Quotes About Renewal

You must demolish the work and start over. You can save some of the sentences, like bricks. It will be a miracle if you can save some of the paragraphs, no matter how excellent in themselves or hard-won. You can waste a year worrying about it, or you can get it over with now. (Are you a woman, or a mouse?)

Maybe I can save my city.

Spring comes into Massachusetts with her famous flame. God's breath warming the winter out of things

The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard.

Levade had told her one day that there was no such thing as a coherent human personality. When you are forty you have no cell in your body that you had at eighteen. It was the same, he said, with your character. Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.

Levade had told her one day that there was no such thing as a coherent personality. When you are forty you have no cell in your body that you had at eighteen. It was the same, he said, with your character. Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.

Time to get off the social media merry-go-round that goes faster and faster but never gets anywhere.

Suddenly, I'm lighter, only half of who I was.

Ellen had always loved the rain. She didn't understand why people rushed through it, avoided it and ducked out of it, but she was glad.

Get some sleep. Our troubles will still be there on the morrow

In the past few months, life had lost its sweetness and he'd lost his way. But no longer. Death was once again the enemy, his indifference and apathy drowned in a Cheshire pond.

Go ahead and cry, Andy. Don't be afraid of those tears. Sometimes they help to wash the soul clean.

Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.

We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.

We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again

We can always begin again. No matter what happens, no matter how long its been, no matter how far from our aspirations we may have strayed, we can always always begin again.

Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment.

I need to start over. I can't just stay stuck in this place." This is a wonderful skill to bring to your life.

That's life: starting over, one breath at a time.

Beginning again and again is the actual practice, not a problem to be overcome so that one day we can come to the real meditation.

TO RETEACH A THING its loveliness" is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone and everything can flower again from within. When we recover knowledge of our own loveliness and that of others, self-blessing happens naturally and beautifully.

Human beings, to me, are rather like electrical appliances that need to be charged regularly, and prayer is a way of plugging into that charge.

when you've come to the end of yourself and you don't get it, take a nap, have a good meal, and lean in for the gentle whisper of God.

There are some of you here today who feel like dead people. It is as if you are already six feet under, staring up at the top of your own locked coffin. This morning Jesus wants to set you free. You simply have to let go of the key and pass it through the little hole, where you see a tiny shaft of light.