“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela Oh I love this one. I need it. During these turbulent times we need to making choices that are based in hope, not fear. If there is an “enemy” in all this it is fear. It’s not about what is happening to us,Continue reading “Sunday Inspiration”
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The Biggest Challenge
“The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.” — Kailash Satyarhi (Nobel Peace Prize 2014)
Path to the Dark Side
“Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.” –Yoda As the United States moves into election season it seems appropriate to talk about fear. So why begin with a Star Wars quote? There is a lot of truth and wisdom in that movie.Continue reading “Path to the Dark Side”
The Heart is Like a Garden
“The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?” – Jack Kornfield
We’ll Change the World
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” —Jack Layton
Breathe Deeply
“Breathe deeply, until sweet air extinguishes the burn of fear in your lungs and every breath is a beautiful refusal to become anything less than infinite.” – D. Antoinette Foy
Moving Through Fear
“Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, reveling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.“ — bellContinue reading “Moving Through Fear”
Turn on the Light
“Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light.” – Dorothy Thompson
Love does not want
“Love does not want or fear anything.” — Eckhart Tolle
Learning new ways to communicate
I think one of the greatest gifts to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic will be learning new ways to communicate. During this time when we have not been able to gather in groups people have stepped up to reach out electronically. How have you been gathering differently during this crisis? Have you attended aContinue reading “Learning new ways to communicate”
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