Coach Kenji

Religion?

"Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness." - Karen Armstrong

Opening Doors

"If you dedicate yourself to service, the doors will open." - Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

Unredeemable?

"If the past is unredeemable, and the future unpredictable, what more practical course is open than to safeguard the present by constant remembrance of the divine?" - Paul Brunton

Anonymous

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." -Anonymous

Beauty

"Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful." - David Steindl-Rast

The Mystery

"The mystery of God touches us -- or does not -- in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love." - Marion Woodman

That crazy Talmud

"I took the portion that was given to me and gave it to him." -The Babylonian Talmud

Catastrophe

"Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth." - Joan Halifax

Spiritual Development

"Spiritual development is nourished by our senses. The sights, sounds, tastes, touch, and scents in our immediate surroundings are the doorway to awe and mystery. When we awaken to the ordinary beauty in our everyday lives, warm and loving parts of ourselves grow and extend out to those we love. Quiet yourself for a moment, slowly breathe in and out, and focus on something you appreciate." - From TodaysGift@Hazelden.info

Gratitude

"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven." - Johannes A. Gaertner