Wear gratitude like a cloak
and it will feed every corner of your life.
Rumi
Every moment
Category: Be fully present
A sense of one another
But how shall we educate men to goodness,
to a sense of one another,
to a love of the truth?
And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?
Dan Berrigan, born on this day 1921. Died 2016, Jesuit priest and anti-war activist. His words, addressed during the Vietnam War, are even more relevant today
An area to redeem
As Martin Buber saw it …. the world of ordinary days “affords” us that precise association with God that redeems both us and our speck of the world.
God entrusts and allots to everyone an area to redeem: this creased and feeble life, “the world in which you live, just as it is and not otherwise.”
Annie Dillard, For the Time Being
Step back
Sometimes, to achieve something, it is best if we step back or let go, as the Daoist-sounding great Zen Master reminds us
When you leave the way to the way,
you attain the way.
Dogen, Bodaisatta-Shishobo, The Bodhisattva’s Four Methods of Guidance, 1234
Sunday Quote: Live without roads
To live without roads
seemed one way not to get lost.
Naomi Shihab Nye
Seasons
What can I say that I have not said before?
So I’ll say it again.
The leaf has a song in it.
Stone is the face of patience.
Inside the river there is an unfinishable story
and you are somewhere in it
and it will never end until it all ends.
Mary Oliver What Can I Say [extract]
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