Our spiritual work is, at its heart, finding a sacred peace in the present, which will change, and which will end. --adrienne maree brown (in Murmurations: Breaking is Part of Healing)

One must grow a culture and community of fellow seekers, each aiming to break the mechanical patterns of their thought. This is what I mean by indirect work. --Carol Sanford (in Carol Sanford: Indirect Work)

Everywhere people ask: "What can I actually do?" The answer is as simple as it is disconcerting: we can, each of us, work to put our own inner house in order. --E.F. Schumacher (in Gems of Wisdom from Small is Beautiful)

The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship, or family, or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. --Maria Popova (in What Does Love Mean? How 4-8 Year-Old Kids Describe Love)

And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done… --Rainer Maria Rilke (in Glimpses of Hope in 2024)