38 Quotes by Wayne Muller

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.

What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny.

Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.

The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.

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

True kindness is rooted in a deep sense of abundance, out of which flows a sense that even as I give, it is being given back to me.

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?

Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call my true nature, what Jews call the still, small voice, what Christians call the holy spirit.

Sabbath is more than the absence of work; it is not just a day off, when we catch up on television or errands. It is the presence of something that arises when we consecrate a period of time to listen to what is most deeply beautiful, nourishing, or true. It is time consecrated with our attention, our mindfulness, honoring those quiet forces of grace or spirit that sustain and heal us.