When I act as his instrument, my labor cannot be an obstacle to contemplation. Yet my work itself will purify and pacify my mind and dispose me for contemplation.

- Thomas Merton

God is only to be found in the reality of the present moment.  

-Esther deWaal

If I'm slavishly attached to the previous moment., or if I'm already living in tomorrow's moments, then I am not free for the moment of the eternal now.

- Sister Macrina

Praising God means getting out of oneself.

- Pope Francis

Think of Jesus. Do what he tells you.

- Mary

I need none of these things.

- Socrates

The last will be first, and the first will be last.

- Jesus

Our altar is our own consciousness and our offerings are our prayers. Our burnt sacrifices are the error thoughts which we destroy in spiritual treatment.

- Emmet Fox

Strive constantly to serve the welfare of the world; by devotion to selfless work, one attains the supreme goal of life.

- Bhagavad Gita

To love life through labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.

To work with love? It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit.

The wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all the blades of grass; And he alone is great Who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.  

-Khahlil Gibran

Impeccable means “without sin." As soon as anything you do which goes against yourself. When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself. Self-rejection is the biggest sin you commit- a mortal sin which leads to death.

If you make an agreement to be impeccable with your word, just with that intention, the truth will manifest through you and clean all the emotional poison that exists within you.

The word is pure magic- the most powerful gift we have as humans.

The truth is the most important part of being impeccable with your word. Only the truth will set us free.

- Miguel Ruiz

An extra miracle, extra and ordinary:
The unthinkable can be thought.

-Szymborska

I know the night will end and I'll see you again,
But any moment without you is too long for me.

- Cuobert

Gamble everything for love,
If you're a true human being.

If not, leave this gathering.

Half- heartedness doesn't reach into majesty.
You set out to find God, but then you keep
stopping for long periods
at mean-spirited roadhouses.

-Rumi

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