palabras son siempre las mismas y lo que dicen no es nunca lo mismo.
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
Antonio Porchia, trans., W. S. Merwin, Voices
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Benevolence & Wisdom
To love and care for others is benevolence;
to understand others is wisdom.
Yu Dan, Confucius from the Heart: Ancient Wisdom for Today's World
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
What you leave behind
What you leave behind is not what is engraved upon a stone monument, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles
Monday, December 6, 2010
Remembering
In 1991, the Canadian Parliament declared December 6 a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
We remember in horror on this day, on December 6, 1989, the loss of 14 young women, students at l’École Polytechnique in Montreal, murdered because they were women. Every year, we speak their names and the names of too many other victims of violence.
We honour the lives of these 14 women:
Geneviève Bergeron, 21;
Hélène Colgan, 23;
Nathalie Croteau, 23;
Barbara Daigneault, 22;
Anne-Marie Edward, 21;
Maud Haviernick, 29;
Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz, 31;
Maryse Laganière, 25;
Maryse Leclair, 23;
Anne-Marie Lemay, 27;
Sonia Pelletier, 23;
Michèle Richard, 21.
Annie St-Arneault, 23;
Annie Turcotte, 21.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Moment of birthing
Ten years ago. . . .
I turned my face for a moment
And it became my life.
quoted by Peter Senge
Sam M. Intrator & Megan Scribner, eds., Leading from within
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Story
Story is a map of human experience. It has chronology, character, scene, and insight. A teller needs a listener; a story needs to be "caught" to be complete.
Christina Baldwin & Ann Linnea, The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair
Friday, December 3, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Fear
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living in better conditions.
Hafiz
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Changes
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
Anatole France
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Just be.
There is nothing to do. Just be.
Do nothing. Be.
No climbing mountatins and sitting in caves.
I do not even say "be yourself"
since you do not know yourself.
Just be.
Nisargadatta Maharaj,
quoted by Wayne W. Dyer in Being in Balance
quoted by Wayne W. Dyer in Being in Balance
Monday, November 29, 2010
Fire from Heaven
True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming;
it is fire from heaven.
Ernest Holmes
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Transitions
Transitions begin with endings.
Pamela Seigle
Sam M. Intrator & Megan Scribner, eds., Leading from within
Saturday, November 27, 2010
With the eyes closed
Quien ha visto con los ojos abiertos, puede volver a ver, pero con los ojos cerrados.
Who has seen with the eyes open can see again, but with the eyes closed.
Antonia Porchia, Voices, translated by W.S. Merwin
Friday, November 26, 2010
Shadows & Reflections
The unloved parts of ourselves which we try in vain to remove from our lives project themselves onto others, forcing us to recognize them.
John Monbourquette
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Do I dare?
And indeed there will be time
To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?” …
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
To care for the earth
To care for the mountain, your heart must be a mountain.
To care for the river, your heart must be a river.
Shozo Tanaka, environmentalist
Masao Takenaka, When the Bamboo Bends: Christ and Culture in Japan
Sunday, November 21, 2010
The whole cosmos
The whole cosmos has come together in order to help you to manifest it. In you, whole cosmos can be found.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Together We Are One: Honouring Our Diversity, Celebrating Our Connection
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Journey
We are all drifting and swimming toward an unknown point that will not be what it seems when we get there.
Christina Baldwin, The Seven Whispers
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
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