Somewhere in every heart there is a discerning voice. This voice distrusts the status quo. It sounds out the falsity in things and encourages dissent from the images things tend to assume. It underlines the secret crevices where the surface has become strained. It advises distance and opens up a new perspective through which the concealed meaning of a situation might emerge. The inner voice makes any complicity uneasy. Its intention is to keep the heart clean and clear. This voice is an inner whisper not obvious or known to others outside. It receives little attention and is not usually highlighted among a person’s qualities. Yet so much depends on that small voice. The truth of its whisper marks the line between honor and egoism, kindness and chaos. In extreme situations, which have been emptied of all shelter and tenderness, that small voice whispers from somewhere beyond and encourages the heart to hold out for dignity, respect, beauty and love.

~John O’Donohue

where wise action meets kind care, I’ll meet you there…

inquiry for today~ where will you meet yourself today?

coming undone…

We’re all just cracked mirrors, pretending our reflections are whole.

Throwing stones from glass houses, like our own sins don’t echo when they hit.

It’s funny how we shame the fire in someone else’s soul,

while hiding the smoke in our lungs.

We bleed the same guilt,

but we dress it in prettier clothes and call it virtue.

What a trick. What a performance. What a goddamn lie.

~Carl Jung