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He who is in the sun, and in the fire and in the heart of man is ONE. He who knows this is one with the ONE.
        - The Upanishads


The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind.


Hone and spread your spirit
  til you yourself are a sail,
  whetted,
     translucent,
       broadside to the merest puff.


        -Annie Dillard


Better than a hundred years lived in ignorance, without contemplation, is one single day of a life lived in wisdom and in deep contemplation.


Better than a hundred years lived in in idleness and in weakness is a single day of life lived with courage and powerful striving.


Better than a hundred years not considering how all things arise and pass away is one single day of life if one considers how all things arise and away.


Better than a hundred years not seeing one's own immortality is one single day of life if one sees one's own immortality.
        - The Dhammapada


O Hidden Life vibrant in every atom;
O Hidden Light! shining in every creature;
O Hidden Love! embracing all in Oneness;
May each who feels himself as one with Thee,
Know he is also one with every other.
    -Annie Besant

Protect  me, O Lord;
My boat is so small,
And your sea is so big.

        - Breton Fisherman's Prayer

God help us
to live slowly:
  To move simply:
  To look softly:
     To allow emptiness:
       To let the heart create for us.
Amen.


        -Michael Leunig


Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

        -Lao-Tzu

   Acceptance ~ • ~ Affection ~ • ~ Ambivalence ~ • ~ Anger ~ • ~ Angst ~ • ~ Anticipation ~ • ~ Anxiety ~ • ~ Apathy ~ • ~ Bitterness ~ • ~ Boredom ~ • ~ Calmness ~ • ~ Compersion ~ • ~ Confusion ~ • ~ Depression ~ • ~ Disappointment ~ • ~ Disgust ~ • ~ Doubt ~ • ~ Ecstasy ~ • ~ Embarrassment ~ • ~ Emptiness ~ • ~ Enmity ~ • ~ Ennui ~ • ~ Enthusiasm ~ • ~ Envy ~ • ~ Epiphany ~ • ~ Fanaticism ~ • ~ Fear ~ • ~ Frustration ~ • ~ Gratification ~ • ~ Gratitude ~ • ~ Grief ~ • ~ Guilt ~ • ~ Happiness ~ • ~ Hate ~ • ~ Homesickness ~ • ~ Hope ~ • ~ Horror ~ • ~ Humiliation ~ • ~ Jealousy ~ • ~ Limerence ~ • ~ Loneliness ~ • ~ Love ~ • ~ Lust ~ • ~ Melancholia ~ • ~ Panic ~ • ~ Pity ~ • ~ Pride ~ • ~ Regret ~ • ~ Rejection ~ • ~ Remorse ~ • ~ Repentance ~ • ~ Righteous indignation ~ • ~ Self-pity ~ • ~ Serenity ~ • ~ Shame ~ • ~ Shyness ~ • ~ Suffering ~ • ~ Surprise ~ • ~ Acceptance ~ • ~ Affection ~ • ~ Ambivalence ~ • ~

Gandhi's Prayer for Peace

I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from
the Highest Source.
I salute that Source in you.
Let us work together
for unity and love.

Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.

Prayer is
the world in tune,
A spirit-voice
And vocal joys
Whose echo
is heaven's bliss.
    -Henry Vaughan


That you may have pleasure in everything
Seek your own pleasure in nothing.
That you may know everything
Seek to know nothing.
That you may possess all things
Seek to possess nothing.
That you may be everything
Seek to be nothing.
      -St. John of the Cross

Deep peace of the running wave to you,
  Deep peace of the flowing air to you,
   Deep peace of the quiet earth to you,
     Deep peace of the shining stars to you,
       Deep peace of the Son of Peace to you.
  Amen.


        -Gaelic Blessing



Unknowingly,
we plough the dust of the stars,
blown around us by the wind, and drink
the universe in a glass of rain.
        -Inab Hassah

When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living in it, I can discover a form of prayer in which there is effectively no distraction. My whole life becomes a prayer. My whole silence is full of prayer.
        - Thomas Merton


O Lord give me strength that the whole world look to me with the eyes of a friend.
Let us ever examine each other with the eyes of a friend
      -Yayurveda

Happiness is not a possession
to be prized,
it is a quality of
thought, a state
of mind.
    -Daphne DuMaurier


We choose—or choose not—to be alone when we decide whom we will accept as our fellows, and whom we will reject. Thus an eremite in a mountain cave is in company, because the birds and coneys, the initiates whose words live in his “forest books,” and the winds—messengers of the Increate—are his companions. Another man, living in the midst of millions, may be alone because there are none but enemies and victims around him.
Gene Wolfe

All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.

I have heard of reasons manifold
Why Love must needs be blind,
But this the best of all I hold,--
His eyes are in his mind

What outward form and feature are
He guesseth but in part;
But what within is good and fair
He seeth with the heart.
    -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No tongue can tell Your secret

No tongue can tell Your secret
for the measure of the word obscures Your nature.
But the gift of the ear
is that it hears
what the tongue cannot tell.

-Hakim Sanai

God of our life,
there are days when the burdens we carry
chafe our shoulders and weigh us down;
when the road seems dreary and endless,
the skies gray and threatening;
when our lives have no music in them,
and our hearts are lonely,
and our souls have lost their courage.

Flood the path with light,
run our eyes to where
the skies are full of promise
tune our hearts to brave music;
give us the sense of comradeship
with heroes and saints of every age;
and so quicken our spirits
that we may be able to encourage
the souls of all who journey with us
on the road of life, to your honor and glory.
-Saint Augustine



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