If not in the moment, where do you propose to live?
~ Na'ama Yehuda
Hearts break along the same lines they broke before, I find, and they hurt no less in the rebreaking.
An option means decision, and a decision means acknowledging something is wrong and the shame one can no longer hide from.
Naama Yehuda @NaamaYehuda · 42s42 seconds ago Sometimes when the path is obscured all we can do is find the best way through the current moment and hope things will clear up ahead.
You cannot fight hate and violence with more hate and violence, any more than you can conquer darkness with more darkness. Adding darkness only increases blackness. To subtract shadow, add light.
When hearts speak, they touch each other and transform the deepest sorrow.
Be happy for things that work.
Men who hit do so because they can...someplace they enjoy or need to humiliate another. There is no love in violence, only control and domination.
For children who depend on mentally escaping into their minds to survive, imagination can become both refuge and desert island.
However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.
Today, make time to play.
Today, find a point of stillness: brief, but precious slight, but full small, but luminously real. Find a point stillness in the balance of all things between the breathing out and breathing in.
Trauma ruptures and hollows. Compassion mends and fills, love heals.
It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to know a person's history from their face.
No matter how small you are or feel or think you are–live big. Yours is the only life of you, in this form, the world will ever have!
The only things that last are love and hate. The only one that matters is love: Choose love. Hate erodes. Love nourishes..
I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their own truth of what was right loom larger than other truths just as true but somehow less favorable to telling.
Death is just another path to take, as real as morning.
