Teachings

...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. Andre' Gide

Breaking Open

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens! Rumi

Smile

All of life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. I just put a big smile on my face and everyone smiles back. Peace Pilgrim

Spirit

Do not say, "I follow the one true path of the Spirit," but rather, "I have found the Spirit walking on my path," for the Spirit walks on all paths. Khalil Gibran

Humanity

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi

Value

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. Albert Einstein

Faith

Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind. Now that’s a blessing.  Rumi

Clarity

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity. Francois Gautier

Hope

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. Albert Camus

New Seeds

Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing. Rumi 

Faith

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. Mahatma Gandhi

Sometimes

Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together. Jessica Howell

Change of Heart

The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. John Welwood

Doing

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. Mitch Albom

Hope

Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope. Pittacus Lore

Old Friends

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Trivial

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. Richard Ben Sapir

Happiness

Happiness is a direction, not a place. Sydney J. Harris

The Children

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it. Frank Warren

The Secret

Goodbye, said the fox. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Paths

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. Henry David Thoreau

Focus

When we focus on abundance, our life feels abundant; when we focus on lack, our life feels lacking. It is purely a matter of focus. Susan Jeffers

Pain

That's the thing about pain...it demands to be felt.  John Green

Present Moment

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. Thomas Merton

Prayer

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. Søren Kierkegaard

Faith

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. Kahlil Gibran

Essence

Although you appear in earthly form, your essence is pure consciousness. Rumi

Peace

You have peace, the old woman said, when you make it with yourself.  Mitch Albom

Be Content

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have: rejoice in the way things are. Lao Tzu

Universal Responsibility

In today's highly interdependent world, individuals and nations can no longer resolve many of their problems by themselves. We need one another. We must therefore develop a sense of universal responsibility... It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members, and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we live. Dalai Lama

Truth

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Kahlil Gibran

Conviction

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.  Abraham Lincoln