Shaun

“It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Compassion is an astoundingly, frustratingly affirming force. It Loves the other enough to find beauty and meaning in what the rest of us lazily judge as good or bad. Ahava Love, the brand that has the other’s interests more in view than its own preferences being perfectly tended to, searches and finds the thing to celebrate.”
― Steve Daugherty, Experiments in Honesty: Meditations on Love, Fear and the Honest to God Naked Truth

“This lesson is, I suppose, a major reason I wrote this book: because along the way I’ve picked up the wisdom that bad things happen, and yet the sun still comes up the next day, and it’s up to you to carry on living your life and keeping your setbacks in perspective. You also have to understand that on some level, these horrible and sad things happen to everyone; the mark of a man is not just how he survives it all but also what wisdom he’s gained from the experience.”
― Martin Short, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend

“Today, you and I are 99 percent wrong about everyone we hold opinions about. That figure may be low, but I know I’m close. In our growing sense of Compassion, such as we would like leveled at ourselves, let us respect the human beings around us enough to see what lies beneath that which our stubborn, blind minds and made-up thoughts insist they already have pegged. See. Then re-see. Then re-re-see. Again and again and again, until you know their real name and feel their story like you hope they’ll feel yours. Then we will know Love and Compassion and the reason so many stories in the Bible are of Jesus healing eyes.”
― Steve Daugherty, Experiments in Honesty: Meditations on Love, Fear and the Honest to God Naked Truth