Thought for Today

There is Always Light

“The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.” — National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman

“Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.” —Barack Obama

Dark Enough to See the Stars

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. We are returning to daily blog posts. New posts go up at 3:00 AM Central Tiime unless I make a typo when scheduling. Please stop by and begin your day with a little espiration. You mayContinue reading “Dark Enough to See the Stars”

Common Suffering

“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” – Nelson Mandela

The Friday Affirmation

I hold on to hope.

Tenderness and Vulnerability

“To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.” — Chögyam Trungpa

The Emotion That Can Break Your Heart

“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…”― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

Two Blessed Things

“It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.” – Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Broken Hearts

“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” – Patti Roberts, The Angels Are Here Many people have had their hearts broken during these last few difficult years. When we make a conscious choice to make our lives about being in the world but not ofContinue reading “Broken Hearts”