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Saturday, January 8, 2011
How well we love
I believed – and still believe – that when all is said and done, none of us will be measured on how much we accomplish but on how well we love.
Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters – and How to Talk About It
Friday, January 7, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Experiencing beauty
Although the wind
blows terribly here,
the moonlight also leaks
between the roof planks
of this ruined house.
Izumi Skikibu
We become available to the beauty of the moment as it is,
and available to one another as we are.
and available to one another as we are.
Joyce Kornblatt, This Ruined House, The Beautiful Mind: A Conversation with Gina Sharpe, Parabola, 35:4
Monday, January 3, 2011
In presence
Unless we completely inhabit ourselves, it’s not possible to be completely present. If we are not completely present, we’re not inclusive – and when we’re not inclusive, that’s when we exclude others who have different views, different opinions, different upbringings – difference. In presence, we see the beauty in what was previously unbeautiful – in difference and alikeness. It’s all of life.
Gina Sharpe, The Beautiful Mind: A Conversation with Gina Sharpe, Parabola, 35:4
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
"Remembering Forward"
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
Friday, December 31, 2010
Journey
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters.
in the end.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Destiny
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Agnes DeMille
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Beauty
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
Oscar Wilde
Monday, December 27, 2010
Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness
To say that people have an equal right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, means that if, in fact, there is inequality in those things, society has a responsibility to correct the situation and to ensure that equality.
Howard Zinn, Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Speaking Truth
Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
Truth
God revealed
a sublime truth to the world,
when God sang,
"I am made whole by your life, Each soul,
each soul completes
me."
Hafiz
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
In Exile
When you are in exile, you are living a borrowed life.
Alvaro Vieira Pinto, Brazilian philosopher
Paulo Freire & Antonio Faundez, Learning to Question: A Pedagogy of Liberation
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
Questions
Will we have the courage to see each other?
Will we have the courage to see the world?
Christina Baldwin, Calling the Circle
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Changes and Transitions
The first task of change management is to understand the destination and how to get there, the first task of transition management is to convince people to leave home.
William Bridges, Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Vision
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Door
Often God shuts a door in our face,
And then subsequently opens the door through which we need to go.
Catherine Marshall
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Prayer
Today I root myself in the earth. I connect to the seasons and cycles of life, the great wheel of nature that sustains us all. I reach beneath my daily life, funding my soul with the grace that underlies all things. I am grounded in life itself.
Julia Cameron, Transitions: Prayers and Declarations for a Changing Life
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Life
Life is a series of collisions with the future;
it is not a sum of what we have been but what we yearn to be.
José Ortega y Gasset
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Friday, December 10, 2010
Light & Dark
You can only serve the Light to the extent that you can stand the Dark.
Christina Baldwin, The Seven Whispers
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
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