‘The necklace of your life…’

October 16, 2016

Breath deeply and try to see each, not as a failure, but as a shimmering bead on a necklace your life is making.

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‘When things don’t work out – – -when loves unexpectedly end or careers stop unfolding – – it can be painful and sad, but refusing this larger picture keeps us form finding our resilience. Then, sadness can turn into discouragement, pain can spoil into despair.

Each person we love and each dream we try to give life to brings us closer to the mystery of being alive.

So, we must try as many times as necessary until our many loves become the one love, and many dreams become the one dream, until heart and path feel the same.’

-Mark Nepo

 

‘How long have we failed to trust?’

A new and beautiful young voice.
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‘There are moments in Nature when all the millions of detached details are placed in perfect perspective. It is the cumulative effect of humility and wonder. The sky lights up with phenomenon and for no apparent reason, so does our life. These moments wash over us like the first rains of the season. For how many days, months, years have we missed this feeling of belonging and semblance? For how long have we failed to trust that we are going somewhere beautiful and good? We shake the settled dust out of our muscles and stare into the expanse. We don’t know where we’re going but there are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground.’
-Shannon O’Neill Creighton