Mother of Christ, our hope, our Patroness, Star of the Sea,

our beacon in distress, guide to the shores of everlasting day

God's holy people on their Pilgrim way.

- The Little Office

Life's afflictions are the beginning of our inner- healing.

-Allen Kardec

Concentration is a natural state of oneness of mind wherein the mind can rest within itself.

This quality of mind, Samadhi, carries with it a sense of well being, of harmony, of ease.

As the meditation stabilizes, that quality starts to pervade our emotional life.

- Guy Armstrong

And while you should listen to people's advice, don't just do whatever they say.

You've got a head on your shoulders; use it boy.

-Cowboy Hãvamãl

Jesus’ parents looked for a simple dwelling place for his birth, but there was none.

If they came to you and search for a home, would they choose your heart and all that it holds?

- Mother Teresa

Let your yes be your yes and your no be your no.

- Jesus

One thing that matters, in the last resort, is to keep thoughts right about other people- even about yourself.

The right thought about God, and the right thought about fellow man, and the right thought about one's self;

that is the law and the prophets.

Judge not.

-Emmet Fox

Heaven on Earth

The dream you are living is your creation.

It is your perception of reality that can change at anytime.

Why not use your mind, your imagination, and your emotions to dream heaven?

- Miguel Ruiz

God's gaze is the gaze of a loving father from whom no secrets are hidden,

the gaze which lights up all the dark and hidden corners of my heart.

It is a shaft of light penetrating all my defenses,

whose purpose is not to judge,

but rather to enlighten what is wrong in order to heal and restore.

God wants to recognize what is true, because only the truth can set us free.

- Esther deWaal

Whatever you do, make an offering to me- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering.

- Krishna

When I realized that I am triggered, I think of it as a neutral moment, a moment in time, a moment of truth that can go either way.

In that precious moment, we start to make choices that lead to happiness and freedom

rather than choices that lead to unnecessary suffering

and the obscuration of our intelligence, our warmth, our capacity to remain open and present with the natural movement of life.

-Pema Chödrön

Love, humiliated in its nakedness, is greater than love that seeks triumph in disguise.

-Kahlil Gibran

Winter has withered everything

in this cold mountain place:

dignity is in its desolation now, and beauty

in in the cold clarity of the moon.

-Saigyõ

The divine command to BE, that universe of qualities is beyond any pointing to.

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-Rumi

No shiny ball in the sky

could ever compare to your spirit.

Stars sputter, falter and die.

Too often, what we see is already gone.

But you are a glorious, living, breathing soul.

In your hands is the power to master fate.

In your heart, in your mind, is the key to unlock any door,

no matter how it locks.

Oh, beautiful human,

I know that the dark days are heavy,

but know that your purpose is to shine

brighter than any rhinestone glittering across the sky.

-Dave Wise

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