Nothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in Love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, whom you know, […]
There are the springs of the Great Spirit… To bathe in them gives new life, to drink temperatures every bodily ill. Native American Tradition (Arapaho)
He raises the afflicted from a dunghill, For he will settle him with the Rulers of the people. Aramaic Bible
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274)
Therefore, if God’s essence is to be seen at all, it must be that the intellect sees it through the divine essence itself… so that in that vision the divine essence is both the object and the medium of vision. Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274)
Ye must love beyond yourselves. So ye must learn to love. The Book of Revelation (circa 95 A.D.)
God is gathering us out of all regions till he can make resurrection of our own hearts from the very earth, and teach us that we are all of one substance, and members of one another. For the one who loves his neighbor loves God, and the one who loves God, loves his own soul. Saint Anthony of the Desert […]
Let none of us entertain the desire for possessions, for what gain is it to acquire those things which we cannot take with us? Why not rather acquire those that we can take: prudence, justice, temperance, fortitude, understanding, charity, love of the poor, faith in Christ, goodness, hospitality? If we obtain these, we shall find them there before us preparing […]
On Reincarnation: Ego reincarnates with each thought but dies between them — here lies secret power of being still. Anonymous
All the water in the world, However hard it tried, Could never, never sink a ship, Unless it got inside. And all the evil in the world, The blackest kind of sin. Can never hurt you one least bit — Unless you let it in! Anonymous
