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Here are some of my favorite quotes from A Grateful Heart edited by M.J. Ryan.
Taken together they give you a pretty good idea of my personal philosophy.
Do all the good you can
By all the means that you can
In all the ways that you can
In all the places that you can
To all the people that you can
As long as ever you can.
-John Wesley
Let us all resolve: First to attain the grace of silence;
Second to deem all fault-finding that does no good a sin…
Third to practice the grace and virtue of praise.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
Do not fear the truth,
hard as it may appear,
grievously as it may hurt,
it is still right
and you were born for it.
If you go out to meet
and love it,
let it exercise your mind,
it is your best friend
and closet sister.
-Dom Hlder Camara
“The Desert is Fertile”
Be patient toward the unsolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves like locked
rooms or books that are written in a foreign tongue.
The point is to live everything. Live the questions now.
perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it,
live your way some distant day into the answers.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
May we do what we can each day, as impeccably as
possible and then be at peace, for the results are out of
our hands.
-unattributed
I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessable,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my risk my significance:
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.
-Dawna Markova
Be patient with everyone , but above all with yourself…
do not be disheartened by your imperfections, bu
always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be
patient in dealing with our neighbor’s faults if we are
impatient in dealing with our own? They who are
fretted by their own failings will not correct them. All
profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.
-Saint Francis De Sales
Always we hope
someone else has the answer.
Some other place will be better,
some other time
it will all turn out.
This is it.
No one else has the answer.
No other place will be better,
and it has already turned out.
At the center of your being you have the answer,
you know who you are and you know what you want.
There is no need
to run outside
for better seeing.
Nor to peer from a window.
Rather abide at
the center of your being;
for the more you leave it
the less you learn.
Search your heart
and see
the way to do
is to be.
-Lao Tzu, Translator unknown
Taken together they give you a pretty good idea of my personal philosophy.
Do all the good you can
By all the means that you can
In all the ways that you can
In all the places that you can
To all the people that you can
As long as ever you can.
-John Wesley
Let us all resolve: First to attain the grace of silence;
Second to deem all fault-finding that does no good a sin…
Third to practice the grace and virtue of praise.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
Do not fear the truth,
hard as it may appear,
grievously as it may hurt,
it is still right
and you were born for it.
If you go out to meet
and love it,
let it exercise your mind,
it is your best friend
and closet sister.
-Dom Hlder Camara
“The Desert is Fertile”
Be patient toward the unsolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves like locked
rooms or books that are written in a foreign tongue.
The point is to live everything. Live the questions now.
perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it,
live your way some distant day into the answers.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
May we do what we can each day, as impeccably as
possible and then be at peace, for the results are out of
our hands.
-unattributed
I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessable,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my risk my significance:
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.
-Dawna Markova
Be patient with everyone , but above all with yourself…
do not be disheartened by your imperfections, bu
always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be
patient in dealing with our neighbor’s faults if we are
impatient in dealing with our own? They who are
fretted by their own failings will not correct them. All
profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.
-Saint Francis De Sales
Always we hope
someone else has the answer.
Some other place will be better,
some other time
it will all turn out.
This is it.
No one else has the answer.
No other place will be better,
and it has already turned out.
At the center of your being you have the answer,
you know who you are and you know what you want.
There is no need
to run outside
for better seeing.
Nor to peer from a window.
Rather abide at
the center of your being;
for the more you leave it
the less you learn.
Search your heart
and see
the way to do
is to be.
-Lao Tzu, Translator unknown