“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
“Therefore, act before problems arise,
Make arrangements to avoid disorder.
A tree that fills the arms’ embrace
Grew from a tiny shoot;
A terrace nine stories high
Began as a scoop of dirt;
A journey of a thousand miles
Began with a first step.”- From verse 64, Tao Te Ching, A New Version for All Seekers, by Guy Leekley, Edited by Donna Limperes (With permission.)
“Out beyond
Rumi
ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing
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.”
“Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.”
Marshall Rosenberg, PhD, Founder of Nonviolent Communication
“When compassion resolves conflict, we express our own True Nature.”
- From verse 67, Tao Te Ching, A New Version for All Seekers, by Guy Leekley, Edited by Donna Limperes (with permission.)
“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 that 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 along the journey.
Photo credit: Nancy Swift
The Guest House
Rumi
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.
A list of Marshall Rosenberg quotes.