Monthly Quote

"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 [...]

"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

"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 [...]

"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 [...]

"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 [...]

" There is some strange intimacy between grief and aliveness, some sacred exchange between what seems unbearable and what is most exquisitely alive." --Francis Weller