We don’t think our way into a new way of living,
We live our way into a new way of thinking.
Richard Rohr
Tag: inspiration
Love and fear
Happiness, anxiety, joy, resentment — we have many words for the many emotions we experience in our lifetimes. But deep down, there are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear. From love flows happiness, contentment, peace, and joy. From fear comes anger, hate, anxiety and guilt.
We have to make a decision to be in one place or the other. If you don’t actively choose love, you will find yourself in a place of either fear or one of its component feelings.
Every moment offers the choice to choose one or the other. And we must continually make these choices, especially in difficult circumstances when our commitment to love, instead of fear, is challenged.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
Where we worship
It may indeed be phantasy, when I essay to draw from all created things
Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings;
And trace in leaves and flowers that round me lie, lessons of love and earnest piety.
So let it be ; and if the wide world rings in mock of this belief, it brings Nor fear, nor grief, nor vain perplexity.
So will I build my altar in the fields,
And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be,
And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields
Shall be the incense I will yield to Thee…
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Leaves
Autumn is a second
season when every
leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
An inner voice
Anyone can revolt.
It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and gifts.
Georges Rouault – with thanks to Julia for sending it to me.
Sunday Quote: Things are never 100% clear
The point is to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually,without even noticing it,
live your way into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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