How to ferment our natural gifts into nectar for the world. …
“Hope is a diagnostic human trait, and this simple cortex symptom seems to be a prime factor in our inspection of our universe.” …
“We have to keep the channels in ourselves open to pain. At the same time it is essential that true joys be experienced, that the sunrise not leave us unmoved, for civilization depends on the true joys.” …
From Emily Dickinson to Bruce Springsteen, by way of galaxies and gardening. …
Stepping up to the subtle gestures that can redeem a day, or a life. …
“That something exists outside ourselves and our preoccupations, so near, so readily available, is our greatest blessing.” …
Searching for the byway to the unconscious. …
“We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others… There is a virgin forest in each.” …
“Time says ‘Let there be.’” …
From Rumi to Blake to Nick Cave, by way of trees, hummingbirds, grief, and music. …
“There are ways of failing in solitude as in society.” …
“An act of pure attention, if you are capable of it, will bring its own answer.” …
Personality tests are a great way to explore different aspects of who you are and uncover layers you perhaps hadn’t recognized about yourself before. …
“It is so easy to give, so exquisitely rewarding. Receiving, on the other hand, if it be well done, requires a fine balance of self-knowledge and kindness.” …
“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels, no one swears by it, no one cites it… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our ‘self.’” …
“Caring for your body, mind, and spirit is your greatest and grandest responsibility. It’s about listening to the needs of your soul and then honoring them.” ~Kristi Ling
There’s something I haven’t told many people. I kept it to myself …
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“Everything impinges on everything else… Everything is potentially everywhere.” …
“The definition of the soul is made of these places where you feel that the world came into being so that they could exist.” …
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” …
“Sometimes we are hurt. Sometimes we hurt others, whether intentionally or not. The path of repentance is one that can help us not only to repair what we have broken, to the fullest extent possible, but to grow in the process of doing so.” …
Notes on the change that begins in the heart. …
“It wouldn’t have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.” …
In praise of “the necessary and urgent need to love life and one another, despite the casual cruelty of the world.” …
“I am, in the deepest sense, an unhappy individual who since my earliest days have been nailed fast to some suffering close to insanity.” …