This week we all need a little light.
To shed some light for those who feel like they are walking in the dark…
To brighten your day…
To remind us (you and me) that the light shines in through the cracks of our brokenness and we are enough just as we are, perfectly imperfect…
Let the light shine…
May you walk in beauty.
“Awareness of your essence, that spacious wholeness at the center of all that is, changes interbeingness from an idea, from a description of temporary or particular conditions, to consciousness of the very nature of reality itself. When you experience your own deep and dynamic stillness, you become conscious that all things are made of the same sacred presence, that all things emanate from and return to and are never separated from a vast and sacred wholeness. Knowing this, how can my prayers—or my heart—exclude anyone or anything?”
— Oriah Mountain Dreamer, The Call
“When we move into simply being, we touch the meaning we need in order to live fully.”
— Oriah Mountain Dreamer, The Call
“Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness – mine, yours, ours – need not be a utopian dream, if we can use devastation as a seedbed for new life.” – Parker Palmer
“Come in, my dear
From that harsh world
That has rained elements of stone
Upon your tender face.
Every soul
Should receive a toast from us
For bravery!”
― Hafez, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy
“Light will someday split you open”
― Hafez
“World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
“We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily – as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable.” — Maya Angelou
“That’s the secret: there is no turning, no changing. There’s only the death of what has been masking the colors inside. The beauty has been there all along. And we as human beings are like this. Each one of us contains hidden jewels inside.” — Omid Safi, The Autumn of Our Own Existence
“The soul should always stand ajar. Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” — Emily Dickinson
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” ~Rumi
“Every child has known God,
Not the God of names,
Not the God of don’ts,
Not the God who ever does Anything weird,
But the God who knows only 4 words.
And keeps repeating them, saying:
“Come Dance with Me , come dance.”
― Hafez
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