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Let the Beauty We Love Be what We Do
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground. – Rumi
God’s Presence Fills Creation
Holy One of Blessing, Your Presence fills creation. – Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
Wisdom from a Dominican Mystic – Meister Eckhart
Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion. – Meister Eckhart, Dominican mystic of the 13th century
Uncontrollable Nature
Nature just, “is.” It cannot be controlled. People can mess around with it. They can interfere with it. They can pollute it. They can damage it. They can degrade it. But they can never really control. it. The sun will rise every day. The… Continue Reading “Uncontrollable Nature”
Embracing All
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other. – Swami Brahmananda
Breathe – Just Breathe
The whole universe is breathing as our breath; we limit the process by our assumption that we are doing the breathing. – Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Alchemical Wisdom I like to think, sometimes, when meditating that I am not so much breathing, as being… Continue Reading “Breathe – Just Breathe”
Thoughts on Hope – 11
Everything can be taken from us but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. – Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
Thoughts on Hope – 6
The case for hope has never rested on provable facts or rational assessment. Hope by its very nature is independent of the apparatus of logic. – Norman Cousins
Thoughts on Hope – 5
And every day, no matter how bitter it be, I will say: “From tomorrow on, I shall be sad.” Not today. – A young Jewish child of the holocaust
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