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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Food
Food is a cultural product; it cannot be produced by technology alone … a healthy culture is a communal order of memory, insight, value, work, conviviality, reverence, aspiration. … It clarifies our inescapable bonds to the earth and to each other.
Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Life
Life has taught me that it knows better plans than we can imagine, so that I try to submerge my own desires … into a calm willingness to accept what comes, and to make the most of it, then wait again.
Julia Seton, By a Thousand Fires
Friday, January 29, 2010
Consciousness
Consciousness is our second birth, the birth of our capacity to reflect upon and wonder about experience.
Christina Baldwin, Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Spritual Journey
We call spirituality a journey and speak in metaphors of travel, yet many of us never leave the neighbourhood.
Christina Baldwin, Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
This Road
I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.
Narihara
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Becoming
We always were who we have become, and we are always becoming who we always were.
Christina Baldwin, Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice
Monday, January 25, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Pleasure & Sorrow
I walked a mile with Pleasure;
She chatted all the way;
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow,
And ne’er a word said she;
But, oh! The things I learned from her,
When Sorrow walked with me.
Robert Browning Hamilton
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Doors of Percepion
If the doors of perception were cleansed, said Blake,
everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
But the doors of perception are hung with cobwebs of thought,
prejudice, cowardice, sloth. Eternity is with us, inviting our
contemplation perpetually, but we are too arrogant to still our
thought and let divine sensation have its way.
Evelyn Underhill, Practical Mysticism
Friday, January 22, 2010
Our Lives
If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble and trusted, this is recognized by others. If our lives demonstrate something else, that will be noticed too.
Rosa Parks, civil rights activist
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Success
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Process
When you focus on the outcome rather than the process, you can easily miss the target by ignoring all the little clues along the way that point you in the right direction. … The biggest distraction of all is focusing too intently on the goal.
Gary Fong, the accidental millionaire: how to succeed in life without really trying
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Look
Everywhere is perfect if only we have eyes to see it.
("Look beneath your feet," says the sign at the entrance to many a Zen temple.)
Pico Iyer
Monday, January 18, 2010
Saint or Communist?
When I feed the poor they call me a saint. When I ask why so many people are poor they call me a communist.
Dom Helder Câmara, late archbishop of the Brazilian Diocese of Olinda and Recife
Sunday, January 17, 2010
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Making room for the other
The classic sign of God's mystery is to entertain, to make room for the other.
Kathleen Noris, Dakota
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Eating
Eating with the fullest pleasure – pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance – is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.
Wendell Berry
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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