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| The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day and dances in rhythmic measure. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of flowers. ~Tagore |
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| By listening to the stirrings of our soul and the whisperings of truth... We begin to shine our light and emerge as the person we were born to be. ~Kathleen Hassan |
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| This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected vision. Welcome and entertain them all ! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ~Rumi |
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| But if you love... let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; and to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips. ~Kahlil Gibran |
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| I asked for a flower, He gave me a garden. I asked for a tree, He gave me a forest. I asked for a river, He gave me an ocean. I asked for a friend, He gave me YOU. |
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| The words of God are not like the oak leaf which dies and falls to the earth, but like the pine tree which stays green forever. ~Native American Proverb |
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| Looking for Your Face From the beginning of my life, I have been looking for your face, but today I have seen it - Today I have seen the charm, the beauty, the unfathomable grace of the face that I was looking for - Today I have found you and those who laughed and scorned me yesterday are sorry that they were not looking as I did - I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty and wish to see you with a hundred eyes - My heart has burned with passion and has searched forever for this wondrous beauty that I now behold - I am ashamed to call this love human and afraid of God to call it divine - Your fragrant breath like the morning breeze has come to the stillness of the garden; You have breathed new life into me, I have become your sunshine and also your shadow - My soul is screaming in ecstasy; Every fiber of my being is in love with you - Your effulgence has lit a fire in my heart and you have made radiant for me the earth and sky - My arrow of love has arrived at the target; I am in the house of mercy and my heart is a place of prayer. ~Rumi |
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| We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way. ~St. Francis of Assisi |
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| Never forget that you are not alone. God is with you helping and guiding you. He is the companion who never fails, the Friend whose love comforts and strengthens. The more you feel lonely, the more you are ready to perceive His luminous Presence. Have faith and He will do everything for you. |
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| Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is a daily admission of one's weakness... It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ~Mahatama Gandhi |
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| This your individual life, like the single flame that burns upon this twig, is sufficient to light a great fire. As long as the love within you is turned toward self centered pursuits, it will remain tiny, like this flame. Remaining tiny, it will bring you no joy. Eventually, in the swirling winds of spirit, it will be extinguished. But, when you live in harmony with the great spirit, your flame of love is fanned by those same spirit winds. You are in love with the very purpose of life! You light the fire of love in all you meet. You know the purpose of your walk through this world, and you know why The Great One gave you a life flame; not so that you can keep the tiny flame to yourself, loving what you need alone, but so that you could give it away, and with the fire of your love, bring Him glory. |
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| When you are fully aware in your being - you will be in bliss consciously. Only because you take your mind to be yourself and make it 'dwell' on what you are not - that you lose your sense of well-being. ~Deepak Chopra |
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| If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world. ~Chinese Proverb |
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| Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God. |
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| When you drink from the stream, remember the spring. ~Chinese Proverb |
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| One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. ~G.E. Lessing |
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| You can outdistance that which is running after you but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverb |
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| Is it the realization that God Loves You Or, is it the realization that God's Love is You? |
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| I breathed a song into the air; It fell to earth, I know not where... And the song, From beginning to end, I found again in the Heart of a friend. ~Longfellow |
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| God made Truth with a door to welcome every believer who knocks on it. |
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| When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing. ~Jelaluddin Rumi |
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| Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. ~Victor Hugo |
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| No wonder the soul doesn't remember its ancient home, its original dwelling and place of birth, since the sleep of this world covers it as clouds hide the stars. It has walked through so many cities, and the dust hasn't yet been wiped from its perception. It hasn't yet worked to purify its heart and behold the past, that its heart might peek from the aperture of mystery and see its beginning with open eyes. ~Jelaluddin Rumi |
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| Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations. ~Elton Trueblood |
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| Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. ~Natalie Clifford Barney, American Author |
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| Abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives. When we choose not to focus on what is missing but on the abundance that's present - food, health, family, friends, work- the wasteland of misery falls away and we experience daily joy. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach from Hold That Thought |
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| O Lord, may Thy Beauty spread through all the earth, may Thy Love be kindled in every heart, and Thy Peace reign over all. |
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| When you perceive yourself as spirit, you will not simply feel love - you will be love. ~Deepak Chopra |
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| Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves... Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you will not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. ~Pamela Vaull Starr |
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| For today, I live and love without fear. For today, I experience without judgment. For today, I allow with compassion. ~Rita French |
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