The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Frederick Buechner

When leadership is defined not as a position you hold but as a way of being, you discover that you can lead from wherever you are. - Rosamund Stone Zander, The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

“You must build your life as if it were a work of art…..”

I Asked for Wonder by Abraham Joshua Heschel

One of the things I love about the new elders who exemplify this kind of freedom is that they have found a new energy in their choices. I don’t mean that they are fearless or smug. I mean that they know and respect who they are and they have found a new richness in their inner growth. They have found that the second half can be about far more than the preservation of their first half; that it can be about the ripening of their finest and wisest self.

Finding Your Way in the Second Half of Life by Richard J. Leider

Doing one thing at a time is how one Zen Master defined the essence of Zen. Doing one thing at a time means to be total in what you do, to give it your complete attention. This is surrendered action, empowered action.

Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks

Only God can say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give God the benefit of believing that God’s hand is leading you and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.

Teilhard De Chardin, SJ

It is not so much what we do but what we are that allows God to live in the world. When the presence of God emerges from our inmost being into our faculties, whether we walk down the street or drink a cup of soup, divine life is pouring into the world.

Father Thomas Keating

With our cell phones and PDAs, we are now able to be in touch with anyone and everyone at any time. In the process, we run the risk of never being in touch with ourselves.

What about not connecting with anyone in our “in between” moments? What about realizing that there are acutally no in between moments at all? What about being in touch with who is on this end of the line? What about calling ourselves up for a change and checking in, seeing what we are up to?  

Jon Kabat Zinn author of Coming To Our Senses

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. Joy is not simply a matter of temperment, it is always hard to remain joyful, which is all the more reason why we should try to acquire it and make it grow in our hearts.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength; joy is love. She gives most who gives with joy.

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

The divine presence has always been with us, but we think it is absent. That thought is the monumental illusion of the human condition. The spiritual journey is designed to heal it. Invitation to Love by Fr. Thomas Keating