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How Do You Experience Worship?

Great compassion is the root of all forms of worship. – His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Enjoying the Seasons

Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance. – Yoko Ono

What Do You Bring to the World?

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it’s what they bring to the world that really counts.  – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Courage Not to Fear

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Sarah Williams from “The Old Astronomer to His Pupil” in Best Loved Poems of the American People

Just What Is Freedom?

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice. – Thich Nhat Hanh

What to Do when Feeling Overwhelmed

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. – Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The Poet Speaks Again

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the book of creation. When we do it knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, destructively, it is a desecration. – Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good… Continue Reading “The Poet Speaks Again”

Sacrament

The created world is the primordial sacrament. – Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ

Wisdom from the Poet

The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.  – Wendell Berry

The Most Practical Virtue

As we face the grand ecological crisis of our time, our most important renewable resource is hope. We simply must put it on with our shoes each morning. – Barbara Kingsolver