Tag: Community

Quotes March 10, 2021

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.
Roy T. Bennett
 
 
 
 
What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if that is joy?
Ross Gay
 
 
 
 
Elder really first and foremost should be a verb and not a noun or an adjective, which is to say, it’s something that’s done.
Stephen Jenkinson
 
 
 
 
Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
Paramahansa Yogananda
 
 
 
 
This is the land’s manifestation, not a language (describing his native tongue)
A shepherd in the Thar desert, India
 
 
 
 
Leadership is about the capacity of the whole system to sense and actualize the future that wants to emerge.
Otto Scharmer
 
 
 
 
Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten — it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging.
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
 
 
 
 
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Albert Schweitzer
 
 
 
 
Make yourself fierce; break in. And then your great transforming will happen to me And my great grief cry will happen to you.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Rainer Maria Rilke
 
 
 
 
It is only through the pursuit of practical and effective efforts to promote human rights that we show our real commitment to the welfare of individuals and society.
Alexander Downer
 
 
 
 
When one tugs at a single thing in nature,
he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
John Muir
 
 
 
 
In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are.
Michael Ray
 
 
 
 
Between the dark sky and the dark earth
we hang a light in a dark tree
and sing of our wonder together
Pir Elias Amidon
 
 
 
 
The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves.
Helena Norberg-Hodge
 
 
 
 
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
 
 
 
 
Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.
Dan Millman
 
 
 
 
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France