Wayne Muller Quotes

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• To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.
• When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open,…
• As Gandhi wisely points out, even as we serve others we are working on ourselves; every act, every word, every gesture of genuine compassion naturally…
• Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency.
• The greatest barrier to own own healing is not the pain, sorrow or violence inflicted upon us as children. Our greatest hindrance is our ongoing…
• We are called to be strong companions and clear mirrors to one another, to seek those who reflect with compassion and a keen eye how…
• In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will…
• Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our pain…
• When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war…
• If busyness can become a kind of violence, we do not have to stretch our perception very far to see that Sabbath time – effortless,…
• 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…
• All life has emptiness at its core; it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that…
• Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.
• Sabbath requires surrender. If we only stop when we are finished with all our work, we will never stop, because our work is never completely…
• Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are…
• The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.
• What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human…
• 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…
• With every breath, the possibility of a new aspect of self arises.
• As we explore the nature of our gift, our goal is to move toward this kind of giving: cheerful giving that flows gently and easily,…

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