All Christian life is meant to be at the same time profoundly contemplative and rich in active work.

It is true that we are called to create a better world.

The first we are called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.

Each one of us works out his destiny and inseparable union with all those others with whom God willed us to live.

We share with one another the work of living in the world.

- Thomas Merton

A wise man should use his abilities only in moderation.

Then he finds, when he is among the bold, that no one is bravest of all.

-Hãvamãl

Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, end of an even greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts.

- Thomas Merton

Grapes do not grow on thorns or figs on thistles.

- Jesus

Those who may be discouraged by a sense of their own unworthiness, or lack of understanding... should recollect... that there is such a thing as “Taking the Kingdom of Heaven by storm.”

- Emmet Fox

If you do your best always, over and over again, you will become a master of transformation.

Practice makes the master.

- Miguel Ruiz

Once it is at home in the depths of contemplation, the mind becomes steady, like an upright un-flickering flame in a windless place.

- Bhagavad Gita

Natural intelligence is always accessible to us.

When we are not caught in the trap of hope and fear, we intuitively know the right thing to do.

We desire to be happy and at peace, but when our emotions are aroused, somehow the methods we use to achieve this happiness only makes us more miserable.

We all have access to a fundamental intelligence that can help us to solve our problems rather than making them worse.

-Pema Chödrön

When you meet your friend on the roadside or in the marketplace, let the spirit in you move your lips and direct your tongue.

Let the voice within your voice speak to the ear of his ear;

for his soul will keep the truth of your heart as the taste of the wine is remembered

when the color is forgotten and the vessel is no more.

-Kahlil Gibran

Priceless Gifts

An empty day without events

and that is why it grew immense

as space. And suddenly

happiness of being

entered me.

I heard

in my heartbeat

the birth of time

and each instant of life

one after the other

came rushing in

like priceless gifts

- Anna Swir

Allow hope to bloom like spring daffodils-

the harbinger of magnificent change,

the testimony of beholding beauty,

the inevitable arrival of newness,

the end to a cold dullness.

Wear a hope like a spring season.

After a morbid winter, it must arrive.

Paradox & Metaphors

An eye is meant to see things

The soul is here for its own joy

It has one use: for loving a true love

Legs: to run after

Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind

for learning what men have done and tried to do

when it only wants to see WHY.

-Rumi

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