Keep your eyes clean and your ears quiet and your mind serene.
Breathe God’s air.

- Thomas Merton

The outer works can never be small if the inner work is great.
And the outer work can never be great if the inner work is small.

- Meister Eckhart

God's grace resounds in our lives like a staccato
Only by retaining the seemingly disconnected notes
Comes the ability to grasp the theme.

-Abraham Heschel

The one who endures with patience is united with the Passion of Christ, the passion of God in Christ.

- Pope Francis

Give your heart to God, deliberately, knowingly, willingly.
It belongs to him.

- Mother Teresa

Love your friends like your own soul.
Protect them like the pupil of your eye.

- Jesus

So it is with evil. The moment that it presents itself to your attention, you should immediately turn it out, repudiate it, refuse to accept it; and by quietly affirming the truth, give it no chance to dig itself in.

- Emmett Fox

Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust,

Just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, knowledge is hidden by selfish desire, by this unquenchable fire for self-satisfaction, the inveterate enemy of the wise.

- Bhagavad Gita

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

-Kahlil Gibran

How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportional to the quality integrity of your word.

- Miguel Ruiz

A traveler cannot bring a better burden on the road than plenty of wisdom, and he can bring no worse a burden in too much alcohol.

- Hàvamàl

Our thoughts begin where words end.
Refining dark-enigma depths, we gaze
quiet mystery into each other and smile,
sharing the mind that's forgotten mind.

-Po-Chü-i

I believe in the power and delicacy of words.
And how important they are to get right (honestly, honestly).
How easily they can cause misdirection
I believe in kindness
In its power and its contagiousness.
And how it needs to come with a backbone and an antenna.  

- J. Bird

Give up to grace.
The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.
You need more help than you know.

-Rumi

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