Stephen Jenkinson Quotes & Sayings

Dying is active. Dying is not what happens to you. Dying is what you do. Dying — Stephen Jenkinson

Inattention to he world's ecological state is well advised. Because attention to it mitigates against your happiness, contentment your sense of well being. — Stephen Jenkinson

The meanings of life aren't inherited. What is inherited is the mandate to make meanings of life by how we live. The endings of life give life's meanings a chance to show. The beginning of the end of our order, our way, is now in view. This isn't punishment, any more than dying is a punishment for being born. — Stephen Jenkinson

Not success. Not growth. Not happiness. The cradle of your love of life ... is death. — Stephen Jenkinson

Grief is not a feeling it is a capacity. It is not something that disables you, we are not on the receiving end of grief we are on the practising end of grief. — Stephen Jenkinson

We should be able to tell the difference between dying and being killed. — Stephen Jenkinson

Having a conscience now is a grief-soaked proposition — Stephen Jenkinson

Grief is the midwife of your capacity to be immensely grateful for being born. — Stephen Jenkinson

When your focus is on how you feel about things in the world then the things of the world slip from view, your little boat of learning things for what they are are swamped by the swells of how you feel about them. With hard work and with learning, the things of the world are still somehow out there, waiting for you to know about them, no matter how you feel. They survive how you feel about them and they are there before and after the storms of your feelings roar through and abate. Feelings aren't much of a compass to go by. — Stephen Jenkinson

Partying at this time of ecological meltdown is not affirming of reality, but an abdication from it. It is a place of false refuge especially so when there is no evidence of an acknowledgement of affirming life as it is, for this would require of these people a heartbrokeness. — Stephen Jenkinson