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Deidre Combs, The Way of Conflict
To remain in balance during their journeys through conflict, both Gandhi and King placed this belief in royal personhood at the center of every protest and action to transform their countries. They believed that everyone was equal and had valuable information to share.
To remain in balance during their journeys
Shower with Praise
Like a rollicking belly laugh, presence is contagious. Often, when you help someone else feel fully alive, it wakes up your own spirit as well.
The Practice
Choose someone in your life who's been struggling lately, who may have lost touch with the kind of confidence and ease that can come only from within. Next, think about what you most admire or appreciate about the person. Perhaps it's kindness, enthusiasm, or the tendency to crack a joke when people take themselves too seriously.
Now is the time for you to share. Offer your praise in person if possible, but if not, just pick up the phone. Make it clear that you have no agenda in communicating other than to express your appreciation. Notice how it feels to speak the words. Notice whether they create joy, embarrassment, a combination of the two, or something else entirely. Then, over the next few weeks, notice whether the entire relationship changes at all. Finally, notice whether any of your other relationships are affected as well.
Expressing your appreciation for others.
Donna Schaper, Stripping Down
This intertwining of the physical and the spiritual, of the perfect and the imperfect, is one of the reasons we need each other. Ours is a partnership faith. We can't glorify God alone. We have to care for one another. In fact we discover that one of the things our world needs most is a chance to put hands on, to heal by the laying on of hands.
We need each other
Elie Wiesel, Thirst: God and the Alcoholic Experience
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.
Emerging from the kingdom of night
Brian J. Pierce, We Walk the Path Together
Eckhart's daring journey into the terrain of mystical experience, complete with its theology of paradox and negation, was threatening to certain sectors in the church at the time. Mystical experience often defies logic and therefore is easliy misunderstood and quickly labeled as dangerous. . . .
Thich Nhat Hanh is a spiritual master and mystic of our own times, one who has feasted abundantly at the table of spiritual practice while at the same time sharing generously the fruits of his practice with millions of people across the world. . . .
These and many other saintly sages and prophets have taken the risk of building a beautiful bridge spanning the gap between East and West, laying the foundation for many of us to touch deeply the riches of our own traditions with the help and the light that shine forth from other spiritual legacies.
The light shining from other spiritual legacies
Jewish Prayer , The Gift of Prayer
In that which we share,
let us see the common prayer of humanity.
In that in which we differ,
let us wonder at the freedom of humankind.
Let us see the common prayer of humanity.
M. Basil Pennington, Listening: God's Word for Today
And so we go along, listening to the Lord, who is the Way; listening to one another, who share the way; listening to the way itself. The habit of beginning each day sitting still for a bit, listening to the Word of God who is the Way, engenders in us this listening attitude, this sensitivity that hears what each person, each event, each thing has to say to us. Life is rich, very rich, with communication. Let us listen together. Let us share what we hear. Let us walk together in the way, more sure for our being together and hearing together.
And may we all come together to the journey's joyous end.
The habit of beginning each day sitting still for a bit engenders a listening attitude.
His Holiness The Dalai Lama, A Heart Full of Peace
We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety, one hundred years at most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful with our lives. Try to be at peace with yourself and help others to share that peace. If you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true goal, the true meaning in life.
We must try to do something good
Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World
Doing good is not painful, a matter of dour duty and a chastising conscience. There is a Hebrew word, a key term of the Bible, for which there is no precise English translation: simhah, usually translated as "joy". What it really means is the happiness we share, or better still, the happiness we make by sharing.
Doing good is not painful
Mary and the Catholic Imagination
"A significant dimension of the Catholic imagination is the emphasis on littleness and particularity. Once again Jesuit literary scholar William Lynch says it neatly. 'The heart of the human imagination, as of human life, must lie in the particular and the limited image or thing.' This emphasis plays itself out in a hundred ways in social and ecclesial life: the option for the poor, the moral principle of subsidiarity, a preference for the virtues and vows of simplicity, poverty and humility, a (guarded) tolerance for local cultural expressions of faith, a concern for the marginalized, the unborn, and the immigrant. This emphasis is in some tension with the equally strong instinct within the tradition for the common good and for common worship and defining statements of belief. Nevertheless, the local, the limited, and the particular have a special place in the Catholic imagination.
"I find this strange and wonderful sensibility in the way that my conversation partners along my pilgrimage road speak about Mary and their relationship to her. On the one hand, while she is acknowledged by the vast majority of devotees to be a universal figure, she is intimately present to individuals and to very particular communities in ways that honor their distinctive identities. The Vietnamese know her as Our Lady of La Vang, who first appeared in 1798 deep in the jungle forests of Quang Tri Province and offered solace and healing to refugees fleeing from an intense persecution of imported foreign faiths and who has continued to protect her followers from suppression by competing feudal lords and hostile governments of all stripes. To Polish Catholics she is the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, who first came to them in the fourteenth century and later protected the famous monastery of the Bright Mount from the invading Swedes and more recently sustained them under Communist rule. Lebanese Maronite Catholics claim special intimacy with her because according to scripture, Jesus and his mother visited Lebanon during his public ministry. They venerate a sanctuary in the south of their home country dedicated to the Virgin at a place where Mary is believed to have stayed awaiting her son as he visited the cities of Tyre and Sidon. The local and the particular are recognized as cherished by the Virgin Mother, who spreads her sheltering mantle over those who turn to her.
"This intimacy that devotees feel, this special regard that the Virgin bestows on them, are what I hear from my conversation partners all over the archdiocese."
Wendy Wright on how Mary in her littleness and humility stands by the poor and the marginalized.