Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.
No prayer is complete without presence.
- Topic: Awareness, Prayer
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
Sorrow prepares you for joy.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.
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For all men strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.
A problem well-put is half-solved.
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.
All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.
We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One.
If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.
Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.