Dawna Markova

The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest. It may be wholeheartedness. You are so exhausted because all of the things you are doing are just busyness. There's a central core of wholeheartedness totally missing from what you're doing.

—Brother David Steindl-Rast

The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest. It may be wholeheartedness. You are so exhausted because all of the things you are doing are just busyness. There's a central core of wholeheartedness totally missing from what you're doing.

—Brother David Steindl-Rast

Self care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I was put on earth to offer to others. Any time we can listen to our true self, and give it the care it requires, we do so not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch.

—Parker Palmer

are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data—the lowest cognitive form—has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.

—Dee Hock, Birth of the Chaordic Age

May you find the courage you need to ask yourself the questions that will free your mind and strengthen your soul.

Traveling from the known to the unknown requires crossing an abyss of emptiness. We first experience disorientation and confusion. Then, if we are willing to cross in wonder, we enter an expansive and untamed country that has its own rhythm. Time melts. Thoughts become stories, music, poems, images, ideas. This is the intelligence of the heart—a vast range of receptive and connective abilities: intuition, wisdom, meaning making. It is aesthetic, qualitative, creative, sensitive, innovative.

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

—Christina Baldwin

The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them and learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories.

—Barry Lopez

Sacred hungers keep pushing at our edges, wanting us to let go of the old ways we have kept ourselves secure so we can expand into blossoming the life force of what we love.

May you open your heart to yourself in wonder and mercy.