Great hopes make great men. - Thomas Fuller
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. - George Washington
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. - Anais Nin
Nobody escapes dark times. It's not a matter of if we'll have them; it's just what we'll do when we do have them. If our goal is to avoid the darkness, we never really find the light. If our goal is to avoid pain, then we never really find true joy. God can work most powerfully in our lives while we willingly spend time in darkness. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Laughter is the language of the Gods. - Buddhist saying
The original Pali word for a Buddhist monk or renunciant, bhikkhu, means "fear seer," one who can tolerate his own terror. - Mark Epstein in “Going on Being”
I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force....My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day. - Og Mandino
The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people and reality to something more positive...and begin to act accordingly. - Shakti Gawain
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap. - William Bennett
When the ancient Greeks laid someone to rest, they never asked how much did he own, or how well was he educated? Instead, they asked, "Did he live with passion?" How much passion do we bring to our lives? Passion is love for an idea so strong that it moves us to action, to giving. Passion allows us to see the world through God's eyes, enabling us to make a difference. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. - Norman Cousins
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. - Robert F. Kennedy
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion to clarity. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. - Melody Beattie
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes I go about with pity for myself and all the while Great Winds are carrying me across the sky. - Ojibway Saying
We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. - E. Merrill Root
The best portion of a good man's life are the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. - William Wordsworth
Over the course of our lives, we may waste time in countless ways, but no time spent with a friend is ever squandered, because merely being together creates a belonging that matters. Jesus said: "For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them." - Mary Manin Morrissey
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gentlemen, why don't you laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh, I should die. - Abraham Lincoln
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. – Anonymous
Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work, and helps make something of the world. - Heraclitus quoted in "Fragments: The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus" translated by Brooks Haxton
If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in disguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul. - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Handbook for the Soul
Love is that vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe-the open sesame to every soul. -
No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work. - Mother Teresa
Before, I always lived in anticipation...that it was all a preparation for something else, something 'greater,' more 'genuine.' But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here-and-now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living. - Etty Hillesum
You are more than you think. You are not a personality. You are not your history. You are not the sum of all that has happened to you. You are Spirit, having a human experience. You are not merely someone who knows about God. You know God. - Mary Manin Morrissey
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction. - Meister Eckhart
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of us acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. - Anaïs Nin
We can know the dark, and dream it into a new image. - Starhawk, (38.xvi)
Would a good parent love his or her child less if he or she erred? Or is less than perfect in any way? If I can imagine a human love that overlooks shortcomings, how much more must my Divine parent love me? - Mary Manin Morrissey
Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do. But I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there. -
Questioning means longing to know the truth deeply, and insisting that we can. - Sharon Salzberg in "Faith"
Our expansion has no limit-God is the limit! We are as big as we allow ourselves to be. - Matthew Fox, Original Blessing
If I remember to remember that God is always with me, then how can I not feel God in the sway of the branches on the trees, in the rise and setting of the sun, in every place I go and in everyone I meet? I commit to partnering with God for the most precious and profound relationship of my life. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. - Vince Lombardi, American Football Coach
Gandhi held to the Buddhist and Jain view that all sins are modifications of himsa, that the basic sin in the ultimate analysis, is the sin of separateness, or attavada. According to a Jain maxim, he who conquers this sin conquers all others. - Matthew Fox, Original Blessing
What is this darkness? What is its name? Call it: an aptitude for sensitivity. Call it: a rich sensitivity which will make you whole. Call it: your potential for vulnerability. - Meister Eckhart
When we feel needy and empty, it's natural to look to others to fill the void. But receiving can never fulfill us as giving can. When we are spiritually generous, our relationship account never runs dry. The secret to enriching relationships is to give more of ourselves. - Mary Manin Morrissey
There's a lot of talk these days about patriotism. I believe there is a patriotism that extends beyond loyalty to any border, and that is spiritual patriotism. Thomas Paine, for instance, wasn't just a patriot for this country. He was a patriot for that spirit in every one of us. He said, "The world is my country. All mankind are my brethren. To do good is my religion. I believe in one God and no more. The world is my country." Spiritual patriotism encourages us to be zealous in the struggle for good to benefit people everywhere. We have a duty to make a difference for the betterment of all humanity. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Rituals channel your life energy toward the light. Without the discipline of practice, you will tumble constantly backwards into darkness. - Lao Tsu
Buddha was once threatened with death by a bandit called Angulimal. "Then be good enough to fulfill my dying wish," said Buddha. "Cut off the branch of that tree."One slash of the sword, and it was done! "What now?" asked the bandit. "Put it back again," said Buddha. The bandit laughed. "You must be crazy to think that anyone can do that." "On the contrary, it is you who are crazy to think that you are mighty because you can wound and destroy. That is the task of children. The mighty know how to create and heal." - Anthony DeMello in The Heart of the Enlightened
One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. - Sigmund Freud
Who is worthy of your effort? Do you wish to serve all humanity, or is your compassion limited to a chosen few? We can pledge to make a difference for good, not just for those who resemble us, or carry the same passport, but for people in different parts of the world. We can support those who are working this day to protect our human freedom and at the same time, honor the call that we are all one in humanity. - Mary Manin Morrissey
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew....Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful...and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things. - Desmond Tutu, quoted in The NPR Interviews 1994, edited by Robert Siegel
The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous. - Margaret Fontey
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. - Thich Nhat Hanh in Present Moment Wonderful Moment
Do not underestimate the power of treating yourself to what you yourself believe is important. - Victoria Moran in "Lit From Within"
Rollo May, the famous psychologist, defined freedom as a readiness to grow, to take a hand in our own development. "The less self-aware a person is," May said, "the more he or she is un-free. As a person gains more consciousness of the Self, the range of choice and his or her freedom proportionately increases. And freedom is cumulative. One choice made with an element of freedom makes even greater freedom possible for the next choice. Each exercise of freedom enlarges the circle of oneself." So, exercise those spiritual muscles. Take a step. Every step offers a new view. Every step offers greater opportunity. Every step brings you more fully aware of the freedom you are meant to embody. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The moving finger of God in human history points ever in the same direction. There must be community. - Howard Thurman
Find the God in hiding in every circumstance. - Meister Eckhardt
A hero is a man who does what he can. - Roman Rollard
Darkness was upon the face of the deep, and God said, "Let there be light." Darkness laps at my sleeping face like a tide, and God says, "Let there be Buechner." Why not? Out of the primeval chaos of sleep he calls me to be a life again....He calls me to be this rather than that; he calls me to be here rather than there; he calls me to be now rather than then....Waking into the new day, we are all of us Adam on the morning of creation, and the world is ours to name. Out of many fragments we are called to put back together a self again. - Frederick Buechner in The Alphabet of Grace
In Proverbs, we read: "Without vision, people perish." And the other side of that is, with vision, people flourish, because we're pulled by that within us which divine, that which is always longing to express itself in greater and greater ways. When an idea or a dream inspires you, regardless of circumstances, forge ahead. A strong vision, a clarity of purpose, a zeal and a zest for living: Put these together, and the possibilities that seemed elusive slowly become reality. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Community. Somewhere there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free. – Starhawk
That only which we have within, can we see without. If we meet no Gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is a grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein
When we make a mistake, it's normal to feel bad or guilty. This is God's way of helping us align with what's good and true. But that's very different from staying stuck in a mistake and believing there is something bad about you and moving into shame. Some people spend an entire lifetime rehearsing and nursing and cursing that mistake. But God works in the midst of our fallibility. God's plan for us is to experience the fullness of God's love, no matter what is happening. Tell yourself this: "I may be blocking God's love from me. But there is nothing I have ever done that would keep God from loving me." - Mary Manin Morrissey
It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. - Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. - John Milton
Sometimes life's shadows are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone can be great. Because everyone can serve.. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. - Martin Luther King Jr.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time. – T. S. Eliot
All I am is the trick of words writing themselves. – Anne Sexton
The most divine art is that of healing… it must occupy itself with the soul as well as the body. – Pythagoras
Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better… and the catastrophe towards which this world is headed – the ecological, social, demographic, or general breakdown of civilization – will be unavoidable. – Vaclav Havel
A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. - Maltbie Babcock
We read in Proverbs, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." What does this mean? We've been taught to look beyond surface appearance, but at the same time, we're inundated with images telling us that a man or a woman has to look a certain way, have a certain physique in order to be beautiful. And for those who stray from that norm, there are creams and pills and surgery and hair color and every product imaginable at our disposal. We enjoy being surrounded by beauty, but we're not so sure what that means. But if you want more beauty in your life, try this exercise: Think of a person who became beautiful to you, someone whose caring or deeds or goodness shone so brightly, that however you perceived that person initially, he or she over time became beautiful. And then seek to find that same beauty in others. It's right there, before your eye, as the beholder. - Mary Manin Morrissey
To be seeing the world made new every morning, as if it were the morning of the first day, and then to make the most of it for the individual soul as if each were the last day-it is the daily curriculum of the mind's desire. - John H Finley
Forgiveness emanates from the heart. It is a state of mind that pierces a hole in the heart, allowing Light to penetrate consciousness - Norma Milanovich and Shirley McCune
If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself. - A. Neilen
The measure of a man is not determined by his show of outward strength or the volume of his voice, or the thunder of his action. It is to be seen rather in terms of the strength of his inner self, in terms of the nature and depth of his commitment, the sincerity of his purpose, and his willingness to continue "growing up." - Grade E. Poulard
"If the mind dwells within the supreme self in connection to the one within, one enjoys unending happiness. When one dwells in separation, happiness is a fleeting feather. - The Upanishads
Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires. -
Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You can't do anything about the length of your life but you can do something about its width and depth. - Evan Essar
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
If you were conscious, that is to say totally present in the Now, all negativity would dissolve almost instantly. It could not survive in your presence. - Eckhart Tolle
There are dark times in our lives, but we don't have to wait to feel better until the dark time is over. It's an illusion to think, "If this dark time were over, then I get to feel good." Those feelings are based on circumstance instead of on being right with ourselves. In the midst of turmoil, we either shrink or we dig down deeper and access the part of ourselves that is required to stand more fully in the expression of who we're meant to be. That is our faith walk, that's where the darkness serves so well. The darkness is not outside God's plan for our lives. The dark periods are actually, deeply accessible periods of a greater power in our lives. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson
I see on an immense scale, and as clearly as a demonstration in a laboratory, that we are made strong by what we overcome. - John Burroughs
Good work that leaves the world softer and fuller and better than ever before is the stuff of which human satisfaction and spiritual value are made. - Joan Chittister
We must continue to remind ourselves that in a free society all are involved in what some are doing. Some are guilty, all are responsible. - Abraham Joshua Heschel quoted in "The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook" edited by Stuart Matlins
If you are experiencing a dark time, you may be very tempted to listen to lots of voices that say, "You can't." And if you're not hearing that voice externally, you'll think it up yourself. "I can't because the stock market's down, or I don't have the education, or I've been laid off or I'm too young, or I'm too old," or all of the bars that we build that create a prison out of nothing except our belief system that says, "I can't." But you can. All things are possible with God. You don't have to wait to feel better until that circumstance changes. Listen to the voice that says, "I can because I am. I can because the One in me is greater than the things in the world." - Mary Manin Morrissey
The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored. – Goethe
The power of infinite love has you more firmly in its grasp all the time, and it will reveal the ways to cast out the demons of fear, unhappiness, burdens, possessiveness, and ignorance which have plagued you in the past. - J. Sig Paulson
"When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence." - Mahatma Gandhi
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. – Aristotle
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." - C.S. Lewis
Some of us are pickpockets to each other's dreams. We kind of pick apart the idea, we pick apart the possibility, we steal the hope. We pick apart what can really be done. And others of us really are put-pockets. We put in each other's pockets positive ideas. We fill others with hope. We put in each other's pockets, "I believe you" statements. "I know it's possible. I believe in you." From this day on, vow to fill others with your positive energy, and help make their dreams come true. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. - Harold B. Melchart
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat. – Anonymous
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. - Richard Bach
To act courteously and selflessly, to put the needs of others before our own, is to live with the compassion that blooms from true spiritual practice. - Philip Toshio Sudo in "Zen 24/7"
To have courage for whatever comes in life-everything lies in that. - Saint Teresa of
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. - John Berry
We are the wire, God is the current. Our only power is to let the current pass through us. - Carlo Carretto
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power. - Lord Alfred Tennyson
Change is the law of life. - John F. Kennedy
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. - Carl Jung
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. - Erastus Wiman
Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. - Saint Francis de Sales
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown. - Thomas F. Woodlock
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. - Marcus Aurelius
Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time. – Aristotle
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. – Epictetus
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. - Ben Sweetland
The unthankful heart.discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart.will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. - Henry Ward Beecher
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. - Alexander Pope
God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably. - Thomas Merton quoted in "The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia"
No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it-to remain children of light. - Albert Schweitzer
Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter. - Matthew Fox
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison
We all experience "soul moments" in life-when we see a magnificent sunrise, hear the call of the loon, see the wrinkles in our mother's hands, or smell the sweetness of a baby. During these moments, our body, as well as our brain, resonates as we experience the glory of being a human being. - Marion Woodman
In the marriage ceremony, we're called upon to love and honor our partner, in sickness and in health. But that ceremony represents only a small portion of the love we're called upon to demonstrate, for love isn't a bond that exists solely between two people, or even within a single family. God, the essence of love, calls upon us, who are created in God's image, to love others well every day. When we purposefully bring more love into our lives, we touch our inner divinity. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well. - Danish proverb
Love is something you can leave behind you when you die. It's that powerful. - John Lame Deer
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. - Donald A. Adams
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another. - William Law
There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, "We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail." - Jim Collins, from his book, Good to Great
In the marriage ceremony, we're called upon to love and honor our partner, in sickness and in health. But that ceremony represents only a small portion of the love we're called upon to demonstrate, for love isn't a bond that exists solely between two people, or even within a single family. God, the essence of love, calls upon us, who are created in God's image, to love others well every day. When we purposefully bring more love into our lives, we touch our inner divinity. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Looking for God is like seeking a path in a field of snow; if there is no path and you are looking for one, walk across it and there is your path. - Thomas Merton
The Earth is too small a planet and we too briefly vistors upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace. - Colman McCarthy quoted in "Spiritual Literacy" by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and the joy of living. – Tecumseh
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. - David Starr
No healing can take place until we decide to think actively about the dark side. - Robert Bly
Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God. - Thomas Merton
Not the owner of many possessions will you be right to call happy: he more rightly deserves the name of happy who knows how to use the Gods' gifts wisely and to put up with rough poverty, and who fears dishonor more than death. - Horace (65-8 BC), Roman poet
To be driven by fear is like dying inside. - Sharon Salzberg in "Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience"
I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship. Behind the harsh appearance of the world there is a benign power. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. - David Hume (1711-1776), Scottish philosopher
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. - Richard Bach
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. - John Steinbeck
There is nothing more powerful than love. No matter how great the mistake, how dire the outlook, how deeply rooted the problem, a sufficient realization of love can dissolve anything. No matter what you maybe facing at this time, doesn't it seem less significant when compared with the power of love? - Mary Manin Morrissey
To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts. - A.H. Almaas, in "For the Love of God"
It is a great mistake to think of being great without goodness; and I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. - Benjamin Franklin
Love, compassion, and tolerance are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it if you have love, compassion, and tolerance. - His Holiness the Dalai Lama, For the Love of God
What is more important to you - knowing all the answers, or admitting that you do not? It takes an act of humility on our part to realize that we don't know the answer to every problem we face. Sometimes, our best thinking gets wasted on a problem, our energy going to the angst and frustration of trying to figure it out. Recognize that you may not be bigger than your problem, but God is. Whatever you're facing, allow the power of God to move in and through you. That doesn't mean the problem disappears, but the problem's power to control and diminish your life is dissolved. Remembering God is the first step toward being healed. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. –
The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. - William Wordsworth
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - Henry Ford
Time-lapse photography has allowed us to glimpse the unfolding of flowers and embryos and galaxies. If we were able to view the sense of self in a similar way, we would be able to glimpse also the external deconstruction and reconstruction of the sense of self in ever-moving, sequential, and beautiful patterns of unfolding. We do not yet have a good vantage point on ourselves. - Kathleen Dowling Singh
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. - Mother Teresa
Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement. - Grover
Come, whoever you are! Wanderer, worshipper, Lover of Leaving. Come, this is not a caravan of despair. It doesn't matter if you've broken your vow a thousand times. Still and yet again, Come. – Rumi
Reconciliation is an art we spend our lives perfecting. It is the spiritual practice of attending to any disturbance at once. Reconciliation prizes understanding above vindication and connection above condemnation. Reconciling doesn't mean you agree or condone another person's behavior, but the process of seeking to connect when disconnection has occurred is a deep, spiritual practice. Is there someone with whom you need to reconcile today? - Mary Manin Morrissey
Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore. - Hindu proverb
The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber. - William Mather Lewis
No matter what is happening in our lives, there is a part of us that knows the truth. There is a part of us that knows our purpose: to live in love. Jesus said, "I came that I might bear witness to the one that is within me," which is love's presence, expressed through creativity, dynamic relationships and vitality. When we stay true to our purpose, despite the drama of daily life, the gifts of untold abundance continue to show up in our life in amazing, unpredictable ways. - Mary Manin Morrissey
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. - George Prentice
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. - John Ruskin
In Zen they say: If something is boring for two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually one discovers that it's not boring at all but very interesting. - John Cage quoted in "Going on Being" by Mark Epstein
To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable. - Helen Keller
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. - Frank Knox
With so much violence in the world, we naturally want to put a stop to the pain and hostility. We want to end it "out there," but first, it must stop inside ourselves. We must be responsible for ending violence in our thinking, which shows up in attack, blame, accusation, judgment, or withholding love. The practice is to notice sooner when these thoughts and feelings arise. And then follow the teachings of Jesus, who advised: Attend to the rift at once. In private. And with a heart of reconciliation. - Mary Manin Morrissey
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