Much of life can never be explained but only witnessed.
Rachel Naomi Remen
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Friday, January 28, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Empty Handed
Born empty handed,
Die empty handed.
I witnessed life at its fullest,
Empty handed.
Marlo Morgan
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Look and See
Oh Lord, how shining and festive is your gift to us, if we
only look, and see.
Mary Oliver, Look and See
Monday, January 24, 2011
Care for the world
All that I have created, I created for you. Take care, therefore, that you do not destroy my world, for if you do, there will be no one left to repair what you have destroyed.
Ecclesiastes Rabbah, Midrash
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Prayer
Be thankful and repay
Growth with good work and care.
Work done in gratitude
Kindly, and well, is prayer.
Wendell Berry
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Conversation
The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.
Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations
Friday, January 21, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Prayers
I believe that all prayers that come from the heart converge in God’s infinity, where all persons are loved if they themselves love.
Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Particularity & Universality
Our particularity is our universality. Only by being what we uniquely are, can we respect other people for what they uniquely are.
Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Worth
We are worth what we are willing to share.
Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Monday, January 17, 2011
Everything belongs
In God's reign "everything belongs," even the broken and poor parts.
Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Being human
Everyone has relevant observations to make about the nature of God and ultimate things – that the raw material of our lives is stuff of which we construct our sensibility of meaning and purpose in this life, or how the divine intersects or interacts with our lives, of what it means to be human.
Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters and How to Talk About It
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Technologies
Technologies are not mere exterior aids but also interior transformation of consciousness, and never more so than when they affect the word.
Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Moses
The great concern of Moses was … to lay the foundation of a social state in which deep poverty and degrading want should be unknown.
Henry George, Moses
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
God
God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.
Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemporary Prayer
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
How to see
All religious teachers have recognized that we human beings do not naturally see; we have to be taught how to see.
Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemporary Prayer
Monday, January 10, 2011
Inter-Be
To be is to inter-be. We cannot just be by ourselves alone. We have to inter-be with every other thing.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step
Sunday, January 9, 2011
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
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