Ann R
annrthal.bsky.social
Ann R
@annrthal.bsky.social
Retired in Ohio
Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn,
March 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
“There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The 1st is " Where am I going?" and the 2nd is "Who will go with me?"
If you ever get these questions in the wrong order , you are in trouble.”
HOWARD THURMAN
February 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Rabbi Brous:"Stay strong today, and in the days ahead, you who stand on the side of justice and love, of equity, equality and liberation. We will prevail. Remember that hope is both an act of defiance and an expression of love. For ourselves, for our children, and for the future."
January 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Sue Magidson: "May you be what’s needed.
May you be of service.
May you be a blessing."
January 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Richard Gilbert:
“Life is a brief interval between birth and death.

May we celebrate the interval with joy;

May we sing the song that belongs to us;

May we act as if our very life depended on it.”
( one day at a time:)
January 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value." -Desmond Tutu
January 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value." -Desmond Tutu
December 30, 2024 at 8:24 AM
Good morning and welcome to Sunday! "Perhaps this day
the light begins
in us."
― Jan Richardson
December 29, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Good morning and welcome to Monday!!“Focus my attention and intention today on what really matters and let me forcefully forget about the rest. Amen.”
— Donna Schaper in Prayers for People Who Say They Can't Pray by Donna Schaper
December 23, 2024 at 8:40 AM
There's so much wisdom in nature that when we notice it, it awakens possibility within us. It is through communing with nature that we move closer to our own nature.

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
December 22, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Good morning and welcome to Sunday! Naomi king:
"welcome us into this day, teaching us to be nourished and to nourish others with life’s goodness and good enoughness"
December 15, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Good morning and welcome to Friday! "Here is the instruction: Only connect. Wherever you are, right now, pay attention. Forever.”
― Sylvia Boorstein
December 13, 2024 at 2:58 PM
When we endlessly ruminate over distant times, we miss extraordinary things in the present moment. These extraordinary things are, in actual fact, all we have: the here and now.
KATHERINE MAY
December 12, 2024 at 8:34 AM
Good morning and welcome to Tuesday! Thom Belote: "As you go forth this day, choose to follow the good path, the path between despair and ungrounded hope. Do what you can, knowing that by doing this, you touch the whole."
December 10, 2024 at 8:04 AM
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
December 9, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Shabbat shalom from our home to yours!
December 6, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.
Rachel Naomi Remen MD,
December 6, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Keep our anger from becoming meanness.
Keep our sorrow from collapsing into self-pity.
Keep our hearts soft enough to keep breaking.
Keep our outrage turned toward justice, not curelty.
Remind us that all of this, every bit of it, is for love.
Keep us fiercely kind.
Amen.”
― Laura Jean Truman
December 4, 2024 at 8:30 AM
November 29, 2024 at 9:31 PM
May it be my custom to go outdoors each day
among the trees and grass – among all growing things
and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer…” 
–Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav
November 29, 2024 at 8:42 AM
Joseph Pintauro: “… but remember,
everything is not every
possible thing
everything is only all
there is here and now
somewhen,
there will be more than there is.
you are not everything
but everything
could not be
everything without
you.”
November 28, 2024 at 8:41 AM
Rabbi Rami Shapiro:"Become good, work at being better, insist that religion serve that end, and we may all come through the madness of modernity with our heads, hearts, and hands open to the wonder, grace, and love that is life lived at its best and most free."
November 27, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Caitlin Cotter Coillberg:
May we carry joy into each new day, and practice hope even and especially in the midst of grief and uncertainty. May we have the courage to love, again and again and again, and may we love with the fierce determination our world and lives demand.
November 25, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Happy 2 years Jesse! We love you so much and he says" adopt don't shop and please support your favorite rescue group!"
November 24, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Good morning and welcome to Sunday! "How do we see the world as sacred again? By radical noticing. Looking for awe in all of life."
LUCY JONES
November 24, 2024 at 10:24 AM