Quote

For thousands of years we have gathered in circle--around fires, around bodies, around altars--because we can't do this alone.

Wayne Muller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Wayne Muller
Alone
Gathered
Around
Altars
Body
Fires
Years
Circle
Circles
Thousands
Bodies
Fire

More quotes by Wayne Muller

Image
Even in the middle of a hurricane, the bottom of the sea is calm. As the storm rages and the winds howl, the deep waters sway in gentle rhythm, a light movement of fish and plant life. Below there is no storm.
Wayne Muller
Image
Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.
Wayne Muller
Image
We become what we love. Whatever you are giving your time and attention to, day after day, is the kind of person you will eventually become.
Wayne Muller
Image
Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency.
Wayne Muller
Image
With every breath, the possibility of a new aspect of self arises.
Wayne Muller
Image
All life has emptiness at its core it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that is our life.
Wayne Muller
Image
Because we do not rest, we lose our way.
Wayne Muller
Image
Because we do not rest we lose our way...Poisoned by the hypnotic belief that good things come only through unceasing determination and tireless effort, we never truly rest. And for want of rest, our lives are in danger.
Wayne Muller
Image
If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath— our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.
Wayne Muller
Image
When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.
Wayne Muller
Image
Be not afraid. A kind life, a life of spirit, is fundamentally a life of courage-the courage simply to bring what you have, to bring who you are.
Wayne Muller
Image
What is at the center of your life? Carefully examine where you spend your attention, your time. Look at your appointment book, your daily scheduleÂ…. This is what receives your care and attention--an by definition, your love.
Wayne Muller
Image
A gift is like a seed it is not an impressive thing. It is what can grow from the seed that is impressive. If we wait until our seed becomes a tree before we offer it, we will wait and wait, and the seed will die from lack of planting.... The miracle is not just the gift the miracle is in the offering, for if we do not offer, who will?
Wayne Muller
Image
In the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable.
Wayne Muller
Image
What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.
Wayne Muller
Image
Sabbath requires surrender. If we only stop when we are finished with all our work, we will never stop, because our work is never completely done. With every accomplishment there arises a new responsibility... Sabbath dissolves the artificial urgency of our days, because it liberates us from the need to be finished.
Wayne Muller
Image
Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.
Wayne Muller
Image
The last place we tend to look for healing is within ourselves.
Wayne Muller
Image
What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?
Wayne Muller
Image
When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing.
Wayne Muller