The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed. — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
People around us change and circumstances change. We can often find ourselves struggling against those things. — Roger Housden Change Copy Share Image
I've come to see that the way my life shows up is actually my purpose. — Roger Housden Life Copy Share Image
We live in an age of knowledge, with the great god Google, that we can refer to at any time on any… — Roger Housden Age Copy Share Image
Each of us is already special in the sense that nobody has the unique pattern of potentialities that anyone else has. — Roger Housden Patterns Copy Share Image
“When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you… — Roger Housden Angel Copy Share Image
“His priorities for a rich and contented life were friendship, freedom, the pleasures of an examined life, and enough food and shelter… — Roger Housden Freedom Copy Share Image
A knowing of what needs to be done or what needs to be said or what needs to happen at any given… — Roger Housden Accumulation Copy Share Image
The love of someone else is more accessible or more possible if one lives with a sense of loving embrace towards oneself… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
I certainly spent many years in my early life chasing all over the globe for meaning and purpose. I'd feel like I'd… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
“You who were bewildered by a meaning, whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed—Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving. Then say goodbye to Alexandra… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
We have all had serendipitous moments - the most unlikely meetings out of nowhere - that can happen when we have this… — Roger Housden Acceptance Copy Share Image
The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but… — Roger Housden American culture Copy Share Image
In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy.… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
“The willingness to let go of what we know you might even call an expression of faith. Faith: not that things will… — Roger Housden Faith Copy Share Image
I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my mind begins to fall… — Roger Housden Alive Copy Share Image
The ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we… — Roger Housden Anxiety Copy Share Image
I live in California, where there's a lot of driving entailed. I'm usually going somewhere to be on time to meet someone… — Roger Housden California Copy Share Image
If we're trying to get the perfect house, the perfect relationship or the perfect job, it's likely there's some kind of fear… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just… — Roger Housden Artist Copy Share Image
Struggle has a natural place in our life, but the fight or flight syndrome is often false struggle. There are times for… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
“All I know, lying in this bed or not lying here, is that this is the life that was given to me.… — Roger Housden Life Copy Share Image
I woke up early one morning a couple of years ago and felt the tenderness of my being alone, the bitter sweetness… — Roger Housden Alive Copy Share Image
When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond. — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment. — Roger Housden Body Copy Share Image
Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing. — Roger Housden Fortune Copy Share Image
I had a classic case of what people call "seeker's disease." That was part of my journey, but now, meaning is like… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
If you want to know your purpose, look at the unfolding of your life, because that is your gift to the world.… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Most of us make an effort to do and be the best we can be, which leads to a distinction we need… — Roger Housden Adversity Copy Share Image
