Sweet Christ, discover diamonds
And sapphires in my verse
While I burn sap of my pine house
For the praise of the ocean sun.

Sink from your shallows, soul, into eternity.
We touch the rays we cannot see.
We feel the light that seems to sing.

- Thomas Merton

Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth.
The spiritual meaning of this text is the secret of Dominion; literally the Key of Life.

-The Philosopher's stone of The Alchemist that turns the base metal of limitations and trouble into the “gold” of harmony; true comfort.

-All causation is mental- The manifestation of your mental states. The “Earth” is the whole of your outer experience. To inherit the earth is to have dominion over that experience.

Meek.: open mindedness, faith in God, and understanding that the will of God is joyous, interesting, and vital, and much better than anything we can think for ourselves.

-Emmet Fox

Voids in Form
When, just as they are, white dewdrops gather
On scarlet Maple leaves
regard the scarlet beads!

-Sojun

“A person is what his shraddha is”; that which is placed in the heart; beliefs we hold so deeply that we never think to question them. It is our very substance.

“We live in what we love”

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought; We are molded by our thoughts.”

“Secretly nature seeks and hunts and tries to ferret out the track in which God may be found.”

- Meister Eckhart

There is another kind of tablet, one already completed and preserved inside you. A spring overflowing it’s springbox. A freshness in the center of the chest. This other intelligence does not turn yellow or stagnate. It's fluid, and doesn't move from the outside to the inside through the conduits of plumbing - learning.

The second knowing is a fountainhead from within you, moving out.

- Rumi

In the depths of my being, you are my God,
At the rising of the Sun, I seek your face.
My heart thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you,
in a barren and dry land where no water is.
My search for you in unexpected places
At the edge of the known, in the language of dreams
There may I look long and lovingly.
There may I listen for the word beyond words,
There may I wait for a glimpse of your glory.

- Psalm 63.
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Let anyone who has power renounce it.

- Jesus
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On All Saints Day we pray to those who are where they want to go.
On All Saints Day, we pray for those still suffering in purgatory and far from God.

- Mother Teresa.
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Each and every one of us
A beast imprisoned inside
The tragedy of man happens when
He unleashes the Beast
And imprisons the man

- Daniel Saint

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