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Sunday Inspiration: The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
or grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
—Wendell Berry
Sunday Inspiration: The Right Day
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow. Today is the right day to love, believe, do, and mostly live.
—Lhamo Thondup, the 14th Dalai Lama
Sunday Inspiration: Dreams
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Sunday Inspiration: The Real Questions
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions.
—Henri Nouwen
Sunday Inspiration: Good and Evil
When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
Sunday Inspiration: Gratitude
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency… Where there is appreciation, there is courtesy, there is concern for the rights and property of others. Without appreciation there is arrogance and evil.
—Gordon B. Hinckley
Sunday Inspiration: The Truth
People hate the truth for the sake of whatever it is that they love more than the truth. They love truth when it shines warmly on them, and hate it when it rebukes them.
—Saint Augustine
Sunday Inspiration: Every Painful Event
Every painful event contains in itself a seed of growth and liberation.
—Anthony de Mello
Sunday Inspiration: Growth
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
—Maya Angelou
Sunday Inspiration: When to Speak
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
—Plato
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