“The problem is not entirely in finding a room of one’s own, the time alone, difficult and necessary as that is. The problem is more how to still the soul in the midst of its activities. In fact, the problem is how to feed the soul.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh
What helps you to find stillness in the midst of your activities?
In the TV shows people are transformed—made over—by changing their hair, clothes and makeup. In real life how we change our appearance rarely has a significant impact. But people do make over their lives in surprising and transformative ways, heading off in new directions.
How have you made over your life?
“If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.”
― Michael Sims
What keeps you going?
Crossing from the dark into the light feels like an invitation, a welcome into the comfort of the familiar. But crossing from the light to the dark—the known to the unknown—is its own kind of invitation, one that holds, perhaps, the greatest potential.
What unknown are you moving into?
“When this ultimate crisis comes… when there is no way out―that is the very moment when we explode from within and the totally other emerges: the sudden surfacing of a strength, a security of unknown origin, welling up from beyond reason, rational expectation, and hope.”
― Émile Durkheim
What, in this present crisis, is welling up in you that is beyond rational expectation?
