Is relief from heavy, world on fire, all too common cynical landscapes welcome at a time such as this? While these inspirational quotes may uplift in messy chapters, they are all messy if we’re paying attention. Whether you are muddling through conflict, crisis, loss, transition, diagnosis or betrayal, you’re not alone. You’re a part of the whole. Life brings a jumble of illusion, love, beauty, and heartache; words of wisdom and faith lift the veil.
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Words of Wisdom & Faith
“A wise part of me knows how to live the questions, allow paradox, and listen to less wise parts muttering beneath the soul’s breath. Knows how to carry longing to the bees, questions to the moon, and love to the trees. To sweep hopelessness from floors in sildent unknowing. To ease heartache with black keys and minor chords where a wobbly voice may sing.” (MICHELE, Hello Lovely)
My heart is soft and prone to ache. The goal is to feel the pain all the way through so it may move out of the body and balance may return.
“Peaceful living is not about seeking immunity from heartache and difficulty. It rarely looks quiet or bland. Overwhelm and chaos feel loud and messy. Growth, loss, and surrender bring pain. Peace blooms alongside the hurt as mysterious fullness, as buoyant aliveness, as uncommon beauty.” (MICHELE, Hello Lovely)
It takes intention to get centered; to keep returning home to beauty and love.
“Keep calm and carry a song. (It’s okay to forget the words.)” MICHELE, Hello Lovely
Encouragement from Faith and Wisdom Quotes
I’m currently in a faith-building mode. It’s never one and done, and it took me some time to see that running low on hope is actually a separate matter from faith.
“I am always surprised by people who speak of faith as if it happens in the air somewhere. Our bodies are God’s best way of getting to us. Revelation begins in the flesh.” BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
Hope is not religious.
“Hope…it is entered always and only through surrender, that is, through the willingness to let go of everything we are presently clinging to.” CYNTHIA BOURGEAULT
When I’m downhearted or low on hope, I can still exercise faith.
“We do not know what’s coming. Life is beautiful anyway.” CHRISTINA BALDWIN
Brains love duality, and egos are drawn to victimization.
“In plumbing deeply the hidden rootedness of the whole where all things are held together in the Mercy, we are released from the grip of personal fear and set free.” CYNTHIA BOURGEAULT
Higher levels of consciousness are transformative because our circumstances need not change…only the lens. New vision empowers us to make different choices, and we are so much more powerful than we know!
Words to Steady During Struggle
How does despair or spiritual dryness move us to check in with the soul? Perhaps we have betrayed the soul or fallen out of integrity. What do we need to open to?
“Despair is a disruption of trust–our own trust in the universe and in our own capacity to deal with that universe. We no longer trust that the way we do things, the way that we see the world, will help us move forward.” MARY PIPHER
How is hope different than positive thinking?
“Hope creates an alternative consciousness with new vision that is not one-directional.” MICHELE, Hello Lovely
It feels more generative than that.
“Hope…when we enter it, it enters us and fills us with its own life–a quiet strength beyond anything we have ever known.” CYNTHIA BOURGEAULT
I like the idea of it as a place to enter, not merely a mental exercise for escape…but new territory…a brand new landscape.
“Magic happens everyday in a million little ways.” MICHELE, Hello Lovely
Love and Soulful Quotes
I have also learned it’s a wasteful expenditure of energy to feel shame when I’m fresh out of hope. It’s more wise to accept it as data and seek the Grace to explore what is happening.
“Hope…the mysterious plenitude to live into action what our ordinary hearts and minds could not possibly sustain.” CYNTHIA BOURGEAULT
A willingness to get still and curious is critical.
“Sometimes very natural energies like sadness, anger, frustration, shame and guilt, even feelings of hopelessness and despair, even profound longings for home, just want to move in us, express in us, have their being in us! But we don’t allow them. We’ve forgotten how to trust all of life’s energies.” JEFF FOSTER
Even a willingness to use new language and say I CAN DEAL WITH THIS is a step in the right direction.
“Waiting is overrated. Start fresh. Let go of the hurt. Say the things. Trust the trustworthy. Forgive yourself.” MICHELE, Hello Lovely
Learning to Trust Inner Wisdom
Disappointment will always lurk around the corner. I am learning fresh ways to respond with an empowered stance. It is necessary to continually get over myself and even override my emotional reactivity. This amazing teacher helps me understand the impersonal and the laws to learn to grow in power.
“This is one superpower of being old: You know that things are probably going to work out without your tense, controlling input.” ANNE LAMOTT
Anne Lamott has never been far from me since I was a young parent as a source for wisdom, humor, and faith. It feels as if we’re growing up together.
“Keep a green tree in your heart, and perhaps the singing bird will come.” CHINESE PROVERB
So is hope one more coping strategy?
“It’s always too soon to give up.” MICHELE, Hello Lovely
It sure aint a warm bath or new candle.
“Hope fills us with the strength to stay present, to abide in the flow of the Mercy no matter what outer storms assail us.” CYNTHIA BOURGEAULT
Choosing Hope & Fullness
I can point to places along the journey where my entrance toward hope changed the trajectory.
“One of the quickest paths to an open heart is to recognize how much courage it takes to live a life. Any life. To choose to see that courage in others. And to choose to see it in ourselves.” ANDREA GIBSON
Sometimes it is easier to identify what isn’t hopeful: entitlement, blame, scarcity, unrest, or uncertainty.
“Oh let me live in awe, in wonder as the precious unforever blooms.” MICHELE, Hello Lovely
I can remain inside a low-vibrational field where fear and violence reign.
“I have stopped running from shadowy places within me (even shaky, fearful, wounded voices). What they need is attention and my nurturance. Not unlike a parent answering a needy infant’s cry with reassuring love. Light touches them. They are seen, heard, and acknowledged as real.” MICHELE, Hello Lovely
Or move toward hope with help from God, prayer, angels, and friends. Faith in a source of goodness can bloom even when clouds of hopelessness remain.
“Hope is not an escape from reality but a daring entrance into spaciousness, into Mystery’s seedbed of the New.” MICHELE, Hello Lovely
Personal Growth, Spiritual Awakening & Wisdom Words
Right where I am, FAITH and HOPE flow from a river of hidden wholeness. Wounds, disease and circumstances may actually be purified when they enter the river.
“If you can do this, you must. And I believe you can. I believe you can stop betraying yourself and I believe you can oversome the thing that is breaking you and I believe you can learn to love yourself better than anyone ever has and I believe you can start being your own hero and I believe in the dreams you’ve never told anyone and I believe in another try and another and another. So, please. Please stop telling yourself this is not for you–this bigger life. We need you. You need you. And if you can do this (and you can), you must. LAURA McKOWEN
With God, I learn to see life and the Divine Mystery through the eyes of my soul. This is radically different than seeing through a lens of darkness or faithlessness where fears of contamination may stir up illusion.
Thanks for joining me in these depths.
Peace to you right where you are.
-michele
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