To get somewhere new, we must change the direction we are going right now
The first invitation is just to stop entirely the conversation that you’ve been having until now
and meet what is arriving without naming or planning.
Just to hear and feel the annunciation of a new energy, a new life.
David Whyte
Hope has holes
in its pockets.
It leaves little
crumb trails
so that we,
when anxious,
can follow it.
Hope’s secret:
it doesn’t know
the destination –
it knows only
that all roads
begin with one
foot in front
of the other.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, American poet, Hope’s Secret
We are not victims of the past; but rather, authors of our own purpose.
No experience is in itself a cause of our success or failure.
We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences – the so-called trauma – but instead we make out of them whatever suits our purposes.
We are not determined by our experiences, but the meaning we give them is self-determining
Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked
No heaven can come to us, unless our hearts find rest in today.
Take heaven.
No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this precious little instant. Take peace.
Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by their coverings, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering, and you will find beneath it a living splendour, woven of love, and wisdom, and power.
Welcome it, greet it, and you touch the angel’s hand that brings it.
Christmas Letter attributed to Fra Angelico, 1396 – 1495.
I was fortunate to see the extraordinary exhibition of his works in Florence earlier this year
Silence is essential.
We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. Silence is a kind of light, the light of the spirit. If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
Darkness deserves gratitude.
It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand
that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.
Joan Chittister
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