There is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

- Thomas Merton

You'll learn best with your mouth shut.

-Hãvamãl

Dear God, you sustain and feed me: like a shepherd you guide me.

You lead me to an oasis of green, to lie down by restful waters.

Even when cliffs loom out of the mist, my step is steady because of my trust.

Even when I go through the deepest valley, I will fear no evil or harm.

For you are here to give me strength, your crook, your staff, at my side.

- Psalm 23

Be a cause of joy to others. Speak well of everybody. Smile at all you meet.

Deliberately make three acts of loving kindness every day.

Confess any sin against charity.

If you offend anyone - even a small child- ask forgiveness before going to bed.

Read about, meditate on, and speak of this love.

- Mother Teresa

Do not let your right hand know what your left hand is doing.

- Jesus

You have the power to think what thoughts you like.

You can choose which thoughts you will accept or reject.

Your choice lies in thinking or not thinking them in the first place.

If you really understand this fundamental principle, you will from now onwards watch your habitual thinking with the utmost care.

-Emmet Fox

Very young children are not afraid to express how they feel.

They are so loving that if they perceive love, they melt into love.

They are not afraid to love at all.

That is the description of a normal human being.

As children, we are not afraid of the future or ashamed of the past.

Our normal human tendency is to enjoy life, to play, to explore, to be happy, to love.

- Miguel Ruiz

The supreme reality stands revealed in the consciousness of those who have conquered themselves.

They live in peace, alike in cold and in heat, pleasure and pain, praise and blame.

-Bhagavad Gita

Meditation can be described as learning how to stay with the itch and the urge to scratch without scratching.

-Pema Chödrön

It is the pleasure of the bee to gather the honey of the flower, but is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.

-Kahlil Gibran

Aimless Love

This morning, as I walked along the lakeshore, I fell in love with a wren.

And later in the day with a mouse

the cat had dropped under the dining room table.

In the shadows of the evening,

I fell for a seamstress still at her machine

in the tailor's window

and later, for a bowl of broth,

steam rising like smoke from a naval battle.

This is the best kind of love, I thought,

without recompense,

without gifts,

or unkind words,

without suspicion,

or silence on the telephone.

- Billy Collins

Be inspired by truth

Invigorated with what you have

Excited to play the part of you,

And you might just live

Happily ever after.

After all,

A fairy tale is just another story told...

Until you decide to make it yours.

- Krystal Lorraine

No one looks for the stars when the sun's out.

A person blended into God does not disappear.

They are just completely soaked in God's qualities.

-Rumi

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