A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough Quotes

“In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?”
― Wayne Muller, A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough

“Mark Nepo calls “experience greed”—namely, an insidious grasping not so much for material possessions but rather for a seemingly benign cacophony of socially active networks, service opportunities, ecological adventures, community activities, helpful organizations, sacred gatherings, and spiritual experiences.”
― Wayne Muller, A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough

“Mother Teresa who said, “We can do no great things, only small things, with great love.”
― Wayne Muller, A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough

“Our culture confuses the pain of isolation with some impossible ideal of “self-sufficiency,” and then celebrates it.”
― Wayne Muller, A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough

“There is more to life,” said Gandhi, “than increasing its speed.”
― Wayne Muller, A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough

“Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a gift to be opened.”
― Wayne Muller, A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough