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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
Hope
You get what you hope for, but what you hope for isn’t something you can always recognize.
Zadie Smith, In Conversation with Zadie Smith by Eleanor Wachtel
Sunday, August 29, 2010
God of Abundance
O God of abundance, you feed us every day.
Rise in us now, make us into your bread,
that we may share your gifts with a hungry world,
and join in love with all people,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Empathy
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
… what those lines suggest is that if we had complete empathy, if we could understand how people are from the inside, we would be capable of loving them as God loved them.
Zadie Smith, In Conversation with Zadie Smith by Eleanor Wachtel
George Eliot, Middlemarch
… what those lines suggest is that if we had complete empathy, if we could understand how people are from the inside, we would be capable of loving them as God loved them.
Zadie Smith, In Conversation with Zadie Smith by Eleanor Wachtel
Thursday, August 26, 2010
How To Be Alone
Lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless, and lonely is healing if you make it.
Tanya Davis, How To Be Alone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Serving
The thing about serving is that it’s not about you.
Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
What we are
Life is what we are; what we do is what we are and become.
Lama Surya Das, Buddha Is As Buddha Does
Monday, August 23, 2010
This world
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect in every moment.
Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Works of art
Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing to be so little appreciated as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and fairly judge them.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Spiritual practice
The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it – exactly and completely.
Dainin Katagiri Roshi
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Perspective
To figure out what was really happening behind the clichés, I’d learned, meant a practice of looking not at the centre but at the edges of things – at the unlikeliest and weakest people, not the most apparently powerful.
Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Monday, August 16, 2010
Winds of grace
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
Sri Ramakrishna
Sunday, August 15, 2010
You
Remember one thing only: that it’s you – nobody else – who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you.
E. E. Cummings
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Practice Compassion
If you want others to be happy,
practice compassion.
If you want to be happy,
practice compassion.
The Dalai Lama
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Care
Unless someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It’s not.
Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
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