What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness.
Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.
Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone.
Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.
Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.
As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. What happens here is a spiraling ascent, a process of growth in ever expanding circles around a steady center.
If you learn to respond as if it’s the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.
Gratefulness is not just saying “thank you.” It’s acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science.
Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.
The hope that is left after all your hopes are gone – that is pure hope, rooted in the heart.
When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.
The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest. It may be wholeheartedness. You are so exhausted because all of the things you are doing are just busyness. There’s a central core of wholeheartedness totally missing from what you’re doing.
From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful.
What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness.
One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.
Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply?
A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it – that alone can be like waking up from a dream.
Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let ourselves down into that great silence the more we become capable of singing that great song.
Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you.
By looking up, by raising our eyes above our limited horizon, we are more likely to perceive the blessings hidden in affliction.