Nurture

L – Love

I think this might actually be a bell hooks definition:being invested in someone else’s spiritual growth. Also, Ann says that showing up is 100 percent of the work. Love is showing up.

Active nonviolence begins with the truth that all life is sacred, that we are all equal sisters and brothers, all children of the God of peace, already reconciled, all one, all already united, and so we could never hurt or kill another human being, much less remain silent while wars rage, people die in poverty, and nuclear weapons and environmental... See more

Of writing many books there is no end;

And I who have written much in prose and verse

For others’ uses, will write now for mine,—

Will write my story for my better self,

As when you paint your portrait for a friend,

Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it

Long after he has ceased to love you, just

To hold together what he was and is.

Tippett:

What do you mean when you write that everyone is an artist?

O’Donohue:

I mean that everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. So it’s never as given as it actually looks; you’re always shaping it and building it. And I feel that from that perspective, that each of us is an artist.

hello! did you know that using screens makes you breathe more shallowly? you might even hold your breath from time to time without realising it so I invite you now to take three normal breaths, whatever feels good maybe look around a bit, take in the space how did that feel?

When you’re having conflict with someone you care about, try to be the bigger person. It feels way better to be understanding and forgiving than it does to hold a grudge. Sometimes other people need your help to show up as their best self.

I bring him Queen Anne’s lace and goldenrod and chicory. I pile clover flowers and knapweed before him. More, more, more. The plants keep coming. The earth keeps giving. I lay the blossoms at my child’s feet. This too is medicine. This is devotion.