“When we bring mindful awareness to the simple activity of perception, we may notice that what draws our attention to things – what enables our senses to really engage and participate with them – is precisely the open and uncertain character of those things. An… Read More
“How dare I be discouraged in the work by anything so trivial as the fear of personal failure?” – Paul Williams I am a white cisgender woman. I will mess it up. I will do it wrong. I will have good intentions and they will sometimes… Read More
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals Image: The Hierophant by J.E. Stretch
There is a worm at the heart of the tower; that is
why it will not stand.
Neil Gaiman, Instructions
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. ~ St. Augustine What fate are you weaving today? Image by Amoret
“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else’s liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.” ~ Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
In retrospect, I can see in my own life what I could not see at the time: how the job I lost helped me find work I needed to do, how the “road closed” sign turned me toward terrain I needed to travel, how losses that felt irredeemable forced me to discern meanings I needed to know. On the surface it seemed that life was lessening, but silently and lavishly the seeds of new life were always being sown. ~ Parker J. Palmer, Autumn: To Cohere in Mysterious Unity
Image: Autumn Leaves by Seth Stoll – some rights reserved
“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart…” ~Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
Image: Arrow to the Heart by jasleen_kaur – some rights reserved
Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one. ~ Marianne Williamson
Image: Amoret Aspiring by Amoret
“Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.” ~Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky
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