“I wonder how deeply our world would be soothed if, after sharing Communion each week, Christians still pooled their resources to ensure that no one in the community lacked food, shelter, or education; that visitors moving into town were welcomed and provided for-even if it meant we made room in our own houses or sold property to make it so. If, instead of fearing the habits, beliefs, and diseases of our neighbors, our active, agapë love left no oxygen for fear. If we cared about the literal meaning of verses like these.”
Source: Fearing Bravely: Risking Love for Our Neighbors, Strangers, and Enemies
“Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul; dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed and kind benefactor.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Tobin James Mueller: 'No one is turned away, my one rule. I never say no. That's one of the reasons it became a utopia.”
Source: A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
“He hadn’t done anything like that in so long, it felt foreign and so comfortingly familiar at the same time. Like coming back to a place you loved after a lifetime and realizing it was still waiting for you with open arms, unchanged and welcoming.”
Source: Dream
“Music shortens the distance between all people.”
“When the mind is silent like a lake the lotus blossoms.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Don’t ever
let Them tell you
you are
too broken
to bloom”
“In deep meditation, individual consciousness merged with the cosmic consciousness. In the absence of doer, the lotus blossoms.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Celebrating Valentine's Day is like falling in love with Tokyo all over again.”
“Then, whenever I feel the sun on my face, I will think of you, " I told him. "You will always be with me, Bill. Because of all I have felt for you, and all I have learned from you.”
Source: Missing: A Memoir