Category Archives: Reflections

The things that matter most

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another. ~ Jack Kornfield ~

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Kindness

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing… Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day … Continue reading

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Be Patient

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves….Perhaps you will then gradually, without knowing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

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The Journey ~ Mary Oliver ~

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Beautiful People

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life … Continue reading

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The Power to Choose

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. ~ Viktor Frankl ~

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It’s what it is…

Life is not what it’s supposed to be. It’s what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. ~ Virginia Satir ~

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The Present Moment

The present is the only time that any of us have to be alive, to know anything, to perceive, to learn, to act, to change, to heal. ~Jon Kabat-Zinn~

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Gratitude

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a … Continue reading

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Love After Love

The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who … Continue reading

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