Words of comfort, encouragement and wisdom

[Birdy77]

To all the beautiful people 🌞

Words placed in a particular order can have a profound effect on us.

Words can bring us a moment of comfort, give us a different perspective, or change the course of our thinking and outlook entirely.

I would like this to be a space where we share quotes that have meaning to us or that have the potential to bring some comfort or encouragement to somebody, even if just for the moment in which they are reading it.

I will start.

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher

Go gently with yourselves lovely people.

🌻birdy

[Birdy77]

❤🌟Love and light to everyone here 🌟❤

Pepper, thank you so much for this!! ... i LOVE what you just posted and i looked it up and wanted to share some more info on it for others.

Kitty O'Meara wrote this original piece titled, "In The Time of Pandemic", in her blog "The Daily Round" on March 16, 2020.

She writes in the comments of the blog that she was moved to write this as she was "struck by the way pollution was clearing over China, then Europe as quarantine set in" and that we could "use this time for healing and heal the earth together".

What a beautiful, inspiring, hopeful aspiration.

May we all find some peace and inspiration during this difficult time.

Thank you so much for sharing this Pepper.

Be safe and well everyone, and let's spread kindness and hope, as much as we can spare!

❤❤❤

[Peppermintbach]

Hi lovely birdy (& a wave to all),

You’re most welcome 🙂 I’m delighted & moved that her words resonated with you, my friend.

Thank you so much for going to the trouble of researching, & sharing some of her inspiring backstory. I appreciate that immensely.

Yes, she shares a beautiful sentiment of mindfulness, patience, & compassion through her words. Thank you xoxox

On that note, re: these times of social distancing & change in our daily lives:

Conversations will not be cancelled. Relationships will not be cancelled. Love will not be cancelled. Songs will not be cancelled...

Reading will not be cancelled. Self care will not be cancelled. Hope will not be cancelled. May we lean into the good stuff that remains.

- Jamie Tworski

[Guest_4643]

"Don't quit yet, the worst moments are usually followed by the most beautiful silver linings. You just have to stay strong, remmber to keep your head up and remain hopeful."

I know how challenging it is mentally and physically though, I just liked the quote.

Tayla

[Peppermintbach]

May we all find ways to stay connected, reach out and support both ourselves and those in need during these challenging times :

Every hand that we don’t shake must become a phone call that we place. Every embrace that we avoid must become a verbal expression of warmth and concern. Every inch and every foot that we physically place between ourselves and another, must become a thought as to how we might be of help to that other, should the need arise.

- Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky

[Birdy77]

What if you thought of it
as ...
the most sacred of times?
Cease from travel.
Cease from buying and selling.
Give up, just for now,
on trying to make the world
different than it is.
Sing. Pray. Touch only those
to whom you commit your life.
Center down.
 
And when your body has become still,
reach out with your heart.
Know that we are connected
in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.
(You could hardly deny it now.)
Know that our lives
are in one another’s hands.
(Surely, that has come clear.)
Do not reach out your hands.
Reach out your heart.
Reach out your words.
Reach out all the tendrils
of compassion that move, invisibly,
where we cannot touch ...
 

– excerpt from the poem "Pandemic"
by Lynn Ungar 11 March 2020

[Birdy77]

I know i have shared this bkessing before on this thread, but i feel it is very pertinent at this time and for everything that has been happening in 2020 so far:



"This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.

If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning."


John O'Donohue

[Croix]

Richard Lovlace in 1642 wrote

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage:
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage.
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.

While the subject matter that inspired this may have been something else other than the isolations that come with the virus (a difference of opinion with The Parliament) the idea shines though that a person's mind is the source of so much that confinement of any sort is by no means the whole story and can be more than just endured.

There are unlimited possibilities and opportunities to be uncovered when one uses one's own resources - just as you folks here are doing in this thread.

Croix.

[Katyonthehamsterwheel]

I don't have anything. But I needed something, and I found something, so thanks x

[Peppermintbach]

If you’re overwhelmed, drained, or tired, your feelings are valid:

It makes so much sense that you’re struggling right now. There are so many unknowns. We’ve never experienced this before and it’s overwhelming and scary. And you’re allowed to feel like you’re falling apart.

You’re allowed to feel the fear and cry. You’re allowed to not be okay. Everything you feel is so valid. You don’t have to find the lesson in the pain. You don’t have to use this as an opportunity for growth or self-development or getting ahead.

You have permission to do less, to do the bare minimum to survive. To feel your feelings instead of trying to make it all better. This is real. It’s heartbreaking and hard. And you don’t owe anyone a performance of being okay.

You’re allowed to feel this. It isn’t weak. It’s human.

- Daniell Koepke

[Guest_1643]

Hi, thank you for that, Pepper. I read that quote and it was helpful. I don't hvae any quotes or anything much that has inspired me, but if I find something I'll try share. Lets all be kind to ourselves