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We are already one.
But we imagine that we are not.
And what we have to recover is our original unity.
- Thomas Merton
Do not rise at night,
unless you are spying on your enemies,
or seeking a place to relieve yourself.
-Hãvamãl
felix culpa (a happy fault)
It is humbling to stand before God with our failures, wounds, chaos, vulnerability.
I think we all know deep down that it is only by facing them that we can hope to enlighten the darkness.
We must start by grieving honestly, without pretense or excuse.
- Esther deWaal
Love, in order to be true, must hurt.
God loved the world so much that he gave his Son.
His Son loved the world so much that he gave his life.
He asks us to love as he loved, by giving ourselves.
- Mother Teresa
What good is it to lose one's life in acquiring the world?
- Jesus
The material plane is only objectified thought.
We should realize the folly of trying to collect large sums of money or goods, or material property of any kind.
In Divine Mind, demand and supply are one.
Until you realize this, you will never be really safe from want.
In fact, there is no way in which one can have security without spiritual understanding.
-Emmet Fox
Develop awareness of all the self-limiting, fear-based beliefs that make you unhappy.
You take an inventory of all that you believe and through this process you begin the art of transformation.
You achieve the mastery of transformation by changing the fear-based agreements that make you suffer, and reprogramming your own mind, in your own way.
- Miguel Ruiz
When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union.
-Bhagavad Gita
Being fully present, having contact with the immediacy of our experience, is reality.
-Chögyam Trungpa
You have been told that,
even like a chain,
you are as weak as your weakest link.
But this is half the truth.
You are also as strong as your strongest link.
To measure you by your smallest deed
is to reckon the power of the ocean to the frailty of its foam.
-Kahlil Gibran
Why The Aging Poet Continues To Write
At a coneflower's seed-making center,
hundreds of tiny dark florets—each stiff and sharp—
take turns oozing
their flashes of pollen.
A flagrant
bee-stopping show.
Making a bright circle,
the outermost spiky blossoms
open first to then fade.
Shrinking day by day,
the ring of yellow flame
moves inward.
That heart—what's at
the flower's very core
—blazes last.
-Paulann Petersen
I don't mind the mirror,
I see hope in my reflection.
-M. FireChild
If anyone wants to know what ”spirit" is,or what “God’s Fragrance” means,
lean your head toward him or her.
Keep your face there close
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