Supple Heart
“Suffering breaks our hearts, but the heart can break in two different ways. There’s the brittle heart that breaks into shards, shattering the one who suffers as it explodes, and sometimes taking others down when it’s thrown like a grenade at the ostensible source of its pain.
Then there’s the supple heart, the one that breaks open, not apart, the one that can grow into greater capacity for the many forms of love. Only the supple heart can hold suffering in a way that opens to new life.”― Parker J. Palmer, On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old
“I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.”― Ellen Goodman
To remain soft in a hard world
To be kind without expectation of return
To walk beside another
To do your part to make a difference
To grow, bloom, break open
Supple heart, porous and strong.
“To grow in love and service, you must value ignorance as much as knowledge and failure as much as success.”― Parker J. Palmer, On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old
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