Daily Practice

Submit to a daily practice. Keep knocking and the joy inside will eventually open a window.  Rumi

Reality

Play the game that’s happening on the field, not the game that’s

happening in your mind.

Transformation

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!  Ram Dass

Prayer

Prayer goes where it will. And when the heart gets in the prayer, every beat of the heart creates a miracle. Our power is in our prayer. And where prayer goes, God follows.  Yogi Bhajan

Compassion

  

A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination and kindness.  Dalai Lama

Shared Affection

Deep down we must have a real affection for each other, a clear realization or recognition of our shared human status.

Dalai Lama

Our Responsibility

Letting other people grow, develop, live their own experiences as they must takes courage and acceptance of the knowledge that our responsibility in this life is to our own healthy development – not to controlling someone else’s.

Shadows

"Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing 

in our own sunshine."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Path

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can
substitute for putting one foot in front of another.

                M.C. Richards

Inner Dialogue

We all carry on a dialogue with ourselves most of the time. Taking charge of the messages, making sure they enhance our personal well being, is an option always available to us.

Prayer

No prayer is complete without presence.

Rumi

Response

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Learning

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

Rumi

Love and Compassion

Love and compassion open our own inner life, reducing stress, distrust and loneliness.  Dalai Lama

Action

Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.

Václav Havel

Love

Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships.

Rumi

The Mountain

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary

Patience

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reflection

Be still! Be quiet! Find acquaintance with silence. Go inside, delve into your heart. Take a day off from the clamor.

Rumi

Growth

Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Negativity

Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.

Dalai Lama

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Giving

"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." Kahlil Gibran

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Inner World

The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.

Dalai Lama

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Entry

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Rumi

Seeking

What you seek is seeking you.

Rumi

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Hope

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

Rumi

Hope

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Lin Yutang

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