Virgin of virgins, you were untouched by this stain of sin, that first of all evils, the sad inheritance of the human race.

From my earliest years I have placed my hope in you.

With the power of evil overcomes me and makes my life too sinful for your gaze,

all the more will your unbounded compassion show me your generous love,

because my suffering is so deep, my sinfulness, so unworthy to your aid.

-Luisole Leon

Where we have difficulty in accepting a part of ourselves, we can investigate that through meditation.

We can come to terms with it.

Self-acceptance really means nothing more than being willing to be with our experience moment after moment after moment.

- Guy Armstrong

People’s approval ain't nothing you need.

Half the time it ain't true.

Just be sure you think you’re right;

that you're comfortable in your own skin;

you're all you can count on.

-Cowboy Hãvamãl

Radiate and live in the life of Christ.

Be an angel of comfort to a sick friend.

Be a friend to little children.

Love others as God loves us, with a special, intense love.

Be kind to each other, speak kindly to each other.

It is better to make a mistake while acting kindly than to work a miracle while acting unkindly.

- Mother Teresa

But I tell you, any who has a grudge against his brother is in danger of our Father's judgment.

- Jesus

Our prayers and our words and our acts of kindness to others are the only things that we do keep, for all the rest must disappear.

-Emmet Fox

When we tried to live in the past, how can we enjoy the present?

When we dream of the future, why must we carry the burden of the past?

When are we going to live in the present?

- Miguel Ruiz

Sadness, according to God, does not weigh on the soul, but say to it

“Do not be afraid! Up! Return!”

God knows that man is weak and strengthens him.

- Abbott Isaiah

The choice to turn towards self-realization is always open.

-Bhagavad Gita

Simply to be present for a few seconds, a few minutes, a few hours,

a whole lifetime with our own shifting energies,

and with the unpredictability of life as it unfolds,

wholly partaking in all experiences exactly as they are.

-Pema Chödrön

Autumn Thoughts, Sent Far Away

We share all these disappointments of failing

Autumn a thousand miles apart. This is where

Autumn wind easily plunders courtyard trees,

but the sorrows of distance never scatter away.

Swallow shadows shake out homeward wings.

Orchids scent thin, drifting from old thickets.

These lovely seasons and fragrant years falling

lonely away- We share such emptiness here.

-Po Chü-i

Your intelligence is always with you,

overseeing your body, even though

you may not be aware of its work.

-Rumi

this clock didn't seem to have numbers,

time was neither moving nor still.

The sun rose and set from a horizon I once imagined,

but never tried to look for.

i woke up last Sunday with a fistful of suns in my hand

and unspoken prayers huddled beside my pillow.

i've been asleep all along.

-isaa ismaeil

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