Sunday

“Most of the people I know who have what I want–which is to say, purpose, heart, balance, gratitude, joy– are people with a deep sense of spirituality. They are people in community, who pray, or practice their faith; they are Buddhists, Jews, Christians– people banding together to work on themselves and for human rights. They follow a brighter light than the glimmer of their own candle; they are part of something beautiful.” 

-Anne Lamott from Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

"For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.”

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 “I ask not for any crown

But that which all may win;

Nor try to conquer any world

Except the one within.”

― Louisa May Alcott

 A silence over

by the woods and skies,

the small bird whispers

A deafening cry.

Andrew Smith

 Let yourself be silently drawn

by the stronger pull of what you really love—Rumi

 We must be willing to relinquish the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

~ Joseph Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987

 If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.

~ Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

 Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

~ Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)

 If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.

~Loretta Girzaitis