I will thank you, Lord, among the peoples, among the nations.

I will praise you, for your love reaches to the heavens and your truth to the skies.

- Little Office

We are, in essence, beings of light.

Most of us have forgotten this,

some of us are starting to remember,

and a few of us are living the truth.

If you are reading this now,

you are probably somewhere in the middle…

between forgetting and living.

-Antero Alli

For all our sufferings, we can find solace in the future and confidence in God's justice, all of which Christ came to teach us.

The comfort and bliss promised to those of us who are overburdened depends on our own fulfilling the principles he revealed.

-Unknown

Nirvana is often referred to as a state of extinction of the restless movement of craving,

of resistance.

-Guy Armstrong

What does it profit a man to follow Christ if he fails to overtake him?

- Mother Teresa

If you want to talk, just consider whether what you want to say matters to anyone else.

-Cowboy Hãvamãl

Love your enemy.

Ask God to prosper those who hurt you.

Only then will you be a true child of our father.

Your father is compassionate to all, as you should be.

- Jesus

There is no evil the Healing Christ will not destroy.

God so loves the world that he manifests his unique Christ power,

that whosoever chooses it shall not perish through his own weakness and frailty,

but have everlasting salvation.

-Emmet Fox

Imagine living without the fear of loving and not being loved.

Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and explore life.

Imagine you love yourself just the way you are.

Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss.

-Miguel Ruiz

To feed on hurt and anger might actually become a rather satisfying meal-

until at some point it becomes apparent

that I am feeding on myself

and I have become a skeleton at the feast.

- Esther deWaal

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.

- Krishna

In meditation, we are instructed to acknowledge when we are thinking and to let those thoughts go and come back to being fully present.

We train in letting the storyline go the fuel of shenpa.

-Pema Chödrön

To wake yourself up, cynical thinking and critical questioning are extremely important.

Otherwise, you are completely helpless.

You are just being fed through an intravenous system.

-Chögyam Trungpa

Vision

I am the last human heart,

imprisoned in the foul dungeon of man's dictates,

tied with the chains of earthly authority,

dead and forgotten by laughing humanity

whose tongue is tied

and whose eyes are empty of visible tears.

-Kahlil Gibran

Victor Fegeur, for his final meal, asked for an olive with a pit so that a tree might sprout from him.

It went down hard, but now the murderer is comfort.

He is a shady spot in a potter’s field.

-Lucia Perillo

Listen to the moan of a dog for its master.

That whining is the connection.

There are lovedogs

no one knows the names of.

Give your life

to be one of them.

-Rumi

Who are you, all that I long for?

What else is life but eternity in your presence?

To be loved in the wild,

to love ferociously-

two, no more.

One; we are one.

-Marilyn Carp

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