“We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.” WellsSoulPainJoyGriefAttentionAwarenessSorrowLaughterSillyPay AttentionFrighteningExpandingEnlighteningSoul Work Author:Matthew Fox
“My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people.” PeopleIfsThinkingHeartPersonsI CanMomentsSufferingCausesGoalBreakAwarenessSorrowIllusionTelling The TruthSentimentalityBreak Your Heart Author:Nic Pizzolatto
“It's very important to realize that every person that you meet, everything that you do, with the right attitude and a little awareness and skillful means - we can transform everything - all our joys and sorrows.” MeanLittlesPersonsImportantJoyRealizingAttitudeAwarenessSorrowSkillfulJoys And Sorrows Author:Tenzin Palmo
“Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.” ActionSpiritSufferingFatherSinAwarenessSorrowBehaviorEndureRealizationSaviorAgonyGodlyOffendedOur ActionsOur FatherGifts Of The SpiritOffended You Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this evanescent river of life wisely? With mindful awareness and love it becomes clear. You can fight against the river of change, or use its wisdom to teach you how to graciously move and create and flow with the full measure of joy and sorrow, gain and loss, praise and blame that make up every human incarnation.” HumansUseFeelingsMovingJoyFightingRealizingLossTeachClearMeditationMinutesAwarenessSorrowPerceptionGainsFlowRiversAnd LovePraiseBlameSensationsIncarnationNavigateJoys And SorrowsGains And Losses Author:Jack Kornfield