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Keeping a place

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If I keep a green bough in my heart,

the singing bird will come.

Chinese Proverb

Not wasting our lives

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If you have one hour of air  and many hours to go,

you must breathe slowly.

If you have one arm’s length and many things to care for,

you must give freely.

If you have one chance to know God and many doubts, you must

set your heart on fire.

We are blessed.

Every day is a chance.

We have two arms

Fear wastes air.

Mark Nepo, Freefall

Sunday Quote: Never fully there

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It always has the capacity to amaze and we are always on the way……

To live is to be born slowly

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Flow: A motto to guide this month

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lake nyonThe Master gives himself up

to whatever the moment brings.

He knows that he is going to die,

and he has nothing left to hold on to;

No illusions in his mind,

no resistances in his body.

He doesn’t think about his actions;

they flow from the core of his being.

He holds nothing back from life;

therefore he is ready for death,

as a man is ready for sleep

after a good day’s work.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

 

Sunday Quote: Longing

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May your longing inhabit its deepest dreams

within the shelter of the Great Belonging

John O Donohue, Eternal Echoes

photo Mullaghreelan Wood near Kilkea, Co Kildare

A hidden stream within

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Silence comes from the Latin word, silens, meaning to be still, quiet, or at rest. Other words related to it are: calm, peace, serenity, tranquility, poise, composure, noiselessness, hush, and solitude. In his description of stillness, Romano Guardini cuts to its very essence: “Stillness is the tranquility of the inner life; the quiet at the depths of its hidden streams. It is a collected, total presence, a being ‘all there,’ receptive, alert, ready . . . It is when the soul abandons the restlessness of purposeful activity.”  Within this definition we learn silence’s first fundamental lesson: It is not so much a lack of sound as it is a cultivation of interior stillness.

Eugene Hemrick, Silence: Taken from the promise of virtue