There can be no contemplation where there is no secret.

- Thomas Merton

It's a long and crooked walk to a bad friend, even if he lives nearby.

But it's an easy road to a good friend, no matter how long the journey.

-Hãvamãl

Wonder at things that are before thee, making this the first step to further knowledge.

- Clement of Alexandria

Pilgrimage is a journeying toward God. It expresses the yearning of the heart to be in the presence of God; during pilgrimage the self is pointed to the destination.

It is a physical embodiment of inclining the heart toward God.

- Marcus Borg

We are to be changed.

Unless we believe that, is there any point in our lives?

-Esther de Waal

If we really want God to fill us, we must empty ourselves through humility of all the selfishness within us.

- Mother Teresa

If a blind man leads a blind man, both of them will stumble.

-Jesus

If people are troublesome, you have to only change your thought about them, and then they will change too, because your own concept is what you see.

This is the true revenge.

- Emmett Fox

The Fourth Agreement: Always Do Your Best

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you are expecting a reward.

- Miguel Ruiz

Those who take wisdom as their highest goal, whose faith is deep and whose senses are trained, attain wisdom quickly and enter into perfect peace.

But the ignorant, indecisive and lacking in faith, waste their lives. They can never be happy in this world or any other.

-Bhagavad Gita

As human beings, we have the potential to disentangle ourselves from old habits, and the potential to love and care about each other.

-Pema Chödrön

Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and the serenity of distant fields and meadows- then let your heart say in silence, “God rests in reason.”

And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, The thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky -then let your heart say in awe, “God moves in passion.”

And since you are a breath in God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion.

- Kahlil Gibran

Under the cherry trees

there are

no strangers

- Kobayashi Issa

Get lonely.

Get so lonely your teeth rattle with it.

In the emptiness, you will find beauty.

You will find yourself.

Soft and gentle. Dewey with hope.

- Salma El-Wardonay

When you were with children, talk about toys.

From playthings, little by little they reach

Into deeper wisdom and clarity. Gradually,

they lose interest in their toys.

They have a sense of wholeness in them already.

If they were completely demented,

they wouldn't play at all.

Did you hear that?

- Rumi

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