The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain.
~ Bryant Mcgill
The fearful have lost faith while the fearless allow faith to lead the way.
Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul, dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed and kind benefactor.
There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.
Institutions have processes favoring efficiency over loss, and process over people.
If you try to hold people to your standard of conduct you will go mad with disappointment and grief.
Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe.
We must share! Sharing IS caring. Share everything: every idea, every resource, every story, every gift, every worry and every burden. Share yourself.
The truth is now as it was yesterday, and as it always will be, that the world is-as we are
The individual cannot exist outside of the many spheres of the deeply interconnected webs of life
We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.
Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.
The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men
The highway of human possibility extends on forever into unknown territories, which have not yet been imagined.
Any thing or behavior too complex to understand becomes a phenomenon that could be termed spiritual or magical.
The master initiate of any craft appears magical to the uninitiated.
There is something divine, mystical, magical and unexplainable in the universe that is listening and responding to each of us.
Jesus may give you eternal life, but until then, your ass going to stay right were it is until you do something about it.
You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.
As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding.
Nothing on earth is as unbearable as dealing with other people if you are a person who lacks compassion and understanding.
Lead with honesty, total integrity, compassion, patience and tolerance — toward yourself!
Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too.
Dare to love every person, including yourself.
The solution to nearly every problem in the world comes down to greater awareness, compassion, and empathy.
Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.
We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing knowledge over kindness and compassion.
There is no problem that greater consciousness and compassion, enjoined with positive resolve of will cannot solve.
Without love and compassion, nothing is sacred.
The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.
Make no mistake about it, no matter how kind, meek, humble and soft your giving heart is — you are a warrior!
Be intelligent, but know it is better to be kind than smart.
There is a way to flow and cooperate with universal laws which can be beautiful and kind.
By being beautiful and kind you are given favored status and opportunity in life.
Live with kindness, integrity and spirituality. Comport yourself with grace under pressure.
The most effective form of activism is kindness.
If you want a great life try being kind.
Kindness always works with the most important person — YOU. Be kind for you, not others.
In today's world simple kindness is a revolutionary act.
Life has a way of shining on people who stand in the sunshine of kind actions.
