Egos Anonymous Daily Reflection — Egos Anonymous

"The ineffable inhabits the magnificent and the common, the grandiose and the tiny facts of reality alike." —Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man Is Not Alone Self-will tends to sort things into categories—important and unimportant, sacre

Wendy Etter 4/13/26 Wendy Etter 4/13/26

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"I said to the almond tree, 'Speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed." — Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco The response in this image is not words. It is not explanation or argument. The tree simply does what it does—an

Wendy Etter 4/12/26 Wendy Etter 4/12/26

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"There's a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn't change." — William Stafford, The Way It Is The rest of this poem describes how others may not see the thread, and how explaining it is beside the poi

Wendy Etter 4/11/26 Wendy Etter 4/11/26

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"To pray you open your whole self To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon To one whole voice that is you." — Joy Harjo, Eagle Poem This image of prayer asks almost nothing of the intellect and everything of presence. There is no corr

Wendy Etter 4/10/26 Wendy Etter 4/10/26

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"come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed."  — Lucille Clifton, won't you celebrate with me Clifton wrote this poem knowing its full weight. The "something" she describes is not abstr

Wendy Etter 4/9/26 Wendy Etter 4/9/26

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"The human heart is never completely born. It is being birthed in every experience of your life." — John O'Donohue, Anam Cara There can be an assumption, usually unspoken, that we should already be finished. That a grown person o

Wendy Etter 4/8/26 Wendy Etter 4/8/26

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"There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient." — Marilynne Robinson, Gilead These words are spoken by a dying man writing to his young son—someone who knows he won't be there to see much

Wendy Etter 4/7/26 Wendy Etter 4/7/26

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"Above all, trust in the slow work of God." — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, from a letter, 1961 The full letter from which this comes was written to a young woman navigating a period of uncertainty. What Teilhard describes is not pat

Wendy Etter 4/6/26 Wendy Etter 4/6/26

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"I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung." — Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali There is something quietly familiar in this image. The constant preparing—the adjustin

Wendy Etter 4/5/26 Wendy Etter 4/5/26

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"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few." — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind The ego often prizes expertise. Knowing things, understanding what to expect, not being ca

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"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." — Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning Frankl wrote this f

Wendy Etter 4/3/26 Wendy Etter 4/3/26

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"Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing." — Naomi Shihab Nye, Kindness Kindness, in this framing, is not a disposition we cultivate or a habit we practice into plac

Wendy Etter 4/2/26 Wendy Etter 4/2/26

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"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new." — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven There may be a wish, sometimes, that love — once found — would simply remain. Tha

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"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." — Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace Most of us were trained to hope for outcomes. To h

Wendy Etter 3/31/26 Wendy Etter 3/31/26

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"Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am." — Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak Self-will tends to move in the opposite direction — toward deciding, planning, shaping. The

Wendy Etter 3/30/26 Wendy Etter 3/30/26

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"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well." — Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love Julian wrote these words in the fourteenth century while seriously ill, during a series of visions

Wendy Etter 3/28/26 Wendy Etter 3/28/26

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"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community." — Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness The loneliness Dorothy Day describes isn't simply the ache of being

Wendy Etter 3/27/26 Wendy Etter 3/27/26

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"I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again." — Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark We are often trained to move toward the br

Wendy Etter 3/26/26 Wendy Etter 3/26/26

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"There are years that ask questions and years that answer." — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God Not every season moves forward visibly. Some stretches feel suspended — unclear, unresolved, neither gaining nor losin

Wendy Etter 3/25/26 Wendy Etter 3/25/26

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"For all that has been—thanks. For all that shall be—yes." — Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings Two short lines. Two directions. Neither comes easily when self-will is running things. Looking back, there may be regret, or a wish that thi

Wendy Etter 3/24/26 Wendy Etter 3/24/26

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