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“Sabbath is not a reward for hard work. Sabbath is a gift that precedes work and enables us to work. (…) As with God’s Grace, rest is never a reward; it’s a gift.”
― The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus
― The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus
“People ask me, “Have you tried yoga? Kombucha? This special water?” And I don’t have the energy to explain that yes, I’ve tried them. I’ve tried crystals and healing drum circles and prayer and everything. What I want to try is acceptance. I want to see what happens if I can simply accept myself for who I am: battered, broken, hoping for relief, still enduring somehow. I will still take a cure if it’s presented to me, but I am so tired of trying to bargain with the universe for some kind of cure. The price is simply too high to live chasing cures, because in doing so, I’m missing living my life. I know only that in chasing to achieve the person I once was, I will miss the person I have become.”
― Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
― Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine….”
― Be Water, My Friend: The True Teachings of Bruce Lee
― Be Water, My Friend: The True Teachings of Bruce Lee
“It was only in the idealistic dreams of H.G. Wells that people became nicer as they acquired wealth.”
― The Naked Civil Servant
― The Naked Civil Servant
“Prayer can’t be mastered. Prayer always means submission. To pray is to willingly put ourselves in the unguarded, exposed position. There is no climb. There is no control. There is no mastery. There is only humility and hope. To pray is to risk being naive, to risk believing, to risk playing the fool. To pray is to risk trusting someone who might let”
― Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer
― Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer
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