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“Perhaps real wisdom lies in not seeking answers at all. Any answer we find will not be true for long. An answer is a place where we can fall asleep as life moves past us to its next question. After all these years I have begun to wonder if the secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.”
Rachel Naomi Remen
“The small truth may be that you are sick today, or have PMS, or a cold, or feel feeble and weak. The Great Truth is that you are infinitely capable of doing good, thinking and saying kind words, and acting in gentle and loving ways.”
Jeanne House, Dawson Church, PhD
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
“We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.”
Brother David Steindl-Rast, OSB
“There’s a lovely Inuit saying that there are really two plans to every day: there’s my plan and then there’s the mystery’s plan. In the process of transformation I may have a whole plan about how I will transform and do my inner work. This is an egoic plan. But there is a deeper plan that is much stronger than any egoic plan. This plan gets revealed in silence, with specific intention and attention. What often happens for people in silence and in nature, in prayer or affirmation, is that once they let go and really listen, something else emerges that wasn’t on the agenda. And it often reveals something greater than what was on their egoic agenda. I encourage them to pay attention to that. I really trust the mystery.”
Angeles Arrien, PhD
“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of a proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values- carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.”
Stephen Covey
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle”
Albert Einstein
“If you want to identify me ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the things I want to live for. Between those two answers you can determine the identity of any person.”
Thomas Merton, The Man in the Sycamore Tree