Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

Leo Tolstoy
be still and know
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

T.S. Eliot
Adventus

“Brothers and sisters,
In this time of advent, let us be shaken from our stupor and let us awaken from our slumber.

Let us ask ourselves: Am I aware that I am living? Am I alert? Am I awake? Do I recognize God’s presence daily? Or, am I distracted?”
— Pope Francis
As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it.

Brother David Steindl-Rast
I would tell that version of myself that it’s her job to feel everything, see everything — that she will never know everything, but she will try. What matters is how you make people feel. I’d tell her that the people you do this with, and how you define what it means to live a beautful life, matter more than anything.

Maggie Rogers