Category: Be fully present

Where to focus today

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You can either practice being right

or practice being kind

Anne Lamott

Supporting one another

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Cold nights followed by wind and rain. Grey winter weather causing colds and flu, as the holiday season is well and truly over.

Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

Maya Angelou

How we hold things

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The question is not, never, ever, whether or not we will be given challenges and limitations. We will. The question is, how will we hold them, how will we be changed, how will they shape us, what will we bring to the healing of them, what,  if  anything will be born in its place.

Wayne Muller, A Life of Being, Having and Doing Enough

Colour on a cold January Monday

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We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious – the people, events, and things of the day – to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious.

What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

 Annie Dillard

 

Sunday Quote: Unfolding

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At its heart, the journey of each life is a pilgrimage through unforeseen sacred places that enlarge and enrich the soul.

As a river flows in ideal sequence
May your love discover time is presence.

John O’Donohue

Explorer

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On the day that the Three Kings journeyed from afar following a star which no one else believed in…

Let no one keep you from your journey,
no rabbi or priest, no mother
who wants you to dig for treasures
she misplaced, no father
who won’t let one life be enough,
no lover who measures their worth
by what you might give up,
no voice that tells you in the night
it can’t be done.

Let nothing dissuade you
from seeing what you see
or feeling the winds that make you
want to dance alone
or go where no one
has yet to go.

You are the only explorer.
Your heart, the unreadable compass.
Your soul, the shore of a promise
too great to be ignored.

Mark Nepo, Breaking Surface