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John Welwood, author of “Journey from the heart”
From my perspective as an existential psychologist, feeling is a form of intelligence. It’s the body’s direct, holistic, intuitive way of knowing and responding, which is highly attuned and intelligent. Unlike emotionality, which is a reactivity that sweeps you away, feeling helps you go within and connect with where you are.

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All love concludes in grief. This is also worth noting… Grief is the sacred ending of the deepest, most central, most profound, most sacred experience that humans are capable of. — Deva Temple

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“We are too sincere, too productive, and too realistic. We need to enter more fully and more willingly into that realm under the rocks and behind the mirror.”—Thomas Moore

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Hakeem Jeffries – New House Minority Leader and first Black party leader in the US House of Representatives, in his opening speech, Jan 8, 2023:

“House Democrats will always put American values over autocracy… benevolence over bigotry, the Constitution over the cult, democracy over demagogues, economic opportunity over extremism, freedom over fascism, governing over gaslighting, hopefulness over hatred, inclusion over isolation, justice over judicial overreach, knowledge over kangaroo courts, liberty over limitation, maturity over Mar-a-Lago, normalcy over negativity, opportunity over obstruction, people over politics, quality of life issues over QAnon, reason over racism, substance over slander, triumph over tyranny, understanding over ugliness, voting rights over voter suppression, working families over the well-connected, xenial over xenophobia, ‘yes, we can’ over ‘you can’t do it,’ and zealous representation over zero-sum confrontation. We will always do the right thing by the American people.”

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“In myths and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity.

“They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin like old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can.

“The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms.”

–Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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As a bee seeks nectar from all kind of flowers, seek teachings everywhere. Like a deer that finds a quiet place to graze, seek seclusion to digest all that you have gathered. Like a madman beyond all limits, go wherever you please and live like a lion completely free of all fear.  — Ancient Tibetan text

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Mythologist Michael Meade says, “Those who think they are not wounded in ways that need conscious attention and careful healing are usually the most wounded of all.”

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“The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA,” said science writer Lewis Thomas. “Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.”

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FROM A FACEBOOK POST

I once read somewhere:

‘My father used to buy simple goods from poor people at high prices, even though he did not need them. Sometimes he even used to pay extra for them. I got concerned by this act and asked him why does he do so? Then my father replied, “It is a charity wrapped with dignity, my child”

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ANGER AS DEEP COMPASSION

David Whyte says: “ANGER is the deepest form of compassion, for another,
for the world, for the self, for a life, for the body, for a family and for all
our ideals, all vulnerable and all, possibly about to be hurt.

“Stripped of physical imprisonment and violent reaction, anger is the
purest form of care; the internal living flame of anger always illuminates
what we belong to, what we wish to protect and what we are willing to
hazard ourselves for.

“What we usually call anger is only what is left of its essence when we
are overwhelmed by its accompanying vulnerability, when it reaches the
lost surface of our mind or our body’s incapacity to hold it, or when it
touches the limits of our understanding.

“What we name as anger is actually only the incoherent physical
incapacity to sustain this deep form of care in our outer daily life; the
unwillingness to be large enough and generous enough to hold what we love
helplessly in our bodies or our mind with the clarity and breadth of our
whole being.”

– From David Whyte’s book, “Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and
Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words” – http://tinyurl.com/go53hmg

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Found on the day President Trump was acquitted:
The German artist Max Liebmann remarked after a brownshirt parade under his window in 1933: “I could not possibly eat as much as I would like to throw up.”

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“If your anti-racism work prioritizes the ‘growth’ and ‘enlightenment’ of white America over the safety, dignity and humanity of people of color – it’s not anti-racism work. It’s white supremacy.” — Ijeoma Oluo

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“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” – Ralph Emerson

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It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. — Mark Twain

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Johann Goethe said, “When a man begins to trust himself, then he begins to live.”

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“Haters hate because there’s something missing within them or within their lives that they see in you. They believe they can’t have it and that causes negative emotion within them. If they believed they could have it too, they would be inspired by you to get it themselves. It would be a positive emotion. The fact that it brings out hate or jealousy is because they don’t believe they can. Belief in possibility is the difference between jealousy and inspiration.” – Emily Maroutian

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“You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.” – John Irving

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“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.” – Alan Watts

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‘‘We do not inspire people by trying to make them better . . . ‘I would add that it usually just annoys them,’ . . . we inspire them by witnessing their inherent perfection.’’
John Marshall Roberts “A Persuasion Manual for Visionaries”

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May the blessing of light be upon you –
Light without and light within.
May the blessed sunlight shine on you like a great fire,
So that stranger and friend may come and
warm themselves at it.
And may light shine out of the two eyes of you,
Like a candle set in the window of a house,
Bidding the wanderer to come in out of the storm.
Blessed Be

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There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil. – Peter Gabriel

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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. – Mark Twain

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The wound is the place where the Light enters you. – Rumi

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This from my buddy at work: Aren’t silent characters a waste of toner?

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“The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.” – Lewis Thomas, Lives of a Cell

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If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein

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Those who hear not the music . . . think the dancers mad.

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“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be in your revolution,” attributed to Emma Goldman

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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. – Peter F. Drucker

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