“When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.”
― Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
― Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“Personal power is the ability to stand on your own two feet with a smile on your face in the middle of a universe that contains a million ways to crush you.”
― Journey
― Journey
“A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree”
― New Seeds of Contemplation
― New Seeds of Contemplation
“If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.”
― The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
― The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
“For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.”
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
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