When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
Live life as if everything is rigged in your favour.
- Topic: Affirmation, Faith
- Location: Tenaya Lake, Yosemite National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.
The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.
Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.
Sorrow prepares you for joy.
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.
The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander.
Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
