Remember that God is within us when we are in his grace, and outside of us, when we are in sin.

- Padre Pio

Selfish desire is found in the senses, mind and intellect, misleading them and burying the understanding and delusion.

- Bhagavad Gita

Whosoever shall call upon the name of The Lord shall be saved.

- Emmett Fox

Those who obey my father are my mother and my brothers and my sisters.

- Jesus

Let us be more cheerful about the poverty of our own houses.

- Mother Teresa

To enter into patience is to have the capacity to bear life burdens on one's shoulders, but with hope, to carry them while looking forward.

- Pope Francis

I don't know exactly what prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down into the grass.

-Simone Weil

A man knows less as he drinks more, and loses more and more of his wisdom. It’s if a memory stealing heron broods overhead while you drink, and steals your mind away. I myself have been trapped in that bird's feathers.

- Hàvamàl

With impeccability of the word, you can transcend the dream of fear and live a different life. You can live in heaven in the middle of thousands of people living in hell because you are immune to that hell.

-You can attain the Kingdom of heaven from this one agreement:

Be impeccable with your word.

- Miguel Ruiz

Build of your imaginings a bower in the wilderness ere you build a house within the city walls. For even as you have home-canings in your twilight, so has the wanderer in you, even the distant and alone.

-Kahlil Gibran
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He who is infinitely great has given to his own children a share of his own innocence. His alone is the gentleness of love: whose pure flame respects all things.

- Thomas Merton

We take turns singing and keeping a kick ball in the air:
I kick the ball and they sing.
They kick and I sing.
Time is forgotten, the hours fly.
People passing by point at me and laugh:
“Why are you acting like such a fool?”
I nod my head and don't answer.

-Ryõkan

She leaves me with her spirit still intact.
No longer is it pinned to the walls of her lover.
Too many times has it been used
For other things
Besides love.
Now it's hers again to wear with pride.  

-Zacky K. Douglas

Do the careful donkey-tending work.
Don't trust that to anyone else.
There are hypocrites who pay you,
But who do not care about your heart-donkey.
Be concentrated and leonine
In the hunt for what is your true nourishment.
Don't be distracted by blandishment-raises of any sort.  

- Rumi

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