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Perchance as we grow old we cease to spring with the spring, and we are indifferent to the succession of years, and they go by without epoch as months. Woe be to us when we cease to form new resolutions on the opening of a new year!
Henry David Thoreau, Damion Searls, • The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
Go to the Limits of Your Longing
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated and read by Joanna Macy
Listen
God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move i
“No matter what we do, we can make it our ministry,”
Sarah B. Breathnach • Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort & Joy
Maria Popova • Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss
“That tree was the great teacher of the last two decades of her life,” her former student Mickey Myers said. “She learned from that tree. The beauty it produced in spring was only because of what it went through during the winter, and sometimes the harshest winters yielded the most glorious springs.”
Austin Kleon • Keep Going
to reimagine the very meaning of hope.
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
the simple truth is that great loss is wasted if we do not use it, over time, to discover what lies beyond great
Francis Weller • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
Sometimes we have to stay in a place for a while and tend the garden before we see a harvest of fruit.
Shane Claiborne • The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary Radical
The quality of a life is defined not by its length, but by its depth, its actions and achievements. It is defined by our ability to love.