Sunday, February 25, 2007

Batch 17

Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings. - The Buddha

Stop the war within yourself and you will do the world and humanity the greatest service. - Ajahn Sumanobhikku in "Questions from the City, Answers from the Forest"

Grant me the ability to be alone; May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses, among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to. - Rabbi Nachman of Bratizlava

The quieter you become the more you can hear. - Baba Ram Dass

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. - Mother Teresa

Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice. - Stanley Horowitz

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. - Saint John of the Cross

Discovery consists in seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi 1893-1986

Every increase of our spiritual understanding means more light appearing and dispelling the darkness of sense. - Joel Goldsmith

Gratitude releases a dynamic current of spiritual energy to go before us to exert a mighty influence in our world. - John Randolph Price

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. - Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. – Kabir

The World is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. - Henry Miller

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference. - Nolan Bushnell

To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. – Emerson

Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering. - Propertius

"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God. - Bayazid Al-Bistami

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

Our own soul, created wise and thoughtful in the image of God, having refused to know God, has become bestial, senseless and almost insane through delighting in material things. - Saint Gregory of Sinai

"We are not channels, we are instruments. Channels give nothing of their own, they just let water run through them. In our action, we are instruments in God's hand and He writes beautifully." -Mother Teresa of Calcutta

You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work. - Thomas Dreier

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound. Rebuild those plans and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. - Napoleon Hill

We are what our thoughts have made us: so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. - Swami Vivekananda

To believe in the resurrection means that we cannot stop at our wounds. - Patricia McCarthy quoted in "Behold Your Life" by Macrina Wiederkehr

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds. - The Buddha

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. If you're harboring the slightest bitterness or unkind thoughts, you must get rid of them quickly. - Peace Pilgrim

Soft sweet speech is the expression of genuine Love. Hate screeches, fear squeals, conceit trumpets, but love sings lullabies; it soothes, it applies balm. Practice the vocabulary of love. - Sathya Sai Baba

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good. - Calvin Coolidge

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith. - Mahatma Gandhi

May I never find myself yawning at life. - Japanese Christian leader Toyohiko Kagawa quoted in "Zen and the Art of Anything" by Hal W. French

Our separation from each other is an illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them. - Malcolm Forbes

It is only in the absence of your conscious oneness with God that you can fear. - Joel Goldsmith

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. - Charles Victor Cherbuliez

Gratitude releases a dynamic current of spiritual energy to go before us to exert a might influence in our world. - John Randolph Price

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. - Linda Ellerbee

We see ourselves as broken, and then set out on a long and frustrating journey to fill our emptiness. But it is not fixing that we require; it is awakening. - Alan Cohen

Synchronicity is a causal principle of the universe, a law that operates to move human beings toward greater growth in consciousness. - Carl Jung

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

You have not lived a perfect day unless you've done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. - Ruth Smeltzer quoted in "What Jesus Meant" by Erik Kolbell

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder. - W.J. Slim

Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence, for himself alone--each of us can bring to fruition these innate, God-given abilities. - George H. Bender

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery. - Katherine Mansfield

It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. - Thomas Robert Gaines

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes. - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Writer

Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation - these are the great values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives. - Jesse Herman Holmes

Don't go outside yourself, return into yourself, the dwelling place of truth is in the inner man. - St. Augustine

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. - Elbert Hubbard

Activity and sadness are incompatible. - Christian Bovee

I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life. I was given all life, that I might enjoy all things. – Anonymous

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. - English proverb

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is-Infinite. - William Blake

If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving, and could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves. - Pablo Neruda

He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. - Japanese proverb

One filled with joy preaches without preaching. - Mother Teresa

My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity. - Astronaut Edgar Mitchell

The body is always in time; the spirit is always in timelessness. - Aldous Huxley

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. - John Andrew Holmes

The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions. - Alan Cohen

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows. - John Farrar (1945-) Austrailian Composer

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. – Duguet

The essence of ritual is that something done in the physical realm is related to the higher worlds. - A'evben Shimon Halevi

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. - Hindu proverb

This moment I shall start a divine life; this moment and not later. This moment is in my hands. My soul will show me the way. – Lorenzo

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. - Portuguese proverb

Truly great dancers are those who make their partners look good. Like Fred Astaire. - Melanie Svoboda in "Rummaging for God"

The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time. - W.J. Davison

Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. - Jean de la Fontaine

You do not make yourself love. You allow love to enter. - James Redfield

While I stood there, I saw more than I can tell, and understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner.the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. - Black Elk

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When the activities of life are infused with reverence, they come alive with meaning and purpose. - Gary Zukav

To know how to choose a path with heart is so learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it. - Jean Shinoda Bolen

"If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping." - Carl Jung

If I am very aware that I do not love much, the way is not to try to love more, so much as to spend more time in trying to open myself to receive the love of God. - Damaris Parker-Rhodes quoted in "Plain Living" by Catherine Whitmire

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth. - Ruth McKenney

The purpose of setting goals is to inspire action, not predict it. - John H. Clark

I hold it as a changeless law, From which no soul can sway or swerve, We have that in us which will draw Whatever we need and most deserve. - Walt Whitman

When the mind is pure, joy follows, like a shadow that never leaves. - The Buddha

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. – Anonymous

The highest wisdom is kindness. – Talmud

"Bad" situations in life are often the most fertile opportunities for deepening our understanding of life as well as our capacity to feel compassion for others. - Mariana Caplan in "The Way of Failure"

There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good man takes in doing good. – Tillotson

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. - A.W. Pinero

Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. - Mohandas Gandhi

The greatest prayer is patience. - The Buddha

Patience is passion tamed. - Lyman Abbott

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become. - James Lane Allen (1849-1925) American Author

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. - Albert Einstein

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright

For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. - Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Irish Writer

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble. - Rudyard Kipling

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart. - David Augsburger

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this. - Epictetus (55-135 AD) Roman Philosopher

Throughout your life you choose, from moment to moment, whether you will learn through fear and doubt or through love and trust. - Gary Zukav

There is no use in walking anywhere to preach if your walking isn't your preaching. - St. Francis of Assisi

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes and the grass grows by itself. - Zen Poem, Japanese

A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live. – Unknown

Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. - Milton Erickson, M.D.

Live all of life as a new experience and you will be free. Free from worry. Free from expectation. Free from previously gained understandings. Free from earlier experiences that hold you bound to the positive or negative aspects of other people or external events. Let everything in life be new. - Scott Shaw in "Zen O'Clock"

A strange feeling of complete contentment suddenly overcame me when the module landed. The weather was foul, but I smelled Earth, unspeakably sweet and intoxicating. - Astronaut Andriyan Nikolayev

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. - T. S. Eliot

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. - Marya Mannes (1904-1990) American Journalist

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. - Henry Miller

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. - Oscar Wilde

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at the moment, we expected some other good. - C.S. Lewis

To love is to approach each other center to center. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression. - J. Allen Boone, Kinship With All Life

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. - William Shakespeare

And we are put on earth a little space. That we may learn to bear the beams of love. - William BlakeAll big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible. - Dr. Frank Richards (1875-1961) English Writer

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. - Jean Anouilh

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. - James Lane Allen (1849-1925) American Author

Be not the slave of your own past ... plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. - Helen Keller

The soul's natural inclination to love beauty is the trap God most frequently uses in order to win it and open it to the breath from on high. - Simone Weil, "Forms of the Implicit Love of God" from Waiting for God

Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing. - Randolph S. Bourne (1886-1918) American Writer

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. - Arland Gilbert

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search...but life lived to the edge of all my possibility. - Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are... Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in my pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return. - Mary Jean Iron

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. - Henry David Thoreau

Despite all the differences, the unity of mankind will assert itself irresistibly. - Carl Jung

If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford

Truth never damages a cause that is just. - Mahatma Gandhi

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. - Nelson Mandela

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet. - Persian saying

The nearest way to glory - a shortcut, as it were - is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be - quoted in Cicero, 44 BC. – Socrates

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee. - Marcus Aurelius Antonius

Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. - George Bernard Shaw

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. - Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. - Alexander Pope

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it. - Thaddeus Golas

Einstein was asked what he thought the most important question was that a human being needed to answer. His reply was `Is the universe friendly or not?' - Joan Borysenko

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny. - Alan Cohen

In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Andre Gide (1869-1951) French Writer

Truth is not learned, it is recognized. The divine truth in us recognizes itself. - Elbridge Gagnon

He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made. - Henry B. Wilson

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. – Epictetus

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. - Emily Dickinson

Only the weak are sent out on paths without perils. But never forget--our mission is to recognize contraries for what they are: first of all as contraries, but then as opposite poles of a unity. - Herman Hesse

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. - Albert Einstein

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. - Samuel Johnson

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light. - Felix Adler

This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. - William Shakespeare

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory. - F.W. Faber

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. - Bertrand Russell

Look upon every day as the whole of life, not merely as a section; and enjoy and improve the present without wishing, through haste, to rush on to another. - Johann Paul Friedrich Richter

"But try," you urge, "the trying shall suffice; The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!" - Robert Browning

The blossom vanishes of itself as the fruit grows, so will your lower self vanish as the divine grows in you. - Ramakrisna Parmahansa

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. - Swami Brahmananda

What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe-that Spirit which alone is self-subsistent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth? - Friedrich Jacobi

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. - Chinese proverb

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

When you have a gift to offer, the world will make room for you. You must have patience and keep the faith. - Tyler Perry, Playwright

Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. - Kahlil Gibran

Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God. - A.J. Cronin

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. - Herodotus (485 - 425BC) Greek Historian

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

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. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"It would be wonderful indeed if a group of persons should arrive on earth who are for something and against nothing. - Ernest Holmes

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

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

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. – John F. Kennedy

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. - Mencius (371-291 B.C.)

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction. - Meister Eckhart

Choose, then, whether you will be loved by those who formerly loved you, and be like your former self; or be better, and not meet with the same treatment. For if this last is preferable, immediately incline altogether this way, and let no other kind of reasoning draw you aside; for no one can improve while he is wavering. – Epictetus

There are many ways to measure success; not the least of which is the way your child describes you when talking to a friend. – Unknown

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

If someone has helped you and you make of him your authority, then are you not preventing all further help, not only from him, but from everything about you? Does not help lie about you everywhere? Why look only in one direction? And when you are so enclosed, so bound, can any help reach you? But when you are open, there is unending help in all things, from the song of a bird to the call of a human being, and from the blade of grass to the immensity of the heavens. The poison and corruption begin when you look to one person as your authority, your guide, your savior. - J. Krishnamurti

Essence is what is born in you, personality is what you acquire. Essence is your own, personality is not your own. Personality is too heavy, too strong; it surrounds Essence like a shell, so nothing can reach it directly, everything has to pass through personality. Essence cannot grow in these conditions, but if personality becomes more transparent, impressions and external influences will penetrate through it and reach Essence, and Essence will begin to grow. - P. D. Ouspensky

Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, "The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, 21 nor will people say, `Here it is,' or `There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within you." - Luke 17:20-21

You are the Sun in drag. You are God hiding from yourself. Remove all the "mine" - that is the veil. Why ever worry about anything? Listen to what your friend Hafiz knows for certain: The appearance of this world is a Magi's brilliant trick, though its affairs are nothing into nothing. You are a divine elephant with amnesia Trying to live in an ant hole. Sweetheart, O sweetheart You are God in Drag! - Hafiz

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

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. - Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone

Rituals channel your life energy toward the light. Without the discipline of practice, you will tumble constantly backwards into darkness. - Lao Tsu

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

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes transformation. - J. Krishnamurti

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

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 moving finger of God in human history points ever in the same direction. There must be community. - Howard Thurman

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

You never can tell what your thoughts will do in bringing you hate or love, For thoughts are things, and their airey wings Are swifter than carrier doves. They follow the law of the Universe, Each thing must create its kind, And they speed o'er the track to bring you back Whatever went on in your mind. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life. - Sir William Osler

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. - Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop

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

And he said unto them, "If a man told God that he wanted most of all to help the suffering world, no matter the price to himself, and God answered and told him what he must do, should the man do as he is told?"

"Of course Master

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