Sunday, November 6, 2011
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
Quote for Today
NOTE
My soul came apart like an empty jar.
It fell overwhelmingly, down the stairs.
Dropped from the hands of a careless maid.
It fell. Smashed into more pieces
than there was china in the jar.
Fernando Pessoa
[I found this short poem on page 263 of The Education of the Heart - edited by Thomas Moore, Readings and Sources for Care of the Soul, Soul Mates, and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, Harper Perennial, 1996]
Thursday, November 3, 2011
SHEER SUFFERING
IS NEVER ENOUGH
November 3, 2011
Quote for Today
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh [1906-2001], Time, February 5, 1973
Picture on top of Anne Morrow Lindbergh - photographed at her home in Darien, Connecticut in 1956
Monday, October 31, 2011
WHO'S IN CHARGE
INSIDE THERE?
Quote for Today - October 31, 2011
"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains."
Helen Gahagan Douglas, speech at Marlboro College, 1975, A Full Life, 1982
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