Wayne Muller Quotes - Page 2

A kind life...is fundamentally a life of courage.

Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise.

Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.

If busyness can become a kind of violence, we do not have to stretch our perception very far to see that Sabbath time – effortless, nourishing rest – can invite a healing of this violence. When we consecrate a time to listen to the still, small voices, we remember the root of inner wisdom that makes work fruitful. We remember from where we are most deeply nourished, and see more clearly the shape and texture of the people and things before us.

Be not afraid. A kind life, a life of spirit, is fundamentally a life of courage-the courage simply to bring what you have, to bring who you are.

Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call my true nature, what Jews call the still, small voice, what Christians call the holy spirit.

Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency.

In the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable.

The last place we tend to look for healing is within ourselves.

When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing.

All life requires a rhythm of rest. . . There is a rhythm in the way day dissolves into night, and night into morning. There is a rhythm as the active growth of spring and summer is quieted by the necessary dormancy of fall and winter. There is a tidal rhythm, a deep, eternal conversation between the land and the great sea.

Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.

Because we do not rest, we lose our way.

What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.

What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny.

True kindness is rooted in a deep sense of abundance, out of which flows a sense that even as I give, it is being given back to me.

With every breath, the possibility of a new aspect of self arises.

Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath.

The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.

Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.