This Week’s Quotation: A funeral is an occasion to both mourn together and rejuvenate one another with love. Through their presence at a funeral, family and friends get to display their solidarity anew. ~ Hlumelo Biko: Black Consciousness – A Love Story The Rejuvenating Power
This Week’s Quotation: Lent comes to providentially reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy. ~ Pope Francis The Medicine of Grace I shared this quote from Pope Francis because it captures the essence of the Lenten Season as I’ve come to
This Week’s Quotation: Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times. ~ Ping Fu Abiding Resilience Have you
This Week’s Quotation: All of life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You get to decide which prophecy your self will fulfill. ~ Alan Cohen Imagine With all that is going on in the world, it would be easy to think that in general, we do not
This Week’s Quotation: At present mankind is undergoing an evolutionary crisis in which is concealed a choice of destiny; for a stage has been reached in which the human mind has achieved in certain directions an enormous development while in others it stands arrested and
This Week’s Quotation: Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ~ Rumi Abiding Radiance
This Week’s Quotation: In all three of the monotheistic faiths, we share the two greatest commandments: to love God and to love our neighbor. We are thus bound—each and every one of us— by our own faiths to reach out to each other as neighbors
This Week’s Quotation: My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. ~ Desmond Tutu Blessings of Unity I’ve found that breaking the habits of disconnection involves a steady effort to undo all the acclimation to a
This Week’s Quotation: The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility. ~ South African President Nelson Mandela, 1995 State of the Nation address Freedom and Responsibility In South Africa, Freedom Day is celebrated annually on April
This Week’s Quotation: Let right deeds be thy motive, not the fruit which comes from them. And live in action! Labour! Make thine acts thy piety, casting all self aside, condemning gain and merit. ― Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita The Action of Unified Prayer Early in
This Week’s Quotation: The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. ~ Dalai Lama The Grace of Caring It may seem counter-intuitive sometimes to think that caring for the needs and happiness of others might increase
This Week’s Quotation: For thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip and bounced upon her knees.” Isaiah