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Holy Mother, on the cross, Christ entrusted us to you as your children.
Today we join you with praising him.
-Little Office
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, For this sums up the law and the prophets.
- Matthew 7:12
Faith as a spiritual faculty is different from “blind faith",
which is an unquestioning belief in something we are told
or an unconditional devotion to a teacher
in a way that disregards our own experience.
Faith actually arises from our own experience.
-James Baraz
Spiritual life begins with a good and sincere confession.
Why confession?
It is necessary for us to be free.
If we are hiding or controlled by sin, we cannot be free.
Sin is like a chain.
It destroys life.
Confession is as important to Jesus as it is to us.
It is a joint action, Jesus and me.
- Mother Teresa
Tell a secret to one good friend, and that secret might stay with him;
but tell two people your secret, and everybody will know pretty soon.
-Cowboy Hãvamãl
You have seen your brother, you have seen your God.
- Jesus
There is only one way under the sun by which man can attain harmony, and that is by bringing about a radical and permanent change for the better in his own consciousness.
There is no other.
-Emmet Fox
Knowledge has entertained me, shaped me and it has failed me.
Something in me still starves.
- Mary Oliver
Pause- take time- do not fill up the spaces.
- Esther deWaal
Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice.
Better than knowledge is meditation.
But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.
- Krishna
Meditation allows us to lighten up and to appreciate our world and ourselves unconditionally.
Without conceptual padding.
-Pema Chödrön
Just be with your breath, just be with your body.
Sit down, and don't try to think of anything else.
Let the breath be your thought.
There will be constant thought chatter, which is the security that the ego has created.
-Chögyam Trungpa
God have mercy on the poor and protect them from winter;
warm their thin-clad bodies with thy merciful hands;
look upon the orphans who were sleeping in wretched houses, suffering from hunger and cold.
Here, O Lord, the call of widows who are helpless and shivering with fear for their young.
Open, O Lord, the hearts of all humans, that they may see the misery of the weak.
Have mercy upon the sufferers who knock on doors, and lead the wayfarers into warm places.
Watch, O Lord, over the little birds and protect the trees and fields from the anger of the storm;
for thou art merciful and full of love.
-Kahlil Gibran
Death
Going to sleep, I cross my hands on my chest.
They will place my hands like this.
It will look as though I'm flying into myself.
- Bill Knot
And within her moments
she thought less about him
and more about loving herself,
her life,
her freedom.