I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers. Kathleen Norris More Quotes by Kathleen Norris More Quotes From Kathleen Norris The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do” of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married. Kathleen Norris saying-yes cost mean I write what I would like to read. Kathleen Norris writing The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the Kathleen Norris littles giving lying True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'. Kathleen Norris receiving dignity heart Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas. Kathleen Norris conventional men ideas There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year. Kathleen Norris winter years needs One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter. Kathleen Norris bitter fool may Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it. Kathleen Norris natural-gifts friendship art When you come to a place where you have to left or right, go straight ahead. Kathleen Norris ruth left Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence. Kathleen Norris saving soul life Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has taught me that in matters of the heart, such as writing, or faith, there is no right or wrong way to do it, but only the way of your life. Just paying attention will teach you what bears fruit and what doesn't. But it will be necessary to revise--to doodle, scratch out, erase, even make a mess of things--in order to make it come out right. Kathleen Norris hard-work heart writing Changing husbands is only changing troubles. Kathleen Norris husband trouble A short-lived fascination with another person may be exciting-I think we've all seen people aglow, in a state of being "in love with love"-but such an attraction is not sustainable over the long run. Paradoxically, human love is sanctified not in the height of attraction and enthusiasm, but in the everyday struggles of living with another person. It is not in romance but in routine that the possibilities for transformation are made manifest. And that requires commitment. Kathleen Norris struggle running love If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being. Kathleen Norris lucky feelings giving Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind. Kathleen Norris events pay attention But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion. Kathleen Norris taught adults order The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry. Kathleen Norris baking bread ordinary I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world. Kathleen Norris loneliness writing world Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom. Kathleen Norris prairie kind change You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin. Kathleen Norris vision goal inspirational
