Weekly Pause & Ponder

Weekly Pause & Ponder

To be human is to belong. Belonging is a circle that embraces everything; If we reject it, we damage our nature. The word ‘belonging’ holds together the two fundamental aspects of life: Being and Longing, the longing of our Being and the being of our Longing.

John O’Donohue. Eternal Echoes: Celtic reflections on Our Yearning and Being. www.allgreatquotes.com/john_donohue_quotes.shtml

Weekly Pause & Ponder

Interconnectivity is not only a law of physics and of nature, but also forms the basis of community and compassion. Compassion is the working out of our shared interconnectivity, both as to our shared joy and our shared suffering and struggle for justice.

Matthew Fox.  A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity.