WE SHAPE THE MEMORIES THAT SHAPE US
We are not just shaped by memories; we ourselves shape the memories that shape us.
Miroslav Volf, The End of Memory
UNCONSCIOUS CONSCIOUS
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Carl Jung
TO KNOW DEEPLY IS TO LOVE MORE
What’s true of other people is also true of places: to know deeply is to love more. To know the secrets of a place, to read it on many levels, and to sense the vastness of the unknown is the key to love.
Nathanael Johnson
Unseen City
NEVER FORGET TODAY
There are people who will never forget today. No day belongs to us. Each day is a gift.
John O’Donohue
UNLEARNED THE GRACE OF PRESENCE AND BELONGING
While we seem to have progressed to become experts in so many things - we have unlearned the grace of presence and belonging.
John O’Donohue
FUTURE WHOLENESS
A blessing awakens future wholeness.
John O’Donohue
THE PERMANENT CLIMATE
Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness.
John O’Donohue
SPACE WHERE CHANGE CAN TAKE PLACE
Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
Henri Nouwen
TREES
If you look at the big picture - the tree as it’s growing - nothing happens. If, however, you notice the details - the leaves emerging, the flowers forming, the fruits bursting from flowers - then trees seethe with action.
Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City
INVISIBLE HAND
“Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.”
James Clear, Atomic Habits
REFUSE TO BEGIN
“To refuse to begin can be an act of great self-neglect.
Perhaps beginnings make us anxious because we did not begin ourselves. Others began us.
Beginning precedes us, creates us, and constantly takes us to new levels and places and people.
There is an old Irish proverb that says, “Tus maith leath na hoibre.” “A good beginning is half the work.”
John O’Donohue, To Bless The Space Between Us