You hear the wind blow. But you don’t know where the wind comes from or where it is going. It is the same with every person who is born of the spirit. John 3:8

Really, wind is no mystery. As the sun heats the earth’s atmosphere, warm are rises. At the same time, cold air is falling downward. As the new air is heated the process continues, leaving our planet with the wonderful phenomenon of wind.

Isn’t it interesting that everybody believes wind exists, even though they don’t understand everything about it and they can’t see it with their eyes?

p. 75, Brave Girls, Jennifer Gerelds

Guess what? When it comes right down to it, where ever you go, there you are. Whatever you wind up doing, that’s what you wind up doing. Whatever you are thinking now, that’s what’s on your mind. Whatever has happened to you, it has already happened. The important question is how are you going to handle it? In other words, “Now what?”

Introduction, Where ever you go, there you are, Jon Kabat-Zinn

”I live my life in widening rings”
Ranier Maria Rilke
… it may be that the soul finds it’s way by not going anywhere. The circling of nature, inner and outer, may be the best way to find our substance.
We might know ourselves better and be closer to our nature by honoring these cycles, rather than running away…

pp. 63-64, Thomas Moore, Original Self

The problem is that in shopping, buying, and possessing we are never fully satisfied, and that the feeling of emptiness after such an effort to possess indicates that for all our buying we never fully possess or fully own.

p. 22, Thomas Moore, Meditations.

We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have the endurance and patience you need.

We can carry the depression of life in our hearts thinking that the weight must be personal, unaware that it is the world around us that is suffering.
Not seeing the nature of our world’s sadness we feel it’s anonymity as a symptom of its presence.

p. 34, Thomas Moore, Original Self.

The future is not in the hands of Fate, but in ours.
Jean-Jules Jusserand (1855-1932)

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.
George Washington (1732-99)

The better part of one’s life consists of friendships.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-65)

The status quo is a treasured thing and calls for protection. But an established habit of defensiveness is not the same as defending oneself in the presence of danger… the later is a way of keeping sane.

p. 26, Thomas Moore, Original Self