INSPIRATION

Reflecting on heart-provoking quotations can support the cultivation of courage, integrity, lovingkindness, equanimity, compassion, and many other qualities. Perhaps one of Ali’s favorites will inspire you as well!

Audre Lorde

“We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?“

Rachel Naomi Remen

Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Reclaiming ourselves usually means coming to recognize and accept that we have in us both sides of everything. We are capable of fear and courage, generosity and selfishness, vulnerability and strength. These things do not cancel each other out but offer us a full range of power and response to life. Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world. It is a real world.”

"The teacher is either a witness or a stranger. To guide a pupil into the promised land, the teacher must have been there themselves. When asking themselves: Do I stand for what I teach? Do I believe what I say?, the teacher must be able to answer in the affirmative. What we need more than anything else is not textbooks, but textpeople. It is the personality of the teacher which is the text that the pupils read: the text that they will never forget.”