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Wednesday of Hope – Hope Is Not Dead
Hope is not dead, it is just larger than our imaginations. – Kathy Hobaugh
Our Sparkling World
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wednesday of Hope – Embrace Radical Presence
The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world. – Joanna Macy
The Soil Connects Us
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community,… Continue Reading “The Soil Connects Us”
Qualities of God’s Friends
The Friend of God has these three qualities: a generosity like that of the ocean, a compassion like that of the sun, and a humility like that of the earth. – Bayazid, Tadhkirat
Wednesday of Hope – Rainbows
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope. – Maya Angelou
For a Mind Clear as Water
In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light – Eihei Dogen
Wednesday of Hope – Not Losing Hope
There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster. – Dalai Lama
Rise to Taste the Dawn
I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today. – Ken Wilber
Whole Worlds of Wonder even in a Single Drop of Water
Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water. – Eihei Dogen
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