Transforming Ourselves, Transforming Our World

The choices we each make, 

consciously or otherwise, 

to look within 

or not, 

to illuminate and embrace 

or to ignore and deny  

what needs healing, 

to transform our wounds 

into wisdom and wholeness

or  to never know the gifts 

hidden in our suffering,

create profound ripples  

beyond what any of us  

can truly know.  

May we each find 

the courage to choose 

care-fully.... 

Blessings ~ Molly
  ♥

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Spiritual practice involves, on the one hand, acting

out of concern for others' well-being.

On the other, it entails transforming ourselves so that 

we become more readily disposed to do so. 

- the Dalai Lama

  

Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

- Paulo Freire

 War and peace start in the human heart - and whether 

that heart is open or whether that heart closes

has global implications.

- Pema Chodron