Learning from the Masters

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But I always think that the best way

to know God

is to love many things

Vincent Van Gogh

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Not knowing but loving

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The lesson of spiritual life is not about gaining knowledge,

but about how we love.

Are we able to love what is given to us,

love in the midst of all things,

love ourselves and others?

Jack Kornfield, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry

Kindness

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Kindness in words creates confidence,

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness

Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

From a distance

Love means to look at yourself  the way one looks at distant things

For you are only one thing among many.

And whoever sees that way heals his heart, without knowing it,  from various ills – 

A bird and a tree say to him: Friend

Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet

Sunday Quote: Home

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The ache for home lives in all of us,

the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Maya Angelou


Conditions for Growth

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The potential space between baby and mother, between child and family, between the individual and society and the world, depends on experience which leads to trust.  It can be looked upon as sacred to the individual, in that it is here that the individual experiences creative living.
Winnicott, Playing and Reality