“Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back”
- anonymous
A blog for posting Light Moment daily emails from Chaplain Lavender Kelley at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
When you were born, you cried
and the world rejoiced.
Live your life
so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- White Elk
“Hope is like a road in the country; there wasn't ever a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”
- Lin Yutang
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
- Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
This is now.
Now is, all there is.
Don’t wait for then;
Strike the spark, light the fire.
- Rumi from poem entitled “Begin”
“We confuse attachment with love. Attachment is concerned with my needs, my happiness, while love is an unselfish attitude, concerned with the needs and happiness of others.... A relationship free of unrealistic grasping is free of disappointment, conflict, jealousy, and other problems, and is fertile ground for the growth of love and wisdom.”
- Kathleen McDonald, "How to Meditate"
Painting is entitled Mother with Child by annie b. For more of her work, please go to: http://www.annieb-art.co.uk/
“The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.”
~ Brian Greene
“Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.”
- Greg Anderson
“You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
- Christopher Robin to Pooh
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
- Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
- Nelson Mandela
Happy 4th of July!
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
- Dr. Seuss
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
~ Alan Watts