Sunday

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion - then I go out and paint the stars."

~Vincent Van Gogh

Silence is the language of god,

all else is poor translation.

Rumi

  “The future depends on what we do in the present.”

-Mahatma Gandhi

 "What if the most absolute essential statement anyone could make about Christianity was that we love people?"

- Samantha Field

"The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated."

~Henry David Thoreau

Love is not written on Paper, for Paper can be erased.

Nor it is etched on Stone, for Stone can be broken.

But it is inscribed on a Heart and there it shall remain forever.

Rumi

"We all stand in need of healing. We are all seeking wholeness...We all know that unless we attend to our inner conflicts and contradictions, not only will we will find ourselves torn apart by our inner divisions, but we shall also very likely inflict wounds on those around us."

~ Esther de Waal

Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.

~ Shams Tabrizi

"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

~William James

"A citizen of the world in the fullest sense--one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color."

~ Dean Koontz

You are not in the now, you ARE the now."

~Eckhart Tolle, Creating a New Earth