Category: Meditations

There are billions of people in this world whom we will never meet. Our choices and our actions affect a surprising number of them.

What covenant do you feel that you hold with a world full of strangers?

“An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word ‘love’ – is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.”
–Adrienne Rich

What truth about yourself have you learned in conversation with someone else?

From on high these mountains are shrouded in a mysterious beauty—which may or may not be any more mysterious or beautiful than what you would see if you were actually standing on the mountainside.

How has your perspective on something important changed because of distance in time or space?

The equinox marks the point in the year when the daylight and the night are perfectly in balance. In the Northern Hemisphere we are tipping toward light and spring, but wherever you live, for this moment there is a perfect balance between light and dark, what is hidden and what is shown.

What brings you back to balance?

“The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people’s children.”
—Marian Wright Edelman

How do you support other people’s children?