The Tea Shop Quotes

“Bypassing the issue does not solve the root causes of that issue, it just makes a person feel better until the issue reappears in different ways or in different parts of the body.”
― Karl Forehand, The Tea Shop

“The nature of the adventure is that we often find something different than what we were searching for.”
― Karl Forehand, The Tea Shop

“I long to see a world of people that imagine how they will treat each other before they consider how exceptional they are.”
― Karl Forehand, The Tea Shop

“God is experienced most vividly in relationship.”
― Karl Forehand, The Tea Shop

“I was beginning to understand what I knew as a kid. Sometimes the best adventures are the ones that are unscripted.”
― Karl Forehand, The Tea Shop

“In a movie, the dream sequence makes the present cloudy and brings into focus a different time or imagination. In life, time travel clouds the present. I am not fully experiencing what I can be when I am future tripping or past journeying. I am not really hearing my wife, I’m not really experiencing a situation, or I’m not truly living if I am not living in the now.”
― Karl Forehand, The Tea Shop

“I am realizing, though, that it takes practice to stay present.”
― Karl Forehand, The Tea Shop

“I think because we were created for and from a relationship, living from a heart of love, delight is the natural state for those in a relationship that allow it to happen.”
― Karl Forehand, The Tea Shop

“Could it be that we are too concerned with angelic speech and flawless, proven methods and we forgot that what matters more than anything is other-centered, self-giving love?”
― Karl Forehand, The Tea Shop

“We cannot say we are followers of Christ and not love our neighbors and our enemies. It is incongruent and doesn’t even make sense when reading His words.”
― Karl Forehand, The Tea Shop

“...wouldn’t God be more interested in being with the less favored child than the one that already has it figured out?”
― Karl Forehand, The Tea Shop

“Be what you believe and argue less, love your neighbor, bless those who persecute you, be at peace with all people - that is what saves the world!”
― Karl Forehand, The Tea Shop

“I am learning to “sit” with problems and own them instead of trying to bypass them. I am learning to empathize with people instead of trying to find a quick solution to their issues.”
― Karl Forehand, The Tea Shop

“. Could it be true that knowing always requires some level of unknowing? When we give up our death grip on certainty, we open the door expanding our understanding and deepening our consciousness. I know it is scary, but good adventures tend to be like that.”
― Karl Forehand, The Tea Shop