You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
― Thomas Merton
If we are open only to discoveries which will accord with what we know already, we may as well stay shut.
— Alan Watts
For one reason or the other, you’ve read Yielding to Yes – and you’ve now reached its end. The question is: What now? Where to go from here? I'd like to offer a brief closing word to a few specific readers: the Christian, the Queer person (and/
What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. — T.S. Elliot According to Master Linji the miracle is not to walk on water or in thin air, but to walk on Earth.
It’s so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. — Anne Lemott Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics. — Charles Péguy The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others. — Carl Jung I laugh when I hear
I crawled out the window and ran into the woods. I had to make up all the words myself. The way they taste, the way they sound in the air. I passed through the narrow gate, stumbled in, stumbled around for awhile, and stumbled back out. I made this place