Moving Toward JusticeMystical Wisdom
The call to mystical openness is echoed across millennia of humanity's wisdom;
it is the call to discover the unitary point of view that holds the promise of a more just and peaceful planet.
— Beverly Lanzetta in Emerging Heart
Posted by Frederic Brussat on May 13, 2022
Opening to New Experiences
Posted by Frederic Brussat on April 29, 2022
Catholic Wisdom
If death teaches us anything, it teaches us that everything will someday end. The lesson is to wear suffering well, hold beauty lightly, and fear nothing.
-- Joan Chittister In a High Spiritual Season
Membership in a Family
Posted by Frederic Brussat on April 15, 2022
Muslim Wisdom
“The goal of human life is to beautify the soul through goodness and virtue and to make it worthy of offering to God Who is the Beautiful.
— Seyyed Hosssein Nasr in The Heart of Wisdom
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Posted by Frederic Brussat on April 1, 2022
Protestant Wisdom
Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says "peacemakers." He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.
— Jim Wallis, American theologian and political activist
To Stand in Awe
Posted by Frederic Brussat on March 18, 2022
Breath Prayer
Breathing in: I stand in awe . . .
Breathing out: of all creation
The Main Thing
Posted by Frederic Brussat on March 4, 2022
Slogan
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
— Stephen Covey, American educator and businessman
The Power of Peace
Posted by Frederic Brussat on February 18, 2022
Protestant Wisdom
Peace does not come rolling in on the wheels of inevitability. We can't just wish for peace. We have to will it, fight for it, suffer for it, demand it from our governments as if peace were God's most cherished hope for humanity, as indeed it is.
— William Sloane Coffin in Credo
Life as a Work of Art
Posted by Frederic Brussat on February 4, 2022
Zen Wisdom
The creative process, like a spiritual journey, is intuitive, nonlinear, and experiential. It points us toward our essential nature, which is a reflection of the boundless creativity of the universe.
— John Daido Loori in The Zen of Creativity
The Mystery of Life
Posted by Frederic Brussat on January 21, 2022
Literary Wisdom
Life for me is a profound, a sacred, a joyous, a mysterious, a soulful dance.
— Anais Nin, French-Cuban-American diarist and novelist
The Art of Living Well
Posted by Frederic Brussat on January 7, 2022
Unitarian Wisdom
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon.
A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. . . . Floating down to earth, boxes of Crayolas. . . . And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.
— Robert Fulghum in All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
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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