Healing with the Heart
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A depressed man is told by his boss: "You're stuck between where you've been and where you're going, and you've lost sight of both."
— Comfort and Joy
Catholic Wisdom
Interior silence is the perfect seedbed for divine love to take root.
— Thomas Keating in Open Mind, Open Heart
Philosophical Wisdom
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
— Socrates, Greek philosopher
Psychological Wisdom
Healing involves discomfort, but so does refusing to heal. And, over time, refusing to heal is always more painful.
— Resmaa Menakem in My Grandmother’s Hands
Literary Wisdom
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
— Jane Austen, English novelist
Protestant Wisdom
Every human being we encounter, even those we are tempted to write off and dehumanize, possesses the capacity for care and connection. An essence of Self resides deeply within them.
— Frank Rogers Jr. in Practicing Compassion
Educator Wisdom
The simplest way to begin finding each other again is to start talking about what we care about.
— Margaret Wheatley in Turning to One Another