In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place. Susan L. Taylor More Quotes by Susan L. Taylor More Quotes From Susan L. Taylor Our lives are full of separations that shake us up, force us to attend to our emotional selves and to learn new ways of being in the world. Although many of our losses are painful, they encourage our gains. The lesson life is trying to teach us is that, regardless of the challenges and changes in the physical world, we will abide in peace by aligning ourselves with our inner changelessness. The power of God in us is more than equal to any moment-no matter what it brings. We live in a loving, supportive universe that is always saying yes to us. Susan L. Taylor life-lesson adversity loss Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights. Susan L. Taylor political care rights We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must have in order to be happy and "happening." Our addiction to consumption distracts us from seeing that we are disconnected from ourselves, from our truth and from one another. Any euphoria we gain from our material gains is fleeting at best. Susan L. Taylor addiction contentment order We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important. Susan L. Taylor finite-number time numbers There are no meaningless experiences. Susan L. Taylor meaningless Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something. Susan L. Taylor empowering women thinking Faith is the flip side of fear. Susan L. Taylor flip sides The balance and peace we seek for ourselves and our society won't be achieved through mental effort alone. Mind and spirit are meant to travel together, with spirit leading the way. Until we make a conscious commitment to understand and embrace our spiritual nature, we will endure the ache of living without the awareness and guidance of the most essential part of ourselves. Susan L. Taylor effort spiritual commitment Love is a way of seeing and a way of being that honors God in everyone we meet. And it changes us in the most fundamental way. All we need to do is welcome the challenge of our relationships, training our eyes to look beyond human behavior to the Presence within. When we seek to live love, we discover through our interactions with others the divinity within ourselves. Susan L. Taylor interaction-with-others eye love Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution. Susan L. Taylor think you creativity stress We have to fill our hearts with gratitude. Gratitude makes everything that we have more than enough. Susan L. Taylor more everything gratitude enough We must learn how to live in the space of inner peace in our everyday lives. This takes consistent, conscious effort because I know so many black women are hurting and sad, and we don't easily express our heartache or show our wounds. Susan L. Taylor women sad black peace I write about spirituality not so we get strong from within and achieve some state of nirvana and then distance ourselves from the real world. I write about it so we can feel empowered to doing the critical work that this generation of black women are charged with doing. Susan L. Taylor women black work world Historically, black women have suffered tremendously, but today's black women are the triumph. We have choices, and that's what freedom is all about: having the power to choose. Susan L. Taylor women freedom power today We will never finish everything on our to-do lists. It's not possible, and that is life! Susan L. Taylor will everything never life I don't care how much you know, how many books you read, how you much you study and, you know, how educated you are, you're still going to struggle. Life is challenging. Susan L. Taylor you care struggle life Don't identify yourself with labels and brands and have to buy every cute thing you see. Invest in the things that will grow in equity. Susan L. Taylor grow yourself you cute What we still haven't done is really learned and embraced our history. When we do that, we'll no longer be doubtful and fearful that we are weak and incomplete. Susan L. Taylor incomplete done weak history There's a lot of rhetoric out here, a lot of talk about giving young people opportunity. Just looking so deeply into the RFK Children's Action Corps, I can see that they are really, really living that mandate. Susan L. Taylor looking opportunity children people We don't have time to waste. Our communities are crumbling; our children are under siege. Failing schools and a for-profit prison-industrial complex are sucking the life out of black homes and communities. We are not going down like this! Susan L. Taylor black time life children
