So many times, in our despair, we see our pain as something that will never end. In fact, this often defines our moments of despair: when we believe that our pain contains the rest of us. In contrast,...
Patience devastates us with the truth that, in essence, when we fear another, we fear ourselves; when we distrust another, we distrust ourselves; when we hurt another, we hurt ourselves; when we kill...
Our purpose is that which we most passionately are when we pay attention to our deepest selves. – Carol Hegedus, as cited in
Our crucial task when in pain or despair is not to let the sour feelings spill into everything, so that we stain our sense of the world. Yet we must also take care not to so contain our feelings that...
My friends are the beings through whom God loves me.
Living through enough, we all come to this understanding, though it is difficult to accept: No matter what path we choose to honor, there will always be conflict to negotiate.If we choose to avoid all...
Likewise, every disturbance, whether resolved or not, is making space for an inner engagement. As a shovel digs up and displaces earth, in a way that must seem violent to the earth, an interior space...
Let's be in awewhich doesn't meananything but the courageto gape like fish at the surface
Kindness is the antidote to everything. Just as water soothes fire, kindness calms how we burn each other from time to time. And under all the ways we burn and hurt, there’s the soft and lasting prese...
It takes six million grains of pollen to seed one peony, and salmon need a lifetime of swimming to find their way home, so we mustn't be alarmed or discouraged when it takes us years to find love or y...
It seems that intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.
If I dare to hear you
I am more than I have shown you and more than you are willing to see. Let's work our love and know each other more fully.
Fearful people do not want to sit with broken people because they don't want to be slowed down - don't want to look at what is broken in themselves...When we dare to hold those forced to the ground, d...
Breathe like a fallen leaf and think of nothing. Just breathe and let your heart and mind be carried, however briefly, by the spirit you can't quite see.
The humanitarian Carol Hegedus reminds us, Our purpose is that which we most passionately are when we pay attention to our deepest selves.
Over time, staying real becomes the work of keeping our actions in the world connected to the truth of our inner being, allowing our True Self to see the light of day.
Integrity is an unending process of letting our inner experience and our outer experience complete each other, in spite of our very human lapses.
How to feel the pain of living without denying it and without letting that pain define us. Ultimately, no matter the burden we are given—apartheid, cancer, abuse, depression, addiction—once whittled t...
[E]ven through our limitations, we evolve rather than fail, the way a caterpillar becomes a chrysalis becomes a butterfly, and the succession of life's trials is precisely the unfolding we need to fin...