Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!
God is a placebo for your own mortality.
The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.
Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.
The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.
Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.
If the Word truly became flesh, then God had not only a mother, but also a grandmother, cousins, great-aunts, and weird uncles. If the Word truly dwelt among us, then he was part of a family that, like most, was fairly dysfunctional, a mix of the good and bad, the saintly and the sinful, the glorious and the not so glorious. And this is such good news for us.
I did not glow with the thrill of battle. Cringe, yes. Glow, no.
Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.
Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy is a major contribution to art therapy literature and practice. Laury Rappaport introduces a contemplative method and philosophy grounded in the body's felt-sense of experience and its innate and largely unrecognized wisdom. This intellectually provocative, yet thoroughly practical text, establishes Rappaport as an emergent leader in the art therapy world and author of a book that every student and art therapist must read in order to appreciate the depth and breadth of our discipline.
We are pushed by pain until we are pulled by vision.