Leigh Marthe
lcmarthe65.bsky.social
Leigh Marthe
@lcmarthe65.bsky.social
Minnesota native happily transplanted in New England. Mother, Nana, educator, poet, gardener, green thumb, yoga/meditation practitioner, wisdom seeker.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
OMAR KHAYYAM
December 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Our glad hearts, accepting the miracle of this moment, this breath, this day, this life—that is the foundation of all sanity.
TERRY PATTEN
December 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
RUMI
December 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Practicing contentment is a radical act in a consumption-driven society.
ROBIN WALL KIMMERER
December 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
JON KABAT-ZINN
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Reposted by Leigh Marthe
What might break up Trump's coalition, and what Mamdani might have clocked, is proving to Americans that an anti-fascist government can make their lives more affordable. lnk.thebulwark.com/4iALUlB
What Mamdani Gets About Trump
When New York’s mayor-elect met with the authoritarian president, he didn’t waste time with denunciations. But he didn’t exactly hold back.
lnk.thebulwark.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:16 AM
The art of deep seeing makes gratitude possible. And it is the art of gratitude that makes joy possible.
ANN VOSKAMP
November 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We’re a nation hungry for more joy…because we’re starving from a lack of gratitude.
BRENÉ BROWN
November 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
JANE HOWARD
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
“When we ask the saints to pray for us, it is a way of honoring what they are already at work doing. They are standing in love, sending love, invoking love. It helps to bind us together. ”

—Christine Valters Paintner, PhD
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal Responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
H.H. THE 14TH DALAI LAMA
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
DESMOND TUTU
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Gratefulness opens me up to receive the flow of blessing and connects me with the source of that flow.
RABBI SHEFA GOLD
November 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I will not abandon my belief in the coming dawn just because I dwell in the midnight hour.
STEVEN CHARLESTON
November 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I think our journey is all about healing ourselves and healing each other in our own special ways.
RAM DASS
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We can’t enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention.
DIANE ACKERMAN
October 31, 2025 at 9:34 AM
In an age where there is much talk about “being yourself,” I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.
THOMAS MERTON
October 31, 2025 at 12:56 AM
May we each discover our own form of spiritual electricity — and light up our world.
EILEEN RIVERS
October 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
We need connection and stories and experiences that help us transcend our own lives to connect with others and ideas bigger than ourselves.
JULIA TAYLOR
October 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Every positive thought we pass between us makes room for more light.
JOHN LEWIS
October 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.
RITA DOVE
October 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
And if it’s true we are alone, we are alone together, the way blades of grass are alone, but exist as a field.
ROSEMERRY WAHTOLA TROMMER
October 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
No matter how happy I had been in the past, I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I live.
JAMAICA KINCAID
October 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Especially in the deepest darkness, where it feels like there’s nothing else, even then we have a choice that we can make to see that there’s also goodness all around us.
SIMRAN JEET SINGH
September 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
While the news often features the worst of humanity, there are a billion acts of human kindness every hour of every day! Take another breath and sense this truth.
JACK KORNFIELD
September 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM