Sheila's House
This coming Saturday at 4th May 10.00am to 11.30am at Sheila’s.
1. I thought we could just start to look at whether we can do the extra sessions ?
The venue ? Plus how many ? Who does what ? Publicity ? Other needs ??
2. Paul can explain the “Buttondown” emailing method of communication.
3. I can share briefly a bit about spirituality online and how people of today prefer to do spirituality. I have a film and a handout we could take away.
A little poem
As you head out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery...
Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
arriving there is what you’re destined for.
But don’t hurry the journey at all.
better if it lasts for years,
so you’re old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
...And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you have become, so full of experience,
you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.
In our shared understanding of life’s journey
we have together discovered that the way forward
speaks as much of not knowing as knowing,
of unlearning what we thought we knew,
and that the best advice to offer those who would look to us for wisdom
is theirs to offer us first,
the beginner’s mind,
and that our place is to simply offer the safety of an old oak
under whose branches they can rest awhile and be heard into a fuller way of being human.
Some Quotes for Spiritual Reflection
"We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life.
Thomas Merton "Contemplative Prayer".
“Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.”
Eckhart Tolle “The Power of Now”
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
― Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude