The journey of becoming who we were born to be never ends. It’s limitless, eternal. We don’t arrive - we grow. And to grow requires presence and practice.
Love takes more than crystals and rainbows, it takes discipline and practice. It's not just a sweet sentiment from a hallmark card. It's a radical commitment to a different way of being, a mental response to life that is completely at odds with the thinking of the world.
Marianne Williamson
Those who practice discipline have to be very generous to themselves. Discipline should never be rigid. Discipline should be self-acknowledged, so that you can go along with it.
Yogi Bhajan
You don't need to forgive until you need to forgive. You don't need nerves of steel until you need nerves of steel. You don't need to call on your reserves of compassion, or fortitude, or faith until you've used up everything else.
This is why we practice.
This is why, even when life is ambling along nicely and there's food in our spiritual cupboard, we still make sure that we get to yoga, or the reading group, or Sunday services.
When we're healthy and happy we make sure to dance, we hit the court, we pick up the phone to check in, we drop by with something in hand.
When we're believing in the fairness and the glory of human nature and the so-called Fates, we keep seeking, and meditating on reality, and praying for healing even though nothing obvious ails us. We keep up with our spiritual practice.
We keep standing up to make our art even when we could be predictable pedestrians.
Because the day will most certainly come, as it does whether you are a whole-hearted Lover or in denial of Grace, that you will be struck down or ground down by life. It can come in tiny tearing heartbreaks five times a day, just walking through your neighbourhood. It could come in the name of tragedy that could only happen once in a lifetime.
And you will need to withdraw the insights that you put into your heart's escrow. And you will need to call on your people -- the unseen and the ones right in front of you -- to help you meet the day.
You will be interrupted.
You will be called on to expand.
You will be asked who you are and why you are here.
This is why we practice.
Danielle LaPorte
Compassion is the pre-show warmup to forgiveness.
Kris Carr