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Sunday Inspiration: Beginners
We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!
—Thomas Merton
Sunday Inspiration: Inventing Our Lives
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people.
—Ursula K. Le Guin
Sunday Inspiration: True Wealth
True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.
—César Chávez
Sunday Inspiration: Reading
Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
—Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sunday Inspiration: Our Job
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
—Thomas Merton
Sunday Inspiration: Like Brothers
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
Sunday Inspiration: Keeping Silent
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
—Victor Hugo
Sunday Inspiration: Our True Destiny
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone… We find it with another.
—Thomas Merton
Sunday Inspiration: Kindling a Light
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
—Carl Jung
Sunday Inspiration: What Lies within Us
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
—Henry D. Haskins