Life’s Wisdom

Holy listening—to ‘listen’ another’s being into life,

may be almost the greatest service

that any human being ever performs for another

— Douglas V. Steere

When you are compassionate with yourself, you trust in your soul, which you let guide your life. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny better than you do.

— John O’Donohue

You are the only you that has ever lived…and if you cannot hear the sound of the genuine in you, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

— Howard Thurman

We can be peacemakers in our small part of the world only when we are at peace within ourselves.

— Parker J. Palmer

Can we learn to respond to the mounting violence in our time with soul-honoring and life-giving ways of being in the world? Much depends on the answer.

— Parker J. Palmer

Let me start with gratitude: The world is broken in ten thousand places. Can I be thankful for the brokenness? How else can I learn to love the broken world?

— Sy Safransky

Wholeness does not mean perfection. It means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

— Parker J. Palmer

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

— Rumi