Nurture

Thich Nhat Hanh: "Understanding is love's other name. If you don't understand, you can't love.”

if feeling helpless (low agency), the best way to begin rebuilding faith in your agency is by focusing on what you have the most control over: your attention and where you direct it to

It took me years of marriage to see this: You can’t be intimate and in control at the same time.

“Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.”

The paradox of human connection: We avoid speaking difficult truths to protect relationships. But that's what prevents those relationships from becoming truly meaningful. You can’t be accepted for who you are if you’re not showing up as who you are.

My capacity to live a contemplative way of life was inscribed in my very being as a person created in the image and likeness of God.

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

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