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Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime;
therefore, we must be saved by hope.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense
in any immediate context of history;
therefore, we must be saved by faith.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone;
therefore we are saved by love.

 

 Reinhold Niebuhr


 





To learn how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling.  Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.
Jean Shinoda Bolen

 

 

  

 


THE JOURNEY

Above the mountains
the geese turn into
the light again

Painting their
black silhouettes
on an open sky.

Sometimes everything
has to be
inscribed across
the heavens

so you can find
the one line
already written
inside you.

Sometimes it takes
a great sky
to find that

small, bright
and indescribable
wedge of freedom
in your own heart.

Sometimes with
the bones of the black
sticks left when the fire
has gone out

someone has written
something new
in the ashes of your life.

You are not leaving
you are arriving.



 David Whyte








EXCELLENCE VS. PERFECTION



Excellence is the willingness to be wrong; Perfection is being right.

Excellence is risk; Perfection is fear.

Excellence is powerful; Perfection is anger and frustration.

Excellence is spontaneous; Perfection is conformity.

Excellence is accepting; Perfection is judgment.

Excellence is giving; Perfection is taking.

Excellence is confidence; Perfection is doubt.

Excellence is flowing; Perfection is pressure.

Excellence is a journey; Perfection is a destination.

Excellence is surrender; Perfection is consuming.

Excellence is trust; Perfection is selfishness.



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