Quotes from KATHLEEN A. BREHONY

When we live in grace, it becomes clear that every life is precious and deserving of our protection, our love, and our relationship.

Statistics and data about the importance of connections can only go so far in convincing us to make our relationships strong and vibrant. There is a more urgent wisdom that comes from our hearts: a realization that something has gone missing; a longing for the attachments that make life rich and full.

Optimism is joyful searching; pessimism is a prison of fear and a clutching at illusionary safety.

Optimism is wide-open in contrast to pessimism's closed heart.

The opportunity for love is ever-present, and in every place; its manifestation relies only on free will, on our decision at any given moment to receive a gift from a loving universe.

It's clear that love is the container in which broken hearts are rebuilt.

You begin to know that life is transient, and even at its longest, far too short.

Go to your heart. Listen. There is the wisdom.

When we open our hearts to each other we allow grace to enter. It is as simple as that. And suffering--events that break open the heart--can become the refiner's fire that leaves us fully open to the truth about love and compassion.