Category Archives: Inspiration
We Were Made for Times Like This ~ Dr. Clarissa Pinkola-Estés
Do Not Lose Heart, We Were Made for These Times
“Mis estimados,
Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.
I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs … Continue reading
FollowGive Birth to Your Images ~ Rilke
You must give birth
to your images
they are the future within you
wanting to be born.
Fear not the strangeness that you feel
The future has to enter us
long before it happens.
~ Rainer Marie Rilke
Simplicity ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
“I wouldn’t give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity; I would give everything for the simplicity on the far side of complexity.”
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Companioning ~ Wolfelt
In the spirit of Iteneris, this poem is also a traveler. I first obtained it from Teresa Smith-Dixon, a local hospice manager who shared it during the passing of a dear community member and wife of my friend and mentor, … Continue reading
Love Expands Intelligence ~ Maturana
“Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation.”
~ Humberto Maturana
Knowing ~ Socrates
“The only true wisdom is to know you know nothing.”
~ Socrates
The Way Things Are ~ Talmud
We don’t see things as they are. We only see things as we are.
~ Talmud
Enough ~ David Whyte
Enough. These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
we have refused
again and again
until now.
~ David Whyte
Sweet Darkness
When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.
The … Continue reading
What the World Needs
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what make you come alive. And then go and do that because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
~Howard Thurman