Shine and Shadow Quotes

“...if we can be present exactly in the moment we are living, we can step outside of time altogether. We live immersed in that eternity, after all--we just forget, until something like starlight wakes us up to it again.”
― Kathleen McTigue, Shine and Shadow: Meditations

“To learn something by heart is not the same as memorization...What we learn by heart enters us so deeply that it is incorporated, embodied, not just remembered. It becomes a part of who we are.”
― Kathleen McTigue, Shine and Shadow: Meditations

“If it's wisdom we're after, we must remember that the truest wisdom comes laced through with compassion, as we come to know how alike we are--each of us doing our best to find the path ahead and to keep on walking with our fragile, broken hearts. All of us in deep need of each other's kindness.”
― Kathleen McTigue, Shine and Shadow: Meditations

“If we live long enough, the time will come to each of us when the bright fires of our minds begin to dim and settle, perhaps until only a few coals still linger there at the end of our lives, still gleaming with a bit of light. That's where we'll hold the knowledge of the few things we've most loved doing in the gifted flow of life, the things we've learned not just through our minds but through taste, touch, and scent. The things we learned by heart.”
― Kathleen McTigue, Shine and Shadow: Meditations