Before you speak of peace, you must first have it in your heart. —St. Francis of Assisi
Author Archives: Teresa Nizza
Two Ways to Feel the Wind
There are two ways to feel wind:
Climb into the open and be still or keep moving.
Mark Nepo
This day is to be experienced not understood.
Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned. Paul Tillich
Thomas Merton
For the world and time are the dance of the Lord in emptiness. The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness, absurdity and despair. But it does not matter much, because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things; or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there. Indeed, we are in the midst of it, and it is in the midst of us, for it beats in our very blood, whether we want it to or not.
Everything is holy now. The only resistance to that divine flow of holiness and wholeness is our human refusal to see, to enjoy, and to participate.
Richard Rohr
The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
Abraham Heschel
Choose joy!

For the raindrop, joy is entering the river.
The Sufi Ptophet Ghalib
Whether we pull things apart or put things together makes all the difference.