Quotes January 23, 2022

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.
Franklin D. Roosevelt – 1882-1945 – Former President of the United States
 
 
 
 
very moment in time touches every other moment in time, and in that there is a much deeper sense of responsibility, and that comes back to relationship. Relationship over time, or kinship over time. We’re akin to what happened in the past, we’re akin to what’s going to happen in the future.
Stan Rushworth
 
 
 
 
As a free person I can always come and go,
Not caught in ideas of is and is not,
Not caught in ideas of being and non-being,
Let your steps be leisurely.
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
Henri Nouwen
 
 
 
 
Of course the gift to be cherished most of all is that of life itself. One’s work should be a salute to life.
Pablo Casals
 
 
 
 
Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes.
Virginia Woolf
 
 
 
 
You ask what the absolute is. It is the essence of your soul before everything.
The Upanishads
 
 
 
 
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
 
 
 
 
The thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.
Fr. Greg Boyle
 
 
 
 
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
Elie Wiesel
 
 
 
 
What an extraordinary way the reed pen has of drinking darkness and pouring out light!
Abu Hafs Ibn Burd Al-Asghar