Weekly Token of Wisdom “It has taken years to continue to live into the truth that if I believe we are from God and for God, then we are from Goodness and for Goodness. To greet sorrow today does not mean that sorrow will be there tomorrow. Happiness comes too, and grief, and tiredness, disappointment, surprise and energy. Chaos and fulfilment will be named as well as delight and despair. This is the truth of being here, wherever here is today. It may not be permanent but it is here. I will probably leave here, and I will probably return. To deny here is to harrow the heart. Hello to here.” ― Pádraig Ó Tuama
“An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.” ― E F Schumacher
“Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less.” – James Baldwin
“What people see as fearlessness is really persistence.”
― Wangari Maathai.
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” – Albert Einstein
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
“You don’t need to justify your love, you don’t need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.” – Don Miguel Ruiz
“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you…. What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language.” – Audre Lorde
“It is true that when we harm others, we harm ourselves; but it is just as true that when we help others, we also help ourselves.” ― Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.” ― Shunryu Suzuki
“Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.” – Assata Shakur
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. ” – Viktor E. Frankl
“My actions are my only true belongings.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
“The door to the mind should only open from the heart. An enemy who gets in, risks the danger of becoming a friend.” – Joy Harjo
“Active Hope is not wishful thinking. Active Hope is not waiting to be rescued . . . . by some savior. Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life on whose behalf we can act. We belong to this world. The web of life is calling us forth at this time. We’ve come a long way and are here to play our part. With Active Hope we realize that there are adventures in store, strengths to discover, and comrades to link arms with…”
– Joanna Macy
“When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.” – Hafiz Shirazi
“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable.” ― Hannah Arendt
“Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.” ― Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, aka Rumi
“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer
“There is a difference between visions that come out of the most individualistic tendencies and those that arise when we are able to admit that we need other people.” – Prentis Hemphill
“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
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