I can't sleep…
All of us are a little untethered right now, which means a lot of projecting our own fears and anxieties onto other people. Sometimes, if we get really quiet—quiet enough to hear ourselves—we realize we know.
— Emmanuel Acho, Illogical: Saying Yes to a Life Without Limits (Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, March 22, 2022)
Photo credit: Alessandro Gentile
Start close in,
don’t take the second step
or the third,
start with the first thing close in,
the step
you don’t want to take…
Do I have a first step I don’t want to take? …
What would it be, this step I don’t want to take?
— Jillian Horton, We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing. Poem by David Whyte: “Start Close In”
Image: Carolina Pimenta, Arts Center, Riberia Grande, Portugal (via Unsplash)
It crossed his mind that maybe one of the most telling differences between the young and the old lay in this detail.
As you aged you cared less and less about what others thought of you, and only then could you be more free.
— Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel (Bloomsbury Publishing; 1st edition (November 2, 2021)
Notes:
You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.
― Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo (Weinstein Books; 1st edition, September 9, 2008)
Notes: Quote – Thank you The Vale of Soul-Making
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
Quote – Thank you Beth @ Alive on All Channels)