Sunday

“Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.

Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be unjust to no man, and show all meekness to all men. Be as a lamp unto them that walk in darkness, a joy to the sorrowful, a sea for the thirsty, a haven for the distressed, an upholder and defender of the victim of oppression. Let integrity and uprightness distinguish all thine acts. 

Be a home for the stranger, a balm to the suffering, a tower of strength for the fugitive. Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. Be an ornament to the countenance of truth, a crown to the brow of fidelity, a pillar of the temple of righteousness, a breath of life to the body of mankind, an ensign of the hosts of justice, a luminary above the horizon of virtue, a dew to the soil of the human heart, an ark on the ocean of knowledge, a sun in the heaven of bounty, a gem on the diadem of wisdom, a shining light in the firmament of thy generation, a fruit upon the tree of humility.”

― Bahá'u'lláh

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

- Dr. Wayne Dyer

"He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor."

– Menander

"The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him."

- Václav Havel: was a Czech writer, philosopher, dissident, and statesman

"The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least."

- Unknown Author

To know another language is to have a second soul.

-Charlemagne, King of the Franks (742-814)

Whatever purifies you is the right path.

~ Rumi

The soul has been given its own ears to hear

things the mind does not understand.

~ Rumi

“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”

― Dietrich Bonhoeffer,

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”

― Pema Chödrön,