Jeff Straka

“Expecting permanence brings stress. Embracing change brings wisdom.”
― Joseph Emet, Buddha's Book of Stress Reduction: Finding Serenity and Peace with Mindfulness Meditation

“A baby smiles between fifty and seventy times a day, and a toddler approximately six hundred times, according to research. I’m sure some of us have asked ourselves where that smile goes. What robs us of it? —GOLDIE HAWN, 10 Mindful Minutes”
― Joseph Emet, Buddha's Book of Stress Reduction: Finding Serenity and Peace with Mindfulness Meditation

“It is time for humanists and atheists, skeptics and agnostics to see they share a common future with the many who are still comforted by their religious beliefs.”
― Gretta Vosper, With Or Without God: Why the Way We Live is More Important Than What We Believe

“I wish I could turn to the church for help, but so many congregations are preoccupied with keeping the lights on right now that the last thing they want to talk about is how to befriend the dark.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark: A Study of Spiritual Growth Through Darkness