“Mercy is not a virtue that you choose to put on one day.  Mercy has to be your deepest way of seeing, a generosity of spirit that draws from your identity, your deepest dignity, which is love.”  Fr. Richard Rohr

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels but have not love I have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.  And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand mysteries and all knowledge and though I have faith so that I could move mountains but have not love I am nothing.  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned but have not love it profits me nothing.”  1 Corinthians 13:1-3

“If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our heart, to find the soft spot and stay with it.  We have to have that kind of courage and take that kind of responsibility.  That’s the true practice of peace.”  Pema Chödrön

“The more we see the people around us from the inside, the clearer and more compassionate our communication becomes.  This is the basis of a ‘new we’.”  ThomasHübl

“Most people do not see their beliefs.  Instead, their beliefs tell them what they see.  This is the simple difference between clarity and confusion.”  Matt Kahn

“It is useless to dream of reforming society without a corresponding deep change in our inner lives.”  Dom Helder Camara

“I feel like there are three different things that open a heart: vulnerability, authenticity, and compassion.  Any one of these is great, but when all three are present, magic happens.”  Michael Landis

CLEARING by Martha Postlewaite

“One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul.  Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.”  Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself.  The challenge is to silence the mind.”  Caroline Myss