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The stuff of our lives doesn’t change.
It is we who change in relation to it.
Molly Vass
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Saturday, March 19, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Therapy
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Therapy is whatever is applied to a situation or condition that brings about healing. …
Therapy means to give birth to, as well as to heal.
Therapy means to give birth to, as well as to heal.
Christina Baldwin, One to One
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Looking
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Before fixing what you’re looking at,
check what you’re looking through.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Awakening
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The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing;
it is a long and painful return that which has always been.
Helen Luke
Monday, March 14, 2011
Bearing Witness
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... May be the only hope is that our humanity might kick into a higher gear, that the more we admit to seeing, the more we will beleive we are not that different from each other.
Kim Echlin, The Disappeared
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Grace
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Grace before us,
Grace beside us,
Grace within us –
All by the grace of God.
Amen.
William S. Kervin, A Year of Grace: 365 Mealtime Prayers
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Life
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Life alone is only half a life.
Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Friday, March 11, 2011
Discovery
Thus, the task is not so much to see
what no one yet has seen,
but to think what nobody yet has thought
about that which everybody sees.
Schopenhauer
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Fear less, love more
Fear less, hope more,
Eat less, chew more,
Whine less, breathe more,
Talk less, say more,
Love more, and all good things will be yours.
Swedish Proverb
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Load you carry
It’s not the load you carry that breaks you down,
it’s the way you carry it.
it’s the way you carry it.
Lena Horne
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Day-to-day living
Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
Monday, March 7, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Beginnings
Beginnings are always clearer than endings.
Leslie Scrivener, My First Love (January 1, 2011, Toronto Star)
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Peace & Freedom
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X
Friday, March 4, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Your life
If you could remember one thing and have that be your life, what would it be?
Johanna Skibsrud, The Sentimentalists
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Reality
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is a reality.
John Lennon
Monday, February 28, 2011
Attitude
We should treat all the trivial things of life very seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.
Oscar Wilde
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Within Us
Within us is the soul of the whole,
the wise silence,
the universal beauty,
the eternal One.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Beauty
Times are bad and the poet is broke,
But around him is that permanent world of beauty.
James Wilhelm
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
This world
This world is too beautiful to be true,
and too beautiful not to be true.
Roo Borson, Kim Maltman & Andy Patton, Pain Not Bread
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Beauty
Beauty is a sense of universal relations, of being brought into the intensities of even painful feeling.
Robert Duncan
Monday, February 21, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
for the Other
I am responsible for the Other without waiting for reciprocity, were I to die for it. Reciprocity is his affair. It is precisely insofar as the relation between the Other and me is not reciprocal that I am subjection to the Other; and I am "subject" essentially in this sense. It is I who support all... The I always has one responsibility more than all the others.
Emmanuel Levinas
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Peace & Religion
Peace involves a profound crisis of identity. The boundaries of self and other, friend and foe, must be redrawn. … If faith is enlisted in the cause of war, there must be an equal and opposite counter-voice in the name of peace. If religion is not part of solution, it will certainly be part of the problem.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations
Friday, February 18, 2011
In silence
In silence we must wrap much of our life, because it is too fine for speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday, February 17, 2011
This we know
This we know:
We were
not meant
to suffer
so much
& to learn
nothing.
Alice Walker, The Taste of Grudge, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Love everything
Love all God’s creation, the whole of it and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light! Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. And once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it ceaselessly, more and more every day. And you will at least come to love the whole world with an abiding, universal love.
Fyodor Mikhail Dostoevsky
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
When you love
When you are touched,
May it be the gentleness
You desire,
Your lover’s hands sending
Each caress deep into your skin
Like a discovering glance.
John O’Donohue, For Eros
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Individuals
Individuals are expressions of all those who have influenced their lives.
Michael Schut, Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Breakage
Breakage, whatever its cause, is the dark complement to the act of making; the one implies the other. The thing that is broken has particular authority over the act of change.
Louise Gluck
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Walk Alone
Walk alone
If they answer not thy call, walk alone;
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou of evil luck,
Open thy mind and speak out alone.
Rabindranath Tagore
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
In a room alone
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
The gaze
Most people don’t look . . .
The gaze that pierces – few have it –
What does the gaze pierce?
The question mark.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Seeing beyond
Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.
Mahatma Gandhi
Saturday, February 5, 2011
What we do for God
It is not what God does for us, but what we do for God, that changes us.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Covenant & Conversation
Friday, February 4, 2011
Walks
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
Elaine Scarry
Thursday, February 3, 2011
At the edge
The beautiful can exist at the edge precisely because it has nothing to lose and everything to give away.
Frederick Turner
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Neutrality
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
Monday, January 31, 2011
To be free
To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Artist
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perception. . . . The act of art is a tool for extended consciousness.
Robert Irwin
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Beauty
When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.
Khalil Gibran
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