Life’s Pleasures Psychological Wisdom
Imagine a world without pleasure. Life would appear colorless and humorless. A baby’s smile would go unappreciated. Foods would be tasteless.
— Robert Ornstein and David Sobel in Healthy Pleasures
Posted by Frederic Brussat on December 30, 2022
Everything Flows
Posted by Frederic Brussat on December 16, 2022
Buddhist Wisdom
Nothing lasts, nothing can be counted on, everything changes. That is another way of saying that we can’t control anything in our world.
Everything is continually slipping away.
─ Lewis Richmond in Work as a Spiritual Practice
Letting Troubles Go
Posted by Frederic Brussat on December 2, 2022
Good Happens
Posted by Frederic Brussat on November 18, 2022
Literary Wisdom
It is good to renew one’s wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has made children of us all.
─ Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer and screenwriter
Becoming Beautiful
Posted by Frederic Brussat on November 4, 2022
Native American Wisdom
Beauty, in our eyes, is always fresh and living, even as God, the Great Mystery, dresses the world anew at each season of the year.
— Ohiyesa in The Wisdom of the Native Americans edited by Kent Nerburn
Commitment
Posted by Frederic Brussat on October 21, 2022
Mystical Wisdom
Our task is to offer ourselves up to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not bother ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but, at every moment, feel only the stroke of his brush.
— Jean Pierre de Caussade in Teachings of the Christian Mystics by Andrew Harvey
Courage for Retooling
Posted by Frederic Brussat on October 7, 2022
Philosophical Wisdom
Justice not only sees the place of everything, it feels the place of everything. Justice is that which knows what to do to restore things to their right place and knows when and how to do it.
— Jacob Needleman in The American Soul
The Holy Bursting Through
Posted by Frederic Brussat on September 23, 2022
Literary Wisdom
We walk though forests of physical things
. . . That look on us with affectionate looks.
─ Charles Baudelaire, French poet
A Life of Service
Posted by Frederic Brussat on September 9, 2022
Catholic Wisdom
In your own small way you can be of service to people – by getting out of their way. There is the noble art of getting things done and the noble art of leaving things undone.
— Anthony de Mello in The Heart of the Enlightened
No Place Like Home
Posted by Frederic Brussat on September 2, 2022
African Wisdom
Not where I was born, but where it goes well with me is my home.
— Kanuri Saying in Wisdom of the African World
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About This Blog
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