What I need most of all is the grace to really accept God as he gives himself to me in every situation.

- Thomas Merton

Prayer is glassonheit, letting go, being carried on a current towards a vast ocean, deep beyond imagining;
Sitting silently, gaze firmly fixed on one golden, inscrutable face, waiting with the patience of love.
Prayer is asking nothing, desiring nothing but this, only this.  

- Bonnie Thurston
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All knots come to Mary. The knot of sin, of disobedience, unbelief.
She leads us by the hand, Mother, Mother, to the embrace of the Father, of the Father of mercy.

- Pope Francis
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To bring joy to us, Jesus became man.  

- Mother Teresa
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Those who obey my father are my mother, my brothers and my sisters.

- Jesus

No more can a man raise himself off the ground by pulling on his own bootstraps, than the sinner can reform himself by his own personal efforts. The one thing for such a person to do is to pray regularly, especially at the actual time of temptation.

-Emmett Fox

Karma yoga -selfless action. Actions determine destiny; we reap what we sow.

-Krishna

Your children are not your children, they are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They came through you, but not from you. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

-You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The Archer sees the mark on the path of the infinite, and he bends you with his might that his arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the Archers hand be for gladness; for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so also he loves the bow that is stable.

Kahlil Gibran

Find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power.
The agreements that come from love help us to conserve energy and even gain extra energy.

- Miguel Ruiz

The old pines are full of poems; I've been down for a drink of this pure spring water.
There is a gentle breeze, and the round moon hangs overhead.
Standing by a deserted building,
I pretend to be a crane softly floating among the clouds.

-Ryõkan

Pull for Push

You into me
Up against the wall
As we tear them down
Tell me the things
Within your head
I want to hear
What you hold
Within long hard kisses
Reaching our souls
Let's task the passion
Nibbling at our necks
With our hands to hold
Wrapping around each other
Pushing into the pull

- Joshua Ryan Stewart

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