The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us. Anonymous
Anonymous Saying – “My life is but a weaving between my Lord and me…”
The Weaver’s Prayer My life is but a weaving between my Lord and me I cannot see the colors He worketh steadily. Oft times He weaveth sorrow and I in foolish pride Forget He sees the upper and I the underside. Not till the looms are silent and the shuttles cease to fly Shall God unroll the canvas and explain […]
Ancient Prayer – “More radiant than the sun, purer than the snow, subtler than the ether…”
More radiant than the sun, purer than the snow, subtler than the ether, is the Self, the spirit within my heart. I am that Self, that Self am I. Ancient Prayer
Native American Quote – “Treat the Earth well, it was not given to you by your parents…”
Treat the Earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. Native American Tradition
Anchorite Prayer – “Sublime me, Master Alchemist, Again, again And yet again In the cracked…”
Sublime me, Master Alchemist, Again, again And yet again In the cracked And sooty retort Of my own unwilling Skin. In your cruel, Impartial fires Bone and brain All vain desires, Vanity and inward blight Refine. Reform me Free of what obscures your Light. Transparent Make this vessel be So to embrace, Transmit and focus Your life-searing energy That so […]
Henri Amiel Quote – “What comfort, what strength, what economy there is in order…”
What comfort, what strength, what economy there is in order — material order, intellectual order, moral order. To know where one is going and what one wishes — this is order; to keep one’s word and one’s engagements — again order; to have everything ready under one’s hand to be able to dispose of all one’s forces, and to have […]
Henri Amiel Quote – “When we are doing nothing in particular, it is then we are living through all our being…”
When we are doing nothing in particular, it is then we are living through all our being… Will is suspended, but nature and time are always active, and if our life is no longer our work, the work goes on nonetheless. With us, without us, or in spite of us, our existence travels through its appointed phases. Henri Amiel (1821 […]
Henri Amiel Quote – “The being who has attained harmony, and every being may attain it…”
The being who has attained harmony, and every being may attain it, has found his place in the order of the universe and represents the divine thought as clearly as a flower or a solar system. Harmony seeks nothing outside itself. It is what it ought to be; it is the expression of right, order, law and truth; it is […]
Native American Quotation – “Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.”
Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Native American Tradition
Saint Ambrose Quote – “In yourself lies the sweetness of your charm, from you does it blossom…”
In yourself lies the sweetness of your charm, from you does it blossom, in you it sojourns, within you it rests, in your own self you must search for the jubilant quality of your conscience. For that reason Solomon says, “Drink water out of your own cistern and the streams out of your own well.” Saint Ambrose (337 – 397)