The Feast of All Souls when we remember those gone before us:
I know that humans want and need exactly the same thing:
to belong, to feel safe and respected.
I also know that we don’t live long.
And that dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea.
Anne Lamott , post on X
The Feast of All Saints
All of the places of our lives are sanctuaries; some of them just happen to have steeples.
And all of the people in our lives are saints; it is just that some of them have day jobs and most will never have feast days named for them
Robert Benson, Between the Dreaming and the Coming true
Halloween, the ancient feast of Samhain, believed to be a time when the boundary between the living and the dead thinned,
Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you
upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance
upon the mountains like a flame.
William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart’s Desire
Every day is a new creation.
This day, fresh and unspoiled, is God’s gift. Its beauty isn’t in flawless skies, but in the invitation it carries: to receive love, to offer kindness, to notice the holy shimmering just beneath the surface of the now. That potential makes every day inherently beautiful
Henri Nouwen, Bread for the Journey
Awareness is not the same as thinking.
Awareness is the vast, spacious soul place that doesn’t think.
It watches the thinking. So don’t take your thinking seriously.
Richard Rohr, Franciscan Mysticism
There are lots of ways of being miserable,’
says a character in a short story by Edith Wharton,
‘but there’s only one way of being comfortable,
and that is to stop running around after happiness.‘
Oliver Burkeman,The Antidote: Happiness for People who cannot stand Positive thinking
