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“Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.”

- Stan Smith

But truly great souls seek my divine nature. They worship me with a one-pointed mind, having realized that I am the eternal source of all. Constantly striving, they make firm their resolve and worship me without wavering. Full of devotion, they sing my divine glory.

- Bhagavad Gita 9:13-14

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

Your thoughts, words and deeds are painting the world around you.

- Jewel Diamond Taylor -

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

- Mahatma Gandhi, 1925

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted

- George Kneller -

Wholeheartedness is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have 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 don't know what to do. It humbles you. It opens your heart.

Pema Chödrön
The Wisdom of No Escape

When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change.

- Audrey McLaughlin –

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

- Lao Tzu -

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

- George Eliot –

Death helps us to see what is worth trusting and loving and what is a waste of time.

- J. Neville Ward –

In the continuous flow of blessing our heart finds meaning and rest.

David Steindl-Rast
A Listening Heart

Arouse your will, supreme and great, Practice love, give joy and protection; Let your giving be like space, Without discrimination or limitation. Do good things, not for your own sake But for all the beings in the universe; Save and make free everyone you encounter, Help them attain the wisdom of the way.

- Prajnaparamita

“One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”

- Margaret Mead

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.

- Plato -

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

Henry David Thoreau

All profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by silence.

Herman Melville

In silence alone does a man's truth bind itself together and strike root.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Silence is audible to all men, at all times, and in all places. She is when we hear inwardly, sound when we hear outwardly.

Henry David Thoreau

Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being.

Thomas Merton

Pic of Mother Meera
People want lectures. I give them silence.

Mother Meera

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge full-formed and majestic into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

Thomas Carlyle

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

- David Ben Gurion

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.

- David Brower –

The next message you need is always right where you are.

Ram Dass

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.

- A. Neilen –

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”

Storm Jameson

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

Will Henry

It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.

- Irish proverb –

The quest of the human heart for meaning is the heartbeat of every religion.

David Steindl-Rast
Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

- Henry David Thoreau –

One 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. Lindaman
Thinking in the Future Tense

The education of attention would be an education par excellence.

- William James –

I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when.

Philip Gulley
Porch Talk

While you have a thing it can be taken from you ... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

- James Joyce -

Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.

Pema Chödrön

“Ingenuity plus courage plus work equals miracles. ”

Bob Richards

Abundance is a fact of nature. It is a fundamental law of nature, that there is enough and it is finite. Its finiteness is no threat; it creates a more accurate relationship that commands respect, reverence, and managing those resources with the knowledge that they are precious and in ways that do the most good for the most people.

- Lynne Twist -

If 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 Chödrön
When Things Fall Apart

Expect 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 Breathnach

When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out.
David L. Weatherford

“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”

Albert Einstein

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

- Amelia Earhart –