“When we see something that beautiful, we call it breathtaking, but we really should call it breathgiving,” my friend Rabbi Sharon Brous says to me. ‘Because when suffering constricts the heart, awe stretches it back out, making us more compassionate, more loving, more present”.
– Valerie Kaur
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Musings & Meditations – April 18 2023
The way I see it, if something makes you sad when it ends, it must have been pretty wonderful when it was happening.
Musings & Meditations – April 14 2023
Joy, laughter and great possibility…
Musings & Meditations – April 10 2023
There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change.
Musings & Meditations – February 12 2023
Now, every time I witness a strong person I want to know…
Musings & Meditations – February 7 2023
But nature more…
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