Sunday

 "That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit."

~Nichiren

 “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

― Voltaire

We are children of the Creator... 

We are brothers and sisters.

― Goran Persson, served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007 

 Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

 "Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too."

–– Frederick Buechner, is an American writer and theologian

 “There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

~ Carl Gustav Jung

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

~ Helen Keller

 "What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives... The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

~Howard Zinn, was an American historian, author, playwright, and social activist.