This Week’s Quotation: Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, as all things are passing. God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God. God alone is sufficient. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila Beacons of Light Hardship, loss, and tragedy
This Week’s Quotation: Let’s get loose with compassion. Let’s drown in the delicious ambiance of love. An awake heart is like a sky that pours light. ~ Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, Persian Mystic The Ambiance of Love This morning I woke up with the words from a
This Week’s Quotation: There is another dimension to the [spiritual] journey—the mystery of how our individual light relates to the light of the whole. When consciously recognized, this hidden aspect of spiritual life orients the seeker away from a solely personal journey back to God,
This Week’s Quotation: I will forgive and see this differently. These words give you power over all events that seem to have power over you. Shall we not learn to say these words when we have understood their power to release all minds from bondage?
This Week’s Quotation: Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. ~ St. Francis of Assisi Overcoming the Personal Self Transcending the personal self and its history is the path to expressing our authentic being.
This Week’s Quotation: A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Proverbs 17:22 A Merry Heart I’m certain we all know what a broken spirit feels like. Not good at all. And I suspect we would all
This Week’s Quotation: Don’t worry if your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? The Source is within you, and this whole world is springing up from it. Make
This Week’s Quotation: But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you. Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also
This Week’s Quotation: To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us—and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love; every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with
This Week’s Quotation: The mind is everything. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind. ~ Buddha Mind Matters
This Week’s Quotation: Learn to turn to each person as the most sacred person on Earth, to each moment as the most sacred moment that has ever been given to us. Then perhaps we are awake a bit more, perhaps breathing together with God. ~
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: