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Posts from the ‘Peace’ Category

Sep 29

“No Mud. No Lotus”-Buddha

“Practice several minutes of centering prayer. Remember that meditation is a not-doing. It is just letting go of small mind and merging with the stream of Divine Mind.”― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles

“To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.”― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Stimulus and response
Creating space between, a gap, a pause
To contribute something meaningful rather than adding to the noise
Peace, grace, awe in this space
Cast light, kindness, joy
Narrow path, worth the trip.

“As the lotus rises on its stalk unsoiled by the mud and water, so the wise one speaks of peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world.” – Buddha

Sep 11

Peace Be with You, Pass It On

“Let your mind be quiet, realising the beauty of the world, and the immense, the boundless treasures that it holds in store.”― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles

“When we catch ourselves thinking belittling, judging, cynical or snide thoughts, we are on the way to surrendering old habits of mind and planting the seeds of kind, encouraging thinking. Awareness of our thought habits and the intention to change them is an important aspect of cultivating kindness.”― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles

Kindness
Empathy
Concern
Compassion
Companionship
Common good
Recklessly scatter seeds of love
Rain of peace
Sun of grace
Cast light in words and actions

“May I learn to consider every circumstance of my day, and every person that I meet, as a teacher. Free me from the pitfall of idealization and disappointment, receiving every teaching as a gift—especially those that are not pleasing.”― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles

Aug 28

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Pause, Peace

“It’s not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.” – Jack Benny

Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”

Offer peace, love, pardon, faith, hope, light, joy
Change the world
One person at a time
Pause, yield, pursue
Be kind

Aug 23

Temple of Your Senses

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”― Walt Whitman

“Awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.
Have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.
Receive encouragement when new frontiers beckon.
Respond to the call of your gift and the courage to follow its path.
Let the flame of anger free you of all falsity.
May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame.
May anxiety never linger about you.
May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul.
Take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.
Be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul.
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.”
– John O’Donohue

Peace
Joy
Light
Love
Ebb and flow
In and out
Sacred gift
Heart of wonder
Follow the path

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Jun 16

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The way…peace

“It is my conviction that there is no way to peace – peace is the way.”― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power

“Peace is not something you wish for,
it is something you make, something you are, something you do,
and something you give away. ”― Robert Fulghum

Drop in the ocean.
To a ripple, to a wave.
May I be a drop of peace.
Do my part.
Calm in the storm.

“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.”― Etty Hillesum

Jun 15

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Peace on Earth

The Peace of Wild Things
By Wendell Berry
“When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least
sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s
lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the
great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with
forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still
water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am
free.”

“Lord make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hatred, let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
And where there is sadness, joy” – St. Francis

May we be conquered by peace.
Overwhelmed with kindness.
Overflowing with love.
May I do my part to make the world a better place.
Peace, love, pardon, faith, hope, light, joy.

“Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa

May 19

Lighted by Grace

“Peace is always beautiful.”― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“For Equilibrium, a Blessing:

Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul.

As the wind loves to call things to dance,
May your gravity by lightened by grace.

Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth,
May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect.

As water takes whatever shape it is in,
So free may you be about who you become.

As silence smiles on the other side of what’s said,
May your sense of irony bring perspective.

As time remains free of all that it frames,
May your mind stay clear of all it names.

May your prayer of listening deepen enough
to hear in the depths the laughter of god.”
― John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

Peace.
Within.
Take the journey.
Reside.
Remain.
Return.
Again and again.

“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”― Eckhart Tolle

Mar 18

Color Your Day

“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.”― Etty Hillesum

“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.”― Etty Hillesum

Inquiry, curiosity, creativity
Allow, invite, express
Pause, reflection, reverence
Slow to witness
Look up to expanse
Clear the clutter
Create space
For peace, kindness, love
Color your day
Let light in, cast light out

“Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.”―  Eric Fromm, The Art of Loving

 

Mar 6

Peace Path

“To learn to swim in the ocean of not-knowing- this is my constant work.”― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

“Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

When our plans take a sharp turn
Off trail, unknown territory
To be here, not circling back
Interruptions, detours, reroutes
The road unexpected
The journey
To walk with fresh legs, new eyes
Putting down our plans
To be present
For what is right now
In the present, not of our making
This is it
Enter this day on the ground you stand now
Awake, aware, curious
Open to where the road leads

“there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.”― Richard Rohr, Things Hidden

Oct 9

Hold Your Wheel

“The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.”― Meister Eckhart

“Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.”― Meister Eckhart

The quiet of morning.
An anchoring, rooting, framing.
Reflection, intention, direction.
Perfect until entering the day.
When others, circumstances, busy, your own spiraling thoughts try to take the wheel and drive sporadically, aimlessly.
Hold your wheel.
Drive your car.
Not others.
Expect detours, delays, distractions, potholes, construction zones, beauty too.
The detour is the road.
What is it showing you?
Pay attention.
Hold your wheel.
Go off trail.
Take a different path.
Wander, stray, wonder. Laugh too.
Keep your peace.
Hold your wheel.
Especially when it does not go the way you thought it should.
Trust the journey, look, listen, learn.
Allow, invite, welcome.
When you change, the world suddenly follows.
Spaciousness, inner solitude, quiet in noise.
Hold your wheel.
This place is where power, capacity, surprise, delight and mystery resides.
A deep well.
The daily work, unfolding and unfurling of transformation.
Peace, joy, inpouring.
The quiet of the morning carried through the day.
Hold your wheel.
Enjoy the journey.

“It’s a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness. – Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart

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