Friday, June 30, 2006

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Thursday, 29 June, 2006

No journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.
-Lillian Smith

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

To contribute to our densely interconnected and complex web of relationships is to truly transform our inner journeys.
- Mark Jacobs

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. For we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness ... let us rededicate ourselves in the long and bitter, but beautiful struggle for a new world.
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Monday, June 26, 2006

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
- Joseph Campbell

Sunday, June 18, 2006

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
- Maxim Gorky

Friday, June 2, 2006

Established churches are becoming increasingly ineffective because our past has not prepared us for ministry in the future. The discontinuity we have experienced because of these quantum leaps is comparable to the experience of the residents of East Berlin when the Berlin Wall came down. Nothing in their past prepared them for life without the Wall. Very little in our past has prepared us for ministry in today's world.
- William Easum