Life: the upward thrust of evolution.

The Gita is a book of choices: The downward pull of our evolutionary past.

The struggle is between two halves of human nature, and life offers no fiercer battle than this war within; We have no choice about the fighting, It is built into human nature.

We shape ourselves in our world by what we believe and think and act on whether for good or for ill.

- Bhagavad Gita

“Study of Two Pears”

The shadows of the pears
Are blobs in the green cloth
The pears are not seen as the observer wills

- Wallace Stevens

In times we’re strong, we prepare for when we are weak.

- anonymous

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“Oh would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others do?

- Robert Burns

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled
Right thinking on all subjects, in every department of life.
Outer things are but consequences of what goes on in the Secret Place.
As within, so without.
No good thing is out of your reach, here and now.
We should constantly pray for wisdom and guidance and for the living action of the Holy Spirit upon us.

- Emmet Fox

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Praise Christ, all you living creatures. For him, you and I were created. With every breath we love him. Psalms fulfill your dim, unconscious song, O brothers in this wood.

- Thomas Merton

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Don't tell me you love the rain
when you don't stay to watch her dry
after she's fallen for you.

- Lauren Eden

For the month of the Holy Souls and in union with their silence, let us offer to God many acts of silence.

- Mother Teresa
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I have lit a fire on earth and shall watch over it until it blazes.
Whoever is near me is near the fire, and whoever is far from me is far from the Kingdom of our Father.

-Jesus

I am here in this solitude before you, and I am Glad because you see me here.
For it is here, I think, that you want to see me and I'm seen by you.
My being here is a response you have asked of me, to something I have not clearly heard. But I have responded... you have called me here to be repeatedly born in the spirit. As your child. Repeatedly burn in light, in unknowing, in faith, in awareness, ingratitude, in poverty, in presence, and in praise.

- Thomas Merton

“They love him” “He loves them”

Those joining loves are both qualities of God. Fear is not.

-Rumi
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As children we didn't have the opportunity to choose our beliefs, but we agreed with what was passed on to us via other humans.

-Miguel Ruiz

Mothers are the most powerful antidote against our individualistic and selfish tendencies. Because mothers, even at the worst of times, know how to bear witness to tenderness, unconditional dedication, the power of hope.

- Pope Francis

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