“Listen to your life.  See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”

                                   Frederick Buechner

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

                             Abraham Joshua Heschel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fkkdoDOIJM

to see the world
 not as a pyramid
where many must be on the bottom
so that a few can be on top,
but as a circle,
a weaving,
a dance of life.

“The might oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.”

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“… because the headlines don’t tell the whole story; because truth is a living force, more stubborn and resilient than any politician; because life is bigger and more mysterious than all our words for it…….”

                                                       Sy Safransky (The Sun magazine, July 2003)

I am not I.

                I am this one

walking beside me whom I do not see,

whom at time I manage to visit,

and whom at other times I forget;

who remains calm and silent while I talk,

and forgives, gently, when I hate,

who walks where I am not,

who will remain standing when I die.

                     Juan Ramon Jimenez

All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of actual life springs ever green.

 

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)

We are like those who,
immersed in water,
stretch out their hands,
begging for a drink.

                                    Seppo

                                  (from The Book of Angelus Silesius by Frederick Franck)