Native Americans describe spirituality as having a "moist heart," perhaps because native wisdom knows the soil of the human heart is necessarily watered with tears, and that tears keep the ground soft. From such ground new life is born.

Maria Harris in Dance of the Spirit: The Seven Steps of Women's Spirituality by Maria Harris

 

To Practice This Thought:
Read a newspaper or magazine, particularly the stories about pain and suffering in the world. Then have a good cry.

 

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