Some quotes with which to live and grow…
The Journey
Where are you going, I asked
-- to places I have never been, was the answer
What do you plan to do, I asked
-- my purpose will be evident at the journey's end
Who has planned your itinerary
--its plan will be revealed at times most unlikely
Why would you consent to such a vague plan
--I accepted the challenge when I accepted Life,
was the answer.
[I found this quote when I was co-leading wilderness adventures for Canada’s Outward Bound 200 miles north of Thunder Bay Ontario]
Where are you going, I asked
-- to places I have never been, was the answer
What do you plan to do, I asked
-- my purpose will be evident at the journey's end
Who has planned your itinerary
--its plan will be revealed at times most unlikely
Why would you consent to such a vague plan
--I accepted the challenge when I accepted Life,
was the answer.
[I found this quote when I was co-leading wilderness adventures for Canada’s Outward Bound 200 miles north of Thunder Bay Ontario]
What's in Life?
A dance...
A play...
A whisper of God...
A moment to Love...
A chance for us to meet Again and again
And to recognize one another.
Ram Dass -- wrote this in my journal at the end of a retreat on Death and Dying with Stephen Levine and Wavy Gravy.
It has meant a lot to each of us over the years -- became the place where we would reconvene in laughter.
When it's over I want to say: all my life I was a bride to amazement. -- Mary Oliver
In the culture of my people, the Dagara, we have no word for the supernatural. The closest we come to this concept is Yielbongura:
'the thing that knowledge can't eat.' -- Malidoma Patrice Somé
Is there anything I can do to make myself Enlightened?
As little as you can do to make the sun rise in the morning.
Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?
To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.
- Anthony de Mello -
Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us. - Robert Bly -
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. - Steve Jobs -
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, A cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life. - Wu-men -
For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes.
To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction. - Marcel Proust -
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves
like locked rooms and like books
that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you
because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -
It takes courage to grow up
and become who you really are.
- E. E. Cummings -
Listening is the art of entering the skin of the other
and wearing it for a time as if it were your own.
- David Spangler –
With a willingness to be changed by what we hear. - Mark Nepo-
Enough.
These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life we have refused again and again until now.
Until now.
- David Whyte -
Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen.
"When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll -
One of the most satisfying feelings I know – and also one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person –
comes from my appreciating this individual in the same way that I appreciate a sunset.
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you can let them be.
In fact, perhaps the reason we can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot control it. When I look at a sunset as I did the other evening, I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a little on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud color.”
I don’t do that. I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds. - Carl Rogers -
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. - Dalai Lama -
Someone once told me that the Dalai Lama greets each new person he meets as if they were a close and long lost friend.
Arguments always begin with an answer in mind.
Conversations begin with a question - unknown -
The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re seeking inner peace or global peace or a combination of the two, the way to experience it is to build on the foundation of unconditional openness to all that arises. Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.
- Pema Chodron -
Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
-- Viktor E. Frankl
"Let go to the healer within."
Security is mostly a superstition.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright experience.
Life is either
a daring adventure
or nothing.
--Helen Keller
The sun is love. The lover, a speck circling the sun.
A spring wind moves to dance any branch that isn't dead.
-Jelaludin Rumi
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Bless your heart and have a delicious day.
Your fellow traveler,
Don't ask yourself what the world needs.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive,
and go do that, because
what the world needs is
people who have come alive.
-- Dr. Howard Thurman