Tag: growth

Sunday Quote: Change is a constant

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I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be

Joan Didion

Out of the depths

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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross,  Death: The Final Stage of Growth,

Our surroundings

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As David Whyte says, we have many allies as we make our way through each day and each week – the blue sky, the wind on our face, the yellow daffodils blooming early because of the mild early Spring. If we can notice them we get some space from the worrying thoughts that accompany us 

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings

David Whyte

True freedom

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When you fall in love with the unknown,

you are free.

Byron Katie

Growth

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Even when we cannot see the while picture, it is good to have an underlying trust.

Let me fall if I must.

The one I will become will catch me

Baal Shem Tov, 1698 – 1760, Jewish rabbi and mystic, founder of Hasidic Judaism

Into the new

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Being open to new discoveries and possibilities…

I think, Dear God, and remember
there are stars we haven’t heard from yet:
They have so far to arrive. Amen,
I think, and I feel almost comforted.

Li-Young Lee, The Hammock