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
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it.
It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.
Alan Watts
The essence of life is not to find the one thing that satisfies us
but to realize that nothing can ever completely satisfy us.
Joan Chittister
You will either step forward into growth,
or you will step back into safety.
Abraham Maslow
