Posts tagged ‘morton arboretum’
Hear the Snowflake in the Silence
May you grow still enough to hear the stir of a single snowflake in the air, so that your inner silence may turn into hushed expectation.
– David Steindl-Rast
Wednesday of Hope – Despite Everything . . . Live in Hope
Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.
– Etty Hillesum, Letters from Westerbork
If Etty Hillesum could write this with all she endured, we too can be women and men of hope, like this sparrow hanging upside down from tender branch in the dead of winter. In 1943 when Etty and her family were placed on a train bound for Auschwitz, she tossed out window a postcard that read, “We have left the camp singing.” She was executed in Auschwitz on November 30, at the age of twenty-nine.
Being Connected
Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.
– Paula Gunn Allen
Every Morning New
Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.
– Paul Brunton
Wednesday of Hope – the Role of Gratefulness
Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.
– David Steindl-Rast
