“Empathy is the focus of attention that removes the blocks to action.
Dominic Barter
We connect our energies to change things.”
“As in all journeys, there will be advances and setbacks; there will be times of soaring and times of retreat, times of rest and times of teaching, times of learning and times to let new knowledge settle into silent wisdom.”
From The Artist’s Way at Work
“A journey of a thousand miles
Began with a first step.”- From verse 64, Tao Te Ching
“Out beyond
Rumi
ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down
in that grass
the world is too full
to talk about.”
“As we move toward the possibility that we are safe, that we make sense, and that we belong on this earth and to humanity, our nervous systems and our bodies relax. Our heart can be in a dance of relationship with everything that is happening around us. Our facial muscles can be alive and responsive to the faces that we meet. We can look at others and see past their trauma and their reserve to the way their hearts would be expressing if they, too, felt safe. We can know ourselves and others more deeply.”
Sarah Peyton, Your Resonant Self, pg. 268 (Reprinted with permission.)
Slow down, slow way down. Take your time. Experience the paradox in that.
Photo credit: Nancy Swift
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
-Rumi
A list of Marshall Rosenberg quotes.