This is what it means to seek God perfectly:

to have a will that is always ready to fold back within itself

and to draw all the powers of the soul down from its deepest center

to rest in silent expectancy for the coming of God.

- Thomas Merton

You should be only a little wise, never too wise.

The happiest people throughout their lives

are those who know just enough.

-Hãvamãl

Transformation comes about when we are willing to admit God's words into our lives, to hear God's voice, and to act upon it.

Mind, senses, heart, must all be open to receive.

This means we must pay attention without being too passive- listening, hearing, reflecting.

- Esther deWaal

Nothing will destroy our joy of loving Jesus as much as money.

It is one of the keys of the devil that will open any heart.

It is the beginning of great evil.

- Mother Teresa

Be as watchful as snakes and as innocent as doves.

- Jesus

What matters to you, truly, is not people or things or conditioning in themselves, but the thoughts and beliefs that you hold concerning them.

Right reaction is the supreme art of life, and Jesus compressed the secret of that art into a sentence when he said:

                       Resist not evil.

- Emmett Fox

Just your existence proves the existence of God.

- Miguel Ruiz

Meditation is the direct means of becoming integrated, within one’s truest, deepest Self.

At the beginning of the spiritual life, great exertion is required; as the summit is approached, though the climb gets no easier, the dimension of contemplation or stillness is added.

In climbing this mountain, willpower, self help, and intense personal effort are absolute essentials.

“One should lift oneself up by one’s self.”

- Krishna

Our resentments and self-centeredness, as familiar as they are, are not our basic nature.

-Pema Chödrön

And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge,

so must each one of you be alone and knowledge of God and understanding of the earth.

- Kahlil Gibran

Fulfillment is not so much about being at the peak.

It's about looking at your blistered and calloused

hands and feet

knowing that you climbed

that goddamned mountain bare.

-Daniel Saint

Ask Me

Sometime when the river is ice ask me

mistakes I have made. Ask me whether

what I have done is my life. Others

have come in their slow way into

my thought, and some have tried to help

or to hurt: ask me what difference

their strongest love or hate has made.

- Anonymous

I will listen to what you say.

You and I can turn and look

at the silent river and wait.

We know the current is there, hidden; and there

are comings and goings from miles away

that hold this stillness exactly before us.

What the river says, that is what I say.

- William Stafford

The minute I heard my first love story

I started looking for you, not knowing

How blind that was.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.

They're in each other all along.

- Rumi

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