Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ~Carl Jung (1875-1961, Swiss psychologist and philosopher)
Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet only then you can detect, beyond the fatuous clamor, the silence of which the universe is made. ~Samuel Beckett (1906-1989. Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theater director, poet, and literary … Continue reading Silence
This body is not me. I am life without boundaries. I’ve never been born and I’ve never died. Since before death and before time, I’ve been free. Birth and death are only doors through which we pass, sacred thresholds. Birth and death are a game of hide and seek. ~Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 to 2022, … Continue reading Birth and Death
If I had influence with the good fairy who’s supposed to preside over the birth of all children, I should ask her gift to each child in the world a sense of wonder so indestructible it would last throughout their life. ~Rachel Carson (1907-1964, Marine biologist and conservationist)
Work on reversing your caught-up, self-important attitude and remain relaxed in this process. Instead of always being caught in a prison of self-absorption, look out and express gentleness to all things. Then just relax. ~Pema Chodron (1936 to pres., Buddhist Teacher)
A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms. ~Sensei Ogui (Priest of the Jodo Shin Shu True Pure Land School of Buddhism)
Hope is radical openness for surprise— for the unimaginable. If that is the attitude with which we look, listen, and open all our senses, we enter into a meaningful relationship with whatever Life offers us at a given moment. ~Br. David Steindl-Rast (1926 to pres., Benedictine Monk)
The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy. ~Henri Nouwen (1932-1996, Dutch Catholic priest, writer, theologian, psychologist)
What if in your sleep you dreamed and what if in your dream you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower, and what if when you awoke you had the flower in your hand? ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1732-1834 English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian)
When we are engaged in acts of love, we humans are at our best and most resilient. The love in romance that makes us want to be better people, the love of children that makes us change our whole lives to meet their needs, the love of family that makes us drop everything to take … Continue reading Acts of Love