03-30-08
Health is seldom painless and healing often hurts.
- M.Scott Peck
04-06-08
The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.
-- Richard Rohr
04-13-08
Only after liberation from numbness are we able to recognize, identify, and realize our healthy options of today.
- Alice Miller
4-20-08
The affairs of the heart are directly connected to the brain and it is the heart’s natural intelligence that must be unfolded for the brain to operate with greater efficiency
Joseph Chilton Pearce
4-27-08
We are not caught in the iron grip of the past.
We are caught in the iron grip of the illusion that we need to
protect ourselves against what happened in the past.
Ingeborg Bosch
5-4-08
The purpose of freedom is to enable us to choose what we already are in the depths of our being.
Robert Godwin
5-11-08
When experienced for what it truly is, the present is surprisingly unburdened.
Ingeborg Bosch
5-18-08
The highest form of self-possession is the capacity to give yourself away. It is the highest form of freedom; it is the perfect act of freedom.
Richard Rohr
5-25-08
Oh paradise of simplicity, self-awareness - and self-forgetfulness - liberty, peace... In this I have realized how silly and unreal are my rebellions.
Thomas Merton
6-1-08
…To contemplate my own True Self and keep me young as I grow old...
Van Morrison
6-8-08
In multitasking, no task receives in-depth attention. The two sides of out brains must come to a compromise about information coming from both in too short a time. This process is called stress. And stress, in a small or a large degree, is really fear.
--Nancy K. Morrison, MD
6-15-08
If we don't face the consequences of unconscious motivation--through a practice or discipline that opens up the unconscious --then that motivation will secretly influence our health choices through our lives.
- paraphrasing Thomas Keating
6-23-08
Deep wellness and true freedom is wanting to do what you have to do to become who you are.
--paraphrasing Richard Rohr
6-30-08
You can't run from the wolf because the wolf travels with you.
- Danish proverb
7-6-08
Every human being is the author of their own health or disease.
--Socrates
7-13-08
A person who has health has a thousand wishes, a person who doesn’t, has but one.
-- Anonymous
7-28-08
If my heart could do my thinking and my head begin to feel, I would look upon the world anew and know what is truly real.
-- Van Morrison
9-2-08
We would rather be ruined than changed; we would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.
-- W.H. Auden
10-31-08
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
-- Plato
11-09-08
In my life, I have suffered many terrible experiences. Some of which actually happened.
-- Mark Twain
Congratulations to Burlington, Vermont for being named by the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the healthiest city!
12-08-08
Be as wise as the horizontal serpents who stand on their bellies, but innocent as vertical doves who kneel on wings.
-- Robert Godwin
If
I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill
I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel
inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my
voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel
incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I
will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions...Og Mandino (The Greatest Secret In The World)
"At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the Path."
-- George Leonard
Stillness is what creates Love. Movement is what creates Life. To be still, yet still moving ~ That is everything.
Do Hyun Choe
~ Sugi Master
Right now,
this very second, this very moment that you spend
reading these words is 'new'. How you choose to be a steward of that
'new slate' is up to you. My fervent prayer is that I never take for
granted that gift of 'newness' and that I do all in my power granted to
me to cherish the potential of 'all things new'.
- Katherine Walden
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Perfection is achieved, not when
there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Our
Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If
he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he
will rest satisfied.
~ Richard J. Foster
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
~ G. K. Chesterton
We
live in tents, not houses, for spiritually we are always on the move.
We are on a journey through inward space of the heart, a journey not
measured by the hours of our watch or the days of the calendar for it
is a journey out of time and into eternity.
--Kallistos Ware
Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
~ Proverbs 4:23
- It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life
becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.
- Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03-20-05
- Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.
~ Goethe- The fullness
of love brings the maximum of rest at the same time that it makes possible the maximum of action.
~ Thomas
Keating
Do what you can, being what you are.
Shine as glow-worm if you cannot be a
star.
Work like a pulley if you cannot be crane;
be a wheel grinder if
you cannot drive a train.
Be the pliant oar if you cannot be the sailor; be
the needle if you
cannot be a tailor...
Be the sharpened sickle if you
cannot be the reaper.
Anonymous
How do I imprint as much of the Absolute as possible in the
finite time given? How do I write eternity with these clumsy crayons of
time?
-Robert Godwin
All spirituality is intended to help us recognize and counter our
downward spiral toward smallness.We can now prove neurologically that it is easier to move toward cynicism,
bitterness, fear and despair than it is toward goodness, beauty, or
appreciation.
~ Richard Rohr