Teaching Moments
Posted by 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
Literary Wisdom
The sidewalks are littered with postcards from God.
— Walt Whitman, American poet
Hindu Wisdom
A person is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he himself is powerless to do anything.
— Ramakrishna, Hindu seer
Folk Wisdom
Be like a postage stamp — stick to one thing until you get there.
— Josh Billings, nineteenth-century American humorist
Breath Prayer
Breathing in: O let me sense
Breathing out: the world anew.
Practice
Sharon Salzberg suggests we practice guerilla compassion — silently blessing people on line at the bank, at the supermarket, in the cars next to us in traffic. Every blessing is a tiny Sabbath, a secret sanctuary offered to a hurried and unsuspecting world.
— Wayne Muller in Sabbath