Category: Daily Spark
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Daily Spark: Capacity for Delight
Julia Cameron said that “The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”
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Daily Spark: Walk Towards Them
Rumi said, “Beautiful days do not come to you. You must walk towards them”.
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Daily Spark: From the Ashes
Kalen Dion said, “Yes, you will rise from the ashes. But the burning comes first. For this part, darling, you must be brave.”
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Daily Spark: Which Door?
I remember as a kid watching the original “Price is Right” game show with the host Bob Barker. I still remember how excited contestants would get. Barker would ask very dramatically, “which door do you want to open?”
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Daily Spark: Before it Melts
“An Italian sculptor held a personal exhibition of ice blocks entitled: “Life is short, enjoy it before it melts.”
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Daily Spark: One Moment, NOW!
“No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment, NOW!”
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Daily Spark: Making Sense of Our Lives
I once had an Episcopal priest, named Henry Parsley, say to me that “a life without reverie is meaningless”. We were talking about my propensity to go, go, go and I didn’t take much time for reverie, for self-reflection, for thinking about my life.
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Daily Spark: A Grand Thing
Agatha Christie said, “”I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
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Daily Spark: Choosing to Grow With
“Perhaps this next chapter has more to do with who and what you’re choosing to grow with, rather than what you’re letting go of.”
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Daily Spark: Seek the Light
Mike Dooley said, “Only when pressed with darkness can you begin to seek the light.”