The only real failure is the failure to try.
Evelyn Greenslade, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
The only failure
The only real failure is the failure to try.
Evelyn Greenslade, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Monday, July 30, 2012
Art
Art points out the beauty we otherwise miss, as well
as the injustices we might otherwise dismiss.
Bob Hulteen, Popular Culture and Our Future
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Community
and we have found the answer is community.
Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day
Saturday, July 28, 2012
On the Wall
If it's not all right then it's not the end.
Sonny, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Friday, July 27, 2012
A reminder
there are only sacred places
and desecrated places.
Wendell Berry, How to be a Poet
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
The Journey
The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.
Don Williams, Jr.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Tears
are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy
loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.
Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Sunday, July 22, 2012
I am ...
I did not know I held so much goodness.
Walt Whitman,
Song of the Open Road [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178711]
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Coming Alive
come alive, and go do it! Because what the world
needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
Friday, July 20, 2012
Deep Listening
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things… [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
James Carroll
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Life
it is that there will always be a next. Until there isn’t.
Roger Housden, Ten Poems to Say Goodbye
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
On Peace
The problem is not with the faith
but with the faithful.
Kofi Annan
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Life
Recuerden: La vida es corta, no hay tiempo para dejar palabras
importantes sin decir.
Paulo Coelho
Monday, July 16, 2012
Courage
is a virtue rare, precious and hard.
Timothy Garton Ash on Aung San Suu Kyi
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Rest
If you are searching you must stop until you find.
When you find however, you will become troubled.
Your confusion will give way to wonder.
In wonder you will reign over all things.
Your sovereignty will be your rest.
Gospel of Thomas 2:1-4, Adopted by Dairmuid O'Murchu,
Seasons at the Centre: Five Oaks 60th Anniversary
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Compassion
Unless compassion means the act of suffering with the other
in their otherness, it becomes meaningless.
Gregory Wolfe, Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and Mystery
Friday, July 13, 2012
Imagination
Imagination, not invention,
is the supreme master of art as of life.
Joseph Conrad, A Personal Record
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Perspective
RIC_6961-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Concentrate on what you have left, not just on what you have lost.
Harold S. Kushner, Overcoming Life's Disappointments
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