Jewish Wisdom
Blessings keep our awareness of life's holy potential ever present. They awaken us to our own lives. . . . With each blessing uttered, we extend the boundaries of the sacred and ritualize our love of life.
— Lawrence Kushner in The Book of Words
Protestant Wisdom
For some people, laundry seems to satisfy a need for ritual. A television commentator with a hectic schedule once told me that the best, most contemplative part of his day was early morning, a time he set aside for laundering and ironing his shirts.
— Kathleen Norris in The Cloister Walk
Catholic Wisdom
There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions.
— Hans Kung in Pathways to Peace
Proverb
It is in the shelter of each other that people live.
— Irish proverb
Music Lyrics
You are the beauty of the dancer.
You are the beauty of the song.
You are the beauty all around you.
You are standing right where you belong.
— "The Beauty of the Dancer" by Sara Thomsen
Psychological Wisdom
Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do,
and doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight
in doing it. And the DELIGHT is the sense of the sacred.
— Helen Luke, Jungian psychologist
Blessing
There is power here . . .
So we watch the flames closely,
reminded of the fire within ourselves
that burns both gentle and savage.
— Meta Herrick Carlson in Ordinary Blessings