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.”

– Rumi

“You’re of the Earth, and it’s yours to claim.”

– Lupita Nyong’o

Freedom

The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

2 Corinthians 3:17

Awakening

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
– Rumi

Muse

“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.”
― Frida Kahlo