Darrell J. Pursiful

Sunday Inspiration: Differences

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
—Audre Lorde

Sunday Inspiration: A Wounded Healer

A wounded healer is someone who can listen to a person in pain without having to speak about his or her own wounds.
—Henri Nouwen

Don’t Take My Word for It

Here is a very gracious review of Shadow of the King from Brandi of Dragons and Spaceships.

Interview on Dragons & Spaceships!

Dragons & Spaceships is a newish podcast that deserves a bigger following. I had a lovely conversation with Brandi a few weeks back. Go check it out!

Sunday Inspiration: The Burden You Carry

I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travelers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry.
—Dorothy Day

Sunday Inspiration: True Laughter

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
—John Cleese

Sunday Inspiration: Being Honest

Being honest may not get you many friends, but it’ll always get you the right ones.
—John Lennon

Sunday Inspiration: Be Kind

Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them.
—Charles Bukowski

Sunday Inspiration: Little Things

Enjoy little things in life…for one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.
—Kurt Vonnegut

Sunday Inspiration: The System

When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them and that is of course because they fully accept the system and identify themselves with it.
—Thomas Merton

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