David

“Forgiveness becomes central to Jesus’ teaching, because to receive reality is always to “bear it,” to bear with reality for not meeting all of our needs. To accept reality is to forgive reality for being what it is, almost day by day and sometimes even hour by hour. Such a practice creates patient and humble people.

Forgiveness reveals three goodnesses simultaneously. When we forgive, we choose the goodness of the other over their faults, we experience God’s goodness flowing through ourselves, and we also experience our own capacity for goodness in a way that almost surprises us. We are finally in touch with a much Higher Power, and we slowly learn how to draw upon this Infinite Source.”
― Richard Rohr

“The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, and the condition of being the truth is to transform your suffering with great creativity and compassion into forms and deeds that empower others to do likewise in their own ways.”
― Cornel West, Race Matters: With a New Introduction

“Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“The first half of life is discovering the script, and the second half is actually writing it and owning it.”
― Richard Rohr, AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life