Loveday Farmer
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Loveday Farmer
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” - Mary Oliver
“The real heroes aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people noticing things, paying attention.” – John Green
“Give full attention and devotion to each act.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.” - Susan Sontag
When we ask for help we give a gift. Someone gets to give of their time or energy or expertise, and the giving makes them happy, makes them feel good..
“My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy.” – Unknown
To Make Someone Happy, Ask for Help
Rumi (Coleman Barks): “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”