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"When we understand that there is no final attainment, no
ultimate answer or stopping place, when our mind is free of warring emotions
and the belief in separateness, then we will have no fear."
-Pema
"Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for new hands, and the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carried out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old."
-Galway Kinnell
"We are all a paradoxical bundle of rich potential that consists of both neurosis and wisdom."
-Pema
"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)"
-E.E. Cummings
"Caminante no hay camino. Se hace el camino al andar."
–Antonio Machado
"Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything."
-Pedro Arrupe, SJ
"And so I think it is with you.
Your ideas mature gradually, let them shape themselves, without undue haste.
Don’t try to force them on, as though you could be today
What time (that is to say grace and circumstance acting on your own good will)
Will make you tomorrow."
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“The search—for self, for wisdom, for love, for truth, for justice, for God—is strenuous and unending. We need good companions in order to persevere in it. In good company, in a community of conviction, the quest never loses its relevance, its urgency, or its savor”
-Kaye Ashe, O.P.
“You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.”
-Rainer Marie Rilke
"The greatest enemy of hope is believing it all depends on you"
-Mark Ravizza
“Something missing in my heart tonight
Has made my eyes so soft,
My voice
So tender,
My need of God
Absolutely
Clear”
-Hafiz
"There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom"
-Annie Dillard
“But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly recognized as your own”
-Mary Oliver
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?”
-Mary Oliver
“As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky
and water bears them,
as hawks rest upon air
and air sustains them,
so would I learn to attain freefall”
-Denise Levertov
“I cannot cause the light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam”
–Annie Dillard
“…then it’s time to toss things, like our reason, and our will then it’s time to break our necks for home”
–Annie Dillard
“There are no shortcuts to beauty or to insight. We ust go through the finite, the limited, the definite, omitting none of it lest we omit some of the potencies of being-in-the-flesh”
-Lynch
“I need sacraments I can receive through my senses. I need God manifested as Christ, who ate and drank and shat and suffered, and laughed. So I can dance with Him as the leaf dances in the breeze under the sun”
-Andre Dubus
“We prefer our lives to be ordinary because we know the only alternative is to let them be tragic”
-Jerome Miller
“Let your life speak…listen to the life that wants to live in you”
-Parker Palmer
“If there is anything we know about God it is that he or she is absolutely in love with diversity”
-Father Mark
“Pues cuando ardió la perdida, reverdecieron sus maizales”
-21 grams
“What makes life so horrible, is that our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.
But sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it’s not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can…well…go on”
-John L’Heureux
"We are here to awaken from the illusion of our own separateness"
-Thich Nhat Hanh
"Let your heart break so fully that the whole world falls in"
-Mother Theresa
The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand. But who gets excited by a mere penny? If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days."
-Annie Dillard
“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system”
–Dorothy Day
“Only when the last tree is cut; only when the last river is polluted; only when the last fish is caught; only then will we realize that we cannot eat money.” -Cree Indian Proverb
-Pema
"Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for new hands, and the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carried out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old."
-Galway Kinnell
"We are all a paradoxical bundle of rich potential that consists of both neurosis and wisdom."
-Pema
"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)"
-E.E. Cummings
"Caminante no hay camino. Se hace el camino al andar."
–Antonio Machado
"Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything."
-Pedro Arrupe, SJ
"And so I think it is with you.
Your ideas mature gradually, let them shape themselves, without undue haste.
Don’t try to force them on, as though you could be today
What time (that is to say grace and circumstance acting on your own good will)
Will make you tomorrow."
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“The search—for self, for wisdom, for love, for truth, for justice, for God—is strenuous and unending. We need good companions in order to persevere in it. In good company, in a community of conviction, the quest never loses its relevance, its urgency, or its savor”
-Kaye Ashe, O.P.
“You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.”
-Rainer Marie Rilke
"The greatest enemy of hope is believing it all depends on you"
-Mark Ravizza
“Something missing in my heart tonight
Has made my eyes so soft,
My voice
So tender,
My need of God
Absolutely
Clear”
-Hafiz
"There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom"
-Annie Dillard
“But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly recognized as your own”
-Mary Oliver
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?”
-Mary Oliver
“As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky
and water bears them,
as hawks rest upon air
and air sustains them,
so would I learn to attain freefall”
-Denise Levertov
“I cannot cause the light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam”
–Annie Dillard
“…then it’s time to toss things, like our reason, and our will then it’s time to break our necks for home”
–Annie Dillard
“There are no shortcuts to beauty or to insight. We ust go through the finite, the limited, the definite, omitting none of it lest we omit some of the potencies of being-in-the-flesh”
-Lynch
“I need sacraments I can receive through my senses. I need God manifested as Christ, who ate and drank and shat and suffered, and laughed. So I can dance with Him as the leaf dances in the breeze under the sun”
-Andre Dubus
“We prefer our lives to be ordinary because we know the only alternative is to let them be tragic”
-Jerome Miller
“Let your life speak…listen to the life that wants to live in you”
-Parker Palmer
“If there is anything we know about God it is that he or she is absolutely in love with diversity”
-Father Mark
“Pues cuando ardió la perdida, reverdecieron sus maizales”
-21 grams
“What makes life so horrible, is that our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.
But sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it’s not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can…well…go on”
-John L’Heureux
"We are here to awaken from the illusion of our own separateness"
-Thich Nhat Hanh
"Let your heart break so fully that the whole world falls in"
-Mother Theresa
The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand. But who gets excited by a mere penny? If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days."
-Annie Dillard
“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system”
–Dorothy Day
“Only when the last tree is cut; only when the last river is polluted; only when the last fish is caught; only then will we realize that we cannot eat money.” -Cree Indian Proverb
