Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
–Victor Hugo
–Victor Hugo
Showing posts with label Religion and Spirituality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion and Spirituality. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Be the Living Expression of God's Kindness
Today, a quote from one of our world's most radiant lights...
Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.
Be the living expression of God's kindness.
- Mother Teresa
Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.
Be the living expression of God's kindness.
- Mother Teresa
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Truth and Love Will Always Win
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall.
Think of it - always.
- MK Gandhi
Think of it - always.
- MK Gandhi
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Image via WikipediaBe universal in your love.
You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.
Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.
If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God. If we do not share with them what little we have, then what right have we to call them our brothers?
They may be traveling a few miles behind us, or they may be fast asleep.
But they must reach the Goal before perfect perfection can dawn on earth.
- Sri Chinmoy
Thursday, January 8, 2009
How Not To Piss Off God.
Image via WikipediaWell, now that I have your attention!!!In reality, my concept of God is not one that maintains that there is a "figure" out there to be angry or pleased with us. I believe in a non-dual, energetic and universal form of God. But, to each her own...
The reason for this post title is a quote I came across this morning that I really love. It is from Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple. She says:
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
I think in a way, that is very true. It is in some way an insult to the grand and glorious creation of this Universe when we, for what ever reason, fail to notice it's splendor.
And this ties in very much to our study and practice of gratitude, because gratitude is the ultimate "offering back" to the beauty and bounty that surrounds us. Taking time to notice and appreciate all that we have been given is a sacred and profound form of prayer, and one that is available to us in every moment.
So, in your day today don't fail to notice
the fragile beauty of some lingering sprig of green grass
the white pristine silence of falling snow
the cornflower blue of a child's eyes
the warming golden radiance of the sun
or, the color purple in a field somewhere.
Om shanti.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Letting Go Is the Real Path to Freedom
Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Glimpse After Glimpse
Saturday, October 4, 2008
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
When you get up each morning, open your eyes, place your hands on your heart and say,
"Thank you," with all of your being.
Before you go to bed at night, close your eyes, place your hands on your heart and say,
"Thank you," with all of your being.
Just this
will fill you, and all this world
with bliss.
When you get up each morning, open your eyes, place your hands on your heart and say,
"Thank you," with all of your being.
Before you go to bed at night, close your eyes, place your hands on your heart and say,
"Thank you," with all of your being.
Just this
will fill you, and all this world
with bliss.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Recognizing Gratitude
To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God
in everything.
in everything.
Thomas Merton so concisely expresses the fullness that a moment of gratitude can bring into our lives. It only takes a moment of mindfulness, of recognition of the great gifts we have in our lives, to feel filled-up by sensations of joy, security and love. A fullness so enormous and complete it goes beyond the small ego-bound selves of our minds, and into the greater Love of our Souls, and the collective expression of that, whether you name it God, the Universe, Source, or some other term.
Take a moment to breathe into mindfulness.
Find something that fills you with the Love of God in everything.
Bask in this love – never forget how you are loved – pass it on to others.
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