Posts from the ‘Spirituality’ Category
Wednesday of Hope – In a World Full of Peril
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Not Made in the Shade
Flowers are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade.
– Rudyard Kipling
Wednesday of Hope – I Believe that People Are Good
It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart
– Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Crew in hazmat suits cleaning up after oil spill
What Is Enough?
Do we really need much more than this? To honor the dawn. To visit a garden. To talk to a friend. To contemplate a cloud. To cherish a meal. To bow our heads before the mystery of the day. Are these not enough?
– Kent Neburn
Wednesday of Hope – Hold Fast to Dreams
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.– Langston Hughes
Planting and Reaping
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
– Meister Eckhart
Wednesday of Hope – Hope Is Not Unrealistic
The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful.
– Paul Hawken
