“A squirrel flies in," said Dr. Meescham. "This I did not expect at all. It is what I love about life, that things happen which I do not expect. When I was a girl in Blundermeecen, we left the window open for this very reason, even in the winter. We did it because we believed something wonderful might make its way to us through the open window. Did wonderful things find us? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But tonight it has happened! Something wonderful!" Dr. Meescham clapped her hands. "A window has been left open. A squirrel flies in the window. The heart of an old woman rejoices!”
Source: Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
“Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.”
Source: The Eye of Adoption: The True Story of My Turbulent Wait for a Baby
“To move forward, simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest will happen, as a beautiful and effortless journey of cooperation and listening.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Become dangerously open to all points of view. Are you dangerously open, or safely closed?”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.”
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories—if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”
Source: The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
“[P]eople think of compassion as, like, kindness. The image comes to mind of some nice New Age guy bending to something with a look on his face like he’s about to cry. And I don’t think that’s it. I think of it more as a quality of openness that comes with being in a state of unusual attentiveness.”
“The adoptee benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birth parents punished and banished from a place in his life.”
Source: Dear Birthmother
“i don't think college is something you should tough out.”
Source: The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
“Our freedom is the way in which we are able to let the world open before us, and ourselves stand open within it.”
Source: The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization