Life is an opportunity, avail it.
Life is a beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is costly, care for it.
Life is a wealth, keep it.
Life is love, enjoy it.
Life is mystery, know it.
Life is a [...]
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“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. ”
–Martin Luther King
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“We can do not great things, only small things with great love. It is not how much you do but how much love you put into doing it.”
–Mother Teresa (quoted in The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical, Shane Clairborne, 2006)
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Every time, it’s a miracle. Here are all these people, full of heartache or hatred or desire, and we all have our troubles and the…year is filled with vulgarity and triviality and consequence, and…there’s this life we’re struggling through full of shouting and tears and laughter and fights and break-ups and dashed hopes and [...]
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Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, or economic strength of individuals and communities. It often involves the empowered developing confidence in their own capacities.
The ability to make decisions about personal/collective circumstances
The ability to access information and resources for decision-making
Ability to consider a range of options from which to choose (not just [...]
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We cannot change the world by a new plan, project or idea. We cannot even change other people by our convictions, stories, advice and proposals, but we can offer a space where people are encouraged to disarm themselves, to lay aside their occupations and preoccupations and to listen with attention and care to the [...]
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When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion.
–Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, 2nd ed.
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“…before we speak, we can choose silence and then look honestly at what the urge to speak is telling us about ourselves.”
—Norvene Vest, No Moment Too Small, 1994
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“When we were young, we were told that poetry is about voice, about finding a voice and speaking with this voice, but the older I get I think it’s not about voice, it’s about listening and the art of listening, listening with attention. I don’t just mean with the ear; bringing the quality of attention [...]
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More from The Healing of America by T.R. Reid (p.87):
Everyone in Japan is required to sign up with a health insurance plan. This is a “personal mandate,” an issue that became controversial during the 2008 presidential election in the United States. Every nation that relies on health insurance has that requirement (except the USA), and [...]
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