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| I cry and I cry. I respond to every turn of the day with tears, wondering now and then, how my incessant weeping appears to those around me. It is coming clear to me. Only tears encourage time to pass. Only tears anoint the endless waiting with tender hope that the days to folow might flow more kindly into understanding |
| Life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand...we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness... |
| A friend of mine suggested that when I feel lost and don't know what to do next, I should quiet myself with the questions, "what is needed now?" The answer will not only be a first step out of my present confusion, but a lasting gift to myself... |
| What ever happened to hapily ever after? As it turns out, that was the cruelest part of the fairy tale. |
| Trust pain as well as comfort, perhaps more. For in pain we notice everything; in comfort there is not need to be alert. Believe, therefore, in your pain. Be present to it. Own it. The most deeply felt discomfort will not obscure your vision of redemption but clarify it, until it is fitting to be comfrotable again. |
| Hope is hearing the melody of the future; faith is dancing to it today - Ruben Alvarez |
| I am imprisoned in a cell of loneliness. There is no way out, except for the unexpected touch of others. Their affection will guide me down the passageway to my freedom. Their encouragement will illuminate the way. |
| Life only demands from you the strenght you possess. Only one feat is possible- not to have run away. - Dag Hammarskjold |
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