A prayer for a new year

May we all grow in grace and peace,
and not neglect the silence that is printed
in the centre of our being.
It will not fail us.


Thomas Merton

Wipe the map clean

Most people move through the world following signs made by others (who had no idea what they were doing).

To find your destiny, wipe the map clean.

Then chart your own course by your heart’s magnetic pull toward true north.

Martha Beck 

the best resolution

We need solitude because we are addicted to being seen, to being heard, to being known, to achieving something in the presence of others

Solitude exposes our false self – the self that is defined by productivity and the need for approval

Ruth Haley Barton, Invitation to Solitude and Silence

Go well

The traveller sees what he sees.

The tourist sees what he has come to see.

G.K. Chesterton

Sunday Quote: The biggest fault

The fool,

with all his other faults, has this also,

he is always getting ready to live.

Seneca, quoting Epicurus in Letters from a Stoic

If not now, when?

{Please note: I apologize if you have gotten one or two strange posts over the past week, both times on a Friday morning. It is the first time in 15 years that something like this has happened and It seems random. I will check in with WordPress to find an explanation

Just to reiterate: I post just once a day around 5.00 am Central European Time. Although frequently requested, there are never any links in my posts, no endorsements or any commercial activity]

Back to more important matters…

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life

waiting to start living.

Eckhart Tolle