I have been and will be traveling quite a bit this month. Only fitting to share some great quotes about adventuring out into the world: 1. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” St. Augustine2. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”Henry Miller 3. ″A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.”Moslih Eddin Saadi 4. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain5. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”Miriam Bears 6. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” Maya Angelou7. … [Read more...]
Permission: Let Your Light Shine – Quote of the Week
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God … It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."- Marianne Williamson … [Read more...]
The Wonder of a Child – Quote of the Week
“Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness...There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us,but we grow to realize we can no longer hear and we live in silence.It isn’t that God stopped speaking; it is that our lives became louder."Mike Yaconelli … [Read more...]
Learning to Love the Weeds – Quote of the Week = Anthony de Mello
A man who took great pride in his lawnfound himself with a large crop of dandelions.He tried every method he knew to get rid of them.Still they plagued him.Finally he wrote to the Department of Agriculture.He enumerated all the things he had triedand closed his letter with the question,“What shall I do now?”In the course the reply came:“We suggest you learn to love them.”Anthony de Mello … [Read more...]
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast – Quote of the Week – Madeleine L’Engle
Daily BlessingWe must bless without wanting to manipulate. Without insisting that everything be straightened out right now. Without insisting that our truth be known. This means simply turning whoever it is we need to bless over to God, knowing that God's powerful love will do what our own feeble love or lack of it won't. I have suggested that it is a good practice to believe in six impossible things every morning before breakfast, like the White Queen in Through the Looking Glass. It is also salutary to bless six people I don't much like every morning before breakfast.Madeleine L'Engle … [Read more...]
Let Us Begin – Quote of the Week – Mother Teresa
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today.Let us begin.—Mother Teresa … [Read more...]
The Grace of Wonder – Quote of the Week
Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Delight me to see how your Christ plays in ten thousand places. . .to the Father through the features of men's faces. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. I do not ask to see the reason for it all; I ask only to share the wonder of it all.Joshua Abraham Heschel … [Read more...]
Creativity Quote – Taking Back my Crayons – Hugh McLeod
Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten.Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with books on algebra, etc.Being suddenly hit years later with the creative bug is just a wee voice telling you,“I’d like my crayons back, please.“Hugh McLeod … [Read more...]