Thought for Today

Copyright 2016 by R.A. Robbins
Copyright 2016 by R.A. Robbins

“If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.” — Gail Sheehy
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Thought for Today

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“Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment.”
John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Thought for Today

Copyright 2016 by R.A. Robbins
Copyright 2016 by R.A. Robbins

“That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.” — Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for Today

Copyright 2016 by R.A. Robbins
Copyright 2016 by R.A. Robbins

“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.” —Parker Palmer on “Becoming the Person You Called to Become (Not What the World Wants of You)”

Thought for Today

Copyright 2016 by R.A. Robbins
Copyright 2016 by R.A. Robbins

“It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.” — Adrienne Rich
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Thought for Today

Copyright 2016 by R.O. Robbins
Copyright 2016 by R.O. Robbins

“Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.” — Meher Baba
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Thought for Today

Copyright 2015 by R.A. Robbins
Copyright 2015 by R.A. Robbins
“A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its purpose and unable to be or do whatever it is intended to be or do.”
David Winter, What’s in a Word

Thought for Today

Copyright 2015 by R.A. Robbins
Copyright 2015 by R.A. Robbins

“Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus.”
Brennan Manning, The Wisdom of Tenderness: What Happens When God’s Fierce Mercy Transforms Our Lives