Truth…

~ Live & Learn

Somewhere each day we have to fall in love with someone, something, some moment. Somehow each day we must allow the softening of the heart . Otherwise our hearts will move inevitably toward hardness. We will move toward cynicism, bitterness, fear and despair. That’s where most of the world is trapped and doesn’t even know it.

~ Richard Rohr, Radical Grace: Daily Meditations

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  3. I love this quote… and reminder to keep coming back to the heart. This increases our awareness and keeps ego mind in check. Your daily walks can be a conscious connection to your heart DK 💛

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  4. I like this – and the author has such a cheerful, positive expression. he seems untroubled by the daily worrying of the world. I do wonder about ppl who have no signs of ‘living’ on their faces. All those deep and worrying thoughts are surely searching for an outlet and that’s usually a face, isn’t it? But RR seems truly at peace. One could be jealous of such natural skin.

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  6. Yes!! Fall in love with moments, instead of waiting for the big event, the yin to your yang…be tickled by the gossiping birds in the morning, or the belly laugh from a funny moment, or the tender moment of quiet in your heart.

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  7. The moment I started reading this, I thought, “That’s got to be RR,” especially whereas Merton and John O’Donahue are no longer with us. Probably the future Catechism reprintings will not include RR in dedications, either — official tradition has a problem with contemplatives — but it’s alright: their content will remain. Thankfully!

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  10. I used to keep a journal in a tiny little book where I would write down at least one good thing that happened each day, no matter how small. When I looked back much later it made a happy book that made me smile to read it. I really should do that again.

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      1. I have a tiny book for it, but I don’t see why a digital app wouldn’t work. It’s so fun to read it once in a while to remind myself of funny little things that happened or happy times, however small or insignificant they may have been at the time.

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    3. I’ve been keeping a gratitude journal for a good ten years or so. Five things I’m grateful for – smallest things to big things, it doesn’t matter, as long as I put five down. I do it before bed so my thoughts are happy and positive.

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      2. Yeah, that’s my Dale 🙂 I would be hard pressed to write down 5 things although they happen each day, no doubt – but usually by the time I fall into my bed I’m too beaten to hold a pencil and write…. I do that at 3am or whenever I decide ‘as I can’’t sleep, I might as well do something which doesn’t cause noise’….

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        1. You know, you don’t have to wait till just before bed 😉 And sometimes, I’m just grateful there was coffee in my tin. Some days, I’m just grateful the next day is Friday…

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