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Teri · Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2020 5:43 am Post subject:

St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time — a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic. ~Adrienne Cook

Teri · Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:58 am Post subject:

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author? ~Philip Gilbert Hamerton

JohnT · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 6:01 am Post subject:

Love always means going beyond yourself to otherness. It takes two. There has to be the lover and the beloved. We must be stretched to an encounter with otherness, and only then do we know it’s love.

-- from a morning meditation by Richard Rohr, Franciscan priest.

Teri · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 6:43 am Post subject:

Exciting spring smells waft through wide open windows... ~David J. Beard

Teri · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 6:02 am Post subject:

I shut the door behind me. At once, I felt better. There is something fundamental in the desire to have a door to close, sealing out the rest of the world. ~Abby Geni

JohnT · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:26 pm Post subject:

“Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.”

― Robertson Davies (1913 - 1995)
He was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors.

Teri · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 5:50 am Post subject:

A struggle to do something more than exist is the sign of human life — the mission of the human soul. ~Walter Moxon

Teri · Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 5:44 am Post subject:

There are few things that are more beautifully infectious than true kindness. It spreads like a magnificent wildfire. ~Keith Wynn

Teri · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 6:49 am Post subject:

That life is to my liking which is made up of little deeds, little sacrifices, little kindnesses. ~Anonymous

JohnT · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 9:32 pm Post subject:

I am not alone in my tiredness or sickness or fears, but at one with millions of others from many centuries, and it is all part of life. 

—Etty Hillesum (1914 - 1943)
Etty Hillesum was the Dutch author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation. In 1943 she was deported and killed in Auschwitz concentration camp.

Teri · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:46 am Post subject:

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mysterious bond of brotherhood makes all men one. ~Thomas Carlyle

JohnT · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:30 am Post subject:

"If you want to be generous, distance should be no problem, for our generosity comes all the way directly from our heart and it crosses all frontiers"... ♥️

-- quoted by friend's daughter on Facebook. She's in Prato, Italy and virus-free, so far.

Teri · Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 6:51 am Post subject:

Occasionally it's good to pause, take a moment and remind yourself of the things in your life that are just fine. ~Robert Brault

JohnT · Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:14 am Post subject:

Painful emotions are like the Zen teacher who whacks his students with a flat board right between their shoulder blades when he sees them going to sleep during meditation. If we can learn to tolerate the whack—better yet, to let it wake us up—we may discover the power hidden in the heart of the pain.

-- Barbara Brown Taylor (born 1951), quoting Miriam Greenspan
Barbara Brown Taylor is an American Episcopal priest, professor, author and theologian and is one of the United States' best known preachers.

Teri · Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:38 am Post subject:

Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin'. ~Alice Childress