Believing in Beginnings
Posted by Prayer
O God, help me to believe in the beginnings
and in my beginnings again,
no matter how often I've failed before.
—Ted Loder in Guerrillas of Grace
Spiritual Wisdom
Every day is my best day: this day is my life. I'm not going to have this moment again.
— Bernie Siegel in Love: The Work of the Soul edited by Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield
Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
— Chinese proverb
Practice
[To repeat] when coming down the steps: May I go down again to take beings from suffering.
— Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist monk and translator
Jewish Wisdom
You were born to receive the light of God and to become the vehicle through which miracles can happen. The more light you allow to flow through you, the more wondrous your reality is.
— Sharon Labowitz in Miraculous Living
Quaker Wisdom
No punishment could be worse than the one we inflict on ourselves by living a divided life.
— Parker Palmer in Soul of a Citizen by Paul Rogat Loeb
Blessing
May truth and justice
guide our acts
and compassion
temper our lives.
— Marcia Falk in The Book of Blessings