Tighter restrictions imposed again after the brief respite of Christmas. Noticing small moments of beauty nourish the spirit
Friend, we’re travelling together.
Throw off your tiredness.
Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that cannot be spoken.
Rumi
Experiencing,
rather than trying to have special experiences,
is where real freedom lies
Ezra Bayda, At Home in the Muddy Water
It amazes me that people seem to think that “transcendent” means “up” in the sky. To continue to speak of God and transcendence does not mean theological verticality.
Transcendence refers that which is beyond, at the edge, without words.
Diana Butler Bass, American historian of Christianity.
You do not convince people with arguments, strategies or tactics.
You convince them by learning how to welcome them.
For that, it is necessary to keep doors open, above all the doors to the heart.
Pope Francis
God comes to you disguised as your life.
Paula D’Arcy, American Writer, retreat leader and seminar speaker
At first, we are children of the darkness. Your body and your face were formed first in the kind darkness of your mother’s womb. You lived the first nine months in there. Your birth was the first journey from darkness into light. All your life, your mind lives within the darkness of your body. Every thought you have is a flint moment, a spark of light from your inner darkness. The miracle of thought is its presence in the night side of your soul; the brilliance of thought is born of darkness. Each day is a journey. We come out of the night into the day. All creativity awakens at this primal threshold where light and darkness test and bless each other. You only discover the balance in your life when you learn to trust the flow of this ancient rhythm
John O’Donohue
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