Wholeheartedness Quotes

“The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest? What is it, then?” I sat anxiously on the edge of my chair, waiting for the monk’s sage advice. Brother Rast responded, “The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.”5”
― Chuck DeGroat, Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion, and Healing the Divided Self

“Blessed are the poor in Spirit, those who have allowed themselves to be stripped of the old spirit, the spirit of acquisitiveness and security, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven, because they no longer seek to possess but to be possessed, to lose themselves and all that is “theirs” in the ecstasy of simple receiving and simple giving again, or, more accurately, without even any giving or receiving, in the simple being which is the authentic image in us, that divine ecstasy of being which is the living God.”
― Chuck DeGroat, Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion, and Healing the Divided Self

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― Chuck DeGroat, Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion, and Healing the Divided Self

“Becoming whole is a journey, a risky one, a “wild night.” In the Christian contemplative tradition, this wild night is “the dark night of the soul,” as the sixteenth-century poet St. John of the Cross called it. It is the night that strips you of everything that is not you. It is a gift, God’s gift.”
― Chuck DeGroat, Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion, and Healing the Divided Self

“As a people, we’re feeling the emptiness that comes when our attempts at control are thwarted. And instead of embracing our “other half” with renewed vigor in an attempt to hold life’s paradoxes and navigate its perplexities, we’ve recommitted to mastering life — controlling, competing, and expediting. We’re constantly searching for the latest techniques, gadgets, and insights to give us that elusive control we long for. And it’s not working.”
― Chuck DeGroat, Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion, and Healing the Divided Self

“We pray not to recharge our batteries for the business of getting back to the concerns of daily life, but rather to be transformed by God so that the myths and fictions of our life might fall like broken shackles from our wrists.”
― Chuck DeGroat, Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion, and Healing the Divided Self

“Perfectionism is not self-improvement. Perfectionism is, at its core, about trying to earn approval and acceptance. Brené Brown”
― Chuck DeGroat, Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion, and Healing the Divided Self

“And yet researcher John Robinson has found that Americans are not, in fact, losing time. In Time for Life: The Surprising Way Americans Use Their Time, Robinson, through detailed case studies and time diaries, shows that Americans actually have more time than they did in the 1960s.19 How we use our time is the critical issue here, and Robinson’s study asks very practical questions about what we do and when we do it.”
― Chuck DeGroat, Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion, and Healing the Divided Self