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11/02/2007Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.Rabindranath Tagore11/03/2007That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Simone de Beauvoir11/04/2007The Glory of God is a human being fully alive.St. Irenaeus11/05/2007Pray - period! Don't expect anything. Or better, expect nothing. Prayer cleansesus of expectations and allows holy will, providence, and life itself an entry.What could be more worth the effort -- or the noneffort?Thomas Moore11/06/2007Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourselfright and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just c

ontemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.Pema Chodron11/07/2007Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.Pir Vilayat Inayat KhanAlchemical Wisdom11/08/2007If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.Margaret Fuller11/09/2007In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Kahlil GibranThe Prophet11/10/2007The awakened heart says, "I must give, I must not demand." Thus it enters a gatethat leads to a constant happiness.Hazrat Inayat KhanThe Bowl of Saki11/11/2007Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.Carl Jung11/12/2007

Goodness is the only investment which never fails.Henry David Thoreau11/13/2007Do not pride yourself on humility or poverty; pride yourself on your divine inheritance.Pir Vilayat Inayat KhanAlchemical Wisdom11/14/2007To treat every human being as a shrine of God is to fulfill all religion.Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat KhanBowl of Saki11/15/2007By saying grace, we release the Divine sparks in our food.

Rabbi Herschel11/16/2007To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the


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greatest gift you can offer to the universe.Eckhart TolleStillness Speaks11/17/2007To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.Pir Vilayat Inayat KhanAlchemical Wisdom

11/18/2007Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did youknow that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a centuryago?Bernice Fitz-Gibbon11/19/2007It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.Kahlil Gibran11/20/2007The creation is not a study, a roughed-in sketch; it is supremely, meticulouslycreated, created abundantly, extravagantly, and in fine....Even on the perfectly

ordinary and clearly visible level, creation carries on with an intricacy unfathomable and apparently uncalled for.Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker's Creek11/21/2007One must have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star.Friedrich Nietzsche11/22/2007Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt bythe flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred by human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth.Pir Vilayat Inayat KhanCall of the Dervish

11/23/2007When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, "Ah," you are participating in divinity.Joseph Campbell11/24/2007Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.David Steindl-RastA Listening Heart11/25/2007I think over again my small adventures, my fears, those small ones that seemed so big, all those vital things I had to get and to reach, and yet there is only one great thing: to live and see the great day that dawns, and the light that fills the world.Old Innuit Song11/26/2007Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel11/27/2007True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.Cesar ChavezEulogy for Rufino Contreras, Calexico, CA, Feb. 14, 197911/28/2007No one has ever become poor by giving.

Anne Frank11/29/2007With wings I have won for myself in ardent love's striving I will soar.


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Gustav Mahlerfinale to his Second Symphony11/30/2007Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures.Paramahansa Yogananda

12/1/2007My profession is always to be alert, to find God in nature, to know God's lurking places, to attend to all the oratorios and the operas in nature.Henry David Thoreau12/2/2007The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.Eden Phillpotts12/3/2007The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.Jon Kabat-Zinn12/4/2007

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.Robert Frost12/5/2007Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all thethings I am happy without."Jack KornfieldAfter the Ecstasy, the Laundry12/6/2007You have made me so rich, oh God, please let me share out your beauty with openhands.Etty HillesumLetters from Westerbork

12/7/2007Prayer is an act of love, words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.St. Teresa of AvilaThe Way of Perfection12/8/2007Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon.Ikkyu - Zen-monk poet, 1394-148112/9/2007The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.Hazrat Inayat KhanGayan12/10/2007Pain is as frost is to some plants: it strengthens them. Pain is very importantin the transformation of a person.Pir Vilayat Inayat KhanAlchemical Wisdom12/11/2007Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.Florida Scott-Maxwell12/12/2007A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.

Baha'u'llah12/14/2007Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is t


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he spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.Dennis Waitley12/15/2007Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.Paul Brunton12/16/2007

If we perceived Life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience ofphysical Life and walk the Earth in a very deep sense of gratitude.Gary ZukavThoughts from the Seat of the Soul12/17/2007One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormyworld is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.Clarissa Pinkola Estes12/18/2007No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.

Elie Wiesel12/19/2007Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is aportion of thyself.Ralph Waldo Emerson12/20/2007God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a process of subtraction.Meister Eckhart12/21/2007Every loss in life I consider as the throwing off of an old garment in order toput on a new one; and the new garment has always been better than the old one.Hazrat Inayat Khan

Gayan12/22/2007Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.Padre PioQuiet Moments with Padre Pio (Patricia Treece ed.)12/23/2007If you want to receive divine light, pray. If you have begun to make progress and want this light to be intensified within you, pray. And if you have reached the summit of perfection and want to be super-illumined so as to remain in that state, pray.Angela of FolignoComplete Works (Paulist Press)12/24/2007Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.Marcus Tullius Cicero12/25/2007Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.Louise Driscoll

I salute you.

There is nothing I can give you which you have not,

but there is much that, while I cannot give, you can take.No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take heaven.


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No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant. Take peace.The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy.

So, at this Christmastime, I greet you with the prayer that, for you, now and forever, the day breaks and the shadows flee away.

--Fra GiovanniExcerpt from letter, Christmas Eve, 1513

________________________________________KindnessLiving The Ideal

Kindness is an ideal that is easily accessible to all of us. We all know that asmall kindness can make our journeys lighter and more enjoyable. Even bringing an instance of kindness to mind can put a smile on your face days or weeks later

or perhaps even inspire you to share kindness with another. Though it may seem simple to the point of insignificance, many cultures throughout the world and history have recognized kindness as a powerful virtue. It may be the simplest way to experience and share all the grandest ideals of humanity. We can make the choice to act from the best place within ourselves at any time, while simultaneouslyrecognizing the highest potential in another with the smallest of acts, nourishing the seed of hope in each soul we encounter.

In a way, kindness acts as the oil that makes the engine of our world move moresmoothly and with less friction. We can still get where we are going but the ride is more pleasant, and those around us can share in the ideal world that we help to create. We are all fortunate that kindness is limitless in its supply and available to everyone. When we act in ways that confirm our ideals, we make the i

deal our reality. Then, instead of affirming the experience of struggle and competition, we can shift our experience to the reality of ease and pleasurable camaraderie with the fellow citizens of the world.

Whether giving way to someone in traffic or letting someone go ahead of us in line, donating money or sharing our homes in a crisis, we actively create a universe of kindness and giving with every choice we make. The smallest gesture can bring a smile to light the shadow of an unpleasant situation or remove tension from a difficult task, but its effects can echo and extend far beyond the moment. Wecan be sure that we will receive a kindness in return, but giving is its own reward. Kindness expands the light within us and reaches out to touch the light inothers as well, giving us all a glimpse of the glow that has the power to enlighten our world.

12/26/2007All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.Rainer Maria Rilke12/27/2007The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.Albert Schweitzer12/28/2007You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatmentof each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kind

les joy in the heart of one who receives.St. Seraphim of Sarov12/29/2007


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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.Jacques Maritain12/30/2007Where there is great love there are always miracles.Willa Cather12/31/2007While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassu

re us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see.Sarah Ban Breathnach01/01/2008Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances.Timothy MillerHow To Want What You Have01/02/2008Some people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly andnaively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.Abraham H. Maslow

01/03/2008But only the dance is sure! Make it your own. Who can tell What is to come of it?William Carlos Williams"The Dance" in Pictures from Brueghel01/04/2008Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembersone's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.Yoko Ono01/05/2008Why fill the heart with hopes? Leave it empty for God.Robert Mertens

01/06/2008What is real prayer? Praise to God. And the meaning of praise? Appreciating; thus opening the heart more and more to the divine beauty one sees in manifestation.Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat KhanBowl of Saki01/07/2008We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.Brother David Steindl-Rast01/08/2008Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.Carl Jung01/09/2008How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain toofrightened.Hafiz, translated by Daniel LadinskyLove Poems from God01/10/2008Thanks to the human heart by which we live; thanks to its tenderness, its joys,and fears.William Wordsworth01/11/2008You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you

must do what you can to stop them - for they are harming themselves, as well asthose who suffer from their actions.His Holiness the Dalai Lama


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1/12/2008If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.Terry Lynn Taylor1/13/2008We would give anything for what we have.Tony Hoagland

1/14/2008Claiming your own blessedness always leads to a deep desire to bless others.Henri Nouwen1/15/2008Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.Thomas MertonThoughts in Solitude1/16/2008The unthankful heart...discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour,some heavenly blessings!

Henry Ward Beecher1/17/2008To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous andnoble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.Johannes A. Gaertner1/18/2008I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.Duke Ellington1/19/2008Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.Henry Ward Beecher1/20/2008Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

E.B. WhiteCharlotte's Web1/21/2008All respectability, all honor is meaningless if it drives you against your nature. What can you do if you are not a lotus flower, but just a marigold? Enjoy being a marigold.Chandan1/22/2008The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer.Attributed to the Prophet Muhammad1/23/2008One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happyover the good fortune of others.Archibald Rutledge1/24/2008It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.May Sarton1/25/2008If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.Dr. Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross1/26/2008When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Willie Nelson1/27/2008From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also


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truly grateful.David Steindl-RastGratefulness, the Heart of Prayer1/28/2008Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. Godis awake.

Victor Hugo1/29/2008The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moonmove in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.Blessed Mother Teresa1/30/2008The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.Rabindranath TagoreGitanjali LXIX1/31/2008Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we

shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.Teilhard de Chardin2/1/2008One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?"Rachel Carson2/2/2008Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.Rachel Naomi Remen2/3/2008Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

Marcus Aurelius2/4/2008I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable...but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.Agatha Christi2/5/2008I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.Alice Walker2/6/2008With swift pace, light step, unswerving feet, so that even your steps stir up nodust, go forward securely, joyfully, and swiftly, on the path of prudent happiness.St. Clare of AssisiThe Second Letter to Blessed Agnes of Prague2/7/2008When the pearl is cast down in the mud it does not become dishonoured the more,nor if it is anounted with balsam oil will it become more precious. But it has its worth in the eyes of its owner at all times.Philip the Gnostic, translated by R. WilsonThe Gospel of Philip2/8/2008Don't let other people's opinions burn holes in your dreams.Elsa Joy Bailey2/9/2008

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For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.St. Therese of Lisieux2/11/2008A humble life dedicated to a great purpose, becomes great.Paul BruntonPerspectives

2/12/2008When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.George Washington Carver2/13/2008A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.Eudora Welty2/14/2008What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.Ray Charles

2/15/2008The same pain that can blemish our personality can act as a creative force, burnishing it into an object of delight.Pir Vilayat Inayat KhanAlchemical Wisdom2/16/2008There are many things to be grateful "for" but, as I ripen with the seasons of life, the many reasons blend into a sacred mystery. And, most deeply, I realize that living gratefully is its own blessing.Michael Mahoney2/17/2008If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everythi

ng.Shunryu Suzuki RoshiBranching Streams Flowing in the Dark2/18/2008Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.The Talmud2/19/2008The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination.John Schaar2/20/2008Mistakes are the portals of discovery.James Joyce2/21/2008It is not a question of whether you "have what it takes," but of whether you take the gifts you have -- they are plenteous -- and share them with all the world.Neale Donald WalschTomorrow's God2/22/2008There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. Theother is as though everything is a miracle.Albert Einstein

2/23/2008All attack is a call for help. When you know this, you begin at once to look deeply into the question of what kind of help is being called for.


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Neale Donald WalschTomorrow's God2/24/2008Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it.Neale Donald WalschTomorrow's God

2/25/2008To this day I believe we are here on earth to live, grow, and do what we can tomake this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.Rosa Parks2/26/2008Great compassion is the root of all forms of worship.His Holiness the Dalai Lama2/27/2008Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blundersand absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson2/28/2008I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.Louisa May Alcott2/29/2008I am, therefore I thank.Cindy Lubar Bishop3/01/2008The whole of the holy life is good friends.The Buddhato his cousin Ananda3/02/2008Music...gives wings to the mind, a soul to the universe, flight to the imaginati

on, a charm to sadness, a life to everything.Plato3/03/2008I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the lengthof it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.Diane Ackerman3/04/2008Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is thatyour mind is always peaceful.Sri Swami Satchidananda3/05/2008Any human who feels that he or she is not "good enough" to cultivate peace and generosity is overlooking the wondrous gift of life. You live, therefore you aregood enough.Dhyani YwahooVoices of Our Ancestors3/06/2008Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them,but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.Louisa May Alcott3/07/2007I've never felt a pain that didn't bear a blessing.Gene Knudsen Hoffman

3/08/2008An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act oflove that succeeds, for love is measured by its own fullness, not by its recept


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ion.Harold Loukes3/09/2008The Divine Beloved longs to play joyously and rest peacefully within the heart of the consecrated lover.Sri Ramakrishna ParamahamsaGreat Swan by Lex Hixon

3/10/2008The next message you need is always right where you are.Ram Dass3/11/2008When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman BarksWe Are Three3/12/2008In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invinciblesummer.Albert Camus3/13/2008

God is not too hard to believe in. God is too good to believe in, we being suchstrangers to such goodness. The love of God is to me absolutely overwhelming.Rev. William Sloane CoffinReligion and Ethics Newsweekly, 8/27/043/14/2008May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers.Shantideva, 8th century Buddhist teacher3/15/2008A secret formula for finding (indeed creating) peace, harmony, and happiness upon the earth: Serve life first, in everything you think and say and do.Neale Donald WalschTomorrow's God

3/16/2008To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in thedance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words.Joanna Macy3/17/2008No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.Aesop3/18/2008Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mindto the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.Barbara Bush3/19/2008The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of theuniverse about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.Rachel Carson3/20/2008What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.Joseph Addison3/21/2008Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.Sarah Ban Breathnach3/22/2008

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Alchemical Wisdom3/23/2008Faith is crumpling and throwing away everything, proposition by proposition, until nothing is left, and then writing a new proposition, your very own, to throwin the teeth of despair.Mary Jean IrionYes, World: A Mosaic of Meditation

3/24/2008Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.Sogyal RinpocheGlimpse After Glimpse3/25/2008Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time tounderstand more, so that we may fear less.Madame Marie Curie3/26/2008Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot

be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of ahealthy mind and healthy heart.Eknath EaswaranWords to Live By3/27/2008Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov3/28/2008May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being.Apache Blessing

3/29/2008If the past is unredeemable, and the future unpredictable, what more practical course is open than to safeguard the present by constant rememberance of the divine?Paul BruntonNotebooks3/30/2008A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.Paramahansa Yogananda3/31/2008When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.Ralph Waldo Emerson4/01/2008To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as thehighest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religion.Albert EinsteinThe Merging of Spirit and Science4/02/2008"Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life withoutpausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day."Kent Nerburn4/03/2008

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?Dorothy Day


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4/04/2008If planetary peace seems beyond our reach, recall: Miracles are natural when werely on the Source of All to carry our burdens with us. Then, even peace is possible.Nan Merrill with Barbara TaylorPeace Planet: Light for Our World4/05/2008

I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all.Myrlie Evers4/06/2008If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.Paramahansa Yogananda4/07/2008The whole universe is breathing as our breath; we limit the process by our assumption that we are doing the breathing.Pir Vilayat Inayat KhanAlchemical Wisdom

4/08/2008Dont ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go out and do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.Howard Thurman4/09/2008Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.Rabindranath Tagore4/10/2008The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered onthe lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.Terry Tempest Williams

from Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer (anthology)4/11/2008When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrenderyourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidanceor for a renewal of inner strength.Paul BruntonMeditations for People in Crisis4/12/2008We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if for only a moment.May Sarton4/13/2008Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.Rachel Carson4/14/2008Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold ofthe fullness of life in hope.David Steindl-RastGratefulness, the Heart of Prayer4/15/2008Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.Simone Weil4/16/2008In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we giv

e, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.Dietrich Bonhoeffer4/17/2008


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Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysisto miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation to reach out toa sphere of light, beauty, truth, love, and power.Paul BruntonMeditations for People in Crisis4/18/2008Help your neighbor's boat across, and lo! your own has reached the shore.

Hindu proverb4/19/2008I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.Martha Washington4/20/2008The love of one's country is a natural thing. But why should love stop at the border?Pablo Casals4/21/2008Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers.

David Steindl-RastGratefulness, the Heart of Prayer4/22/2008If I knew for certain that I should die next week, I would still be able to sitat my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that lifeand death make a meaningful whole.Etty HillesumAn Interrupted Life4/23/2008It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.Rachel Carson4/24/2008

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. Youcannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.Cesar ChavezAddress to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 19844/25/2008Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.Michelangelo4/26/2008Behind every shadow of life is the great light of God.Paramahansa Yogananda4/27/2008Take care of yourself - you never know when the world will need you.Rabbi Hillel4/28/2008A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments ofdeep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed,hands before my face.Etty HillesumAn Interrupted Life4/29/2008It is never too late to become what you might have been.George Eliot4/30/2008

Happiness is not what makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy.David Steindl-RastA Listening Heart


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5/1/2008Great necessities call out great virtues.Abigail Adams5/2/2008We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.Winston Churchill5/3/2008

Everybody is unique. Do not compare yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.Baal Shem Tov5/4/2008So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has beendenied.Helen Keller5/5/2008My storehouse having been burnt down, nothing obstructs my view of the bright moon.Masahide, Zen poet5/6/2008

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciationis not to utter words, but to live by them.John Fitzgerald Kennedy5/7/2008First thing in the morning, before you meet or greet anyone, remember to greet all of nature, all visible and invisible creatures. Say to them: "I am grateful for your work, I love you and want to be in harmony with you!" At this very moment, in response to your greeting, all of nature will open to you and send you energy for the entire day.Omraam Mikhael AivanhovProsveta Publishing5/8/2008If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looki

ng-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.Thomas Kempis5/9/2008However much concerned I was at the problem of misery in the world, I never letmyself get lost in broodings over it. I always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of it to an end.Albert Schweitzer5/10/2008Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.William Arthur Ward5/11/2008Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great winds across the sky.Chippewa, translated by Robert Bly5/12/2008Every time you express gratitude or compassion for any aspect of yourself or someone else, you breathe life in.Mariah Fenton GladisTales of a Wounded Healer5/13/2008What we would like to do is change the world -- make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.Dorothy DayCatholic Worker, June 1946

5/14/2008As the Sun shines upon my heart, so may my heart shine upon others!The Upanishads


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5/15/2008When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.Maya Angelou5/16/2008Wholeheartedness is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. Youhave to find the path that has heart and then walk it impeccably....It's like someone laughing in your ear, challenging you to figure out what to do when you d

on't know what to do. It humbles you. It opens your heart.Pema ChdrnThe Wisdom of No Escape5/17/2008Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, andmagic in it.Goethe5/18/2008The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.Sri Ramakrishna ParamahamsaGospel of Ramakrishna5/19/2008

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.St. Teresa of Avila5/20/2008We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.Gwendolyn Brooks5/21/2008Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.Melody Beattie5/22/2008As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because thefewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gift

s that we accept with gratitude.Etty HillesumAn Interrupted Life5/23/2008The burden which is well borne becomes light.Ovid5/24/2008Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.Emily Dickinson5/25/2008Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.Alice Walker5/26/2008Who is it that can make muddy water clear? No one. But left to stand, it will gradually clear of itself.Lao-TzuTao Te Ching5/27/2008As eternity is reckoned, there's a lifetime in a second.Piet HeinGrooks5/28/2008There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

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ected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?Elizabeth BibescoBalloons5/30/2008Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.Karl Barth

5/31/2008After an orange cloud - formed as a result of a dust storm over the Sahara and caught up by air currents - reached the Philippines and settled there with rain,I understood that we are all sailing in the same boat.Vladimir Kovalyonok (Astronaut)6/01/2008Seeing the bounty and ease within and all around and diligently fanning the flame of certainty opens the channel for dissonance to resolve naturally into harmony.Dhyani YwahooVoices of Our Ancestors6/02/2008

Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.Geoffrey F. Abert6/03/2008If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable.Pema ChodronWhen Things Fall Apart6/04/2008Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.Barbara KingsolverHigh Tide in Tucson

6/05/2008Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God.Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora Leigh6/06/2008Most of us look at our ideals, say how far we are from them, and get depressed.But it is heroic simply to say, "Here are my ideals," state them before the world, and then spend your life trying to live up to them.Keshavan NairNew Dimensions Radio interview6/07/2008The beauty and charm of selfless love and service should not die away from the face of the earth. The world should know that a life of dedication is possible, that a life inspired by love and service to humanity is possible.Anna (Sudhamani)6/08/2008A problem is a chance for you to do your best.Duke Ellington6/09/2008Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you.Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb.Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.BA Tree Full of Angels6/10/2008In the continuous flow of blessing our heart finds meaning and rest.

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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.A.J. Muste6/12/2008We will know what both the fullness and the fulfilment of life mean only when the consciousness that the Spirit is our own very self comes to life within us.Paul BruntonPerspectives

6/13/2008Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belongto you, for it is so much care the less; but try to obtain what you need in life, and make the best of every moment of your life.Hazrat Inayat KhanGayan6/14/2008Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisitesweetness, and heed its silent instruction.Paul BruntonPerspectives6/15/2008

How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessingburns in me.Rabia Al-Adawiyyatranslated by Andrew Harvey6/16/2008In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.Rachel Naomi Remen6/17/2008Every being is an abode of God, worthy of respect and reverence.Hindu Scripture6/18/2008

In a world of tension and breakdown it is necessary for there to be those who seek to integrate their inner lives not by avoiding anguish and running away fromproblems, but by facing them in their naked reality and in their ordinariness.Thomas Merton6/19/2008Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.Bede Griffiths6/20/2008Be the change you wish to see in the world.Mahatma Gandhi6/21/2008People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,and redeemed; never throw out anyone.Audrey Hepburn6/22/2008We may forget with whom we laughed, but not with whom we shared tears.Tansanian proverb6/23/2008Regardless of the name a person uses for the Infinite Force that holds us together, it is the source of our miraculous, unpredictable creativity and our dignity.Ashok Gangadean"Towards a Culture of Peace," Elixir Magazine, Autumn 20076/24/2008In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the re

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6/25/2008Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.Margaret Mead6/26/2008I imagine that the present is as it should be. It is perfectly unfolding even ifI don't understand why.

Evelyn Rodriguez6/27/2008A harvest of justice is sown in peace by those who make peace.James 3:18New Testament6/28/2008When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.Rachel Naomi Remen6/29/2008Suffering exists not for the purpose of hurting us, but to teach us where genuine good is to be found, and thus to make us stronger, more intelligent and more v

ibrant.Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov6/30/2008Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at the sun." We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.Zora Neale HurstonDust Tracks on a Road7/1/2008There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.Howard Thurman7/2/2008God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we

die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.Dag Hammarskjold7/3/2008Each of us can become a blessed channel of peace for the healing of Earth's wounds: We can awaken from apathy and find creative, non-violent ways to transform the abuses rampant in today's world.Nan Merrill with Barbara TaylorPeace Planet: Light for Our World7/4/2008Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you.A life practice from Br. David Steindl-Rast7/5/2008May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgivingascends to heaven.St. Mary Euphrasia PelletierEmbrace the World7/6/2008The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.Thich Nhat HanhPeace Is Every Step7/7/2008

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Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer7/8/2008We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, butby an infinite expectation of the dawn.Henry David Thoreau7/9/2008To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage a

nd strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart.Jack KornfieldA Path with Heart7/10/2008The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in thenoise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.Brother LawrenceThe Practice of the Presence of God7/11/2008

Each minute of life should be a divine quest.Paramahansa Yogananda7/12/2008There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.Etty HillesumAn Interrupted Life7/13/2008There is no large and difficult task that cant be divided into little easy tasks.Buddhist Saying7/14/2008True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment foundedon reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not cha

nge, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.His Holiness the Dalai Lama7/15/2008Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.John Wesley7/16/2008The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.Marcel Proust7/17/2008If you can always smile at life, life will also always smile at you.The Mother at Pondicherry7/18/2008If you dedicate yourself to service, the doors will open.Pir Vilayat Inayat KhanAlchemical Wisdom7/19/2008Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us mosthuman and fully alive.Wendy WrightThe Vigil7/20/2008

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7/21/2008Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore7/22/2008If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work but rather, teach them to long for the endless imme

nsity of the sea.Antoine de Saint-Exupery7/23/2008Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted - a paved road ora washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.Rabbi Harold Kushner7/24/2008The hope that is left after all your hopes are gone -- that is pure hope, rootedin the heart.David Steindl-Rast

Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer7/25/2008Shower Thy grace upon us in the moment of our greatest need, protect us from ourselves, and allow us to be a beacon of light rather than a dark cloud for the ambience that surrounds us. Only with Thy aid can we create that peace within andharmony with the outer environment, both natural and social, for which our soulsyearn.Seyyed Hossein Nasrfrom Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer (anthology)7/26/2008Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.Pir Vilayat Inayat KhanAlchemical Wisdom

7/27/2008It may be that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is theone that sings.Wendell BerryCollected Poems7/28/2008Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure:you were created for Joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.Thomas Merton7/29/2008As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the "atomic age" -- as in being able to remake ourselves.Mahatma Gandhi7/30/2008Gratitude is an ascending reflection of a descending grace.Beverly Novak7/31/2008Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.Mahmd ShabistarThe Mystic Rose Garden8/1/2008

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - th


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ese are some of the rewards of the simple life.John Burroughs8/2/2008True affluence is not needing anything.Gary SnyderQuoted on Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac"8/3/2008

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifferencethat falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other'swonder, each other's human plight.Eudora Welty8/4/2008If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy which upliftsthose who are around you. If you can maintain this habit, this energy will turninto a steady flow of love.Annamalai Swami8/6/2008Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow."

The Talmud8/7/2008All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.sRainer Maria RilkeIn Praise of Mortality, translated and edited by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy8/8/2008It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect weare, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.Joseph Addison8/9/2008Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart strength to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles.St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

Embrace the World8/10/2008All good things are wild, and free.Henry David Thoreau8/11/2008We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.Dakota proverb8/12/2008Think of life as a game, but not as a competition.Neale Donald WalschTomorrow's God8/13/2008Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!Robert Burns8/14/2008Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to managethe mind, just as we manage the outside world.Amma (Sudhamani)8/15/2008Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.Joan HalifaxBeing with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death8/16/2008

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8/17/2008Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.Robert Louis Stevenson8/18/2008Unending peace will come to you only when you are a dedicated person, ready to give. You can never become poor by giving; on the other hand, you will become richer and richer. For such a person, no advertising is necessary. In such a soul yo

u see the light shining.Sri Swami SatchidanandaIntegral Yoga Magazine8/19/2008In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.Brother LawrenceThe Practice of the Presence of God8/20/2008There will be something, anguish or elation, that is peculiar to this day alone.I rise from sleep and say: Hail to the morning! Come down to me, my beautiful unknown.Jessica Powers

8/21/2008I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.Alice WalkerLiving by the Word8/22/2008Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.Paramahansa Yogananda8/23/2008Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

Embrace the World8/24/2008The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart --and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.Alexander SolzhenitsynGulag Archipelago8/25/2008The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sortsof things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.Goethe8/26/2008If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence, like the sunlight will illuminate you in God.St. Issac - 7th Century Hermit Monk8/27/2008Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.Philo of Alexandria8/28/2008If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.Margaret Mead

8/29/2008Don't be content with looking at a rose as beautiful flower. Look at her with Love, so that she enters into your heart and awakens other forces in your heart an


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d soul.Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov8/30/2008Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. Its our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.Mary Lou Retton8/31/2008

Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being.Brother David Steindl-Rast9/1/2008Our walls of division do not rise all the way to heaven.Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow9/2/2008All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.Julian of NorwichRevelations of Divine Love9/3/2008

Instead of looking for love, give it; constantly renew it in yourself and you will always feel its presence within you. It will always be there smiling at you,gazing on you kindly.Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov9/4/2008Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on allthe time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.Sri Ramakrishna ParamahamsaGreat Swan by Lex Hixon9/5/2008Suffering is the sandpaper of our life. It does its work of shaping us. Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

Ram Dass9/6/2008I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what youdid, but people will never forget how you made them feel.Maya Angelou9/7/2008Today is only a small manageable segment of time in which our difficulties neednot overwhelm us. This lifts from our hearts and minds the heavy weight of bothpast and future.AnonymousOne Day at a Time in Al-Anon9/8/2008To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.Robert Louis Stevenson9/9/2008All beauty of this world is wet with the dew of tears.Theodor Haecker9/10/2008The coin that pays for ecstasy is always stamped despair. One cannot love empathically until one wanders there.Jane KraininDictated right before she died of ALS9/11/2008In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

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Christopher Reeve9/13/2008Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. It is thevery purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.Shirley Chisolm9/14/2008Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts.

David Steindl-Rast9/15/2008The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.Hazrat Inayat KhanGayan9/16/2008The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment,instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.Eckart Tolle9/17/2008If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be

a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.Rachel Carson9/18/2008Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.J. Robert Moskin9/19/2008Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.Vaclav Havel9/20/2008The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, a

nd strengthens us thereby to do what's good.Albert Schweitzer9/21/2008If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable.Pema ChodronWhen Things Fall Apart9/22/2008Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blundersand absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.Ralph Waldo Emerson9/23/2008The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people donot just happen.Elisabeth Kbler-Ross9/24/2008Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes youlong to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

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Most of us look at our ideals, say how far we are from them, and get depressed.But it is heroic simply to say, "Here are my ideals," state them before the world, and then spend your life trying to live up to them.Keshavan NairNew Dimensions Radio interview10/09/2008Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself

right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.Pema Chodron10/10/2008Never lose a holy curiosity.Albert Einstein10/11/2008As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.Hazrat Inayat KhanThe Bowl of Saki

10/12/2008Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.Carl Jung10/13/2008Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peacethere is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.Etty HillesumAn Interrupted Life10/14/2008In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hear

ts of others.Paramahansa Yogananda10/15/2008The greatest surprise is that there is anything at all -- that we are here.David Steindl-RastGratefulness, the Heart of Prayer10/16/2008Claiming your own blessedness always leads to a deep desire to bless others.Henri Nouwen10/17/2008With swift pace, light step, unswerving feet, so that even your steps stir up nodust, go forward securely, joyfully, and swiftly, on the path of prudent happiness.St. Clare of AssisiThe Second Letter to Blessed Agnes of Prague10/18/2008So much of modern life is a feverish anticipation of future activity and excitement. We have to learn to step back from this into the freedom and possibility ofthe present.Fr. Bede Griffiths10/19/2008God is the mirror of silence in which all creation is reflected.Paramahansa Yogananda10/20/2008In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we giv

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Take care of yourself - you never know when the world will need you.Rabbi Hillel10/22/2008We can't control our destiny, but we can control who we become.Anne Frank10/23/2008While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more

fully in your heart.St. Francis of Assisi10/24/2008People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.Dorothy Day10/25/2008Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasmin two small jumps.David Lloyd George10/26/2008Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resource

s that are within thy reach.Pindar10/27/2008Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all thethings I am happy without."Jack KornfieldAfter the Ecstasy, the Laundry10/28/2008Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you.A life practice from Br. David Steindl-Rast

10/29/2008Truth has all the benefits of sham without the disadvantages.Dutch proverb10/30/2008How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain toofrightened.Hafiz, translated by Daniel LadinskyLove Poems from God10/31/2008First thing in the morning, before you meet or greet anyone, remember to greet all of nature, all visible and invisible creatures. Say to them: "I am grateful for your work, I love you and want to be in harmony with you!" At this very moment, in response to your greeting, all of nature will open to you and send you energy for the entire day.Omraam Mikhael AivanhovProsveta Publishing11/01/2008Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demands that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new.Jalaja BonheimAphrodite's Daughters11/02/2008There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally agai

n and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.Etty HillesumAn Interrupted Life


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11/03/2008One must have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star.Friedrich Nietzsche11/04/2008The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.Margaret Storm Jameson11/05/2008

Instead of looking for love, give it; constantly renew it in yourself and you will always feel its presence within you. It will always be there smiling at you,gazing on you kindly.Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov11/06/2008We are the ones for whom we have been waiting.Hopi Elders11/07/2008The Glory of God is a human being fully alive.St. Irenaeus11/08/2008Any human who feels that he or she is not "good enough" to cultivate peace and g

enerosity is overlooking the wondrous gift of life. You live, therefore you aregood enough.Dhyani YwahooVoices of Our Ancestors11/09/2008In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.David Steindl-RastGratefulness, the Heart of Prayer11/10/2008Goodness is the only investment which never fails.Henry David Thoreau11/11/2008

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.Louisa May Alcott11/12/2008The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.Henry David ThoreauWalden11/13/2008Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. It is thevery purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.Shirley Chisholm11/14/2008I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.Thomas Edison11/15/2008What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.Ray Charles11/16/2008The present is the only moment that is truly ours, and we ought to make use of it.Blais Pascal11/17/2008Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.

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G.K. Chesterton11/19/2008Living is a thing you do, now or never! Which do you?Piet HeinGrooks11/20/2008People often say that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," and I say that the

most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. Thisempowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.Salma Hayek11/21/2008At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.David Steindl-RastA Listening Heart11/22/2008Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.Marcus Tullius Cicero11/23/2008

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.Alice Walker11/24/2008Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth -that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe11/25/2008Thanks to the human heart by which we live; thanks to its tenderness, its joys,and fears.William Wordsworth11/26/2008If planetary peace seems beyond our reach, recall: Miracles are natural when werely on the Source of All to carry our burdens with us. Then, even peace is poss

ible.Nan Merrill with Barbara TaylorPeace Planet: Light for Our World11/27/2008The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in thenoise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.Brother LawrenceThe Practice of the Presence of God11/28/2008If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything.Shunryu Suzuki RoshiBranching Streams Flowing in the Dark11/29/2008The creation is not a study, a roughed-in sketch; it is supremely, meticulouslycreated, created abundantly, extravagantly, and in fine....Even on the perfectlyordinary and clearly visible level, creation carries on with an intricacy unfathomable and apparently uncalled for.Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker's Creek11/30/2008All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.

Indian Proverb12/01/2008Happiness is not what makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy.


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David Steindl-RastA Listening Heart12/02/2008Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.Sogyal Rinpoche

Glimpse After Glimpse12/03/2008There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.Dr. Albert Schweitzer12/04/2008There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.Charles Morgan12/05/2008In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.

H.W. Chosa12/06/2008Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is thatyour mind is always peaceful.Sri Swami Satchidananda12/07/2008A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.Mark Twain12/08/2008Behind every shadow of life is the great light of God.Paramahansa Yogananda12/09/2008

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.Dennis Waitley12/10/2008The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart --and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.Alexander SolzhenitsynGulag Archipelago12/11/2008Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.Albert Schweitzer12/12/2008All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.Rainer Maria Rilke12/13/2008Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.Robert Benchley12/14/2008Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place

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If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.Margaret Mead12/16/2008Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Elizabeth Harrison12/17/2008Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.Meister Eckhart12/18/2008One of life's most fulfilling moments occurs in the split-second when the familiar is suddenly transformed into the dazzling aura of the profoundly new.Edward B. LindamanThinking in the Future Tense12/19/2008"I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help theworld today."

Julia Butterfly Hill12/20/2008My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifferencethat falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other'swonder, each other's human plight.Eudora Welty12/21/2008Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.Thomas Merton12/22/2008Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God.

Thomas MertonThoughts in Solitude12/23/2008A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way.Deena Metzger12/24/2008Today the planet is the only proper "in group." Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to livein joy.Joseph Campbell12/25/2008One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.Leo Tolstoy12/26/2008If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets.Attar12/27/2008One word can be more precious than all the treasures on earth.Hazrat Inayat KhanThe Bowl of Saki12/28/2008Unending peace will come to you only when you are a dedicated person, ready to g

ive. You can never become poor by giving; on the other hand, you will become richer and richer.... For such a person, no advertising is necessary. In such a soul you see the light shining.


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Sri Swami SatchidanandaIntegral Yoga Magazine12/29/2008I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the lengthof it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.Diane Ackerman12/30/2008

A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on thelabors of other people, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in orderto give in the full measure I have received and am still receiving.Albert Einstein12/31/2008The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt1/1/2009We may forget with whom we laughed, but not with whom we shared tears.Tansanian proverb1/2/2009The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

Maya Angelou1/3/2009Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.Jacques Prvert1/4/2009However much concerned I was at the problem of misery in the world, I never letmyself get lost in broodings over it. I always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of it to an end.Albert Schweitzer1/5/2009To generous souls every task is noble.Euripides

1/6/2009Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.The Talmud1/7/2009Laughter is inner jogging.Norman Cousins1/8/2009To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.Emily Dickinson1/9/2009To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love all pray in their distress, and to these virtuesof delight return their thankfulness.William BlakeThe Divine Image1/10/2009We will know what both the fullness and the fulfilment of life mean only when the consciousness that the Spirit is our own very self comes to life within us.Paul BruntonPerspectives1/11/2009I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything.

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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.Henry Ward Beecher1/13/2009Reality is permeated, indeed flooded, with divine creativity, nourishment, and care.Marcus J. BorgConflict, Holiness, and Politics

1/14/2009One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happyover the good fortune of others.Archibald Rutledge1/15/2009I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.Diane Ackerman1/16/2009There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the pres

ent.Grenville Kleiser1/17/2009Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.Bede Griffiths1/18/2009Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.Robert Louis Stevenson1/19/2009Don't let other people's opinions burn holes in your dreams.Elsa Joy Bailey1/20/2009If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find somet

hing to be thankful for.Terry Lynn Taylor1/21/2009All respectability, all honor is meaningless if it drives you against your nature. What can you do if you are not a lotus flower, but just a marigold? Enjoy being a marigold.Chandan1/22/2009One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?"Rachel Carson1/23/2009Each minute of life should be a divine quest.Paramahansa Yogananda1/24/2009Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat KhanBowl of Saki1/25/2009If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.Thomas a Kempis1/26/2009

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Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer1/27/2009Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.Carl Jung1/28/2009The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay1/29/2009Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of viewto one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.Mahatma Gandhi1/30/2009You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.Joan Baez1/31/2009Today my prayer consisted in simply going to my heart and re-membering all the f

olks I've stored there. It is not cold storage. It is a quite warm and tender place.Sr. Macrina Wiederkehr, OSBA Tree Full of Angels2/1/2009It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.May Sarton2/2/2009"Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life withoutpausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day."Kent Nerburn

2/3/2009Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.Paramahansa Yogananda2/4/2009It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.Rachel Carson2/5/2009Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. Its our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.Mary Lou Retton2/6/2009The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what to hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.Barbara Kingsolver2/7/2009Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.Joan HalifaxBeing with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death2/8/2009Do all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place you are.Nkosi Johnson

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on, a charm to sadness, a life to everything.Plato2/10/2009Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.Thomas MertonThoughts in Solitude

2/11/2009There's a self expansive aspect of gratitude. Very possibly it's a little knownlaw of nature: the more gratitude you have, the more you have to be grateful for.Elaine St. James2/12/2009The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which once realised makes all movements full of meaning and joy.Rabindranath Tagore2/13/2009All good things are wild, and free.Henry David Thoreau

2/14/2009People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,and redeemed; never throw out anyone.Audrey Hepburn2/15/2009The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.Thich Nhat HanhPeace Is Every Step2/16/2009Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.Zen Master Dogen

2/17/2009In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.Baba Dioum, Senegalese conservationist (b. 1937)2/18/2009Great compassion is the root of all forms of worship.His Holiness the Dalai Lama2/19/2009If you dedicate yourself to service, the doors will open.Pir Vilayat Inayat KhanAlchemical Wisdom2/20/2009Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.Emily Dickinson2/21/2009True affluence is not needing anything.Gary SnyderQuoted on Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac"2/22/2009May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers.Shantideva, 8th century Buddhist teacher2/23/2009Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

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l endure as long as life lasts.Rachel Carson2/25/2009The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.Eden Phillpotts2/26/2009

Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, the entire world was created."Baal Shem Tov2/27/2009The next message you need is always right where you are.Ram Dass2/28/2009The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.Sri Ramakrishna ParamahamsaGospel of Ramakrishna3/2/2009Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.

Geoffrey F. Abert3/3/2009I draw prayer round me like a dark protective wall, withdraw inside it as one might into a convent cell and then step outside again, calmer and stronger and more collected again.Etty HillesumAn Interrupted Life3/4/2009Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes.Dietrich Bonhoeffer3/5/2009I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.Duke Ellington

3/6/2009After an orange cloud - formed as a result of a dust storm over the Sahara and caught up by air currents - reached the Philippines and settled there with rain,I understood that we are all sailing in the same boat.Vladimir Kovalyonok (Astronaut)3/7/2009Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.Pir Vilayat Inayat KhanAlchemical Wisdom3/8/2009The burden which is well borne becomes light.Ovid3/9/2009To see a world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity inthe palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.William Blake3/10/2009I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.Blessed Mother Teresa3/11/2009The quest of the human heart for meaning is the heartbeat of every religion.David Steindl-RastGratefulness, the Heart of Prayer3/12/2009We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.

Brother David Steindl-Rast3/13/2009It takes a person of great heart to seethe wisdom the elders have to offer, and s


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o serve them out of gratitude for the life they have passed on to us.Ken Nerburn3/14/2009Not one single atom opposes us.Zen Master Hongzhi3/15/2009I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- tho

se who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.Alice WalkerLiving by the Word3/16/2009Life is an opportunity given to satisfy the hunger and thirst of the soul.Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat KhanBowl of Saki3/17/2009We would give anything for what we have.Tony Hoagland3/18/2009

Borrow the Beloved's eyes. Look through them and you'll see the Beloved's face everywhere. No tiredness, no jaded boredom...things you have hated will become helpers.Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman BarksWe Are Three3/19/2009I am, therefore I thank.Cindy Lubar Bishop3/20/2009Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.Phillips Brooks3/21/2009

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive butsurmount our difficulties.Sara Ban Breathnach3/22/2009Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.David Steindl-RastA Listening Heart3/23/2009I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.Dwight D. Eisenhower3/24/2009In the midst of gathering darkness, light becomes more evident.Bonnie Bostrom3/25/2009Suffering is the sandpaper of our life. It does its work of shaping us. Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.Ram Dass3/26/2009No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.Helen Keller3/27/2009I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness fo

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When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrenderyourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidanceor for a renewal of inner strength.Paul BruntonMeditations for People in Crisis3/29/2009To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the

greatest gift you can offer to the universe.Eckhart TolleStillness Speaks3/30/2009Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances.Timothy MillerHow To Want What You Have3/31/2009To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous andnoble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

Johannes A. Gaertner4/1/2009No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.Aesop4/2/2009God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but wedie on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.Dag Hammarskjold4/3/2009Every being is an abode of God, worthy of respect and reverence.Hindu Scripture4/4/2009

If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy which upliftsthose who are around you. If you can maintain this habit, this energy will turninto a steady flow of love.Annamalai Swami4/5/2009We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny, but what we put into itis ours.Dag Hammarskjold4/6/2009There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.Howard Thurman4/7/2009When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman BarksWe Are Three4/8/2009Seeing the bounty and ease within and all around and diligently fanning the flame of certainty opens the channel for dissonance to resolve naturally into harmony.Dhyani YwahooVoices of Our Ancestors4/9/2009God is not too hard to believe in. God is too good to believe in, we being suchstrangers to such goodness. The love of God is to me absolutely overwhelming.

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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try toinclude, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.Paramahansa Yogananda4/11/2009Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.Padre Pio4/12/2009

Feeling grateful towards someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.Christiane Northrup4/13/2009We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, butby an infinite expectation of the dawn.Henry David Thoreau4/14/2009My storehouse having been burnt down, nothing obstructs my view of the bright moon.Masahide, Zen poet4/15/2009

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish.And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?Robert Louis Stevenson4/16/2009Great necessities call out great virtues.Abigail Adams4/17/2009The love of one's country is a natural thing. But why should love stop at the border?Pablo Casals4/18/2009Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.

Mahmd ShabistarThe Mystic Rose Garden4/19/2009Don't be content with looking at a rose as beautiful flower. Look at her with Love, so that she enters into your heart and awakens other forces in your heart and soul.Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov4/20/2009We are the convergence of the whole universe. We all have a great need for immensity.Pir Vilayat Inayat KhanAlchemical Wisdom4/21/2009Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.Hildegard von Bingen4/22/2009By saying grace, we release the Divine sparks in our food.Rabbi Herschel4/23/2009My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things -- trout as well as eternal salvation -- come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easily.Norman MacleanA River Runs Through It4/24/2009

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"The Dance" in Pictures from Brueghel4/25/2009When the bridge is gone, the narrowest plank becomes precious.Hungarian Proverb4/26/2009A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied.

St. Mary Euphrasia PelletierEmbrace the World4/27/2009Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel4/28/2009If you want to receive divine light, pray. If you have begun to make progress and want this light to be intensified within you, pray. And if you have reached the summit of perfection and want to be super-illumined so as to remain in that state, pray.Angela of FolignoComplete Works (Paulist Press)

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