Sunday, February 25, 2007

Batch 6

*There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. - A. J. Muste

All of us have occasionally felt only half-present or partly alive. We have told half-truths, supplied partial answers and engaged in limited thinking. We use only a small portion of our brains and sometimes withhold a measure of our love. At our very essence, however, we are complete, unblemished beings. The masters are those who have learned to come fully alive to their own nature. They live fully because they know that there is no part of them God does not love. Nothing is withheld. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

Committed people who believe they are in control and expect situations to be challenging are likely to react to stressful events by increasing their interaction with them - exploring, controlling, and learning from them. - Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Minding The Body, Mending The Mind

*Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. -Benjamin Disraeli

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. - James F. Byrnes

The Apostle Paul was in a dark, dank, rat-infested prison when he wrote these words: I have learned this one thing, that in whatever circumstance I am in, therein to be grateful. (Philippians 4:11) He didn't say we should be thankful for a bad situation, but rather, to be grateful regardless of the circumstance. Through spiritual practice, we find strength that transcends a temporary emotion or misfortune and learn to live from a grateful heart. - Mary Manin Morrissey

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. - Mark Twain

*Everyone says my way of life is of a simpleton. Being largely the way of a simpleton is what makes it worthwhile. It is simple. If it were not the way of a simpleton, it would have been worthless long ago. These possessions of a simpleton, being the three I choose and cherish: To be humble, to care, to be fair. When a man is humble, he can grow. When a man cares, he is unafraid. When a man is fair, he has enough for others. - Lao Tsu, in the Tao Te Ching

*Humility comes from the root word humus, which means, close to the ground; lowly. If something is close to the ground and lowly, it can grow. And so can we. When we know we have much to learn, our minds and hearts open to the possibilities. - 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

In all persons, all creatures, the Self is the innermost essence. And it is identical with Brahman: our real Self is not different from the ultimate Reality called God. - The Upanishads, As Translated by Eknath Easwaran

*Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in a year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another gets a full year's value out of a week. - Charles Richards

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. - Mark Twain

If I had to live my life again, I would make a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. - Charles Darwin

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein

There are many causes for which I am prepared to die, but none for which I am prepared to kill. - Gandhi

What you think upon grows. Whatever you allow to occupy your mind you magnify in your own life. Whether the subject of your thought be good or bad, the law works and the condition grows. Any subject that you keep out of your mind tends to diminish in your life, because what you do not use atrophies. - Emmet Fox, Around the Year with Emmet Fox

Relationships are eternal. Once they begin, they exist always because they don't happen out in the world; they happen in us. We cannot heal a relationship by ending it. We can only heal a relationship with forgiveness. Today, pray to find ways to see others with love. - Mary Manin Morrissey

I offer you this prayer for all the difficult relationships in our lives: God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the person I can, and the wisdom to know, that person is me. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Sure, a woman can fake an orgasm, but it takes a man to fake a whole relationship. - anonymous

*Who is the more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? - Maurice Freehill

How is it that we can find a perfect love in an imperfect relationship? Ask today for the grace to move beyond personality into a love from the soul. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them. - Henry Steele Commager

*The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. - James D. Nicoll

One of the great mental laws is the Law of Substitution. This means that the only way to get rid of a certain thought is to substitute another one for it. You cannot dismiss a thought directly. You can do so only be substituting another one for it. If I say to you, Do not do think of the Statue of Liberty, of course, you immediately think of it. If I say, I am not going to think of the Statue of Liberty, that is thinking about it. But if you become interested in something else, you forget all about the Statue of Liberty - and this is a case of substitution. When negative thoughts come to you, do not fight them, but think of something positive. Preferably think of God; but if that is difficult at the moment, turn your attention to something quite different. - Emmet Fox, Around the Year with Emmet Fox

*Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each 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

*It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali

*Recognize that every person in our lives truly is doing the very best they know how. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Our pasts are perfect in a way our minds can never fully understand. We would not have the opportunities for awakening and experiencing that are ours today, without exactly what happened. Now, it's what we do with our pasts that provides the opportunity for growth. Today, spend some time thinking about the gifts in your past that you may have overlooked. - Mary Manin Morrissey

When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer. -Dave Berry

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. - Sheila Graham

Even as all waters flow into the ocean, but the ocean never overflows, even so the sage feels desires, but he is ever one in his infinite peace. - The Bhagavad Gita, Book of Daily Thoughts and Prayers

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

Often when things look really bad, it's partly just because of the way we're seeing things, not because of the way they really are. Ask God today for the wisdom to see with new eyes. - Mary Manin Morrissey

*Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. - John Lubbock

These bodies are perishable; but the dwellers in these bodies are eternal, indestructible and impenetrable. - The Bhagavad Gita, Book of Daily Thoughts and Prayers

America is a land that is starving for love. - Mother Teresa

To sin means to err; it's an archery term that means to miss the mark. Look at any way you have been living your life that has taken you off the mark of what brings fulfillment, joy, peace and that feeling of knowing that you live in alignment with God's will in you. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called All the Things That Could Go Wrong. They don't have a mind-set that puts Things to Fear before Things to Love. Unless we can be like little children, we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven; unless we can be like little children, we can't be happy. Children are happy because they don't have all the facts yet. - Marianne Williamson, Illuminata

Prayer is the one thing that can make a change in your life. If you will go direct to God in simple, affirmative prayer, you can heal your body, bring peace and harmony into your life, and make well-being a reality. - Emmet Fox, Around the Year with Emmet Fox

God is never closer than when the space between two hearts narrows. - Joan Borysenko in A Woman's Journey to God

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it. - Marianne Williamson, A Woman's Worth

Wicked means bent. If we hear somebody is crooked, that means their will is bent away from the will of God. If there's wickedness in me, that means that there's something going on in my thinking, in my heart, in my actions, that is not God-like, that is not who I really want to be, that prevents me from experiencing what really brings happiness, fulfillment and joy and the kinds of things that deep, deep down, are most important to me when I get close to me, when I come to my Self. So, I search my heart today. Where am I not in alignment with God? - Mary Manin Morrissey

Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer. -Bruce Graham

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. - Joseph Wood Krutch

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine

*In about the same degree you are helpful, you will be happy. - Karl Reiland

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. - Robert Anthony

I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. - Lewis Grizzard

What if we knew for certain that everything we're worried about today will work out fine? What if . . . we knew the future was going to be good, and we would have an abundance of resources and guidance to handle whatever comes our way? What if . . . we knew everything was okay, and we didn't have to worry about a thing? What would we do then? We'd be free to let go and enjoy life. - Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go

Anxiety separates us from experiencing a great life. So caught up are we in our worry, we may even cut ourselves off from giving and receiving love. God invites us into a fuller life in which we recognize that there is no anxiety that our Creator cannot handle, if we only remember to ask for help. - Mary Manin Morrissey

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We just take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn, and they create new and curious combinations. We keep turning making new patterns, but the are the same old pieces of glass that have been in use throughout all the years. - Mark Twain

*Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around. - Joyce Rupp in The Star in my Heart

When written in Chinese the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. - John Kennedy

*The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes. - Georges Sand

*One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. - Edith Wharton

Every one of us worries. Some of us worry over everything; others deny their anxiety, while still others of us cope by charging through the problem entirely on our own will, but none of these methods work for long. The reason we worry is because we feel vulnerable about a situation that feels bigger than our strength, more than we can handle. But the reverse is also true: if our inner strength increases, our vulnerability - and with that, our worry - decreases. And the only lasting way we increase that inner strength is by turning to God. -Mary Manin Morrissey

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. - Aristotle

I simply believe that some part of the human soul is not subject to the laws of space and time. - C. G. Jung

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed. - Eileen Caddy

Who worries? Everybody. What is worry? It is a sense of increased vulnerability and decreased power. What is the antidote to worry? The Apostle Paul advised ...by prayer and petition, ...in everything, make your request be known to God. Take your mind off the worry and put it on God. Move from worry to prayer. Nothing can separate you from God's love and God's power except your own thinking. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. - Mohammed Ali

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. - Anonymous

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle

The sun and the moon are not mirrored in cloudy water. Thus the almighty cannot be mirrored in a heart that is obsessed by the idea of me and mine. - Ramakrishna

You tell me, and I forget. You teach me, and I remember. You involve me, and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, or what he can do, nothing else. - Mahatma Gandhi

The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by somebody weaker than you. - Buddha, quoted in What Would Buddha Do? edited by Ray Riegert

*We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill

Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning. - Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil. - Winston Churchill

Some people's idea of free speech is that they are free to say anything they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage. - Winston Churchill

If you destroy a free market you create a black market. - Winston Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. - Winston Churchill

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. - St. Francis De Sales

Many of us were raised to believe in two powers: one that is good and one that is evil. New Thought teaches that there is but One Power, just as there is a single electricity. It's how you use the power that makes the difference. You can use electricity to electrocute or to light up a room. Within each of us is the power to bring forth good, but we must make the choice. - Mary Manin Morrissey

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers. - Rabbi Abraham Heschel quoted in SQ: Connecting with Our Spiritual Intelligence by Danah Zohar and Dr. Ian Marshall

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. - Agatha Christie

He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house. - Zsa Zsa Gabor, speaking of her ex-husband

*Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one’s life is cold and bare he can blame no one but himself. - Louis L’Amour

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country. - Anais Nin

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is said that until you have a personal center, you are just a mechanical device. Circumstances push our buttons; if something good happens, we're happy; if something bad happens, we're angry or sad. We can respond or develop a center that allows us to choose our response. When we choose how to respond, we no longer automatically follow old patterns. Instead we begin to ask: What would love do here? and we follow that leading. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington

*Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? - Frank Moore Colby

We need a faith community of friends to inspire, challenge, tease, and call us to be all we can be without unduly embarrassing us for being where we are now. - Robert J. Wicks in Everyday Simplicity

Dare to choose the highest form of living. Dare to live in open, honest, unconditional love. - Mary Manin Morrissey

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. - Marianne Williamson

Entheos is the root of the word enthusiasm and literally means, God within. When you bring enthusiasm to any situation, you are calling forth an inner power that knows no bounds. - Mary Manin Morrissey

The end of a man is to let the spirit in him permeate his whole being, his soul, flesh, and affections. He attains his deepest self by losing his selfish ego. -Robert Musil

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. - Albert Einstein

*Our workaday lives are filled with opportunities to bless others. The power of a single glance or an encouraging smile must never be underestimated. - G. Richard Rieger

Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stomp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it. - Shakti Gawain

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction. - Ernst Fritz Schumacher

*You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. - Martin Luther King Jr.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives. - Catherine the Great

Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. - Yoda

*All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors - Kahlil Gibran

*That best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. - William Wordsworth

What sort of ideas does your mind entertain? You can harbor thoughts of love or hold thoughts of judgment. Entertain an idea long enough and it will take form in your life. - Mary Manin Morrissey

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. - Calvin Coolidge

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - The Dalai Lama

*There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. -Joseph Brodsky

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain

I am different from [George] Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. - Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you do not have to remember anything. - Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. - Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. - Mark Twain

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. - Mark Twain

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. - Mark Twain

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. - Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. - Groucho Marx

*I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. - Groucho Marx

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. - Groucho Marx

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. - Groucho Marx

*People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. - St. Augustine

*Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence. - Will Henry

The Law of mind, the giant within and around us, is always creating for us. But what specific direction are we giving it? Our every thought is a direction. - Ernest Holmes

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall down an open manhole and die. - Mel Brooks

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. -William James

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. - W. M. Lewis

The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

*Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things. - Woody Allen

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave. - William Drummond {1585-1649 Celtic Poet}

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. - Marshall McLuhan

There is no personal history or past experience that is bigger or more powerful than the great God that resides within us. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. - Benjamin Disraeli {1804-1881 British Prime Minister}

*It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - Neil Armstrong

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. -Washington Irving

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. - Sydney Smith

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are not down trodden, depraved and miserable sinners, born in sin and conceived in iniquity and shame, some to go to heaven and some to hell and all to the eternal glory of God. This is a lie, it always was and always will be ... Man is born of the Spirit of God Almighty, is pure, holy, perfect, complete and undefiled; is at one with his eternal principle of being ... We live in Spirit awaiting the touch of thought that believes. - Ernest Holmes

Know therefore and believe without a doubt that God likewise receives delight from you, specifically, each and every day and that this delight that you give Him helps perpetuate the world's existence. Through this you will experience an abundance of favor, blessing, life, peace and good each and every day. - Reb Noson of Breslov in Healing Leaves compiled by Yitzchok Leib Bell

We ask advice, but we mean approbation. - Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

No one wants advice - only corroboration. - John Steinbeck

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. -Jean Cocteau

The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but return. - Alan Cohen

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification. - Storm Jameson (1891-1986), English novelist, journalist

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. - Italian Proverb

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. - Jonathan Kozol

Every relationship hits bumps in the road, sometimes, head-on collisions. The choice that families make at the onset of the difficulty determines their future. When we follow the well-trodden path of human nature-pulling back, protecting or lashing out-damage often doesn't get repaired. When we follow the lesser-used spiritual path of forgiveness and trust, we are led to greater love. Take the road less traveled. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Let the warmth and color of this Presence permeate your entire consciousness. Let your thought be filled with an atmosphere of helpfulness, of life, of givingness and of peace. Know that the doorway of opportunity is never closed. Know that experiences open up before you like a blossoming flower. Live in continuous, joyous anticipation. - Ernest Holmes

One of the first things to do, is to love everybody ... with love, all things are possible ... and the one who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love. - Ernest Holmes

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. -Nora Ephron

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve. - Hugh Trevor-Roper

*It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. - Eugene Ionesco

*You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Naguib Mahfouz, winner of 1988 Nobel Prize for literature

But be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare, in Twelfth Night: Act II, Scene 5

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. - Joseph Heller

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. - Daniel J. Boorstin

For those who have come to know God, the whole world is a prayer mat. - Bawa Muhaiyaddeen quoted in The Illuminated Prayer

The greatest grief we can experience is knowing we had moments that we failed to use well. Recently, I spent time with parents who had lost their son. They talked about dinners together, camping trips, and phone calls. This was a family that had loved well. This family had missed no opportunities for loving, because this was a family that loved well. They grieved the loss of their son's future, but no tears were spilled over a misused past. Ask yourself: Am I missing any opportunities to love? - Mary Manin Morrissey

I call that mind free which sets no bounds to its love - recognizing in all human beings the image of God. - Ellery Channing

*What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare? - W. H. (William Henry) Davies, Welsh poet, from the poem Leisure

*If you are losing your leisure, look out. You may be losing your soul. - Logan Pearsall Smith

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Albert Einstein

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