Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.
The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.
When we pray, we don’t change the world, we change ourselves.
We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.
Everybody is a story.
People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances.
A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
Silence is a place of great power and healing.
Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.
Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will over it, no matter how well intentioned our will may be. Befriending life is more about harmlessness than it is about control.
If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.
Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.
As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere.
When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.
Being alive is being aware, being able to be touched and moved and changed, being able to respond rather than to react, being able to see and hear.
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Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth.
I don’t think there’s such a thing as a bad emotion. The only bad emotion is a stuck emotion.
I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a much greater sense of the value of life and of what life can be.
Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.