“Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.” -Rumi

"This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can, not to let The wire brush of doubt Scrape from your heart All sense of yourself And your hesitant light. If you remain generous, Time will come good; And you will find [...]

“Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.” –James Baldwin

"The spirit of evil is negation of the life force by fear.  Only boldness can deliver us from fear.  And if the risk is not taken, the meaning  of life is violated." --Carl Jung

"No one will be free if the others live under occupation. No one will be safe unless everyone is safe." --Ashira Darwish

"And because after all this time you have lived for so long without faith in your own joys and your own grief, you live daily, saying ‘love ‘as if it were still far away. Put down your heavy burden and rest from the hard, every day labor of not hurting, or not feeling, or [...]

"Look at every path closely and deliberately.  Try it as many times as you think necessary, and then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question. I will tell you what it is. Does this path have a heart?  If it does, it is good.  If it doesn't, it is of no use." --Carlos Castaneda, from [...]

"I wanted to wear it, this shawl of hope, but today, it scratches against my bare skin. It is beautiful. The kind of loveliness that makes even the plainest of wearers feel beautiful just because they wear it. Hope is warm. And the world is cold. But today, I feel the call for there [...]

"May I have the courage today To live the life that I would love, To postpone my dream no longer But do at last what I came here for And waste my heart on fear no more." --John O’Donohue, from Morning Offering

"I followed the road as if it were a teacher. It went up, I went up. It turned, I turned. It was a long time before I relearned The road is not the only way to go. The first day I walked away from the gravel, I fell. That was the day I learned [...]