The Child

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him. Pablo Casals

Spiritual Mysteries

God writes spiritual mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery. Rumi

Living

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. Frank Lloyd Wright

A Thread

We are each a thread in the web of life, strengthened by the promise of our dreams.

Unknown 

Silence

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb. Pythagorus

Don't Force

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. See God opening millions of flowers every day without forcing the buds. Osho

Spiritual Path

The spiritual path is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path, most people just don't know it. Marianne Williamson

Self Love

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Buddha

Friends

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle

Heaven

Earth's crammed with heaven and every common bush, afire with God. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Meditation

When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within. Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

Joining

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined...

to be at one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories. George Eliot 

Life's Storms

The storms of life no more indicate the absence of God, than clouds indicate the absence of the sun. John Blanchard

Look Underfoot

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is...Look underfoot.
You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

John Burroughs

Memories

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. James Matthew Barrie

Friendship

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over, so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. Samuel Johnson

Private Door

God enters by a private door into each individual.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Looking

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside...dreams. Who looks inside...awakens. Carl Jung

Prayer

You pray in your distress and in your need, would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. Kahlil Gibran

Listening

To hear, one must be silent. Ursula K. LeGuin

Seeing

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine Saint-Exupéry

Looking

Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday. And, not surprisingly, that is what we find. James A. Kitchens

Don't Wait

Don't wait. The time will never be just right. Napoleon Hill

Everywhere

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars. Every place is the center of the world. John Burroughs

Each Morning

Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. Buddha

Age

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin. Martin Buber

Adapt

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. Marcus Aurelius

Smile

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. Thich Nhat Hanh

Age

It is not that age brings childhood back again. Age merely shows what children we remain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Success

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Winston Churchill

Separation

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls. Sam Keen

Healing

Teach us love, compassion, and honor that we may heal the earth and heal each other.
Prayer, Ojibwa Tribe

Thought

It is impossible for the human mind to remain completely without thought for long times. On the other hand, too many small, unimportant thoughts can fill the mind to the extent that no meaningful thought takes place. Tomio Hirai 

Language

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich

Charity

Charity is the pure gold which makes us rich in eternal wealth. Jean P. Camus

Prayer

Our single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. G.E. Lessing

Self-knowledge

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end, you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

J. Krishnamurti

Conflict

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving. John Dewey

Bonus Thanksgiving Morsel

Be on the lookout for things that make you smile. 

Kindness

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop

Remember..

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Dalai Lama

Wisdom

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything--and one's last is to come to terms with everything. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Wise Man

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epictetus

Awakening

Only when you awaken do you realize you were dreaming. John Wareham

Time Wasted

You live longer once you realise that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. Ruth E. Renkl

Service

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. Muhammad Ali

Limits

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer

Understanding

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung

Nonviolence

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Learning

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. Saint Bernard