Tag: Life

Sunday Quote: Changing our mindset

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Nature does not hurry,

yet everything is accomplished.

 Lao Tzu

Lightness

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Life isn’t as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

Eckhart Tolle

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To wait

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To listen to your soul is to stop fighting with life – to stop fighting when things fall apart; when they don’t go our way, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty and to wait.

Elizabeth Lesser.

Self blessing

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All of us, from time to time, doubt our inner goodness and beauty. We have to rediscover it within or be reminded by others that it lies there: 

Sometimes it is necessary

to reteach a thing its loveliness, 

to put a hand on its brow 

of the flower

and retell it in words and in touch 

it is lovely

until it flowers again from within

of self-blessing.

Galway Kinnell, St Francis and the Sow

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Not always clear

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Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are impatient of being on the way to something
unknown, something new.
And yet it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through
some stages of instability —
and that it may take a very long time.

Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit theologian and scientist, died this day 1955

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At our feet

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And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles,
no matter how long,
but only by a spiritual journey,
a journey of one inch,
very arduous and humbling and joyful,
by which we arrive at the ground at our feet,
and learn to be at home.

Wendell Berry, The Unforseen Wilderness

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