Sometimes we only need a few words, little sayings, to motivate and encourage us.
Coeur is the French word for heart. When words touch our hearts they awaken us to capacities that lie dormant within us and we feel encouraged to dare many things. Let a little saying be a friend to help you live more fully.
Phrases posted on Facebook, February 2021
“It isn’t what we think we should be able to see and understand, but what we do see and understand that matters. When we look with love it all matters.”
“Answers reassure us but it’s the questions that keep us knocking on the door.”
“To be in the house of belonging we must carry what we love over the threshold and be married to the tasks of daily care.”
“Some days we sit in the shadow of our unlived joy. It’s a craggy peak, a mountain we can’t climb, but we can make camp, strike a match and light a small fire. We can warm ourselves.”
“Wanting something other than what is, we seem to stumble into cacti and stones. Not wanting at all, or wanting too much, we create wastelands where we become strangers that do no see the given as gift.”
“There are efforts that are so meaningful that we don’t mind how difficult they are. And there are others that feel like useless work. How much time making ourselves look good to our selves or to others are we going to waste? We’ll just have to do it again and again–a sure way to burn out.”
“It may seem to us now that all the things in the way of our intentions are showing up. These are the angels we must wrestle until we get a blessing from them.”
“Instead of holding fast, holding back or holding in, could we behold how, even in darkness and difficulty, love is still present?”
“No one escapes who he or she is. Inside we have heaven and hell and that unrelenting yearning to become all that we can be–dwelling places for love and possibility.”
“The yearning to be connected, to be in awe and participation is so full of ache and beauty, of satiety, impermanence and loss that it must be the mystery of joy.”
“Moments of understanding pass. Joy dissolves in the dishpan. Our inner lights are dim again. Yet something remains. It is a growing trust that we can somehow know without knowing.”
“It is possible to stop the endless efforts at self-improvement and turn towards self-acceptance instead. It is possible to stop our constant hedging and planning. It is possible to trust that we each are necessary parts of the whole.”
“If we relinquish thoughts about our value–how big or little we think we are–we grant Love the last word and enter silence where we come to know that we are beyond worth.”
These little sayings came from my book Match: Bringing Heart and Will into Alignment.
