‘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’
‘Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.’ Eckhart Tolle
‘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
‘To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.’ Bell Hooks
‘I loaf and invite my soul. I lean and loaf at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass.’ Walt Whitman
‘Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside to the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.’ The Bright Field, R S Thomas
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. Dr. Howard Thurman (1899-1981), theologian and civil rights leader
