Quotes October 07, 2024

In a strange way the spiritual life isn’t “useful” or “successful.” But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.
Henri Nouwen
 
 
 
 
A cloud has a good time traveling. When it falls down it does not die, it just becomes the rain. A cloud can never die.
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
 
 
 
 
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.
Erich Fromm
 
 
 
 
Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.
Bill Wilson
 
 
 
 
In the stillness of quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.
Howard Thurman
 
 
 
 
An emotion is your brain’s creation of what your bodily sensations mean, in relation to what is going on around you in the world.
Lisa Feldman Barrett
 
 
 
 
I have always said that parenthood gives us another chance to grow.
Fred Rogers
 
 
 
 
Have compassion for everyone you meet,
even if they don’t want it.
What appears bad manners,
an ill temper or cynicism
is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen.
You do not know what wars are going on down there
where the spirit meets the bone.
Miller Williams