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Letting Troubles Go
Proverb
A kind word is like a spring day.
— Russian proverb
A Prayer for Victims and Families after Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
On 6 February 2023, an earthquake hit southern and central Turkey, and northern and western Syria with a magnitude of at least 7.8. It was followed by more than 1,000 aftershocks, including an unusu…
Opening to New Experiences
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…
The Languages of Love
Catholic Wisdom
Love and joy exist properly in God. They constitute the basis of all attraction — love is the origin and joy is the end result.
— Thomas Aquinas in Sheer Joy by Matthew Fox
Walking as a Spiritual Practice
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake," Wallace Stevens once said. I'd make that a "walk around the city." I love to walk and have made it a daily part of my spiritual practice. Mary …
The Power of Peace
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 i…
The Patience to Bear Sorrow
In these times, resilience is enjoying a great deal of support from scholars of psychology as a personal quality that enables people to bounce back from trauma and loss. But in an essay on aeon.co, …
The Main Thing
Slogan
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
— Stephen Covey, American educator and businessman
The Art of Living Well
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 …