Quotes: Meister Eckhart

"The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction."  

–– Meister Eckhart (1260-1328), German Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mystic 

via: Commonplace Book 2013-2014, 2014, p. 133.

Quotes: African proverb

"With a little seed of imagination, you can grow a field of hope." 

–– African proverb 

Source: Aspire Design and Home, Spring 2024, p. 45.

via: Aboveground Art Supplies Knapsack Sketchbook 2020, 2024, p. 41. 

Quotes 343: Twyla Tharp

"Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable." 

–– Twyla Tharp (b. 1941), American dancer, choreographer, and writer 

via Sketchbook 9, 2010, p. 119

Quotes 119: Frederick Buechner

"Memory is more than a looking back at a time that is no longer; it is a looking out into another kind of time altogether where everything that ever was continues not just to be, but to grow and change with the life that is in it still." 

–– Frederick Buechner (b. 1926), American writer and Presbyterian minister

Source: Frederick Buechner. The Sacred Journey. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982; p. 21.

via Book of Commonplace 2005-2006, p.111