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  • All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain... By trying to handle all suffering through willpower, denial, medication, or even therapy, we have forgotten something that should be obvious: we do not handle suffering; suffering handles us in deep and mysterious ways that ironically...
    Quote | By Richard Rohr | May 23, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Christianity, Despair, Meaning, Mystery, Pain, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Suffering
  • Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.
    Quote | By Carl Jung | October 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Despair, Empathy, Humanism, Meaning, Psychology, Relationships, Secular
  • Is the fire going out? Not in your belly, for you are still alive, but in your soul, that place where dreams fuel commitment where longings shape action where meaning flames purpose where passion ignites and rekindles your life fire. If your soul smolders dream on till you flame like a chalice of...
    Poetry | By Stephen M. Shick | June 18, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Commitment, Courage, Despair, Hope, Meaning, Purpose
  • Out of the depths I cry: Who will hear my voice? Out of the pain I cry: Who will make space for my living and my dying? Out of the years I cry: Who will remember? Who will remember? My soul awaits: More than those who watch for the morning. More than those who watch for the morning. —inspired by...
    Quote | By Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Christianity, Death, Despair, Listening, Meaning, Pain, Searching, Unitarian Universalism, Wonder

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