“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings, when the dawn is still dark.”
– Rabindranath Tagore, 20th Century Indian Poet
NY Spring ’25
“Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.”
– Saadi of Shiraz
“The coincidence demands it’s hearing.”
– William Kentridge
Mudita
Mudita (Pali and Sanskrit: मुदिता):
The pleasure that comes from delighting in other people’s well being, specifically the feeling of sympathetic joy—genuine happiness experienced in response to the well being and success of others.
“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”
– Desmond Tutu
Patience
“Trust in God suffices. He who possesses patience possesses power. Patience is might.”
– Arabic Inscription
“There are two ways of being a prophet. One is to tell the enslaved that they can be free. It is the difficult path of Moses. The second is to tell those who think they are free that they are in fact enslaved. This is the even more difficult path of Jesus.”
– Father Richard Rohr
“Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.”
umi and love 