Beate

“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement, [to] get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed. —Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–72)”
― Bonnie Smith Whitehouse, Seasons of Wonder: Making the Ordinary Sacred Through Projects, Prayers, Reflections, and Rituals: A 52-week devotional

“the yo-yo of life may go up and down, but isn’t it my own fingers that control the string?”
― Judy Leigh, The Old Girls' Network

“The Montessori method is an integrated educational system with solid, proven principles that work. If those principles are compromised, the Montessori method will not work and the child will not thrive. Eventually the Montessori method will lose its uniqueness and dwindle away.”
― Charlotte Cushman, Effective Discipline the Montessori Way

“Do you suppose it ever occurs to an angel to worry because he is not an archangel? or to think that if he works a little harder or makes the right angelic friends he’ll get elevated in the heavenly hierarchy? That’s nonsense. My guardian angel is equal, as far as rank goes, to any archangel. It’s we earthlings who’ve lost sight of the fact that it’s a difference in kind, not in degree. And anyhow it doesn’t matter, because my guardian angel is fully what he is, performing wholly the function for which God has created him. At the moment, this function is to watch over me. After I die, he might be assigned to sweeping stardust out of a corner of the sky. But because he is doing what he is created to do, radiantly, joyfully, no matter how difficult I make it for him, I can catch some of his joy. Without my angel’s joy, where would I be?”)”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Novels of Madeleine L'Engle Volume One: The Other Side of the Sun, A Live Coal in the Sea, and A Winter's Love