The wine of divine Grace is limitless. All limits come only from the limitation of the cup. Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon, How much it can fill your room depends on its windows. Grant a great dignity, my friend, to the cup of your life; Love has designed it to hold His eternal wine. Jalal al-Din […]
The Formless is in the midst of all forms. Kabir (circa 1398 – 1518)
So do Thou my Lord, Thou and I never apart, Wave of the sea dissolve in the sea, I am the bubble, make me the sea, Oh I am the bubble, make me the sea. Paramhansa Yogananda (1893 – 1952)
Hell is a state of mind — ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind — is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For […]
If we turn our minds towards the good, it is impossible that little by little the whole soul will not be attracted thereto in spite of itself. Simone Weil (1909 – 1943)
If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. Simone Weil (1909 – 1943)
The most commonplace truth when it floods the whole soul, is like a revelation. Simone Weil (1909 – 1943)
Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix’d with baser matter: yes, by heaven! William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
As physicians always have their instruments ready for cases which suddenly require their skill, so do you have principles ready for insight into both divine and human affairs, and for doing everything, even the smallest, with an awareness of the bond which unites the divine and the human. For you will not do anything well which pertains to man without […]
