The question is “can you stand erect in your pain, in your loneliness, your fears, and your experience of being rejected?”
from The Inner Voice of Love by Henri Nouwen
Stand erect in your sorrow
Possess
“They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison”
From The dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
To be whole
“To be whole is to be part; true voyage is to return.”
From The dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Work
“Wasn’t it immoral to do work you didn’t enjoy?”
From The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Sharing
“Speech is sharing — a cooperative art”
From The dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Simple
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau
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Quiet
“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind”
Albert Einstein
Unselfish work
Unselfish work leads to silence, for when you work selflessly, you don’t need to ask for help. Indifferent to results, you are willing to work with the most inadequate means. You do not care to be much gifted and well equipped. Nor do you ask for recognition and assistance. You just do what needs to be done, leaving success and failure to the unknown. For everything is caused by innumerable factors, of which your personal endeavor is but one. Yet such is the magic of man’s mind and heart that the most improbable happens when human will and love pull together.
– I Am That By Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
A verse for our time by Rudolf Steiner
A Verse for Our Time
We must eradicate from the soul
All fear and terror of what comes towards man out of the future.
We must acquire serenity
In all feelings and sensations about the future.
We must look forward with absolute equanimity
To everything that may come.
And we must think only that whatever comes
Is given to us by a world-directive full of wisdom.
It is part of what we must learn in this age,
namely, to live out of pure trust,
Without any security in existence.
Trust in the ever present help
Of the spiritual world.
Truly, nothing else will do
If our courage is not to fail us.
And let us seek the awakening from within ourselves
Every morning and every evening.
– Rudolf Steiner
a ship
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.—J. A. Shedd
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