If you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger and that love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places, then I am afraid that for you the road will be long and brown and barren, and you will have trouble finding the light. But, if you do believe, then you already know all about magic
Lauren Oliver, Leisl & Po
Stop and listen to the heart, the wind outside, to one another, to the changing patterns of this mysterious life. It comes moment after moment, out of nothing, and disappears into nothing. Live with less grasping and more appreciation and caring.
Jack Kornfield
What is essential is never to allow the limitations of time and the erosion of memories to deaden the longing of the heart in its morning demand for love.
Paul Nathaniel Carnes (Unitarian Universalist, minister, Unitarian Universalist Association President 1977-1979)
Heart Adventure: A Meditation from City of Refuge a Unitarian Universalist ministry.
Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost – all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.
A. Powell Davies, “Why I Come to Church,” Without Apology (1998) Boston: Skinner House, p.29. (Unitarian, minister, reformer)
Your spiritual practice is not your bliss. Your spiritual practice is extremely difficult. It is a realization of what your heart needs…
Diane Wolkstein, storyteller in an interview with Brother Wolf, Storytelling with Brother Wolf May 7, 2011
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens (Unitarian, novelist, social reformer)
There is in every human heart
Some not completely barren part,
Where seeds of truth and love might grow,
And flowers of generous virtue flow;
To plant, to watch, to water there,
This be our duty, be our care.
