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clj_writes:
write,
I liked your quote.  Thank you for sharing it.  Here's one I like so much I carry it in my pocket sometimes.

"The heart of most spiritual practice is simply this: Remember.  Remember who you are.  Remember what you love.  Remember what is sacred.  Remember what is true.  Remember that you will die, and that this day is a gift.  Remember how you wish to live."

From How Then Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives by Wayne Muller

Lizbeth:
Dear Write:

I liked your quote very much.

I too don't understand what is going on with this board, I see a nice quote posted for our edification, nothing more, not something sinister or with ulterior motives for having done so.  

Thank you for taking the time to post this.

Lizbeth

write:
Nothing pointed about it: I'm very into quotations.
( for those into Myers-Briggs I'm INFJ personality type, we LOVE quotations! )
I've quoted things many times here.

One thing I am finding as this journey unfolds is a need to balance up the aspects of life: the physical, emotional, intellectual, creative and now at last the spiritual.

Poetry particularly is as essential to me as looking at the birds and trees or eating well, it's a huge part of the whole me.

eg. this Yeats:

HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,  
Enwrought with golden and silver light,  
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths  
Of night and light and the half light,  
I would spread the cloths under your feet:          
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;  
I have spread my dreams under your feet;  
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Beautiful. Uplifting.

"The heart of most spiritual practice is simply this: Remember. Remember who you are. Remember what you love. Remember what is sacred. Remember what is true. Remember that you will die, and that this day is a gift. Remember how you wish to live."

Thanks clj, that sums it up perfectly.
It feels really good to remember who I am and what I really want to be and do. I forgot for a long time.

rosencrantz:
You guys up there - please stop hurting people.  Please?  I just don't understand why you need to keep doing this but I do now see what you are doing.  If you keep putting people down, aren't you just shutting them up?  Have you lost your own voice for sharing good things?    

Violating, violent anger
Has a hidden agenda
Attacks to hurt
Seeks to discredit the other as a person
Manipulates the truth
Is a weapon
Hides behind innocence
Is righteously superior
Assumes another's motives
Needs a villain

Honest, liberating anger
Is straight
Wants to discover the truth
Seeks the relief of honest self-expression
Expresses the hurt and anger
Confronts  
Seeks to expose
Demands accountability
Chooses not to hide
Is adamant

R
PS This abuse is making me feel ill.  Thanks for the quote, Write.  You posted while I was writing. ENFP!

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