Good Shepherd, You have a wild and crazy sheep in love with thorns and brambles.

But please don't get tired of looking for me!

I know you won't. For you have found me.

All I have to do is stay found.

- Thomas Merton

Generous mutual giving is the key to lifelong friendship.

-Hãvamãl

Just as what brings heat makes things expand, so is the gift of love.

To stretch hearts wide open; it is a warm and glowing virtue.

- St. John Chrysotom

Radiate the joy of being poor, not telling people of our hard life, but just being happy to be poor with Christ.

- Mother Teresa

No one can rob a Strongman's house without first tying his hands.

- Jesus

It is the sin and not the Sinner that is to be condemned.

- Emmet Fox

They get drunk because they don't like themselves.

- Miguel Ruiz

The lotus… spends its life floating in water,

yet the drops of water roll off its leaves without ever wetting them.

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-Bhagavad Gita

Feeding the Right Wolf.

The one that wins will be the one I choose to feed.

-Pema Chödrön

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, So must you know pain.

- Kahlil Gibran

It’s All Right

But just when the worst bears down, you find a pretty bubble in your soup at noon, and outside at work, a bird says “Hi!”

Slowly, the sun creeps along the floor; It is coming your way.

It touches your shoe.

- William Stafford

Courage, dear heart.

We've had our book burned before,

and each time we write it over,

it just keeps getting better and better.

- the Poetry Bandit

The news we hear is full of grief for the future,

But the real news inside here

Is there no news at all.

- Rumi

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