Tag Archives: purpose

We Are What We Seek

Posted on November 23, 2016 by anyushka

“The Perennial Tradition says that there is a capacity, a similarity, and a desire for divine reality inside all humans. What we seek is what we are, which is exactly why Jesus says that we will find it (see Matthew … Continue reading →

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Purpose

Posted on August 18, 2016 by anyushka

Originally posted on welcome to my little piece of quiet:
I’m going to make everything around me beautiful – that will be my life. -Elsie de Wolfe

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Life Choices

Posted on August 11, 2016 by anyushka

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” H. D. Thoreau via resilience — Writing with Light

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Have a Gloria Sunday

Posted on February 28, 2016 by anyushka

I’m reading my way through Gloria Steinem’s books these days, and I can feel them work on me, move small stones and big rocks in me from one place to another, assembling what I know in a more concentrated form, … Continue reading →

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You Are Here For A Reason

Posted on November 8, 2015 by anyushka

Source: November 9, 2015 – You are here for a reason (Follow the link to read a few more thoughts on this)

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Chase After What Is Good

Posted on September 20, 2015 by anyushka

Photo post by @motivating_g. Source: September 21, 2015 – Chase

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Keep At It

Posted on January 14, 2015 by anyushka

God who upsets and unsettles us, keep at it until all you set out to shake up has come to the surface, and all we would live better without  has been sent over the edge –  all that is revealed, all that remains unchanged, … Continue reading →

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Coming Home?

Posted on January 9, 2015 by anyushka

For quite a while now, and for the first time since I left Germany, I have been feeling homesick. And I have this voice in me that says, “I want to go home. Please, can I go home now?”  It’s a … Continue reading →

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Wanting What God Wants

Posted on January 9, 2015 by anyushka

“What God asks of us is a will which is no longer divided between Him and any creature. It is a will pliant in His hands which neither seeks nor rejects anything, which wants without reserve whatever He wants and … Continue reading →

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Daily Riches: Do Nothing … and then Rest (Anne Wilson Schaef, Soren Kierkegaard and Mary Oliver)

Posted on October 19, 2014 by anyushka

Originally posted on Richer By Far:
“How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.”  Spanish proverb “For many of us the thought of doing nothing is terrifying. We can’t imagine what life would be like if we…

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