Quote for Today: Adrienne Rich
Transcendental Etude No one ever told us we had to study our lives, make of our lives a study, as if learning natural history or music, that we should begin …
Quote for Today: Nelson Mandela
Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish, regardless of race, colour, creed, religion, gender, class, caste, or any …
Quote for Today: C. JoyBell C.
You’re going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that noisily stake their claims in your territory and everywhere else they set foot on. This …
Quote for Today: Alain de Botton
We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our …
Quote for Today: Rollo May
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men… One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a …
Quote for Today: Tara Brach
In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to the pause as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed that in the midst of a fight, a bull can …
Quote for Today: Hermann Hesse
A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with …
Quote for Today: Jim Butcher
“Oh,” the girl said, shaking her head. “Don’t be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves in relation to them. You …
Look and Listen #1: Our Journeys, Our Stories: In Our Own Words by Carolyn Elaine Miller
This is the first post of our new “Listen” series, about the journeys and contributions of people of color. Please take some time to drift through and meditate on this …
Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
She (my mother) stood always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. She did indeed tend to make the world look dangerous, and so it had …