Kindle Notes & Highlights
Humility is that hallowed clearing in the forest of existence where wonder, awe, and gratitude meet, dance, play, and exult.
We are each like a tightrope walker who thinks she’s balancing by sheer skill, only to find a forest of hands supporting each end of her horizontal pole and some gentle shoulders keeping her ankles steady.
Gentleness means creating time and space to explore who and where you are, rather than lapse into remorse, resentment, or regret about who or where you’re not, and growing in the grace to let others do the same.
As W. B. Yeats enjoined, “Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
Creation lifts our hearts by its extraordinariness and affirms our flesh by its ordinariness.
