"to live reverently, deliberately, and fully awake - that is what it means to live in the promise, where the wait itself is as rich as its end" ~ Barbara Brown Taylor
Showing posts with label in Other's words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label in Other's words. Show all posts
"through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth"
"Man, in his weakness and shortsightedness believes he must make choices in this life. He trembles at the risks he takes. We do know fear. But no. Our choice is of no importance. There comes a time when our eyes are opened and we come to realize that mercy is infinite. We need only await it with confidence and receive it with gratitude. Mercy imposes no conditions. And lo! Everything we have chosen has been granted to us. And everything we rejected has also been granted. Yes, we even get back what we rejected. For mercy and truth have met together, and righteousness and bliss shall kiss one another.
"Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best. "
"our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home."
"God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road."
"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."
"It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness."
"One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel."
(Translated from Danish)" — Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) (Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny)
....more - http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8147.Isak_Dinesen
"Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best. "
"our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home."
"God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road."
"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."
"It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness."
"One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel."
(Translated from Danish)" — Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) (Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny)
....more - http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8147.Isak_Dinesen
How long O Lord will You forget me
How long O Lord will You look the other way
How long O Lord must I wrestle with my thoughts
And every day have such sorrow in my heart
Look on me and answer, O God my Father
Bring light to my darkness before they see me fall
But I trust in Your unfailing love
Yes my heart will rejoice
Still I sing of Your unfailing love
You have been good, You will be good to me
How long O Lord will You look the other way
How long O Lord must I wrestle with my thoughts
And every day have such sorrow in my heart
Look on me and answer, O God my Father
Bring light to my darkness before they see me fall
But I trust in Your unfailing love
Yes my heart will rejoice
Still I sing of Your unfailing love
You have been good, You will be good to me
"The world is full of dark shadows to be sure,
both the world without and the world within, and the road we've all set off on is long and hard and often hard to find,
but the word is trust.
Trust the deepest intuitions of your own heart.
Trust the source of your own truest gladness.
Trust the road.
Above all else,
trust him.
Trust him.
Amen."
*Fredrick Buechner* - a room called remember
both the world without and the world within, and the road we've all set off on is long and hard and often hard to find,
but the word is trust.
Trust the deepest intuitions of your own heart.
Trust the source of your own truest gladness.
Trust the road.
Above all else,
trust him.
Trust him.
Amen."
*Fredrick Buechner* - a room called remember
"In the conflicts between man and man, between group and group, between nation and nation, the loneliness of the seeker for community is sometimes unendurable. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste. Always he must know that the contradictions of life are not final or ultimate; he must distinguish between failure and a many-sided awareness so that he will not mistake conformity for harmony, uniformity for synthesis. He will know that for all men to be alike is the death of life in man, and yet perceive harmony that transcends all diversities and in which diversity finds its richness and significance." From The Search For Common Ground; An Inquiry Into The Basis Of Man's Experience Of Community.
For some unexplained reason, the following quote is widely and incorrectly attributed on the Internet to Harold Thurman Whitman:
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." The author of this quote is Dr. Howard Thurman. Harold Thurman Whitman is a fictional name.
"When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flock, The work of Christmas begins: To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the prisoner, To rebuild the nations, To bring peace among others, To make music in the heart."
...this selection in its entirety, comes from WiKi, just google-ing around & found this to keep me busy for the rest of2010 my LiFE?!
For some unexplained reason, the following quote is widely and incorrectly attributed on the Internet to Harold Thurman Whitman:
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." The author of this quote is Dr. Howard Thurman. Harold Thurman Whitman is a fictional name.
"When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flock, The work of Christmas begins: To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the prisoner, To rebuild the nations, To bring peace among others, To make music in the heart."
...this selection in its entirety, comes from WiKi, just google-ing around & found this to keep me busy for the rest of
"If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.
If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just a condensed version of life, then life itself may be designed to change us, so that we evolve from one kind of person to another."
Donald Miller - a.m.m.i.a.t.y.
this book has not only spoken into my soul, it has challenged my soul to speak....loudly.
If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just a condensed version of life, then life itself may be designed to change us, so that we evolve from one kind of person to another."
Donald Miller - a.m.m.i.a.t.y.
this book has not only spoken into my soul, it has challenged my soul to speak....loudly.
“We shouldn’t ask: what does a person need to know or be able to do in order to fit into the existing social order? Instead we should ask: what lives in each human being and what can be developed in him or her? Only then will it be possible to direct the new qualities of each emerging generation into society. The society will become, what young people as whole human beings, make out of the existing social conditions. The new generation should not just be made to be what the present society wants it to become.”
Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner
"Concerning all acts of initiative
(and creation)
there is one elementary truth,
the ignorance of
which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:
that the moment one definitely commits oneself,
then providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one
that would not otherwise have occured.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision,
raising in one's favour
all manner of unforseen incidents
and meetings
and material assistance
which no man would have dreamed would come his way.
I have learned a deep respect for
one of Gothe's couplets:
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can,
begin it.
Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.
Begin it now."
~ W.H. Murray,
•The Scottish Himalayan Expedition•
as i read this selection from "the War of Art" : break through the blocks and win your inner creative battles - Steven Pressfield
i am inspired, and encouraged that i have gotten off to a good start.
however, more deeply i have a sense that there is surely something
in the beginning stages for me,
and what i fear most...
is that it may not be what i have decided it should be.
(and creation)
there is one elementary truth,
the ignorance of
which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:
that the moment one definitely commits oneself,
then providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one
that would not otherwise have occured.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision,
raising in one's favour
all manner of unforseen incidents
and meetings
and material assistance
which no man would have dreamed would come his way.
I have learned a deep respect for
one of Gothe's couplets:
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can,
begin it.
Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.
Begin it now."
~ W.H. Murray,
•The Scottish Himalayan Expedition•
as i read this selection from "the War of Art" : break through the blocks and win your inner creative battles - Steven Pressfield
i am inspired, and encouraged that i have gotten off to a good start.
however, more deeply i have a sense that there is surely something
in the beginning stages for me,
and what i fear most...
is that it may not be what i have decided it should be.
”Jesus uses a number of mixture images that illustrate this world and unless you learn how to see, you don’t know to separate;you get lost in the weeds and can’t see the wheat (matt 13:24-30) when a student comes and says, “should I pull out the weeds? Jesus says “No” Let them grow together until harvest. Then, at the end of time, HE will decide what is wheat and what is weed. This idea has had little effect on Western moral Theology. But WE are a mixture of weed and wheat and we always will be. As Luther put it, simul Justus et peccator. His whole tradition said we are simultaneously saint and sinner. That's the mystery of holding wheat and weed together in our one field of life. It takes a lot more patience, compassion, forgiveness and love than aiming for some illusory perfection that is usually blind to it's own faults. The only true perfection available to us is the honest acceptance of our own imperfection.
IF we must have perfection to be happy with ourselves, we have only 2 choices. We can either blind ourselves to our own evil(&deny the weeds) or we can give up in discouragement (&deny the wheat). BUT if we put aside perfection and face the tension of having both, then we can hear The good news with open hearts. It takes UNCOMMON humility to carry the darkside of things. It takes a kind of courage to carry the good side, too. Archtypically, "the crucified one" always hangs between these 2 thieves- paying the price within himself just as we must do. (see Luke 23:32-34;note Jesus forgives both thieves.)
Richard Rohr - Everything Belongs
(CAPS my emphasis)
IF we must have perfection to be happy with ourselves, we have only 2 choices. We can either blind ourselves to our own evil(&deny the weeds) or we can give up in discouragement (&deny the wheat). BUT if we put aside perfection and face the tension of having both, then we can hear The good news with open hearts. It takes UNCOMMON humility to carry the darkside of things. It takes a kind of courage to carry the good side, too. Archtypically, "the crucified one" always hangs between these 2 thieves- paying the price within himself just as we must do. (see Luke 23:32-34;note Jesus forgives both thieves.)
Richard Rohr - Everything Belongs
(CAPS my emphasis)
"the longest journey is the journey inward"....Dag Hammarskjold
so it is, and it has been a long week...
i have been challenged and also have learned it is best to begin all of my new experiences by first, reminding myself that Here am i.
so it is, and it has been a long week...
i have been challenged and also have learned it is best to begin all of my new experiences by first, reminding myself that Here am i.
