Wayne Muller Quotes
When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.
If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath— our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.
To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.
What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?
For thousands of years we have gathered in circle--around fires, around bodies, around altars--because we can't do this alone.
Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.
What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.
Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are subject to our control.
When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing.
What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny.
Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.
Be not afraid. A kind life, a life of spirit, is fundamentally a life of courage-the courage simply to bring what you have, to bring who you are.
In the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable.
Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath.
We become what we love. Whatever you are giving your time and attention to, day after day, is the kind of person you will eventually become.
True kindness is rooted in a deep sense of abundance, out of which flows a sense that even as I give, it is being given back to me.
Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.
The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.
We equate choice with freedom, but they are not the same.