To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings Quotes

“Perhaps this is also true of places. When you are in a certain place, great love or kindness happens; it imprints itself on the ether of the place. When we pass there, hungry and needy in spirit, that loving imprint shines on us like an icon.”

“[...] do not damage yourselves By attending only at the hungry altar Of regret and anger and guilt.”

“Maybe this is one of the secrets of death: that you die only when your invisible, unchosen lives have also fulfilled themselves, so that you bring into the eternal world not only your one known life but also the unknown, unchosen lives as well.”

“A morning when you become a pure vessel For what wants to ascend from silence,”

“We also notice, at the other end, how the shadows of old age are lit more and more from the invisible world.”

“Our grounding in the soul means that regardless of how badly we think of ourselves, there is a wholesomeness in us that no one has ever been able to damage.”

“It was Kierkegaard who said that life must be lived forward, but it can only be understood backward.”

“The more we recognize our found blessings, the more they increase around us.”

“The spirituality of the rural mind does not see time as routine or treadmill; time is a far more precious space where crevices open into the infinite, and where the rhythm of the eternal is felt to preside.”

“The world can be harsh and negative, but if we remain generous and patient, kindness inevitably reveals itself. Something deep in the human soul seems to depend on the presence of kindness;”