NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1070

·       “If we’re willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be eliminated, then we can have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of our situation. This is the first step on the path.” - Pema Chödrön

• ·       “Someone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that it arouses in us. Not to be afraid of pain. Someone needs to encourage us: that this soft spot in us could be awakened, and that to do this would change our lives.” - Pema Chödrön

  ·       “The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn’t continue to rule your life.” - Pema Chödrön

  ·       The fault is in us. - Hannah Arendt

  ·       “A Creator Son did not incarnate in the likeness of mortal flesh and bestow himself upon the humanity of Urantia to reconcile an angry God but rather to win all mankind to the recognition of the Father’s love and to the realization of their sonship with God.”

  ·       I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. - Charles Dickens

  ·       “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
  And next year’s words await another voice.
  

  And to make an end is to make a beginning.” ~ T.S. Eliot