‘Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.’ Howard Thurman
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Thought for May
‘Instead of allowing ourselves to be led and trapped by out feelings, we should let them disappear as soon as they form, like letters drawn on water with a finger.’ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Thought for April
True compassion arises from a healthy sense of self, from an awareness of who we are that honours our own capacities and fears, our own feelings and integrity, along with those of others. Jack Kornfield
Thought for March
‘Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all……as long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude – it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.’ G K Chesterton
Thought for December
‘Sufficiency isn’t two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn’t a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn’t an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.’ Brené Brown, from ‘The Gifts of Imperfection’
Thought for November
‘Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.’ Eckhart Tolle
Thought for October
‘We see that life, composed of this mind and body, is in a state of continual, constant transformation and flux. There is always the possibility of radical change. Every moment – not just poetically and figuratively, but literally – every moment we are dying and being reborn, we and all of life.’ Sharon Salzberg
