The role of the heart and mind is to cooperate with truth by opening to love. We need the mind to know the truth of the heart, and we need the heart to know the truth of the mind.
Spirituality and the Awakening Self by David G. Benner, PhD
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...We don’t have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be joined at the head. We are joined by our human hearts.
Margaret Wheatley. www.quotationsbywomen.com
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The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence – to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor the differences.
Melba Patillo Beals. Warriors Don’t Cry.
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It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself.
Thomas Berry. www.azquotes.com
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Until we find ourselves and with new hearts, more penetrating insights, fewer compulsions, less need for the transient, greater awareness of the spiritual pulse of life, resurrection has not really happened for us. Jesus has risen but we have not. Resurrection is change at the root of the soul. It marks a whole new way of being in life.
Joan Chittister. www.azquotes.com