One cannot truly know hope unless they have found out how like despair hope is.

-Thomas Merton

Do not put too much trust in your newly planted crops,

nor in your own child too early-

weather will shape the field

and whim will shape the child,

and neither will stay the same.

-Hãvamãl

New things are possible for us in our life once we acknowledge the inner mess,

Jesus comes to life here and now.

And if we begin by saying: “Where we are, he's been.”

We begin to hear the other side of this great message:

“Where he is, we shall be.”

-Rowan Williams

Joy was the password for the first Christians.

- Mother Teresa

The sick, not the healthy, need a doctor.

- Jesus

Satisfy this sense of lack within yourself with a sense of Divine Love.

- Emmet Fox

If you are not aware that your mind is full of wounds and emotional poison,

you cannot begin to clean and heal the wounds and you will continue to suffer.

- Miguel Ruiz

In the still mind, in the depths of meditation, the Self reveals itself.

Having attained that abiding joy beyond the senses,

revealed in the stilled mind,

they never swerve from the eternal truth.

They desire nothing else

and cannot be shaken by the heaviest burden of sorrow.

- Krishna

There are many ways to discuss ego, but in essence it's the experience of never being present.

Everybody feels a little bit of an itch all the time.

The Buddhist explanation is that we feel this uneasiness because we are always trying to get ground under our feet and it never quite works.

We are always looking for a permanent reference point and it doesn't exist.

Everything is impermanent.

-Pema Chödrön

And he to whom worshipping is a window,

to open, but also to shut,

has not yet visited the house of his soul,

whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

-Kahlil Gibran

Wrinkly Lady Dancer

Going to be an old, wrinkly lady

Going to be one of those frail rag people

Going to have withered hands and be

Puzzled to tears crossing the street

Hobble cautiously onto buses

Like a withering fruit

And quite silently sitting in this lurching bus

The avenues coming by

Some other passengers gazed at me

Clutching my cane and my newspaper

Seemingly protectively, but I will really be thinking about

The afternoon I danced naked with you

The afternoon I danced naked with you

The afternoon I danced naked with you!

-Alicia Suskin Ostriker

One of the most challenging

things in life is learning

how to be still.

-Jef Joslin

Don't worry about forms.

If someone wants your horse, let him have it.

Horses are for hurrying ahead of the others.

-Rumi

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