Soul Food | Inspiration
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Sunday #SoulFlow | Always and Forever
Welcome to Sunday #SoulFlow, a three-course serving for your week ahead: a #SoulFood quote, a #SoulKey that distills it, and a Soul Reflection on where it led me.
Today’s #SoulFood: “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” ~ Helen Keller
Today’s #SoulKey: A relationship can end. The love doesn’t have to.
Soul Reflection: In life, some relationships end without explanation. My parents taught me, through their divorce, that how we carry people forward is our choice. A relationship can end. The love doesn’t have to.
Sunday #SoulFlow | Measuring Time
Today’s #SoulFood: “We all get the same 24 hours. I choose to live mine with gratitude. How will you live yours.” ~ Donna Marie
Today’s #SoulKey: A life is measured in hours. A life is remembered in moments.
Soul Reflection: Summer is giving way to fall, and after this year, I’m more aware than ever of how quickly the moment I’m in goes. We all get the same 24 hours in a day. So how will I live mine? With gratitude.
Sunday #SoulFlow | Uncertainty
Today’s #SoulFood: “Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.” ~ John Allen Paulos
Today’s #SoulKey: Certainty falling away becomes a place — to practice trust, to hold each other up.
Soul Reflection: My 9/11 story began as an ordinary Tuesday morning. I met with a group of friends, as well always did on Tuesdays — for breakfast at a coffeeshop in the Village. Nothing in me could imagine that what I would witness that day would change the world forever.
Today’s #SoulFood | Anne Frank
““In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” ~ Anne Frank
Today’s #Key: Faith in people is not about what they do — it is about seeing further.
Today’s #SoulFood | Mary Catherine Bateson
“Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and one, familiar and exotic, new and old side by side.” ~ Mary Catherine Bateson
Today’s #Key: Insight is not addition — it is alignment.
Today’s #SoulFood | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Today’s #Key: Every meaningful path begins with a step taken in the dark.
Today’s #SoulFood | Betty Smith
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.” ~ Betty Smith
Today’s #Key: You don’t need a new life—only new eyes. The wonder, the miracle, the joy are already yours.
Today’s #SoulFood | Albert Einstein
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious … whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.” ~ Albert Einstein
Today’s #Key: To welcome life is to welcome mystery, wonder, and adventure.
Today’s #SoulFood | Brené Brown
“Worthiness doesn’t have prerequisites. Owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we re sacred.” ~ Brené Brown
Today’s #Key: Worthiness is not a door you walk through. It is the ground you stand on.
Today’s #SoulFood | Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today’s #Key: Life is not a question you answer, it is a question you navigate.
Today’s #SoulFood | Will Durant
Photo Credit: Donna Marie Today's #SoulFood “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” ~ Will Durant ~ Today's #Key Nothing is too small to deserve your full presence Everything is practice. Forward Share Share Tweet...
Today’s #SoulFood | Donna Marie
“Your best is not a fixed thing—it breathes with you, changes with the season, rises and falls with the light. Give what each day holds, know you are doing your best, today.” ~ Donna Marie
Today’s #Key: In any moment, flow with what you have and where you are, and trust you are doing your best.
Today’s #SoulFood | Benjamin Franklin
“Do not anticipate trouble, worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
Today’s #Key: Worry is self-inflicted, rehearsing a catastrophe that may never happen.
Today’s #SoulFood | Howard Thurman
“There is something in very one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have.” ~ Howard Thurman
Today’s #Key: There is a place in you untouched by opinion, not needing approval—and it knows the way.
Today’s #SoulFood | Tamara Levitt
“Gratitude wakes us up to the goodness and beauty in life. But we have to choose it.” ~ Tamara Levitt
Today’s #Key: Living in gratitude is choosing to see life’s gifts.
Today’s #SoulFood | Kurek Ashley
“The quality of your life will be determined by the quality of your contribution. When you work to improve the lives of others, your life improves automatically.” — Kurek Ashley
Today’s #Key: Contribution is the root. A quality life is the fruit.
Today’s #SoulFood | James Baldwin
“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.” — James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Today’s #Key: Life asks only one thing of you: that you show up for it — all of it, wholly, and with joy.
Today’s #SoulFood | Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Today’s #Key: Befriend your experience and you disarm the oldest war — the one inside.