Daily Reflections - Roots

Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things pass. Patience obtains all things. A new voice arrives, the third woman among our thinkers, who carried those words on a handwritten note in her prayer book: Teresa of Ávila. Ten lessons on the castle of rooms you carry within, on loving deeply instead of thinking deeply, on finding depth among the pots and pans, and on watering the garden through its dry seasons. She kept her calm on a slip of paper. Some calm is small enough to carry.