The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for.  And the most you can do is live inside that hope.  Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Barbara Kingsolver, critically acclaimed author and winner, National Humanities Medal

When we take on the full dimensions of our work – the messiness and the order, the triumphs and the failures – we can transform just about any situation into an opportunity for connection and deepening for both ourselves and the others around us.

Rabbi Irwin Kula, author, Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life

I thank You God for this most amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirit of trees and a blue dream of sky; and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.    E.E. Cummings, poet

But still more difficult than getting rid of these exterior noises is the achievement of inner silence, a silence of the heart. It seems that a person who is caught up in all that noise has lost touch with the inner self. The questions that are asked from within remain unanswered…. With Open Hands Henri J.M. Nouwen, spiritual writer, teacher