Tag: #connection
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Daily Spark: Compassion with Edges
There’s a quote I love from Pema Chödrön that speaks right to caregiver tension: Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.”
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Let Yourself Be Seen
It takes courage to let trusted people see our wounds before they scar. Healing becomes possible when we allow ourselves to be truly seen.
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Daily Spark: Not Walking Alone
I read these words today by Matt Schmidt that landed right where I needed it: Take this as your reminder: You are supported. You are seen.You are not walking alone.”
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Daily Spark: Kindness for Lent
While I’m not Catholic myself, I came across a quote from the Pope that resonated with me. He said: “I would like to invite you to a very practical and frequently unappreciated form of abstinence: that of refraining from words that hurt and offend our neighbors.” I interpreted that as “kindness for Lent”.
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Daily Spark: Finding Your People
“Your people are the ones who hear your soul, not just your words.” — Unknown
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Daily Spark: The Root of Loneliness
I recently came across a quote from Carl Jung that put words to something I didn’t understand until now: “Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”
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Daily Spark: Fall in Love
One of my favorite quotes is from Matthew Fox: “When we fall in love, we fall into the larger universe.”
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Daily Spark: Acts of Service, Expanded
George Eliot once wrote, “What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?”
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Daily Spark: The Life That I Touch
One of my favorite quotes by theologian Frederick Buechner is, “The life that I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops…”