The power of life that is buried deep inside you will never rise up
until you have become convinced that you’re walking the only path open for you
Kosho Uchiyama, Soto Zen priest, 1912 – 1998
Tag: Joy
Sunday Quote: Everything
Only one thing made him happy
and now that it was gone
everything made him happy.
Leonard Cohen
Sunday Quote: Joy in an incomplete world
This morning, thousands rose early to catch the birdsong at dawn in an annual celebration entitled “Dawn Chorus Day” which went out live on radio from locations all over the world
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song.
Maya Angelou
The small things
Do not think that love has to be extraordinary in order to be genuine.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa
Make something beautiful
Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually.
Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.
Mary Oliver, Franz Marc’s Blue Horses
Sunday Quote: Hold things lightly
Aeschylus says, “There is no effort in what is divine.” There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.
In one of Grimm’s stories there is a competition between a giant and a little tailor to see which is the stronger. The giant throws a stone so high that it takes a very long time before it comes down again. The little tailor lets a bird fly and it does not come down at all. Anything without wings always comes down again in the end.
Simone Weil, Waiting on God
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