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Well + Spring
Well + Spring is a newsletter to support yourself, your teams, and the people you care about to live your best lives! The aim of the content is to point you towards your own source of abundant wisdom within. All of the ideas and perspectives are joyfully offered in service to you. “Try them on” and use them if they are useful. Discard any that do not serve you.
“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.” - Saint Augustine
What if miracles are the norm? Reflections on learnings from particle physics.
“Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.” - Edward Fallon
The Miracle Field in Uncertainty: An Antidote to Anxiety
“A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life.” - Christopher Germer
5 Practices to Develop Unshakable Confidence.
“Become aware that you already possess all the inner wisdom, strength, and creativity needed to make your dreams come true.” - Sara Ban Breathnoch
Tips for supporting folks when they are struggling.
Zen & The Art of Social Innovation
Zen & The Art of Social Innovation was a resource to support social innovators to create their best work, navigate stakeholders, develop practices to build psychological resilience, nourish the heart and soul and explore new topics to stay curious. This content is joyously developed or hand-picked by me.
“Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.”
– Pema Chodron
“Don't you know yet? It is your light that lights the world."
– Rumi
“There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.”
– Alan Cohen
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
– W. Sibert Cather
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
– Hopi Elders' Prophecy, June 8, 2000
“No one is free until we are all free.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, its sound is often no louder than the beating of your heart and it is very easy to miss it.”
– Boris Pasternak
“Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.”
– Unknown
“Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.”
– Unknown
“Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.”
– Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
– Desmond Tutu
“May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.”
– John O’Donohue’s Blessing “For Presence”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
– Joan Walsh Anglund
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
– Suzy Kassem
"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."
– Hafez
"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams."
– Oprah Winfrey
“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”
– W. Clement Stone
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
– Annie Dillard
"You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves."
– Mary Oliver “Wild Geese”
"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."
– Nelson Mandela
“Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
– Margaret Mead
“If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”
– Erica Jong
“Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.”
– Bob Kerrey
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver (1935-2019)
“Let it be still, and it will gradually become clear.”
– Lao Tzu
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
– Marianne Williamson
“The most important thing is to find out what is the most important thing.”
– Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
– Martin Luther King Jr
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