Thought for the Day

Sunrise [. . .] is a state of the heart.

Sunrise is the space where nighttime fears

move aside for hope, where we feel peace

about our mortality in the scope of the universal

truth that love abides.

~ Becca Stevens

 

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Quoted from Becca Stevens, Letters from the Farm: A Simple Path for a Deeper Spiritual Life (New York: Morehouse Publishing, 2015), pp. 24-25, 29

 

Becca Stevens, Priest; Author; Social Entrepreneur; Founder, Thistle Farms

Thought for the Day

History says, don't hope / On  this side of the grave. /

But then, once in a lifetime / The longed-for tidal wave /

Of justice can rise up, / And hope and history rhyme.

~ Seamus Heaney

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Quoted from Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991 (Reprint Ed.)

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Irish Poet, Playwright; Recipient, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1995

Biography at The Nobel Prize