"I take the seashell from my jeans pocket……" — Katrina Kenison
"I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly shaped by some divine intelligence to allow water to flow in and out with ease, is what I aspire to become: a vessel through which feelings can pour in and spill right out again, without all the grasping and holding that obstructs the flow. Can I be as serene and simple as this bleached shell, rubbed smooth by wind and water, receiving and releasing, filling and emptying and filling again, eternally receptive to the currents of life?"
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22 Quotes by Katrina Kenison
Katrina Kenison has 22 quotes on this site.
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Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.
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We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.
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Magic wasn't something I had to go in search of; it was here, within me, all the time. When hearts…
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It has taken awhile, but I certainly do know it now – the most wonderful gift I had, the gift…
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At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly…
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Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that…
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Growth and transformation occur not by changing who we are, but as we summon the courage to be who we…
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Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul.
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