Life’s Passion
Posted by Indigenous Wisdom
Keep your passion alive –
It will warm you when the
world around you grows cold.
— Shamaan Ochaum Climbing Eagle quoted in Life Prayers from Around the World
Anglican Wisdom
An authentic Christian spirituality is utterly subversive to any system that would treat a man or woman as anything less than a child of God.
— Desmond Tutu in The Words of Desmond Tutu
Catholic Wisdom
There’s a whole world of memories out there waiting to be made. Live well, my friend. Remember well. Make new memories. And abide!
— Macrina Wiederkehr in Gold in Your Memories
Philosophical Wisdom
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
— Socrates, Greek Philosopher
Buddhist Wisdom
The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They
are moments when we touch one another, when we are there in the most attentive or caring way. This simple and profound intimacy is the love that we all long for.
— Jack Kornfield quoted in The Gentle Smile
Literary Wisdom
Jean Cocteau, the French poet, novelist, playwright, painter, and filmmaker, once was asked what he would save first if his house caught fire. The surrealist and everyday madman answered, "The fire." What I think he was saying is that in both our professional and personal lives, what counts is passion — the fire.
— Cathleen Rountree in The Writer’s Mentor
Scientific Wisdom
We are not simply nurslings rocked and suckled by Mother Earth. Like children who have grown up, we must learn to walk by ourselves and give active help to the mother who bore us.
— Teilhard de Chardin in Teilhard de Chardin: A Book of Hours