“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
- Anais Nin
Today is the last day we will have a display table in the lobby for Spiritual Care Week but there are still opportunities to connect with us. Please let us know how we may be of support to you!
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
- Rumi
We are continuing in Spiritual Care Week. Please come by our display table in the lobby Mon – Wed during the day or look for other opportunities to connect with us. We are always available to you!
“Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.”
- David Steindl-Rast
Today begins Spiritual Care Week!
You may notice a name change from “Pastoral Care” to “Spiritual Care.” This is to reflect our new departmental name of Spiritual Care Services as well as our function that extends beyond religious boundaries.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow [humanity].
~ Herman Melville
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
~ Konrad Adenauer
Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
~ John Muir
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
~ Native American Proverb
Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
~ Vince Lombardi
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
~ Douglas Pagels
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
~ William Feather
Welcome to Mascot Week at Light Moment! This week we will feature meaningful quotes paired with sports mascot pictures.
Please note: The mascots chosen are not meant to indicate a preference by the Pastoral Care Department.
While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.
~ Lady Bird Johnson
“From ‘no thing’, movement arises naturally.
From inaction, comes action.
From emptiness, comes shape and form.
And from stillness, comes energy and flow.”
- Gabriella Goddard
Hindsight may be clearer but we have to focus on what is in front of us in order to arrive safely.
- Anonymous
Repentance is like climbing a ladder. We can't reach a new rung if we cling to the previous one.
- Rabbi Rachel Barenblat
Yesterday evening began Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. For more information, please consider the following sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur
“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.”
- Bill Watterson
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
~Bill Beattie
Today is World Teachers’ Day (http://www.5oct.org/) and National Safe Schools Day (http://nationalsafeschoolsday.wordpress.com/). Help make schools a place where all participants in education thrive!
