A healing root

We all share a common story, with moments of weakness, wrong turns or unwanted places in our lives. However, if we see them wisely, they can become a fertile seedbed, bringing forth growth into the fullness of our lives.

Pay close attention to your mean thoughts.
That sourness may be a blessing,
as an overcast day brings rain for the roses
and relief to dry soil.
Don’t look so sourly on your sourness!
It may be it’s carrying what you most deeply need
and want. What seems to be keeping you from joy
may be what leads you to joy.
Don’t call it a dead branch.
Call it the live, moist root.
Don’t always be waiting to see
what’s behind it. That wait and see
poisons your Spirit.
Reach for it.
Hold your meanness to your chest
as a healing root,
and be through with waiting.

Rumi

Mirth

Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be.

You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

G.K. Chesterton

Remember

One kind word can warm three winter months

Japanese proverb

Sunday quote: In the depths

The shape of each soul is different.

There is a secret destiny for each person.

We need to return to the solitude within, to find again the dream that lies at the hearth of the soul. 

John O’Donohue

Enough

When life is ‘enough,’ we don’t need any more. What a good feeling it is when our days are enough. The world is enough. We don’t often let that feeling in. It’s a foreign feeling because we tend to live our lives feeling that they are not enough. But we can change that perception. Saying that this is life and I don’t need anything more is a wonderful statement of grace and power. If we don’t need any more, if we don’t need to control everything, we can let life unfold. …. We must remember that our power comes from knowing that everything is all right and everyone is unfolding exactly as they are supposed to

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

What makes a calm mind

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained
by cultivating friendliness toward the happy,
 compassion for the unhappy,
delight in the virtuous,
and indifference toward the wicked.
Patanjali, Yoga Sutras