Tag: featured
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Into the Heart
“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us? We have all known the long loneliness, and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.” -Dorothy Day There is a…
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Opening to Possibilities
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo One of my favorite things to do on a weekend morning was to get a good cup of coffee and curl up with a stack of magazines and newspapers. Looking through…
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Revealing Our Inner Shine
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the Change that we seek.” ― Barack Obama One of my favorite things to do on a Saturday morning is to polish our silver. I have…
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underneath it all
“The question is how our own meanings are related to those of the universe as a whole. We could say that our action toward the whole universe is a result of what it means to be us.” ― David Bohm All my life, I have tried to understand the underlying meaning in things–to answer the…
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shadow side
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche The “shadow side” is a term that comes from the work of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. It refers to…
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close encounters
“The challenge with those whom we love is that they are the only ones who can get close enough to us to cause us heartbreak.” – Iyanla Vanzant The practice of holding space that I explore in The Civil Graces Project involves having the courage to meet someone and find the middle path together. This process is…
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giving birth to a new world
“The future is dark. But is this the darkness of the tomb — or the darkness of the womb? We are a nation waiting to be born & this is our great transition.” -Valarie Kaur There are times when it feels like life grabs you by the hand with an assurance that you are not…
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A walk in my shoes
“I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, “Where’d she go?” and I have to say, “I’m down here.” ― Marian Keyes As I have shared before, I have a thing about heels…I’m 5 foot 2 inches, so the…
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Meet me in the Middle
“When I empty myself, when I forget myself for the sake of someone else, I’m instantly filled beyond what I could have ever asked for myself.” -Meggan Watterson, Mary Magdalene Revealed Lately, symbols that designate the middle have been showing up in my reading and along my daily path. I just released my book, The Civil Graces…
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Planting Seeds
“In this day and age, when it feels that the global unconsciousness is leading the headlines, it is time for us to make a commitment to something better. We must raise our own energies and make the inner quest to do all we can to bring forth the civil graces and save the world from…