Keep me, above all things, from sin.

But give me the strength that waits upon you in silence and peace.

Give me humility in which alone is rest, and deliver me from pride, which is the heaviest of burdens.

And possess my whole heart with this simplicity of love.

Occupy my whole life with the one thought and the one desire of love, that I may love for You alone.

-Thomas Merton

When the wind blows, row your boat on a calm sea, court a lover at night time (for the day has many eyes).

Value is ship for its speed, a shield for its protection, a sword for its sharpness, and a woman for her kiss.

-Hãvamãl

The river is gentle in the soft evening,

and all the steps of my life have brought me home.

- Ruth Bidgood

Our service to others should be kind, sweet, humble, unspoiled by selfishness.

Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.

Be the living expression of God's kindness.

- Mother Teresa

There was a rich farmer with an abundant crop, and he thought to himself, "What shall I do? There's no room for storing all this produce.”

It never occurred to him that he might share his abundance with the hungry and needy.

Instead, he planned to pull down his barn and build a bigger one.

And that very night he died.

-Jesus

From time immemorial, mankind has cherished the pathetic illusion that outward acts, which are so easy, can be made to take the place of an interior change in thought and feeling, which is so difficult.

- Emmet Fox

You don't need to blame your parents for teaching you to be like them.

What else could they teach you but how what they know?

They did the best they could, and if they abused you, it was due to their own domestication, their own fears, their own beliefs.

They had no control over the programming they received, so they couldn't have behaved any differently.

-Miguel Ruiz

Those who have conquered themselves are completely fulfilled by spiritual wisdom and self-realization.

Having conquered their senses, they have climbed the summit of human consciousness.

To such people a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.

Because they are impartial, they rise to great heights.

-Krishna

The three classic styles of looking for relief in the wrong places are pleasure seeking, numbing, out, and using aggression.

-Pema Chödrön

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.

But you are the life and the veil.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in the mirror.

But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

-Kahlil Gibran

So he who strongly feels, behaves.

The very bird, grown taller as he sings, steels his form straight up.

Though he is captive

his mighty singing says

satisfaction is a lovely thing,

how pure a thing is joy.

This is mortality,

This is eternity.

-Marianne Moore

Your heart is only as fragile as you let it be.

Rip it out of your chest and let the world see.

Showing people that you feel something only makes you stronger.

And one day, someone will come along and love you, not just for the way you shine, but for the scratches in your armor.

Especially the ones that run the deepest.

-Zack Grey

When someone is counting out gold for you,

don't look at your hands,

or the gold.

Look at the giver.

-Rumi

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