- Loss is a fact of life. Impermanence is everywhere we look. We are all going to suffer our losses. How we deal with these losses is what makes all the difference. For it is not what happens to us that determines our character, our experience, our karma, and our destiny, but how we relate to what happens. ~Lama Surya Das, “Practicing With Loss”
- Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. ~Lao Tzu
- Dont be surprised how quickly the Universe moves once you’ve decided.
- “We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds — the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.” ~Caroline Myss
- “Something is unfolding, being revealed to me […] I don’t have to keep up with anyone, run as fast, aim as well, make loud explosive noises, decode messages, die on cue.” ~Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
- Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. ~Louis Ferdinand Celine
- In a time of destruction, create something. ~Maxine Hong Kingston
- You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – over and over announcing your place in the family of things. ~Mary Oliver
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