Posted by Frederic Brussat on May 1, 2020 Hindu Wisdom
When a person has let go of attachments, when the mind is rooted in wisdom, everything they do is worship.
— The Bhagavad Gita
Devotional Wisdom
We aren't just saying our prayers these days. We're sweating them, singing them, walking them, humming them, chanting them, signing them, breathing them, and even growing them.
— Frances Sheridan Goulart in God Has No Religion
Posted by Frederic Brussat on April 24, 2020 Philosophical Wisdom
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and transcendentalist
Nature Wisdom
The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on dawn and gleaming on the sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
— John Muir in The Wilderness World of John Muir
Posted by Frederic Brussat on April 17, 2020 Movie Lines
Curley, the trail boss says "You know what the secret of life is? One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that." One of the visitors to the dude ranch asks the old cowboy, "What's the one thing?" Curly answers: "That's what you've got to figure out."
— City Slickers
Literary Wisdom
How sense-luscious the world is. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar of the senses. . . . We need to return to the feeling textures of life.
— Diane Ackerman in A Natural History of the Senses
Posted by Frederic Brussat on April 10, 2020 Music Lyrics
It takes a leap of faith to get things going
It takes a leap of faith you gotta show some guts
It takes a leap of faith to get things going
In your heart you must trust
— Bruce Springsteen in "Leap of Faith"
Posted by Frederic Brussat on April 3, 2020 Native American Wisdom
Hold on to what is good, even if it is a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe, even if it is a tree which stands alone.
Hold on to what you must do, even if it is a long way from here.
— Pueblo Verse
Protestant Wisdom
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
— Henry Ward Beecher, American preacher and social reformer
Posted by Frederic Brussat on March 27, 2020 Sufi Wisdom
We need a spiritual recovery program for those addicted to the separate self.
— Kabir Helminski in The Knowing Heart
Nature Wisdom
If Earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward Earth and its inhabitants.
— Thomas Berry in Thomas Berry: Selected Writings on the Earth Community
Posted by Frederic Brussat on March 20, 2020 Philosophical Wisdom
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of the great soul is the whole world.
— Democritus, Greek philosopher
Christian Wisdom
God created order out of disorder, cosmos out of chaos, and God can do so always, can do so now — in our personal lives and in our lives as nations, globally. The most unlikely person, the most improbable situation — these are all "transfigurable" — they can be turned into their glorious opposites. Indeed, God is transforming the word now — through us — because God loves us.
— Desmond Tutu in God Has A Dream
Posted by Frederic Brussat on March 13, 2020 Jewish Wisdom
If everything is connected to everything else, then everyone is ultimately responsible for everything. We can blame nothing on anyone else. The more we comprehend our mutual interdependence, the more we fathom the implications of our most trivial acts.
— Laurence Kushner in Invisible Lines of Connection
African Wisdom
People in our village would say that children do not belong completely to the parents who gave them birth. They have used their parents' bodies to come through, but they belong to the community and to the spirit.
— Sobonfu Some in The Spirit of Intimacy
Posted by Frederic Brussat on March 6, 2020 Hindu Wisdom
The last things you read about, or think about, or see on television, will follow you into your sleep and color your dreams.
— Eknath Easwaran in Seeing with the Eyes of Love
Wise Advice
People go to India to find a guru, but you don't have to: you're living with one. Your partner will give you everything you need for your freedom.
— Byron Katie in Question Your Thinking, Change the World
Posted by Frederic Brussat on February 28, 2020 Poetry
It is a kind of love, it is not?
How the cup holds the tea,
How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare
How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes . . .
— Pat Schneider in "Patience of Ordinary Things"
Spiritual Wisdom
The greatest gift to the world may be in sharing what gives us the most joy.
— Sam Keen in Learning to Fly
Within all the spiritual traditions, short and sweet wisdom abounds: from mantras and blessings to 12-step slogans and proverbs, and more. As philosopher George Santayana once said: "To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired." In this blog, I will take up the quest for small seeds of spiritual wisdom, which can be found everywhere if we keep our eyes and ears open. More
Holiness in the Ordinary
Be a Mirror
The Secret of Life
A Leap of Faith
Hold on to What Is Good
A Spiritual Recovery Program
Help in Times of Need
Everything is Connected
Follow the Grain
Teaching Moments