If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
Interpretation
Taking a moment to pause can alleviate negative emotions and restore positivity.
This quote highlights the importance of taking a break to manage one's emotions. By allowing oneself time to sit quietly, one can overcome feelings of impatience, frustration, and negativity, ultimately regaining a sense of humor and perspective on life.
In practice
This quote could be used during a mindfulness seminar to emphasize the benefits of pausing.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new
Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
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