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Gratefulness Is a Bridge
I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we’ve attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can’t be… Continue Reading “Gratefulness Is a Bridge”
Perceiving Life with Reverence
If we perceived Life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical Life and walk the Earth in a very deep sense of gratitude. – Gary Zukav
Breath as a Bridge
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Tarrying
All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy. – Rainer Maria Rilke, In Praise of Mortality, translated and edited by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
Wednesday of Hope . . . . Waiting for Dawn
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. – Rabindranath Tagore
We Walk a Narrow Bridge
Life is a very narrow bridge between two eternities. Be not afraid. – Rabbi Nachman of Braslav
When Are You Most Alive?
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. – Thornton Wilder
To Develop the Eye of an Artist
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. – Henri Matisse
Calling All Wanna Be Saints!!
To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more and nothing less. – Ronald Rolheiser in The Holy Longing
Have Faith!
People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and… Continue Reading “Have Faith!”
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