11/02/2007 Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive i t.

Rabindranath Tagore 11/03/2007 That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always fe el as if it costs you nothing. Simone de Beauvoir 11/04/2007 The Glory of God is a human being fully alive. St. Irenaeus 11/05/2007 Pray - period! Don't expect anything. Or better, expect nothing. Prayer cleanses us of expectations and allows holy will, providence, and life itself an entry. What could be more worth the effort -- or the noneffort? Thomas Moore 11/06/2007 Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just c ontemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a mor e tender, shaky kind of place where you could live. Pema Chodron 11/07/2007 Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beauti fully. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 11/08/2007 If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. Margaret Fuller 11/09/2007 In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Kahlil Gibran The Prophet 11/10/2007 The awakened heart says, "I must give, I must not demand." Thus it enters a gate that leads to a constant happiness. Hazrat Inayat Khan The Bowl of Saki 11/11/2007 Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who lo oks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung 11/12/2007 Goodness is the only investment which never fails. Henry David Thoreau 11/13/2007 Do not pride yourself on humility or poverty; pride yourself on your divine inhe ritance. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 11/14/2007 To treat every human being as a shrine of God is to fulfill all religion. Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan Bowl of Saki 11/15/2007 By saying grace, we release the Divine sparks in our food. Rabbi Herschel 11/16/2007 To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the

greatest gift you can offer to the universe. Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks 11/17/2007 To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 11/18/2007 Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago? Bernice Fitz-Gibbon 11/19/2007 It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through underst anding. Kahlil Gibran 11/20/2007 The creation is not a study, a roughed-in sketch; it is supremely, meticulously created, created abundantly, extravagantly, and in fine....Even on the perfectly ordinary and clearly visible level, creation carries on with an intricacy unfat homable and apparently uncalled for. Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek 11/21/2007 One must have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche 11/22/2007 Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred b y human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Call of the Dervish 11/23/2007 When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, "Ah," y ou are participating in divinity. Joseph Campbell 11/24/2007 Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meani ng. David Steindl-Rast A Listening Heart 11/25/2007 I think over again my small adventures, my fears, those small ones that seemed s o big, all those vital things I had to get and to reach, and yet there is only o ne great thing: to live and see the great day that dawns, and the light that fil ls the world. Old Innuit Song 11/26/2007 Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel 11/27/2007 True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the l egacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire. Cesar Chavez Eulogy for Rufino Contreras, Calexico, CA, Feb. 14, 1979 11/28/2007 No one has ever become poor by giving. Anne Frank 11/29/2007 With wings I have won for myself in ardent love's striving I will soar.

Gustav Mahler finale to his Second Symphony 11/30/2007 Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including y our family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all l iving sentient creatures. Paramahansa Yogananda 12/1/2007 My profession is always to be alert, to find God in nature, to know God's lurkin g places, to attend to all the oratorios and the operas in nature. Henry David Thoreau 12/2/2007 The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sh arper. Eden Phillpotts 12/3/2007 The little things? The little moments? They aren't little. Jon Kabat-Zinn 12/4/2007 Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost 12/5/2007 Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the marke t. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without." Jack Kornfield After the Ecstasy, the Laundry 12/6/2007 You have made me so rich, oh God, please let me share out your beauty with open hands. Etty Hillesum Letters from Westerbork 12/7/2007 Prayer is an act of love, words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts thoug hts, all that is needed is the will to love. St. Teresa of Avila The Way of Perfection 12/8/2007 Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at th e single bright moon. Ikkyu - Zen-monk poet, 1394-1481 12/9/2007 The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences. Hazrat Inayat Khan Gayan 12/10/2007 Pain is as frost is to some plants: it strengthens them. Pain is very important in the transformation of a person. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 12/11/2007 Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its containe r, or else there would be no fruition. Florida Scott-Maxwell 12/12/2007 A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul compla ins even in paradise. Baha'u'llah 12/14/2007 Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is t

he spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Dennis Waitley 12/15/2007 Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then f or what it is and live each moment anew. Paul Brunton 12/16/2007 If we perceived Life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical Life and walk the Earth in a very deep sense of gratitude. Gary Zukav Thoughts from the Seat of the Soul 12/17/2007 One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from othe r souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. Clarissa Pinkola Estes 12/18/2007 No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of nig ht. Elie Wiesel 12/19/2007 Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of thyself. Ralph Waldo Emerson 12/20/2007 God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a p rocess of subtraction. Meister Eckhart 12/21/2007 Every loss in life I consider as the throwing off of an old garment in order to put on a new one; and the new garment has always been better than the old one. Hazrat Inayat Khan Gayan 12/22/2007 Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with w hich to fly. Padre Pio Quiet Moments with Padre Pio (Patricia Treece ed.) 12/23/2007 If you want to receive divine light, pray. If you have begun to make progress an d want this light to be intensified within you, pray. And if you have reached th e summit of perfection and want to be super-illumined so as to remain in that st ate, pray. Angela of Foligno Complete Works (Paulist Press) 12/24/2007 Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. Marcus Tullius Cicero 12/25/2007 Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go. Louise Driscoll

I salute you. There is nothing I can give you which you have not, but there is much that, while I cannot give, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take heaven.

No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant. Take p eace. The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy . Take joy. So, at this Christmastime, I greet you with the prayer that, for you, now and fo rever, the day breaks and the shadows flee away. --Fra Giovanni Excerpt from letter, Christmas Eve, 1513 ________________________________________ Kindness Living The Ideal Kindness is an ideal that is easily accessible to all of us. We all know that a small kindness can make our journeys lighter and more enjoyable. Even bringing a n instance of kindness to mind can put a smile on your face days or weeks later or perhaps even inspire you to share kindness with another. Though it may seem s imple to the point of insignificance, many cultures throughout the world and his tory have recognized kindness as a powerful virtue. It may be the simplest way t o experience and share all the grandest ideals of humanity. We can make the choi ce to act from the best place within ourselves at any time, while simultaneously recognizing the highest potential in another with the smallest of acts, nourish ing the seed of hope in each soul we encounter. In a way, kindness acts as the oil that makes the engine of our world move more smoothly and with less friction. We can still get where we are going but the rid e is more pleasant, and those around us can share in the ideal world that we hel p to create. We are all fortunate that kindness is limitless in its supply and a vailable to everyone. When we act in ways that confirm our ideals, we make the i deal our reality. Then, instead of affirming the experience of struggle and comp etition, we can shift our experience to the reality of ease and pleasurable cama raderie with the fellow citizens of the world. Whether giving way to someone in traffic or letting someone go ahead of us in li ne, donating money or sharing our homes in a crisis, we actively create a univer se of kindness and giving with every choice we make. The smallest gesture can br ing a smile to light the shadow of an unpleasant situation or remove tension fro m a difficult task, but it s effects can echo and extend far beyond the moment. We can be sure that we will receive a kindness in return, but giving is its own re ward. Kindness expands the light within us and reaches out to touch the light in others as well, giving us all a glimpse of the glow that has the power to enlig hten our world. 12/26/2007 All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure w hich seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. Rainer Maria Rilke 12/27/2007 The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, a nd strengthens us thereby to do what's good. Albert Schweitzer 12/28/2007 You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kind les joy in the heart of one who receives. St. Seraphim of Sarov 12/29/2007

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. Jacques Maritain 12/30/2007 Where there is great love there are always miracles. Willa Cather 12/31/2007 While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassu re us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see. Sarah Ban Breathnach 01/01/2008 Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, whil e avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different cir cumstances. Timothy Miller How To Want What You Have 01/02/2008 Some people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy. Abraham H. Maslow 01/03/2008 But only the dance is sure! Make it your own. Who can tell What is to come of it ? William Carlos Williams "The Dance" in Pictures from Brueghel 01/04/2008 Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passe s and one remembers one's perseverance. Yoko Ono 01/05/2008 Why fill the heart with hopes? Leave it empty for God. Robert Mertens 01/06/2008 What is real prayer? Praise to God. And the meaning of praise? Appreciating; thu s opening the heart more and more to the divine beauty one sees in manifestation . Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan Bowl of Saki 01/07/2008 We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart. Brother David Steindl-Rast 01/08/2008 Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of our selves. Carl Jung 01/09/2008 How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? I t felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened. Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky Love Poems from God 01/10/2008 Thanks to the human heart by which we live; thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears. William Wordsworth 01/11/2008 You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them - for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions. His Holiness the Dalai Lama

1/12/2008 If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find somet hing to be thankful for. Terry Lynn Taylor 1/13/2008 We would give anything for what we have. Tony Hoagland 1/14/2008 Claiming your own blessedness always leads to a deep desire to bless others. Henri Nouwen 1/15/2008 Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a gra ce. Thomas Merton Thoughts in Solitude 1/16/2008 The unthankful heart...discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep th rough the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! Henry Ward Beecher 1/17/2008 To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. Johannes A. Gaertner 1/18/2008 I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. Duke Ellington 1/19/2008 Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. Henry Ward Beecher 1/20/2008 Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder. E.B. White Charlotte's Web 1/21/2008 All respectability, all honor is meaningless if it drives you against your natur e. What can you do if you are not a lotus flower, but just a marigold? Enjoy bei ng a marigold. Chandan 1/22/2008 The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer. Attributed to the Prophet Muhammad 1/23/2008 One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. Archibald Rutledge 1/24/2008 It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedroc k of truth, however hard. May Sarton 1/25/2008 If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then th e world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and gro w. Dr. Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross 1/26/2008 When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. Willie Nelson 1/27/2008 From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also

truly grateful. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 1/28/2008 Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. Whe n you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. Victor Hugo 1/29/2008 The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective. Blessed Mother Teresa 1/30/2008 The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through th e world and dances in rhythmic measures. Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali LXIX 1/31/2008 Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the hist ory of the world, we will have discovered fire. Teilhard de Chardin 2/1/2008 One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this bef ore? What if I knew i would never see it again?" Rachel Carson 2/2/2008 Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person. Rachel Naomi Remen 2/3/2008 Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude rememb er how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. Marcus Aurelius 2/4/2008 I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable...but through it a ll I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christi 2/5/2008 I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my hear t. Alice Walker 2/6/2008 With swift pace, light step, unswerving feet, so that even your steps stir up no dust, go forward securely, joyfully, and swiftly, on the path of prudent happin ess. St. Clare of Assisi The Second Letter to Blessed Agnes of Prague 2/7/2008 When the pearl is cast down in the mud it does not become dishonoured the more, nor if it is anounted with balsam oil will it become more precious. But it has i ts worth in the eyes of its owner at all times. Philip the Gnostic, translated by R. Wilson The Gospel of Philip 2/8/2008 Don't let other people's opinions burn holes in your dreams. Elsa Joy Bailey 2/9/2008 Whoever does not see God in every place does not see God in any place. Rabbi Elimelech 2/10/2008

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven , it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy. St. Therese of Lisieux 2/11/2008 A humble life dedicated to a great purpose, becomes great. Paul Brunton Perspectives 2/12/2008 When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command t he attention of the world. George Washington Carver 2/13/2008 A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts fro m within. Eudora Welty 2/14/2008 What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it' s a force that can light a room. Ray Charles 2/15/2008 The same pain that can blemish our personality can act as a creative force, burn ishing it into an object of delight. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 2/16/2008 There are many things to be grateful "for" but, as I ripen with the seasons of l ife, the many reasons blend into a sacred mystery. And, most deeply, I realize t hat living gratefully is its own blessing. Michael Mahoney 2/17/2008 If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure grati tude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everythi ng. Shunryu Suzuki Roshi Branching Streams Flowing in the Dark 2/18/2008 Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mer cy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neith er are you free to abandon it. The Talmud 2/19/2008 The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths ar e not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the ma ker and their destination. John Schaar 2/20/2008 Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce 2/21/2008 It is not a question of whether you "have what it takes," but of whether you tak e the gifts you have -- they are plenteous -- and share them with all the world. Neale Donald Walsch Tomorrow's God 2/22/2008 There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein 2/23/2008 All attack is a call for help. When you know this, you begin at once to look dee ply into the question of what kind of help is being called for.

Neale Donald Walsch Tomorrow's God 2/24/2008 Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most s acred truth, and offers evidence of it. Neale Donald Walsch Tomorrow's God 2/25/2008 To this day I believe we are here on earth to live, grow, and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom. Rosa Parks 2/26/2008 Great compassion is the root of all forms of worship. His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2/27/2008 Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a ne w day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered w ith your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson 2/28/2008 I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott 2/29/2008 I am, therefore I thank. Cindy Lubar Bishop 3/01/2008 The whole of the holy life is good friends. The Buddha to his cousin Ananda 3/02/2008 Music...gives wings to the mind, a soul to the universe, flight to the imaginati on, a charm to sadness, a life to everything. Plato 3/03/2008 I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman 3/04/2008 Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Wha tever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful. Sri Swami Satchidananda 3/05/2008 Any human who feels that he or she is not "good enough" to cultivate peace and g enerosity is overlooking the wondrous gift of life. You live, therefore you are good enough. Dhyani Ywahoo Voices of Our Ancestors 3/06/2008 Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow wher e they lead. Louisa May Alcott 3/07/2007 I've never felt a pain that didn't bear a blessing. Gene Knudsen Hoffman 3/08/2008 An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by its own fullness, not by its recept

ion. Harold Loukes 3/09/2008 The Divine Beloved longs to play joyously and rest peacefully within the heart o f the consecrated lover. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Great Swan by Lex Hixon 3/10/2008 The next message you need is always right where you are. Ram Dass 3/11/2008 When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks We Are Three 3/12/2008 In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus 3/13/2008 God is not too hard to believe in. God is too good to believe in, we being such strangers to such goodness. The love of God is to me absolutely overwhelming. Rev. William Sloane Coffin Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, 8/27/04 3/14/2008 May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowe rs. Shantideva, 8th century Buddhist teacher 3/15/2008 A secret formula for finding (indeed creating) peace, harmony, and happiness upo n the earth: Serve life first, in everything you think and say and do. Neale Donald Walsch Tomorrow's God 3/16/2008 To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that dr aw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words. Joanna Macy 3/17/2008 No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop 3/18/2008 Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. Barbara Bush 3/19/2008 The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. Rachel Carson 3/20/2008 What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to b e sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. Joseph Addison 3/21/2008 Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous wa ys. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. Sarah Ban Breathnach 3/22/2008 We are the convergence of the whole universe. We all have a great need for immen sity. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

Alchemical Wisdom 3/23/2008 Faith is crumpling and throwing away everything, proposition by proposition, unt il nothing is left, and then writing a new proposition, your very own, to throw in the teeth of despair. Mary Jean Irion Yes, World: A Mosaic of Meditation 3/24/2008 Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with noth ing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom . Sogyal Rinpoche Glimpse After Glimpse 3/25/2008 Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Madame Marie Curie 3/26/2008 Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart. Eknath Easwaran Words to Live By 3/27/2008 Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will sub tly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov 3/28/2008 May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by nigh t, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into yo ur being. Apache Blessing 3/29/2008 If the past is unredeemable, and the future unpredictable, what more practical c ourse is open than to safeguard the present by constant rememberance of the divi ne? Paul Brunton Notebooks 3/30/2008 A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord. Paramahansa Yogananda 3/31/2008 When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson 4/01/2008 To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can compre hend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the cen ter of true religion. Albert Einstein The Merging of Spirit and Science 4/02/2008 "Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of anoth er day." Kent Nerburn 4/03/2008 The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the hea rt, a revolution which has to start with each one of us? Dorothy Day

4/04/2008 If planetary peace seems beyond our reach, recall: Miracles are natural when we rely on the Source of All to carry our burdens with us. Then, even peace is poss ible. Nan Merrill with Barbara Taylor Peace Planet: Light for Our World 4/05/2008 I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges ; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all. Myrlie Evers 4/06/2008 If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your de stiny. Paramahansa Yogananda 4/07/2008 The whole universe is breathing as our breath; we limit the process by our assum ption that we are doing the breathing. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 4/08/2008 Don t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go out and do it . Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Thurman 4/09/2008 Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them . Rabindranath Tagore 4/10/2008 The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leave s. Terry Tempest Williams from Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer (anthology) 4/11/2008 When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength. Paul Brunton Meditations for People in Crisis 4/12/2008 We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if for only a moment. May Sarton 4/13/2008 Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of th e earth are never alone or weary of life. Rachel Carson 4/14/2008 Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 4/15/2008 Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one d ay a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul. Simone Weil 4/16/2008 In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we giv e, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. Dietrich Bonhoeffer 4/17/2008

Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation to reach out to a sphere of light, beauty, truth, love, and power. Paul Brunton Meditations for People in Crisis 4/18/2008 Help your neighbor's boat across, and lo! your own has reached the shore. Hindu proverb 4/19/2008 I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery de pends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. Martha Washington 4/20/2008 The love of one's country is a natural thing. But why should love stop at the bo rder? Pablo Casals 4/21/2008 Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a give n moment offers. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 4/22/2008 If I knew for certain that I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole. Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life 4/23/2008 It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in t he contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. Rachel Carson 4/24/2008 Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the pers on who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984 4/25/2008 Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. Michelangelo 4/26/2008 Behind every shadow of life is the great light of God. Paramahansa Yogananda 4/27/2008 Take care of yourself - you never know when the world will need you. Rabbi Hillel 4/28/2008 A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if m y body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face. Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life 4/29/2008 It is never too late to become what you might have been. George Eliot 4/30/2008 Happiness is not what makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy. David Steindl-Rast A Listening Heart

5/1/2008 Great necessities call out great virtues. Abigail Adams 5/2/2008 We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill 5/3/2008 Everybody is unique. Do not compare yourself with anybody else lest you spoil Go d's curriculum. Baal Shem Tov 5/4/2008 So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied. Helen Keller 5/5/2008 My storehouse having been burnt down, nothing obstructs my view of the bright mo on. Masahide, Zen poet 5/6/2008 As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John Fitzgerald Kennedy 5/7/2008 First thing in the morning, before you meet or greet anyone, remember to greet a ll of nature, all visible and invisible creatures. Say to them: "I am grateful f or your work, I love you and want to be in harmony with you!" At this very momen t, in response to your greeting, all of nature will open to you and send you ene rgy for the entire day. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov Prosveta Publishing 5/8/2008 If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looki ng-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine. Thomas Kempis 5/9/2008 However much concerned I was at the problem of misery in the world, I never let myself get lost in broodings over it. I always held firmly to the thought that e ach one of us can do a little to bring some portion of it to an end. Albert Schweitzer 5/10/2008 Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not givin g it. William Arthur Ward 5/11/2008 Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on grea t winds across the sky. Chippewa, translated by Robert Bly 5/12/2008 Every time you express gratitude or compassion for any aspect of yourself or som eone else, you breathe life in. Mariah Fenton Gladis Tales of a Wounded Healer 5/13/2008 What we would like to do is change the world -- make it a little simpler for peo ple to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do. Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, June 1946 5/14/2008 As the Sun shines upon my heart, so may my heart shine upon others! The Upanishads

5/15/2008 When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. Maya Angelou 5/16/2008 Wholeheartedness is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and then walk it impeccably....It's like s omeone laughing in your ear, challenging you to figure out what to do when you d on't know what to do. It humbles you. It opens your heart. Pema Chdrn The Wisdom of No Escape 5/17/2008 Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Goethe 5/18/2008 The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Gospel of Ramakrishna 5/19/2008 Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things. St. Teresa of Avila 5/20/2008 We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's m agnitude and bond. Gwendolyn Brooks 5/21/2008 Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and m ore. Melody Beattie 5/22/2008 As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gift s that we accept with gratitude. Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life 5/23/2008 The burden which is well borne becomes light. Ovid 5/24/2008 Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. Emily Dickinson 5/25/2008 Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. Alice Walker 5/26/2008 Who is it that can make muddy water clear? No one. But left to stand, it will gr adually clear of itself. Lao-Tzu Tao Te Ching 5/27/2008 As eternity is reckoned, there's a lifetime in a second. Piet Hein Grooks 5/28/2008 There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think w ill be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the pres ent. Grenville Kleiser 5/29/2008 Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the exp

ected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was go ing to be? Elizabeth Bibesco Balloons 5/30/2008 Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. Karl Barth 5/31/2008 After an orange cloud - formed as a result of a dust storm over the Sahara and c aught up by air currents - reached the Philippines and settled there with rain, I understood that we are all sailing in the same boat. Vladimir Kovalyonok (Astronaut) 6/01/2008 Seeing the bounty and ease within and all around and diligently fanning the flam e of certainty opens the channel for dissonance to resolve naturally into harmon y. Dhyani Ywahoo Voices of Our Ancestors 6/02/2008 Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want. Geoffrey F. Abert 6/03/2008 If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, ou r protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are w orkable. Pema Chodron When Things Fall Apart 6/04/2008 Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Ev erywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation. Barbara Kingsolver High Tide in Tucson 6/05/2008 Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh 6/06/2008 Most of us look at our ideals, say how far we are from them, and get depressed. But it is heroic simply to say, "Here are my ideals," state them before the worl d, and then spend your life trying to live up to them. Keshavan Nair New Dimensions Radio interview 6/07/2008 The beauty and charm of selfless love and service should not die away from the f ace of the earth. The world should know that a life of dedication is possible, t hat a life inspired by love and service to humanity is possible. Anna (Sudhamani) 6/08/2008 A problem is a chance for you to do your best. Duke Ellington 6/09/2008 Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb. Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B A Tree Full of Angels 6/10/2008 In the continuous flow of blessing our heart finds meaning and rest. David Steindl-Rast A Listening Heart 6/11/2008

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. A.J. Muste 6/12/2008 We will know what both the fullness and the fulfilment of life mean only when th e consciousness that the Spirit is our own very self comes to life within us. Paul Brunton Perspectives 6/13/2008 Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much care the less; but try to obtain what you need in lif e, and make the best of every moment of your life. Hazrat Inayat Khan Gayan 6/14/2008 Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction. Paul Brunton Perspectives 6/15/2008 How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me fro m your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me. Rabia Al-Adawiyya translated by Andrew Harvey 6/16/2008 In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singi ng softly to itself and to you. Rachel Naomi Remen 6/17/2008 Every being is an abode of God, worthy of respect and reverence. Hindu Scripture 6/18/2008 In a world of tension and breakdown it is necessary for there to be those who se ek to integrate their inner lives not by avoiding anguish and running away from problems, but by facing them in their naked reality and in their ordinariness. Thomas Merton 6/19/2008 Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure. Bede Griffiths 6/20/2008 Be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi 6/21/2008 People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Audrey Hepburn 6/22/2008 We may forget with whom we laughed, but not with whom we shared tears. Tansanian proverb 6/23/2008 Regardless of the name a person uses for the Infinite Force that holds us togeth er, it is the source of our miraculous, unpredictable creativity and our dignity . Ashok Gangadean "Towards a Culture of Peace," Elixir Magazine, Autumn 2007 6/24/2008 In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the re al person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom

6/25/2008 Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the w orld. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead 6/26/2008 I imagine that the present is as it should be. It is perfectly unfolding even if I don't understand why. Evelyn Rodriguez 6/27/2008 A harvest of justice is sown in peace by those who make peace. James 3:18 New Testament 6/28/2008 When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, ofte n for the first time. Rachel Naomi Remen 6/29/2008 Suffering exists not for the purpose of hurting us, but to teach us where genuin e good is to be found, and thus to make us stronger, more intelligent and more v ibrant. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov 6/30/2008 Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at the sun." We might n ot land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on a Road 7/1/2008 There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of ange ls, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful. Howard Thurman 7/2/2008 God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, r enewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. Dag Hammarskjold 7/3/2008 Each of us can become a blessed channel of peace for the healing of Earth's woun ds: We can awaken from apathy and find creative, non-violent ways to transform t he abuses rampant in today's world. Nan Merrill with Barbara Taylor Peace Planet: Light for Our World 7/4/2008 Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even somethin g simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief m oment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you. A life practice from Br. David Steindl-Rast 7/5/2008 May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven. St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Embrace the World 7/6/2008 The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the d ay with gentleness and understanding. Thich Nhat Hanh Peace Is Every Step 7/7/2008 One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation. David Steindl-Rast

Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 7/8/2008 We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. Henry David Thoreau 7/9/2008 To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage a nd strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength i s in the heart. Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart 7/10/2008 The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time cal ling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were up on my knees at the blessed sacrament. Brother Lawrence The Practice of the Presence of God 7/11/2008 Each minute of life should be a divine quest. Paramahansa Yogananda 7/12/2008 There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally agai n and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze. Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life 7/13/2008 There is no large and difficult task that can t be divided into little easy tasks. Buddhist Saying 7/14/2008 True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not cha nge, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a f eeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome the ir problems. His Holiness the Dalai Lama 7/15/2008 Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in a ll the places you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. John Wesley 7/16/2008 The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in havin g new eyes. Marcel Proust 7/17/2008 If you can always smile at life, life will also always smile at you. The Mother at Pondicherry 7/18/2008 If you dedicate yourself to service, the doors will open. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 7/19/2008 Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive. Wendy Wright The Vigil 7/20/2008 To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything. Thomas Merton Thoughts in Solitude

7/21/2008 Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the daw n has come. Rabindranath Tagore 7/22/2008 If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don' t assign them tasks and work but rather, teach them to long for the endless imme nsity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery 7/23/2008 Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted - a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation , you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a fee ling that nurtures the soul. Rabbi Harold Kushner 7/24/2008 The hope that is left after all your hopes are gone -- that is pure hope, rooted in the heart. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 7/25/2008 Shower Thy grace upon us in the moment of our greatest need, protect us from our selves, and allow us to be a beacon of light rather than a dark cloud for the am bience that surrounds us. Only with Thy aid can we create that peace within and harmony with the outer environment, both natural and social, for which our souls yearn. Seyyed Hossein Nasr from Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer (anthology) 7/26/2008 Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 7/27/2008 It may be that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real j ourney. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. Wendell Berry Collected Poems 7/28/2008 Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for Joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasur e and joy you have not yet begun to live. Thomas Merton 7/29/2008 As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the worl d -- that is the myth of the "atomic age" -- as in being able to remake ourselve s. Mahatma Gandhi 7/30/2008 Gratitude is an ascending reflection of a descending grace. Beverly Novak 7/31/2008 Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hund red oceans. Mahmd Shabistar The Mystic Rose Garden 8/1/2008 To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilaratin g; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by th e stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - th

ese are some of the rewards of the simple life. John Burroughs 8/2/2008 True affluence is not needing anything. Gary Snyder Quoted on Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac" 8/3/2008 My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight. Eudora Welty 8/4/2008 If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy which uplifts those who are around you. If you can maintain this habit, this energy will turn into a steady flow of love. Annamalai Swami 8/6/2008 Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow. " The Talmud 8/7/2008 All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy. sRainer Maria Rilke In Praise of Mortality, translated and edited by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy 8/8/2008 It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. Joseph Addison 8/9/2008 Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart streng th to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles. St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Embrace the World 8/10/2008 All good things are wild, and free. Henry David Thoreau 8/11/2008 We will be known forever by the tracks we leave. Dakota proverb 8/12/2008 Think of life as a game, but not as a competition. Neale Donald Walsch Tomorrow's God 8/13/2008 Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us! Robert Burns 8/14/2008 Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world. Amma (Sudhamani) 8/15/2008 Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowin g us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth. Joan Halifax Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Dea th 8/16/2008 I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forw ard. Thomas Edison

8/17/2008 Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson 8/18/2008 Unending peace will come to you only when you are a dedicated person, ready to g ive. You can never become poor by giving; on the other hand, you will become ric her and richer . For such a person, no advertising is necessary. In such a soul yo u see the light shining. Sri Swami Satchidananda Integral Yoga Magazine 8/19/2008 In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all. Brother Lawrence The Practice of the Presence of God 8/20/2008 There will be something, anguish or elation, that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: Hail to the morning! Come down to me, my beautiful u nknown. Jessica Powers 8/21/2008 I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- tho se who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has gi ven itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable. Alice Walker Living by the Word 8/22/2008 Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, b y daily looking into the mirror of introspection. Paramahansa Yogananda 8/23/2008 Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm. St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Embrace the World 8/24/2008 The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes , nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with t he years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of go od is retained. Alexander Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipelago 8/25/2008 The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. Goethe 8/26/2008 If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence, like the sunlight will illumi nate you in God. St. Issac - 7th Century Hermit Monk 8/27/2008 Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. Philo of Alexandria 8/28/2008 If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recog nize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary soci al fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. Margaret Mead 8/29/2008 Don't be content with looking at a rose as beautiful flower. Look at her with Lo ve, so that she enters into your heart and awakens other forces in your heart an

d soul. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov 8/30/2008 Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It s our goal in life to find i t and keep it lit. Mary Lou Retton 8/31/2008 Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate departm ent of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital a wareness that pervades all realms of our being. Brother David Steindl-Rast 9/1/2008 Our walls of division do not rise all the way to heaven. Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow 9/2/2008 All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love 9/3/2008 Instead of looking for love, give it; constantly renew it in yourself and you wi ll always feel its presence within you. It will always be there smiling at you, gazing on you kindly. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov 9/4/2008 Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditat ive awareness. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Great Swan by Lex Hixon 9/5/2008 Suffering is the sandpaper of our life. It does its work of shaping us. Sufferin g is part of our training program for becoming wise. Ram Dass 9/6/2008 I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou 9/7/2008 Today is only a small manageable segment of time in which our difficulties need not overwhelm us. This lifts from our hearts and minds the heavy weight of both past and future. Anonymous One Day at a Time in Al-Anon 9/8/2008 To travel hopefully is better than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson 9/9/2008 All beauty of this world is wet with the dew of tears. Theodor Haecker 9/10/2008 The coin that pays for ecstasy is always stamped despair. One cannot love empath ically until one wanders there. Jane Krainin Dictated right before she died of ALS 9/11/2008 In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the hear t giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair. Howard Thurman 9/12/2008 At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.

Christopher Reeve 9/13/2008 Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. Shirley Chisolm 9/14/2008 Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts. David Steindl-Rast 9/15/2008 The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences. Hazrat Inayat Khan Gayan 9/16/2008 The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness. Eckart Tolle 9/17/2008 If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the chris tening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. Rachel Carson 9/18/2008 Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages a nd all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for grat itude and new beginnings. J. Robert Moskin 9/19/2008 Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest t imes. Vaclav Havel 9/20/2008 The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, a nd strengthens us thereby to do what's good. Albert Schweitzer 9/21/2008 If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, ou r protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are w orkable. Pema Chodron When Things Fall Apart 9/22/2008 Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a ne w day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered w ith your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson 9/23/2008 The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, know n struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These person s have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills t hem with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. Elisabeth Kbler-Ross 9/24/2008 Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt. St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Embrace the World 9/25/2008 Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.

Hausa proverb from Nigeria 9/26/2008 Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction. Paul Brunton Perspectives 9/27/2008 When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, o r in the life of another. Helen Keller 9/28/2008 When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for other s, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration. Jean Vanier 9/29/2008 In the continuous flow of blessing our heart finds meaning and rest. David Steindl-Rast A Listening Heart 9/30/2008 Even if I should be locked up in a narrow cell and a cloud should drift past my small barred window, then I shall bring you that cloud, Oh God, while there is s till the strength in me to do so. Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life 10/01/2008 To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything. Thomas Merton Thoughts in Solitude 10/02/2008 Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred b y human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Call of the Dervish 10/03/2008 The Divine Beloved longs to play joyously and rest peacefully within the heart o f the consecrated lover. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Great Swan by Lex Hixon 10/04/2008 Help your neighbor's boat across, and lo! your own has reached the shore. Hindu proverb 10/05/2008 Gratitude makes us feel bursting with delight, just to remember the gifts we hav e received. Thus we are doubly blessed when we receive something: for the gift i tself and later, in recall, for the miracle of having been given it. M.J. Ryan 10/06/2008 A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of th e universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it -- that alone can be like waking up from a dream. David Steindl-Rast 10/07/2008 Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeli ng that nurtures the soul. Rabbi Harold Kushner 10/08/2008

Most of us look at our ideals, say how far we are from them, and get depressed. But it is heroic simply to say, "Here are my ideals," state them before the worl d, and then spend your life trying to live up to them. Keshavan Nair New Dimensions Radio interview 10/09/2008 Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just c ontemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a mor e tender, shaky kind of place where you could live. Pema Chodron 10/10/2008 Never lose a holy curiosity. Albert Einstein 10/11/2008 As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is o pen. Hazrat Inayat Khan The Bowl of Saki 10/12/2008 Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy wo uld lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to tak e things as they come along with patience and equanimity. Carl Jung 10/13/2008 Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ours elves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world. Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life 10/14/2008 In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hear ts of others. Paramahansa Yogananda 10/15/2008 The greatest surprise is that there is anything at all -- that we are here. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 10/16/2008 Claiming your own blessedness always leads to a deep desire to bless others. Henri Nouwen 10/17/2008 With swift pace, light step, unswerving feet, so that even your steps stir up no dust, go forward securely, joyfully, and swiftly, on the path of prudent happin ess. St. Clare of Assisi The Second Letter to Blessed Agnes of Prague 10/18/2008 So much of modern life is a feverish anticipation of future activity and excitem ent. We have to learn to step back from this into the freedom and possibility of the present. Fr. Bede Griffiths 10/19/2008 God is the mirror of silence in which all creation is reflected. Paramahansa Yogananda 10/20/2008 In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we giv e, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. Dietrich Bonhoeffer 10/21/2008

Take care of yourself - you never know when the world will need you. Rabbi Hillel 10/22/2008 We can't control our destiny, but we can control who we become. Anne Frank 10/23/2008 While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. St. Francis of Assisi 10/24/2008 People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we mus t lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. Dorothy Day 10/25/2008 Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. David Lloyd George 10/26/2008 Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resource s that are within thy reach. Pindar 10/27/2008 Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the marke t. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without." Jack Kornfield After the Ecstasy, the Laundry 10/28/2008 Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even somethin g simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief m oment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you. A life practice from Br. David Steindl-Rast 10/29/2008 Truth has all the benefits of sham without the disadvantages. Dutch proverb 10/30/2008 How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? I t felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened. Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky Love Poems from God 10/31/2008 First thing in the morning, before you meet or greet anyone, remember to greet a ll of nature, all visible and invisible creatures. Say to them: "I am grateful f or your work, I love you and want to be in harmony with you!" At this very momen t, in response to your greeting, all of nature will open to you and send you ene rgy for the entire day. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov Prosveta Publishing 11/01/2008 Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and som etimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demand s that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new. Jalaja Bonheim Aphrodite's Daughters 11/02/2008 There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally agai n and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze. Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life

11/03/2008 One must have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche 11/04/2008 The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Margaret Storm Jameson 11/05/2008 Instead of looking for love, give it; constantly renew it in yourself and you wi ll always feel its presence within you. It will always be there smiling at you, gazing on you kindly. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov 11/06/2008 We are the ones for whom we have been waiting. Hopi Elders 11/07/2008 The Glory of God is a human being fully alive. St. Irenaeus 11/08/2008 Any human who feels that he or she is not "good enough" to cultivate peace and g enerosity is overlooking the wondrous gift of life. You live, therefore you are good enough. Dhyani Ywahoo Voices of Our Ancestors 11/09/2008 In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefuln ess opens the door. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 11/10/2008 Goodness is the only investment which never fails. Henry David Thoreau 11/11/2008 I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott 11/12/2008 The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved o nly by the most delicate handling. Henry David Thoreau Walden 11/13/2008 Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. Shirley Chisholm 11/14/2008 I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forw ard. Thomas Edison 11/15/2008 What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it' s a force that can light a room. Ray Charles 11/16/2008 The present is the only moment that is truly ours, and we ought to make use of i t. Blais Pascal 11/17/2008 Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. Philo of Alexandria 11/18/2008 Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly.

G.K. Chesterton 11/19/2008 Living is a thing you do, now or never! Which do you? Piet Hein Grooks 11/20/2008 People often say that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, inclu ding inside ourselves. Salma Hayek 11/21/2008 At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now. David Steindl-Rast A Listening Heart 11/22/2008 Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. Marcus Tullius Cicero 11/23/2008 Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. Alice Walker 11/24/2008 Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 11/25/2008 Thanks to the human heart by which we live; thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears. William Wordsworth 11/26/2008 If planetary peace seems beyond our reach, recall: Miracles are natural when we rely on the Source of All to carry our burdens with us. Then, even peace is poss ible. Nan Merrill with Barbara Taylor Peace Planet: Light for Our World 11/27/2008 The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time cal ling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were up on my knees at the blessed sacrament. Brother Lawrence The Practice of the Presence of God 11/28/2008 If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure grati tude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everythi ng. Shunryu Suzuki Roshi Branching Streams Flowing in the Dark 11/29/2008 The creation is not a study, a roughed-in sketch; it is supremely, meticulously created, created abundantly, extravagantly, and in fine....Even on the perfectly ordinary and clearly visible level, creation carries on with an intricacy unfat homable and apparently uncalled for. Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek 11/30/2008 All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. Indian Proverb 12/01/2008 Happiness is not what makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy.

David Steindl-Rast A Listening Heart 12/02/2008 Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with noth ing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom . Sogyal Rinpoche Glimpse After Glimpse 12/03/2008 There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us abo ve the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above depen dence upon the gifts of events for our joy. Dr. Albert Schweitzer 12/04/2008 There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. Charles Morgan 12/05/2008 In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and e ndure. H.W. Chosa 12/06/2008 Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Wha tever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful. Sri Swami Satchidananda 12/07/2008 A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse. Mark Twain 12/08/2008 Behind every shadow of life is the great light of God. Paramahansa Yogananda 12/09/2008 Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is t he spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Dennis Waitley 12/10/2008 The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes , nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with t he years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of go od is retained. Alexander Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipelago 12/11/2008 Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encoun ter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who ha ve rekindled this inner light. Albert Schweitzer 12/12/2008 All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure w hich seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. Rainer Maria Rilke 12/13/2008 Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing. Robert Benchley 12/14/2008 Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain. Mary Catherine Bateson 12/15/2008

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recog nize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary soci al fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. Margaret Mead 12/16/2008 Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more t han criticize. Elizabeth Harrison 12/17/2008 Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion. Meister Eckhart 12/18/2008 One of life's most fulfilling moments occurs in the split-second when the famili ar is suddenly transformed into the dazzling aura of the profoundly new. Edward B. Lindaman Thinking in the Future Tense 12/19/2008 "I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today." Julia Butterfly Hill 12/20/2008 My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight. Eudora Welty 12/21/2008 Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the h eart has turned to stone. Thomas Merton 12/22/2008 Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awaken ing to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. Thomas Merton Thoughts in Solitude 12/23/2008 A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, prov ides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in a ny other way. Deena Metzger 12/24/2008 Today the planet is the only proper "in group." Participate joyfully in the sorr ows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. Joseph Campbell 12/25/2008 One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to lov e. Leo Tolstoy 12/26/2008 If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets. Attar 12/27/2008 One word can be more precious than all the treasures on earth. Hazrat Inayat Khan The Bowl of Saki 12/28/2008 Unending peace will come to you only when you are a dedicated person, ready to g ive. You can never become poor by giving; on the other hand, you will become ric her and richer.... For such a person, no advertising is necessary. In such a sou l you see the light shining.

Sri Swami Satchidananda Integral Yoga Magazine 12/29/2008 I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman 12/30/2008 A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other people, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the full measure I have received and am still receiving. Albert Einstein 12/31/2008 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt 1/1/2009 We may forget with whom we laughed, but not with whom we shared tears. Tansanian proverb 1/2/2009 The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry. Maya Angelou 1/3/2009 Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. Jacques Prvert 1/4/2009 However much concerned I was at the problem of misery in the world, I never let myself get lost in broodings over it. I always held firmly to the thought that e ach one of us can do a little to bring some portion of it to an end. Albert Schweitzer 1/5/2009 To generous souls every task is noble. Euripides 1/6/2009 Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mer cy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neith er are you free to abandon it. The Talmud 1/7/2009 Laughter is inner jogging. Norman Cousins 1/8/2009 To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson 1/9/2009 To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love all pray in their distress, and to these virtues of delight return their thankfulness. William Blake The Divine Image 1/10/2009 We will know what both the fullness and the fulfilment of life mean only when th e consciousness that the Spirit is our own very self comes to life within us. Paul Brunton Perspectives 1/11/2009 I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to kno w tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, to night. I'm not worried about anything. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. address in Memphis the night before Dr. King's assassination 1/12/2009

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. Henry Ward Beecher 1/13/2009 Reality is permeated, indeed flooded, with divine creativity, nourishment, and c are. Marcus J. Borg Conflict, Holiness, and Politics 1/14/2009 One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. Archibald Rutledge 1/15/2009 I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a gu ardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an archite ct of peace. Diane Ackerman 1/16/2009 There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think w ill be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the pres ent. Grenville Kleiser 1/17/2009 Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure. Bede Griffiths 1/18/2009 Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson 1/19/2009 Don't let other people's opinions burn holes in your dreams. Elsa Joy Bailey 1/20/2009 If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find somet hing to be thankful for. Terry Lynn Taylor 1/21/2009 All respectability, all honor is meaningless if it drives you against your natur e. What can you do if you are not a lotus flower, but just a marigold? Enjoy bei ng a marigold. Chandan 1/22/2009 One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this bef ore? What if I knew i would never see it again?" Rachel Carson 1/23/2009 Each minute of life should be a divine quest. Paramahansa Yogananda 1/24/2009 Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occ upation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of pra ise. Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan Bowl of Saki 1/25/2009 If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looki ng-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine. Thomas a Kempis 1/26/2009 From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful. David Steindl-Rast

Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 1/27/2009 Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of our selves. Carl Jung 1/28/2009 The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay 1/29/2009 Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has bee n such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many. Mahatma Gandhi 1/30/2009 You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can decide how you 're going to live now. Joan Baez 1/31/2009 Today my prayer consisted in simply going to my heart and re-membering all the f olks I've stored there. It is not cold storage. It is a quite warm and tender pl ace. Sr. Macrina Wiederkehr, OSB A Tree Full of Angels 2/1/2009 It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedroc k of truth, however hard. May Sarton 2/2/2009 "Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of anoth er day." Kent Nerburn 2/3/2009 Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than forc e them. Paramahansa Yogananda 2/4/2009 It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in t he contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. Rachel Carson 2/5/2009 Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It s our goal in life to find i t and keep it lit. Mary Lou Retton 2/6/2009 The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what to hope for. And th e most you can do is live inside that hope. Barbara Kingsolver 2/7/2009 Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowin g us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth. Joan Halifax Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Dea th 2/8/2009 Do all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place you are. Nkosi Johnson Twelve-year-old Zulu boy, living with AIDS 2/9/2009 Music...gives wings to the mind, a soul to the universe, flight to the imaginati

on, a charm to sadness, a life to everything. Plato 2/10/2009 Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a gra ce. Thomas Merton Thoughts in Solitude 2/11/2009 There's a self expansive aspect of gratitude. Very possibly it's a little known law of nature: the more gratitude you have, the more you have to be grateful for . Elaine St. James 2/12/2009 The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which o nce realised makes all movements full of meaning and joy. Rabindranath Tagore 2/13/2009 All good things are wild, and free. Henry David Thoreau 2/14/2009 People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Audrey Hepburn 2/15/2009 The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the d ay with gentleness and understanding. Thich Nhat Hanh Peace Is Every Step 2/16/2009 Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole unive rse. Zen Master Dogen 2/17/2009 In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we underst and. We will understand only what we are taught. Baba Dioum, Senegalese conservationist (b. 1937) 2/18/2009 Great compassion is the root of all forms of worship. His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2/19/2009 If you dedicate yourself to service, the doors will open. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 2/20/2009 Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. Emily Dickinson 2/21/2009 True affluence is not needing anything. Gary Snyder Quoted on Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac" 2/22/2009 May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowe rs. Shantideva, 8th century Buddhist teacher 2/23/2009 Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disa ppear and obstacles vanish into air. John Quincy Adams 2/24/2009 Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that wil

l endure as long as life lasts. Rachel Carson 2/25/2009 The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sh arper. Eden Phillpotts 2/26/2009 Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, th e entire world was created." Baal Shem Tov 2/27/2009 The next message you need is always right where you are. Ram Dass 2/28/2009 The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Gospel of Ramakrishna 3/2/2009 Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want. Geoffrey F. Abert 3/3/2009 I draw prayer round me like a dark protective wall, withdraw inside it as one mi ght into a convent cell and then step outside again, calmer and stronger and mor e collected again. Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life 3/4/2009 Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes. Dietrich Bonhoeffer 3/5/2009 I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. Duke Ellington 3/6/2009 After an orange cloud - formed as a result of a dust storm over the Sahara and c aught up by air currents - reached the Philippines and settled there with rain, I understood that we are all sailing in the same boat. Vladimir Kovalyonok (Astronaut) 3/7/2009 Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 3/8/2009 The burden which is well borne becomes light. Ovid 3/9/2009 To see a world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. William Blake 3/10/2009 I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish. Blessed Mother Teresa 3/11/2009 The quest of the human heart for meaning is the heartbeat of every religion. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 3/12/2009 We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart. Brother David Steindl-Rast 3/13/2009 It takes a person of great heart to see the wisdom the elders have to offer, and s

o serve them out of gratitude for the life they have passed on to us. Ken Nerburn 3/14/2009 Not one single atom opposes us. Zen Master Hongzhi 3/15/2009 I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- tho se who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has gi ven itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable. Alice Walker Living by the Word 3/16/2009 Life is an opportunity given to satisfy the hunger and thirst of the soul. Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan Bowl of Saki 3/17/2009 We would give anything for what we have. Tony Hoagland 3/18/2009 Borrow the Beloved's eyes. Look through them and you'll see the Beloved's face e verywhere. No tiredness, no jaded boredom...things you have hated will become he lpers. Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks We Are Three 3/19/2009 I am, therefore I thank. Cindy Lubar Bishop 3/20/2009 Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. Phillips Brooks 3/21/2009 Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring ackn owledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties. Sara Ban Breathnach 3/22/2009 Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful. David Steindl-Rast A Listening Heart 3/23/2009 I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had bet ter get out of their way and let them have it. Dwight D. Eisenhower 3/24/2009 In the midst of gathering darkness, light becomes more evident. Bonnie Bostrom 3/25/2009 Suffering is the sandpaper of our life. It does its work of shaping us. Sufferin g is part of our training program for becoming wise. Ram Dass 3/26/2009 No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed an uncharted lan d, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. Helen Keller 3/27/2009 I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness fo r it shows me the stars. Og Mandino 3/28/2009

When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength. Paul Brunton Meditations for People in Crisis 3/29/2009 To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe. Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks 3/30/2009 Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, whil e avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different cir cumstances. Timothy Miller How To Want What You Have 3/31/2009 To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. Johannes A. Gaertner 4/1/2009 No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop 4/2/2009 God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, r enewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. Dag Hammarskjold 4/3/2009 Every being is an abode of God, worthy of respect and reverence. Hindu Scripture 4/4/2009 If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy which uplifts those who are around you. If you can maintain this habit, this energy will turn into a steady flow of love. Annamalai Swami 4/5/2009 We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny, but what we put into it is ours. Dag Hammarskjold 4/6/2009 There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of ange ls, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful. Howard Thurman 4/7/2009 When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks We Are Three 4/8/2009 Seeing the bounty and ease within and all around and diligently fanning the flam e of certainty opens the channel for dissonance to resolve naturally into harmon y. Dhyani Ywahoo Voices of Our Ancestors 4/9/2009 God is not too hard to believe in. God is too good to believe in, we being such strangers to such goodness. The love of God is to me absolutely overwhelming. Rev. William Sloane Coffin Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, 8/27/04 4/10/2009

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others. Paramahansa Yogananda 4/11/2009 Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering. Padre Pio 4/12/2009 Feeling grateful towards someone or something in your life actually attracts mor e of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. Christiane Northrup 4/13/2009 We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. Henry David Thoreau 4/14/2009 My storehouse having been burnt down, nothing obstructs my view of the bright mo on. Masahide, Zen poet 4/15/2009 You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? Robert Louis Stevenson 4/16/2009 Great necessities call out great virtues. Abigail Adams 4/17/2009 The love of one's country is a natural thing. But why should love stop at the bo rder? Pablo Casals 4/18/2009 Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hund red oceans. Mahmd Shabistar The Mystic Rose Garden 4/19/2009 Don't be content with looking at a rose as beautiful flower. Look at her with Lo ve, so that she enters into your heart and awakens other forces in your heart an d soul. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov 4/20/2009 We are the convergence of the whole universe. We all have a great need for immen sity. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 4/21/2009 Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong. Hildegard von Bingen 4/22/2009 By saying grace, we release the Divine sparks in our food. Rabbi Herschel 4/23/2009 My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him , all good things -- trout as well as eternal salvation -- come by grace and gra ce comes by art and art does not come easily. Norman Maclean A River Runs Through It 4/24/2009 But only the dance is sure! Make it your own. Who can tell What is to come of it ? William Carlos Williams

"The Dance" in Pictures from Brueghel 4/25/2009 When the bridge is gone, the narrowest plank becomes precious. Hungarian Proverb 4/26/2009 A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupi ed. St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Embrace the World 4/27/2009 Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel 4/28/2009 If you want to receive divine light, pray. If you have begun to make progress an d want this light to be intensified within you, pray. And if you have reached th e summit of perfection and want to be super-illumined so as to remain in that st ate, pray. Angela of Foligno Complete Works (Paulist Press) 4/29/2009 Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Goethe 4/30/2009 Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meani ng. David Steindl-Rast A Listening Heart 5/1/2009 Widen your consciousness to the dimension of the earth and you will have a place for everything. Mira Alfassa (The Mother) 5/2/2009 The day I acquired the habit of consciously pronouncing the words "thank you", I felt I had gained possession of a magic wand capable of transforming everything . Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov 5/3/2009 God always provides what we need, but we must be ready to open our eyes and see it. The Midrash 5/4/2009 For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven , it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy. St. Therese of Lisieux 5/5/2009 God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a p rocess of subtraction. Meister Eckhart 5/6/2009 The whole universe is breathing as our breath; we limit the process by our assum ption that we are doing the breathing. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 5/7/2009 True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not cha nge, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a f eeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome the ir problems.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama 5/8/2009 In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus 5/9/2009 We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to tran sform them. Simone Weil 5/10/2009 Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small. Blessed Mother Teresa 5/11/2009 In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged v ocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds. Henri Nouwen 5/12/2009 Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of u nique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. Lewis Thomas The Medusa and the Snail 5/13/2009 The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult pe riod in one's life. Through a difficult period you can learn; you can develop in ner strength, determination, and courage to face the problems. His Holiness the Dalai Lama 5/14/2009 True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the l egacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire. Cesar Chavez Eulogy for Rufino Contreras, Calexico, CA, Feb. 14, 1979 5/15/2009 Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the hist ory of the world, we will have discovered fire. Teilhard de Chardin 5/16/2009 Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. Barbara Bush 5/17/2009 Who is it that can make muddy water clear? No one. But left to stand, it will gr adually clear of itself. Lao-Tzu Tao Te Ching 5/18/2009 A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson 5/19/2009 Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and impor tance of that question. Tennessee Williams 5/20/2009 Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a f riend. It makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie 5/21/2009 Heaven and earth are threads from one loom.

Shaker proverb 5/22/2009 Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 5/23/2009 The more alert we become to the blessing that flows into us through everything w e touch, the more our own touch will bring blessing. David Steindl-Rast A Listening Heart 5/24/2009 If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each othe r. Blessed Mother Teresa 5/25/2009 Ever let mercy outweigh all else in you. Let our compassion be a mirror where we may see in ourselves that likeness and that true image which belong to the Divi ne nature and Divine essence. St. Isaac of Syria Directions on Spiritual Training 5/26/2009 The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes , flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, ce rtain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. Robert Louis Stevenson 5/27/2009 What we would like to do is change the world -- make it a little simpler for peo ple to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do. Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, June 1946 5/28/2009 Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the exp ected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was go ing to be? Elizabeth Bibesco Balloons 5/29/2009 Prayer is an act of love, words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts thoug hts, all that is needed is the will to love. St. Teresa of Avila The Way of Perfection 5/30/2009 We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. Marcel Proust 5/31/2009 May God protect us, grant us wisdom's fruit; may we gain energy to know the Trut h; may our intellects grow clear and bright; may we cherish no ill feelings towa rd anyone. Om, peace, peace, peace be unto all. Taittiriya Upanishad 2.1.1 6/1/2009 The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in havin g new eyes. Marcel Proust 6/2/2009 May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder. John O'Donohue 6/3/2009

A bird does not sing because he has an answer. He sings because he has a song. Joan Walsh Anglund 6/4/2009 What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss th at separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of dis covery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. Thomas Merton 6/5/2009 To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to ma ke you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being c an fight, and never stop fighting. e.e. cummings 6/6/2009 How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! Robert Browning 6/7/2009 There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy. Ralph H. Blum 6/8/2009 Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp o r shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are. Joan Chittister The Friendship of Women 6/9/2009 In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the hear t giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair. Howard Thurman 6/10/2009 The Friend of God has these three qualities: a generosity like that of the ocean , a compassion like that of the sun, and a humility like that of the earth. Bayazid Tadhkirat 6/11/2009 Today is only a small manageable segment of time in which our difficulties need not overwhelm us. This lifts from our hearts and minds the heavy weight of both past and future. Anonymous One Day at a Time in Al-Anon 6/12/2009 Nobody in the world can prove to be your ideal unless you make yourself one. Hazrat Inayat Khan Gayan 6/13/2009 Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us! Robert Burns 6/14/2009 A vast old religion, which once swayed the earth, lingers in our senses: a relig ion in which the whole life-effort was to get our lives into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos - mountain-life, cloud-life, thunder-life, air -life, earth-life, sun-life - to come into the immediate felt contact, and so de rive energy, power, and joy. D.H. Lawrence 6/15/2009 Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of thyself. Ralph Waldo Emerson 6/16/2009 How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionat e with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and str ong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver 6/17/2009 Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you. Maori proverb 6/18/2009 I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou 6/19/2009 Your life is always working, whether you know it or not. Sometimes it works to b ring you what you want, and sometimes it works to keep you from what you think y ou want. Neale Donald Walsch Tomorrow's God 6/20/2009 If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence, like the sunlight will illumi nate you in God. St. Issac - 7th Century Hermit Monk 6/21/2009 You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kind les joy in the heart of one who receives. St. Seraphim of Sarov 6/22/2009 The hope that is left after all your hopes are gone -- that is pure hope, rooted in the heart. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 6/23/2009 "Some one ought to do it, but why should I?" -- "Some one ought to do it, so why not I?" Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution. Annie Besant 6/24/2009 All attack is a call for help. When you know this, you begin at once to look dee ply into the question of what kind of help is being called for. Neale Donald Walsch Tomorrow's God 6/25/2009 May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven. St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Embrace the World 6/26/2009 Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the w orld. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead 6/27/2009 When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And let it arm itself with all its longing and zeal against whatever caused this. For the former fervor can ret urn only through the same door through which it was lost. St. John Climacus The Ladder of Divine Ascent 6/28/2009 You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts. Rabindranath Tagore The Heart of God 6/29/2009 I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs. Theodore Roethke

6/30/2009 People are like stained glass windows: They sparkle and shine when the sun is ou t, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. Elisabeth Kbler-Ross 7/1/2009 Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at the sun." We might n ot land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on a Road 7/2/2009 All sorrows can be borne if you tell a story about them. Karen Blixen 7/3/2009 Some people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy. Abraham H. Maslow 7/4/2009 A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human. Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. 7/5/2009 The happy heart gives away the best. To know how to receive is also a most impor tant gift, which cultivates generosity in others and keeps strong the cycle of l ife. Dhyani Ywahoo Voices of Our Ancestors 7/6/2009 Faith is crumpling and throwing away everything, proposition by proposition, unt il nothing is left, and then writing a new proposition, your very own, to throw in the teeth of despair. Mary Jean Irion Yes, World: A Mosaic of Meditation 7/7/2009 Your success and happiness lie in you....Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller 7/8/2009 To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can compre hend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the cen ter of true religion. Albert Einstein The Merging of Spirit and Science 7/9/2009 Those interested in tranquility of mind should act just for the sake of the acti on, for the benefit of the universe, not for one s own benefit. It is only when a personal motive is present that we are we subject to the dualities and that we b ecome perturbed. Sri Swami Satchidananda 7/10/2009 The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leave s. Terry Tempest Williams from Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer (anthology) 7/11/2009 The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. An d that is what makes all the difference. Thomas Merton Thoughts in Solitude

7/12/2009 Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi 7/13/2009 Every time you express gratitude or compassion for any aspect of yourself or som eone else, you breathe life in. Mariah Fenton Gladis Tales of a Wounded Healer 7/14/2009 What is real prayer? Praise to God. And the meaning of praise? Appreciating; thu s opening the heart more and more to the divine beauty one sees in manifestation . Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan Bowl of Saki 7/15/2009 We shall find "yes" to belonging in every form love takes. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 7/16/2009 Gratitude is so close to the bone of life, pure and true, that it instantly stop s the rational mind, and all its planning and plotting. Regina Sara Ryan Praying Dangerously 7/17/2009 Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold. Peace Pilgrim 7/18/2009 In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singi ng softly to itself and to you. Rachel Naomi Remen 7/19/2009 Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hea r her breathing. Arundhati Roy 7/20/2009 A problem is a chance for you to do your best. Duke Ellington 7/21/2009 To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refin ement rather than fashion....In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and uncon scious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony. William Ellery Channing 7/22/2009 Jesus invited his hearers to see reality as characterized by a cosmic generosity . Marcus J. Borg Conflict, Holiness, and Politics 7/23/2009 No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of nig ht. Elie Wiesel 7/24/2009 A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul compla ins even in paradise. Baha'u'llah 7/25/2009 Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passe

s and one remembers one's perseverance. Yoko Ono 7/26/2009 The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths ar e not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the ma ker and their destination. John Schaar 7/27/2009 The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate ac tions of its members, a heart of grace, and a soul generated by love. Coretta Scott King 7/28/2009 Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and m ore. Melody Beattie 7/29/2009 Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the daw n has come. Rabindranath Tagore 7/30/2009 Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one d ay a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul. Simone Weil 7/31/2009 Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated onl y by those who dare to grapple with them. Anne-Sophie Swetchine The Writings of Madame Swetchine 8/1/2009 Our approach to gratefulness has to be big enough to embrace all the difficultie s of the world. Brother David Steindl-Rast spoken teaching on May 5, 2007 8/2/2009 Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb. Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B A Tree Full of Angels 8/3/2009 Laughter is carbonated holiness. Anne Lamott 8/4/2009 Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead. Neale Donald Walsch Tomorrow's God 8/5/2009 If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your de stiny. Paramahansa Yogananda 8/6/2009 Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. His Holiness the Dalai Lama 8/7/2009 When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometime s floats forth and opens like one of those fluted Japanese blossoms, flimsy and spastic, bright and warm. This almost always seems to happen in community. Anne Lamott

"The Impossible Will Take a Little While," Plan B 8/8/2009 An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by its own fullness, not by its recept ion. Harold Loukes 8/9/009 Recipients of our appreciation are apt to express their own gratitude to others, lengthening the unending, golden chain of connections-in-goodness that stretche s across the world. Mary Ford Grabowsky The Way of Mary 8/10/2009 We have a spiritual practice of thinking of a fire hydrant as a saint - it's sta nding there waiting to be of service. It's a way to start reframing our relation to all the everyday things around us. Frederic Brussat 100 Ways to Keep Your Soul Alive 8/11/2009 I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks. Mahatma Gandhi 8/12/2009 Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. L ove every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the p lants, love every separate fragment. If you love each separate fragment, you wil l understand the mystery of the whole resting in God. Fyodor Dostoevsky 8/13/2009 As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. What happens here is a spiraling a scent, a process of growth in ever expanding circles around a steady center. David Steindl-Rast Friends of Silence newsletter, December 2008 8/14/2009 In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the re al person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 8/15/2009 When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world. John Muir 8/16/2009 Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour. Watch carefully, f or everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short tim e into a long one. St. Teresa of Avila The Way of Perfection 8/17/2009 Those who would climb to a lofty height must go by steps, not leaps. St. Gregory the Great from a letter to Augustine of Canterbury 8/18/2009 Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming. Eihei Dogen Sky Flowers 8/19/2009 Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got h old of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before

handing it on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw From a speech given at the Municipal Technical College and School of Art in Brig hton 8/20/2009 In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself t he right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little ch ance of my being anybody else. Thomas Merton "Day of a Stranger," Thomas Merton Reader, p. 431 8/21/2009 Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world. Amma (Sudhamani) 8/22/2009 When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command t he attention of the world. George Washington Carver 8/23/2009 Drop by drop fills the pot. Duala Proverb 8/24/2009 Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out t o mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Clarissa Pinkola Estes 8/25/2009 Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart. Eknath Easwaran Words to Live By 8/26/2009 Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. Michelangelo 8/27/2009 If you see to it each day that your conduct is impeccable, the following day wil l be completely clear, and you will be free to carry out your plans, always vigi lant that you leave no loose ends. In this way, each new day will find you free and well disposed. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov 8/28/2009 The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through th e world and dances in rhythmic measures. Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali LXIX 8/29/2009 This world is a mountain, in which your works are echoed back to you. Jelaluddin Rumi 8/30/2009 Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the h allmark of the mystic, the source of all true art....It is a privilege to be ali ve in this time when we can choose to take part in the self-healing of our world . Joanna Macy 8/31/2009 If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometime s taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. Anne Bradstreet 9/1/2009 I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of

our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when. Philip Gulley Porch Talk 9/2/2009 The little things? The little moments? They aren't little. Jon Kabat-Zinn 9/3/2009 We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing o ne another. Luciano de Crescenzo 9/4/2009 Regardless of the name a person uses for the Infinite Force that holds us togeth er, it is the source of our miraculous, unpredictable creativity and our dignity . Ashok Gangadean "Towards a Culture of Peace," Elixir Magazine, Autumn 2007 9/5/2009 The unthankful heart...discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep th rough the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! Henry Ward Beecher 9/6/2009 An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by its own fullness, not by its recept ion. Harold Loukes (Quaker) 9/7/2009 You have made me so rich, oh God, please let me share out your beauty with open hands. Etty Hillesum Letters from Westerbork 9/8/2009 For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. Anne Morrow Lindbergh 9/9/2009 There are all sorts of books which describe how to meditate and what formulas to pronounce during these meditations. I do not deny that they are beautiful, usef ul, and effective. But there are two words which are never mentioned, words whic h for me are the most powerful of all, words which clarify, which harmonize, and which heal, and these words are "thank you". Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov 9/10/2009 For all that has been, thanks; to all that will be, yes. Dag Hammarskjold 9/11/2009 If I knew for certain that I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole. Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life 9/12/2009 The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer. Attributed to the Prophet Muhammad 9/13/2009 Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then f or what it is and live each moment anew. Paul Brunton

9/14/2009 Shower Thy grace upon us in the moment of our greatest need, protect us from our selves, and allow us to be a beacon of light rather than a dark cloud for the am bience that surrounds us. Only with Thy aid can we create that peace within and harmony with the outer environment, both natural and social, for which our souls yearn. Seyyed Hossein Nasr from Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer (anthology) 9/15/2009 There are many things to be grateful "for" but, as I ripen with the seasons of l ife, the many reasons blend into a sacred mystery. And, most deeply, I realize t hat living gratefully is its own blessing. Michael Mahoney 9/16/2009 To this day I believe we are here on earth to live, grow, and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom. Rosa Parks 9/17/2009 It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through underst anding. Kahlil Gibran 9/19/2009 When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not hav e a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me." Erma Bombeck 9/20/2009 There will be something, anguish or elation, that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: Hail to the morning! Come down to me, my beautiful u nknown. Jessica Powers 9/21/2009 Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost 9/22/2009 When I dare to be powerful -- to use my strength in the service of my vision, th en it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. Audre Lorde 9/23/2009 Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. Jacques Maritain 9/24/2009 And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, a nd furthermore, to win. James Baldwin Nothing Personal, a collaboration with photographer Richard Avedon 9/25/2009 Suffering requires us to descend into ourselves. As there is no other way out, w e are obliged to call on the power of the soul and spirit. When we succeed in do ing so, instead of groaning and crying out in rebellion, we exhale a delicate pe rfume. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov 9/26/2009 Researchers studied 34 students at the University of Virginia, taking them to th e base of a steep hill and fitting them with a weighted backpack. They were then asked to estimate the steepness of the hill. Some participants stood next to fr iends during the exercise, while others were alone. The students who stood with friends gave lower estimates of the steepness of the hill. And the longer the fr iends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared. Tara Parker-Pope "What Are Friends For? A Longer Life" in the NY Times (April 20, 2009)

9/27/2009 Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including y our family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all l iving sentient creatures. Paramahansa Yogananda 9/28/2009 Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive. Wendy Wright The Vigil 9/29/2009 What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of hum an experience? Rollo May The Courage to Create 9/30/2009 The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. Rachel Carson 10/01/2009 The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the hea rt, a revolution which has to start with each one of us? Dorothy Day 10/02/2009 No one has ever become poor by giving. Anne Frank 10/03/2009 Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world. Jean Houston A Passion for the Possible 10/04/2009 The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. Marcus Aurelius 10/05/2009 Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in a ll the places you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. John Wesley 10/06/2009 Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous wa ys. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. Sarah Ban Breathnach 10/07/2009 Gratitude is the memory of the heart. St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Motto for the Sisters of the Good Shepherd of Our Lady of Charity 10/08/2009 So far as past errors are concerned, forget them and start afresh, as if it were your first day in this body; but so far as your present contacts are concerned, be kind to them, as if it were your last day in this body. Paul Brunton 10/09/2009 Trouble creates a capacity to handle it....meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. Oliver Wendell Holmes 10/10/2009 Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, b y daily looking into the mirror of introspection. Paramahansa Yogananda

10/11/2009 Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Rabindranath Tagore 10/12/2009 When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. Maya Angelou 10/13/2009 Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of th e earth are never alone or weary of life. Rachel Carson 10/14/2009 Hold a true friend with both hands. Nigerian Proverb 10/15/2009 An optimist isn't necessarily a blithe, sappy whistler in the dark. To be hopefu l in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. If we remember those times and pl aces where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us energy to act and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different di rection. Howard Zinn 10/16/2009 At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable. Christopher Reeve 10/17/2009 A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if m y body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face. Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life 10/18/2009 I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my hear t. Alice Walker 10/19/2009 Instead of condemning others, strive to reach inner peace. Keep silent, refrain from judgement. This will raise you above the deadly arrows of slander, insult a nd outrage and will shield your glowing hearts against all evil. St. Seraphim of Sarov 10/20/2009 I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery de pends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. Martha Washington 10/21/2009 All beauty of this world is wet with the dew of tears. Theodor Haecker 10/22/2009 What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to b e sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. Joseph Addison 10/23/2009 The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective. Blessed Mother Teresa 10/24/2009 I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges ; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all. Myrlie Evers 10/25/2009 A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most complete prayer.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 10/26/2009 If you look at every human being as a Divine mirror, you will know yourself and understand life. Sherif Baba 10/27/2009 Take more time, cover less ground. Thomas Merton Dancing In The Waters of Life 10/28/2009 May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by nigh t, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into yo ur being. Apache Blessing 10/29/2009 You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giv ing thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will hav e set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for , the more will be given you. Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance 10/30/2009 I like not to know for as long as possible because then it tells me the truth in stead of me imposing the truth. Michael Moschen 10/31/2009 Nothing is a waste of time if you use your experience wisely. Auguste Rodin,1840-1917 11/01/2009 The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 11/02/2009 A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord. Paramahansa Yogananda 11/03/2009 Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow wher e they lead. Louisa May Alcott 11/04/2009 If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be eno ugh. Meister Eckhart 11/05/2009 The same pain that can blemish our personality can act as a creative force, burn ishing it into an object of delight. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 11/06/2009 Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh 11/07/2009 We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill 11/08/2009 The whole of the holy life is good friends. The Buddha

to his cousin Ananda 11/09/2009 Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditat ive awareness. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Great Swan by Lex Hixon 11/10/2009 The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from dominat ion of outside conditions. Robert Louis Stevenson 11/11/2009 When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, ofte n for the first time. Rachel Naomi Remen 11/12/2009 If we perceived Life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical Life and walk the Earth in a very deep sense of gratitude. Gary Zukav Thoughts from the Seat of the Soul 11/13/2009 The word "impossible" is only in the mind and not in the heart. Sri Chinmoy 11/14/2009 As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John Fitzgerald Kennedy 11/15/2009 Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for Joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasur e and joy you have not yet begun to live. Thomas Merton 11/16/2009 The heart is right to cry even when the smallest drop of light, of love, is take n away....You are right to do so in any fashion until God returns to you. Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky The Gift: Poems by Hafiz 11/17/2009 Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. Mary McLeod Bethune 11/18/2009 We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if for only a moment. May Sarton 11/19/2009 If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost. That is where t hey should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau 11/20/2009 A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts fro m within. Eudora Welty 11/21/2009 Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not givin g it. William Arthur Ward 11/22/2009 In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love an d be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, wha t is most precious today? Roshi Joan Halifax

Interview with Wild River Review 11/23/2009 We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the w eeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest fo r all. Dorothy Day 11/24/2009 There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to b e able to give one's gifts to those one loves most. May Sarton 11/25/2009 Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation to reach out to a sphere of light, beauty, truth, love, and power. Paul Brunton Meditations for People in Crisis 11/26/2009 Everyday, think as you wake up: Today I am fortunate to have woken up. I am aliv e. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it. I am going to use a ll my energies to develop myself to expand my heart out to others for the benefi t of all beings. His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama 11/27/2009 The store was closed so I went home and hugged what I own. Brooks Palmer clutterbusting.com 11/28/2009 If you can always smile at life, life will also always smile at you. The Mother at Pondicherry 11/29/2009 The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sym pathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us. Hazrat Inayat Khan A Bowl of Saki 11/30/2009 Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Madame Marie Curie 12/01/2009 How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me fro m your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me. Rabia Al-Adawiyya translated by Andrew Harvey 12/02/2009 When I count my blessings, I count you twice. Irish Proverb 12/03/2009 Eternal Spirit -- Earth-Maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver; source of all that is an d that shall be; Father and Mother of us all. Loving God, in whom is heaven. The hallowing of your name echoes through the universe! The New Zealand Prayer Book 12/04/2009 Whoever does not see God in every place does not see God in any place. Rabbi Elimelech 12/05/2009 Where there is great love there are always miracles. Willa Cather 12/06/2009 In the world to come I shall not be asked, "Why were you not Moses?" I shall be

asked, "Why were you not Zusya?" Rabbi Zusya 12/07/2009 In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Kahlil Gibran The Prophet 12/08/2009 To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,/Every cubic inch of space i s a miracle. Walt Whitman "Miracles" 12/09/2009 Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beauti fully. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 12/10/2009 The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It giv es them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 12/11/2009 Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much care the less; but try to obtain what you need in lif e, and make the best of every moment of your life. Hazrat Inayat Khan Gayan 12/12/2009 Our walls of division do not rise all the way to heaven. Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow 12/13/2009 ThanksGiving is good but ThanksLiving is better. Kindly submitted by Gary Fiedel (source unknown) 12/14/2009 Envy is the art of counting another's blessings instead of your own. Harold Coffin 12/15/2009 Loss makes artists of us all as we weave new patterns in the fabric of our lives . Greta W. Crosby 12/16/2009 Each of us can become a blessed channel of peace for the healing of Earth's woun ds: We can awaken from apathy and find creative, non-violent ways to transform t he abuses rampant in today's world. Nan Merrill with Barbara Taylor Peace Planet: Light for Our World 12/17/2009 Honor your own complexity. Mark Gerzon Coming Into Our Own 12/18/2009 One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from othe r souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. Clarissa Pinkola Estes 12/19/2009 Treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going to be dead by midnight. Exten d to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so wi th no thought of reward. Your life will never be the same.

Og Mandino The Greatest Salesman in the World 12/21/2009 It is not a question of whether you "have what it takes," but of whether you tak e the gifts you have -- they are plenteous -- and share them with all the world. Neale Donald Walsch Tomorrow's God 12/22/2009 There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. A.J. Muste 12/23/2009 In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle 12/24/2009 Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust 12/25/2009 We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell 12/26/2009 All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love 12/27/2009 We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is ou tside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see i t. Thomas Merton 12/28/2009 If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a d eeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are min or compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely rele ased. Dr. Albert Schweitzer 12/29/2009 Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not l ose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedy ing them - every day begin the task anew. Saint Francis de Sales 12/30/2009 Cherish all your happy moments: They make a fine cushion for old age. Booth Tarkington 12/31/2009 Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency. Wayne Muller Workshop, Unity Temple, Santa Cruz, September 5, 2004 1/1/2010 If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then th e world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and gro w. Dr. Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross 1/2/2010 When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, "Ah," y ou are participating in divinity. Joseph Campbell 1/3/2010 A life of gratitude accepts the bad with the good. Genuine gratitude is not a ze

ro sum game in which thankfulness increases the more fortunate you are and decre ases the more adversity you experience. Dan Clendenin 1/4/2010 There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder. D.H. Lawrence 1/5/2010 Gratitude is an ascending reflection of a descending grace. Beverly Novak 1/6/2010 Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive i t. Rabindranath Tagore 1/7/2010 Wherever I go - only Thou! Wherever I stand - only Thou! Just Thou, again Thou! Always Thou! Thou, Thou, Thou! When things are good, Thou! When things are bad, Thou! Thou, Thou, Thou! Hasidic Song 1/8/2010 Gratitude is the most passionate transformative force in the cosmos. When we off er thanks to God or to another human being, gratitude gifts us with renewal, ref lection, reconnection. Sarah Ban Breathnach 1/9/2010 Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Ev erywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation. Barbara Kingsolver High Tide in Tucson 1/10/2010 To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilaratin g; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by th e stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - th ese are some of the rewards of the simple life. John Burroughs 1/11/2010 One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 1/12/2010 Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its containe r, or else there would be no fruition. Florida Scott-Maxwell 1/13/2010 The coin that pays for ecstasy is always stamped despair. One cannot love empath ically until one wanders there. Jane Krainin Dictated right before she died of ALS 1/14/2010 There is no large and difficult task that can t be divided into little easy tasks. Buddhist Saying 1/15/2010 If we could see the miracle of a single flower, our whole life would change. The Buddha 1/16/2010 When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. Willie Nelson 1/17/2010 As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

The Buddha 1/18/2010 Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth. attributed to Sophocles 1/19/2010 People gain so much hope when they know they are not experiencing something alon e. Joyce Rupp Alive Now, pg. 35 1/20/2010 The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it. Sri Nisargadatta 1/21/2010 We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good wea ther, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to hav e enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is. Brother David Steindl-Rast 1/22/2010 Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder. E.B. White Charlotte's Web 1/23/2010 To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 1/24/2010 If the past is unredeemable, and the future unpredictable, what more practical c ourse is open than to safeguard the present by constant rememberance of the divi ne? Paul Brunton Notebooks 1/25/2010 To travel hopefully is better than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson 1/26/2010 Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches or uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous ser vice. Swami Ramdas 1/27/2010 To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that dr aw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words. Joanna Macy 1/28/2010 The divine manifestation is ubiquitous, only our eyes are not open to it. . . . Awe is what moves us forward. Joseph Campbell 1/29/2010 The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. Jalaluddin Rumi 1/30/2010 It is never too late to become what you might have been. George Eliot 1/31/2010 Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listeni ng ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have t he potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia

2/01/2010 Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the pers on who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984 2/02/2010 In a gentle way you can shake the world. one of Cesar Chavez's favorite quotes from Gandhi 2/03/2010 A humble life dedicated to a great purpose, becomes great. Paul Brunton Perspectives 2/04/2010 Just to be is a blessing; just to live is holy. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel 2/05/2010 Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. Faith Baldwin 2/06/2010 We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore t he small daily difference we can make which, over time, add up to big difference s that we often cannot foresee. Marion Wright Edelman 2/07/2010 Tapping into something beyond ourselves is something we are all able to do, and which has the capacity to evoke gratefulness within us. Johanna Glaser Despair, Self-Deception, and Authentic Possibilities 2/08/2010 Wholeheartedness is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and then walk it impeccably....It's like s omeone laughing in your ear, challenging you to figure out what to do when you d on't know what to do. It humbles you. It opens your heart. Pema Chdrn The Wisdom of No Escape 2/09/2010 Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a give n moment offers. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 2/10/2010 Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is the true prospe rity. Eckhart Tolle The Power of Now 2/11/2010 We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is sp iritual globalization. Sister Joan Chittister Charter for Compassion Trailer 2/12/2010 The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 2/13/2010 WORD FOR THE DAY Saturday, Feb. 13 "One can't believe impossible things," Alice said. "I daresay you haven't had mu ch practice," said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an h

our a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass, Chapter V 2/14/2010 Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. Whe n you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. Victor Hugo 2/15/2010 Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. Ralph Waldo Emerson 2/16/2010 Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go. Louise Driscoll 2/17/2010 O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment. Henry David Thoreau 2/18/2010 Pray - period! Don't expect anything. Or better, expect nothing. Prayer cleanses us of expectations and allows holy will, providence, and life itself an entry. What could be more worth the effort -- or the noneffort? Thomas Moore 2/19/2010 Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude rememb er how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. Marcus Aurelius 2/20/2010 Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G.K. Chesterton 2/21/2010 Not only must the most privileged feel they are brothers and sisters of the most destitute, but the most destitute must feel as well that something within them makes them equal to the greatest sages and geniuses. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov 2/22/2010 When we persevere with the help of a gentle discipline, we slowly come to hear t he still, small voice and to feel the delicate breeze, and so to come to know th e presence of Love. Henri Nouwen 2/23/2010 To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world bur ns and sparkles with light. Ralph Waldo Emerson 2/24/2010 We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's m agnitude and bond. Gwendolyn Brooks 2/25/2010 Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with w hich to fly. Padre Pio Quiet Moments with Padre Pio (Patricia Treece ed.) 2/26/2010 The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing live with unremitting awareness. the moment of life Joseph Campbell 2/27/2010

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago? Bernice Fitz-Gibbon 2/28/2010 When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson 3/01/2010 There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, and its endurance. St. Paul I Corinthians 13:7 3/02/2010 I think over again my small adventures, my fears, those small ones that seemed s o big, all those vital things I had to get and to reach, and yet there is only o ne great thing: to live and see the great day that dawns, and the light that fil ls the world. Old Innuit Song 3/03/2010 Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on grea t winds across the sky. Chippewa, translated by Robert Bly 3/04/2010 Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm. St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Embrace the World 3/05/2010 Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not att ained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller 3/06/2010 What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to thi s life in all its fullness. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 3/07/2010 As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gift s that we accept with gratitude. Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life 3/08/2010 A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to yo u when you have forgotten the words. Donna Roberts 3/09/2010 L ilha ill Allh. (There is nothing other than the One.) Qur'n 37:35 and 47:19 3/10/2010 Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what? Antoine de Saint-Exupry 3/11/2010 God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship? Martin Buber 3/12/2010 Grateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into g rateful events. Raimundo Panikkar

3/13/2010 Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci 3/14/2010 Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most s acred truth, and offers evidence of it. Neale Donald Walsch Tomorrow's God 3/15/2010 It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful co untry lies in between. Diane Ackerman 3/16/2010 Think of life as a game, but not as a competition. Neale Donald Walsch Tomorrow's God 3/17/2010 You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them for they are harming themselves, as well as t hose who suffer from their actions. His Holiness the Dalai Lama 3/18/2010 I've never felt a pain that didn't bear a blessing. Gene Knudsen Hoffman 3/19/2010 Riding sidesaddle with envy is a dangerous practice: I would be happy if I had w hat he or she possesses. By contrast, giving thanks constantly and in all circum stances liberates us from envy. Edward Hays The Great Escape Manual 3/20/2010 There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein 3/21/2010 Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants. Esther De Wall 3/22/2010 Gradually one's mastery in contemplation extends from the primal atom to the gre atest magnitude. Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 1.40 3/23/2010 If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a m essage you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. Eleanora Duse 3/24/2010 Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. Thomas Moore 3/25/2010 If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. Margaret Fuller 3/26/2010 Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Native American prayer 3/27/2010 A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime , no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer

3/28/2010 Death can come at any minute, in any way. We do not know what is in store tomorr ow, or, whether there is a tomorrow, or even a tonight! But still, we have the g olden present. Now we are alive and kicking. What should we do now? Love all, se rve all. Sri Swami Satchidananda 3/29/2010 The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can sti ll ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. Galileo Galilei 3/30/2010 As the Sun shines upon my heart, so may my heart shine upon others! The Upanishads 3/31/2010 The beauty and charm of selfless love and service should not die away from the f ace of the earth. The world should know that a life of dedication is possible, t hat a life inspired by love and service to humanity is possible. Sri Amritanandamayi Devi 4/01/2010 I find ecstasy in living -- the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson 4/02/2010 Thanking heaven even for our difficulties and misfortunes is the best way to tra nsform them. You will see your difficulties in a different light, as if you had wrapped them in a film of pure gold. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov 4/03/2010 Gratitude is twofold - love coming to visit us and love running out to greet a w elcome guest. Henry Van Dyke 4/04/2010 Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who lo oks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung 4/05/2010 Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of bei ng fully engaged in whatever I'm doing. Phil Jackson 4/06/2010 Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness. Paramahansa Yogananda 4/07/2010 The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into str ange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves i n sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there. Thomas Merton 4/08/2010 Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. Robert Bresson 4/09/2010 If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don' t assign them tasks and work but rather, teach them to long for the endless imme nsity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery 4/10/2010 Sticks in a bundle cannot be broken. Bondei Proverb 4/11/2010

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always fe el as if it costs you nothing. Simone de Beauvoir 4/12/2010 My profession is always to be alert, to find God in nature, to know God's lurkin g places, to attend to all the oratorios and the operas in nature. Henry David Thoreau 4/13/2010 We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the ear th below our feet and there is teh air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support. Natalie Goldberg Writing Down the Bones 4/14/2010 Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between tw o deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes. Etty Hillesum 4/15/2010 Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened. Jesus Matthew 7:7 4/16/2010 Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened. Jesus Matthew 7:7 4/17/2010 It may be that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real j ourney. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. Wendell Berry Collected Poems 4/18/2010 A harvest of justice is sown in peace by those who make peace. James 3:18 New Testament 4/19/2010 Everybody is unique. Do not compare yourself with anybody else lest you spoil Go d's curriculum. Baal Shem Tov 4/20/2010 One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. Persian Proverb 4/21/2010 Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the peb ble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all. Margaret Fuller 4/22/2010 Religion isn t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness. Karen Armstrong 4/23/2010 The mystery of God touches us -- or does not -- in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon re d of an autumn sunset, with love. Marion Woodman Coming Home to Myself 4/24/2010

While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassu re us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see. Sarah Ban Breathnach 4/25/2010 Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you s hould be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Great Swan by Lex Hixon 4/26/2010 For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research. Billie Jean King 4/27/2010 Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce 4/28/2010 Why fill the heart with hopes? Leave it empty for God. Robert Mertens 4/30/2010 Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to under stand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight. Joan Chittister Uncommon Gratitude 5/1/2010 What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a b uffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass an d loses itself in the Sunset. Crowfoot, a leader of the Blackfoot nation 5/2/2010 Grant me daily the grace of gratitude, to be thankful for all my many gifts, and so be freed from artificial needs, that I might lead a joyful, simple life. Edward Hays A Book of Wonders 5/3/2010 Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate departm ent of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital a wareness that pervades all realms of our being. Brother David Steindl-Rast 5/4/2010 Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things. St. Teresa of Avila 5/5/2010 It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need eno ugh hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness. Corita Kent 5/6/2010 Kindness does wonderful things to a face. Dixie Doyle 5/7/2010 Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. Karl Barth 5/8/2010 For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is to let it rain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 5/9/2010 Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart streng th to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles. St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Embrace the World 5/10/2010 It is when we are confronted with...poignant reminders of mortality that we beco

me most aware of the strangeness and wonder of our brief life on Earth. Kathleen Basford A New View of the Green Man Sculptures, Folklore, Vol. 102, No. 2 (1991) 5/11/2010 Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them . Rabindranath Tagore 5/12/2010 Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne 5/13/2010 Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. Lucius Annaeus Seneca 5/14/2010 Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will sub tly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov 5/15/2010 Every mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and p erhaps remedied. Pearl S. Buck 5/16/2010 I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what contro l we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselve s to them. Jeanne DuPrau The Earth House 5/17/2010 You will never be commonplace if you are vigilant in love. Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity 5/18/2010 When I accuse my neighbor, I may be wrong, but never when I forgive. Karl Heinrich Waggerl 5/19/2010 If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. Peace Pilgrim 5/20/2010 Where you stumble, there your treasure lies. Joseph Campbell 5/21/2010 I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable...but through it a ll I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christi 5/22/2010 As eternity is reckoned, there's a lifetime in a second. Piet Hein Grooks 5/23/2010 Being extravagantly generous is an enchanting way to become holy and Godlike, fo r God is awesomely extravagant as is revealed by even a casual glance at creatio n. Edward Hays The Great Escape Manual 5/24/2010 The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. Anais Nin 5/25/2010 Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.

George MacDonald 5/26/2010 To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly. Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Quoted in Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese, by Kathryn and Ross Petras 5/27/2010 As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for other s -- what and whom we can work with, and how -- becomes wider. Pema Chodron When Things Fall Apart 5/28/2010 The more you sense the rareness and value of your own life, the more you realize that how you use it, how you manifest it, is all your responsibility. We face s uch a big task, so naturally we sit down for a while. Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi 5/29/2010 The grateful heart sits at a continuous feast. Anonymous 5/30/2010 Don t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go out and do it . Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Thurman 5/31/2010 May all find simplicity the joyous and practical guide. Buddhist Text 6/1/2010 Life is a very narrow bridge between two eternities. Be not afraid. Rabbi Nachman of Braslav 6/2/2010 The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from grea tness of soul and the bearing of infirmities. St. Isaac of Ninevah On the Harm of Foolish Zeal that Has the Guise of Being Divine 6/3/2010 Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person. Rachel Naomi Remen 6/4/2010 We cannot hold a torch to light another person's path without brightening our ow n. Ben Sweetland 6/5/2010 As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the worl d -- that is the myth of the "atomic age" -- as in being able to remake ourselve s. Mahatma Gandhi 6/6/2010 Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful, and if yo u feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, inste ad of becoming a burden. Tulku Thondup Rinpoche The Practice of Dzogchen 6/7/2010 We will be known forever by the tracks we leave. Dakota proverb 6/8/2010 Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives. Jalaluddin Rumi Camille and Kabir Helminski's RUMI: JEWELS OF REMEMBRANCE 6/9/2010 The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

Heda Bejar 6/10/2010 For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up. Bernie S. Siegel Prescriptions for Living 6/11/2010 The true human is infinitely deeper than the merely human. Blaise Pascal 6/12/2010 Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you h old about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused. African saying 6/13/2010 I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate. Georgia O'Keeffe 6/14/2010 Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build th eir philosophy of life. A.J. Cronin 6/15/2010 Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a poin t on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 6/16/2010 All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy. Rainer Maria Rilke In Praise of Mortality, translated and edited by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy 6/17/2010 Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu. (A person is a person because of other people.) African Proverb 6/18/2010 To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage a nd strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength i s in the heart. Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart 6/19/2010 How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. A.A. Milne Winnie-the-Pooh 6/20/2010 Will you ever understand how near God is to you? Lalla, fourteenth century C.E. 6/21/2010 When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual g rowth, no situation can really be a bad one. Paul Brunton 6/22/2010 Memories of loved ones are like songs in our soul. Margaret Wakeley 6/23/2010 Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. A.A. Milne (via Eeyore) Winnie-the-Pooh 6/24/2010 When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Rabbi Abraham Heschel 6/25/2010 Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at th e single bright moon. Ikkyu - Zen-monk poet, 1394-1481 6/26/2010 So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied. Helen Keller 6/27/2010 Appreciation is the vessel for future blessings. Michael Berg 6/28/2010 If a nightingale sings with her breast against a thorn, why not we? Susan Gilbert Dickinson to Emily Dickinson in 1861 6/29/2010 Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling loo k, there by a kindly word; always doing the smaller right and doing it all for l ove. St. Thrse of Lisieux 6/30/2010 What a wonderful life I ve had! I only wish I d realized it sooner. Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Quoted in Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese, by Kathryn and Ross Petras 7/1/2010 Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them onl y to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts . Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables 7/2/2010 Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divi ne Presence. David Steindl-Rast A Listening Heart 7/3/2010 Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow. " The Talmud 7/4/2010 Love wisdom, and she will guard you; cherish her, and she will lift you high; if only you embrace her, she will bring you honor. She will set a garland of grace on your head and bestow on you a crown of glory. Proverbs 4:6-9 7/5/2010 Don't worry 'bout me: Now I am all right. That worry I had, let it fade into the Light. Rickie Byars Beckwith Morning Chant 7/6/2010 Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts. David Steindl-Rast 7/7/2010 Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. Marcus Tullius Cicero 7/8/2010 ThanksGiving is good but ThanksLiving is better. Matthew Henry 7/9/2010

To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can compre hend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the cen ter of true religiousness. Albert Einstein The Merging of Spirit and Science 7/10/2010 If you look at every human being as a Divine mirror, you will know yourself and understand life. Sherif Baba 7/11/2010 Every being is an abode of God, worthy of respect and reverence. Hindu Scripture 7/12/2010 The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time cal ling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were up on my knees at the blessed sacrament. Brother Lawrence The Practice of the Presence of God 7/13/2010 The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. Rachel Carson 7/14/2010 Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resource s that are within thy reach. Pindar 7/15/2010 Laughter is inner jogging. Norman Cousins 7/16/2010 When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world. John Muir 7/17/2010 One must have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche 7/18/2010 You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts. Rabindranath Tagore The Heart of God 7/19/2010 Life is a very narrow bridge between two eternities. Be not afraid. Rabbi Nachman of Braslav 7/20/2010 Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world. Jean Houston A Passion for the Possible 7/21/2010 Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a poin t on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 7/22/2010 The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths ar e not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the ma ker and their destination. John Schaar 7/23/2010

You have made me so rich, oh God, please let me share out your beauty with open hands. Etty Hillesum Letters from Westerbork 7/24/2010 Do all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place you are. Nkosi Johnson Twelve-year-old Zulu boy, living with AIDS 7/25/2010 Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust 7/26/2010 For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research. Billie Jean King 7/27/2010 If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. Peace Pilgrim 7/28/2010 When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command t he attention of the world. George Washington Carver 7/29/2010 Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is the true prospe rity. Eckhart Tolle The Power of Now 7/30/2010 Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude rememb er how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. Marcus Aurelius 7/31/2010 To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world bur ns and sparkles with light. Ralph Waldo Emerson 8/01/2010 What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a b uffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass an d loses itself in the Sunset. Crowfoot, a leader of the Blackfoot nation 8/02/2010 Regardless of the name a person uses for the Infinite Force that holds us togeth er, it is the source of our miraculous, unpredictable creativity and our dignity . Ashok Gangadean "Towards a Culture of Peace," Elixir Magazine, Autumn 2007 8/03/2010 Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in a ll the places you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. John Wesley 8/04/2010 If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don' t assign them tasks and work but rather, teach them to long for the endless imme nsity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupry 8/05/2010 The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in havin g new eyes. Marcel Proust

8/06/2010 When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. Maya Angelou 8/7/2010 Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh 8/8/2010 Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead. Neale Donald Walsch Tomorrow's God 8/9/2010 One of life's most fulfilling moments occurs in the split-second when the famili ar is suddenly transformed into the dazzling aura of the profoundly new. Edward B. Lindaman Thinking in the Future Tense 8/10/2010 You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kind les joy in the heart of one who receives. St. Seraphim of Sarov 8/11/2010 May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by nigh t, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into yo ur being. Apache Blessing 8/12/2010 What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to b e sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. Joseph Addison 8/13/2010 Each minute of life should be a divine quest. Paramahansa Yogananda 8/14/2010 All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure w hich seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. Rainer Maria Rilke 8/15/2010 From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 8/16/2010 Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Rabindranath Tagore 8/17/2010 To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe. Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks 8/18/2010 There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder. D.H. Lawrence 8/19/2010 Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of u nique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. Lewis Thomas The Medusa and the Snail 8/20/2010

Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you s hould be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Great Swan by Lex Hixon 8/21/2010 Every mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and p erhaps remedied. Pearl S. Buck 8/22/2010 Grant me daily the grace of gratitude, to be thankful for all my many gifts, and so be freed from artificial needs, that I might lead a joyful, simple life. Edward Hays A Book of Wonders 8/23/2010 The Divine Beloved longs to play joyously and rest peacefully within the heart o f the consecrated lover. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Great Swan by Lex Hixon 8/24/2010 No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop 8/25/2010 Laughter is carbonated holiness. Anne Lamott 8/26/2010 Memories of loved ones are like songs in our soul. Margaret Wakeley 8/27/2010 Hold a true friend with both hands. Nigerian Proverb 8/28/2010 Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world. Amma (Sudhamani) 8/29/2010 Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost 8/30/2010 I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my hear t. Alice Walker 8/31/2010 If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the chris tening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. Rachel Carson 9/1/2010 It is when we are confronted with...poignant reminders of mortality that we beco me most aware of the strangeness and wonder of our brief life on Earth. Kathleen Basford A New View of the Green Man Sculptures, Folklore, Vol. 102, No. 2 (1991) 9/2/2010 Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of th e earth are never alone or weary of life. Rachel Carson 9/3/2010 The beauty and charm of selfless love and service should not die away from the f ace of the earth. The world should know that a life of dedication is possible, t hat a life inspired by love and service to humanity is possible. Sri Amritanandamayi Devi

9/4/2010 Suffering is the sandpaper of our life. It does its work of shaping us. Sufferin g is part of our training program for becoming wise. Ram Dass 9/5/2010 Our walls of division do not rise all the way to heaven. Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow 9/6/2010 In the world to come I shall not be asked, "Why were you not Moses?" I shall be asked, "Why were you not Zusya?" Rabbi Zusya 9/7/2010 Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us! Robert Burns 9/8/2010 Great necessities call out great virtues. Abigail Adams 9/9/2010 May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven. St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Embrace the World 9/10/2010 And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, a nd furthermore, to win. James Baldwin Nothing Personal, a collaboration with photographer Richard Avedon 9/11/2010 The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes , flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, ce rtain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. Robert Louis Stevenson 9/12/2010 Let your thoughts be global. The entire globe has shrunk into a small village. I n one day, you may be wearing a British shirt, French glasses, a Japanese watch. Then what country do you belong to? Sri Swami Satchidananda Integral Yoga Magazine 9/13/2010 One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 9/14/2010 Death can come at any minute, in any way. We do not know what is in store tomorr ow, or, whether there is a tomorrow, or even a tonight! But still, we have the g olden present. Now we are alive and kicking. What should we do now? Love all, se rve all. Sri Swami Satchidananda 9/15/2010 There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us abo ve the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above depen dence upon the gifts of events for our joy. Dr. Albert Schweitzer 9/16/2010 To generous souls every task is noble. Euripides 9/17/2010 Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than forc

e them. Paramahansa Yogananda 9/18/2010 The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others. Paramahansa Yogananda 9/19/2010 The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult pe riod in one's life. Through a difficult period you can learn; you can develop in ner strength, determination, and courage to face the problems. His Holiness the Dalai Lama 9/20/2010 Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold. Peace Pilgrim 9/21/2010 As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for other s -- what and whom we can work with, and how -- becomes wider. Pema Chodron When Things Fall Apart 9/22/2010 A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other people, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the full measure I have received and am still receiving. Albert Einstein 9/23/2010 Loss makes artists of us all as we weave new patterns in the fabric of our lives . Greta W. Crosby 9/24/2010 There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. Charles Morgan 9/25/2010 The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through th e world and dances in rhythmic measures. Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali LXIX 9/26/2010 To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilaratin g; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by th e stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - th ese are some of the rewards of the simple life. John Burroughs 9/27/2010 Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming. Eihei Dogen Sky Flowers 9/28/2010 To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson 9/29/2010 Instead of looking for love, give it; constantly renew it in yourself and you wi ll always feel its presence within you. It will always be there smiling at you, gazing on you kindly. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov 9/30/2010 I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs. Theodore Roethke 10/01/2010 In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the hear

t giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair. Howard Thurman 10/02/2010 The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry. Maya Angelou 10/03/2010 It is not a question of whether you "have what it takes," but of whether you tak e the gifts you have -- they are plenteous -- and share them with all the world. Neale Donald Walsch Tomorrow's God 10/04/2010 When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks We Are Three 10/05/2010 We would give anything for what we have. Tony Hoagland 10/06/2010 The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can sti ll ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. Galileo Galilei 10/07/2010 To this day I believe we are here on earth to live, grow, and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom. Rosa Parks 10/08/2010 The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate ac tions of its members, a heart of grace, and a soul generated by love. Coretta Scott King 10/09/2010 Envy is the art of counting another's blessings instead of your own. Harold Coffin 10/10/2010 People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Audrey Hepburn 10/11/2010 The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, a nd strengthens us thereby to do what's good. Dr. Albert Schweitzer 10/12/2010 Don't worry 'bout me: Now I am all right. That worry I had, let it fade into the Light. Rickie Byars Beckwith Morning Chant 10/13/2010 We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's m agnitude and bond. Gwendolyn Brooks 10/14/2010 Not only must the most privileged feel they are brothers and sisters of the most destitute, but the most destitute must feel as well that something within them makes them equal to the greatest sages and geniuses. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov 10/15/2010 We may forget with whom we laughed, but not with whom we shared tears. Tansanian proverb 10/16/2010 One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy

over the good fortune of others. Archibald Rutledge 10/17/2010 Honor your own complexity. Mark Gerzon Coming Into Our Own 10/18/2010 I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges ; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all. Myrlie Evers 10/19/2010 A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most complete prayer. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 10/20/2010 Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous wa ys. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. Sarah Ban Breathnach 10/21/2010 There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. A.J. Muste 10/22/2010 Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages a nd all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for grat itude and new beginnings. J. Robert Moskin 10/23/2010 I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when. Philip Gulley Porch Talk 10/24/2010 Not one single atom opposes us. Zen Master Hongzhi 10/25/2010 People gain so much hope when they know they are not experiencing something alon e. Joyce Rupp Alive Now, pg. 35 10/26/2010 Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart streng th to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles. St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Embrace the World 10/27/2010 To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. Johannes A. Gaertner 10/28/2010 There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein 10/29/2010 Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more t han criticize. Elizabeth Harrison 10/30/2010 A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to yo u when you have forgotten the words.

Donna Roberts 10/31/2010 To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that dr aw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words. Joanna Macy 11/01/2010 The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. Anais Nin 11/02/2010 We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore t he small daily difference we can make which, over time, add up to big difference s that we often cannot foresee. Marion Wright Edelman 11/03/2010 The more alert we become to the blessing that flows into us through everything w e touch, the more our own touch will bring blessing. David Steindl-Rast A Listening Heart 11/04/2010 Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with noth ing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom . Sogyal Rinpoche Glimpse After Glimpse 11/05/2010 The love of one's country is a natural thing. But why should love stop at the bo rder? Pablo Casals 11/06/2010 How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? I t felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened. Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky Love Poems from God 11/07/2010 After an orange cloud - formed as a result of a dust storm over the Sahara and c aught up by air currents - reached the Philippines and settled there with rain, I understood that we are all sailing in the same boat. Vladimir Kovalyonok (Astronaut) 11/08/2010 Religion isn t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness. Karen Armstrong 11/09/2010 If you dedicate yourself to service, the doors will open. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 11/10/2010 If the past is unredeemable, and the future unpredictable, what more practical c ourse is open than to safeguard the present by constant remembrance of the divin e? Paul Brunton Notebooks 11/11/2010 Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful. David Steindl-Rast A Listening Heart 11/12/2010 The mystery of God touches us -- or does not -- in the smallest details: giving

a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon re d of an autumn sunset, with love. Marion Woodman Coming Home to Myself 11/13/2010 Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowin g us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth. Joan Halifax Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Dea th 11/14/2010 O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment. Henry David Thoreau 11/15/2010 For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up. Bernie S. Siegel Prescriptions for Living 11/16/2010 Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson 11/17/2010 Treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going to be dead by midnight. Exten d to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so wi th no thought of reward. Your life will never be the same. Og Mandino The Greatest Salesman in the World 11/18/2010 We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. Henry David Thoreau 11/19/2010 What we would like to do is change the world -- make it a little simpler for peo ple to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do. Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, June 1946 11/20/2010 Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go. Louise Driscoll 11/21/2010 A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson 11/22/2010 All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. Indian Proverb 11/23/2010 Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of bei ng fully engaged in whatever I'm doing. Phil Jackson 11/24/2010 There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally agai n and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze. Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life 11/25/2010 Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. Ralph Waldo Emerson 11/26/2010 In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the re

al person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 11/27/2010 Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encoun ter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who ha ve rekindled this inner light. Dr. Albert Schweitzer 11/28/2010 Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, whil e avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different cir cumstances. Timothy Miller How To Want What You Have 11/29/2010 Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel 11/30/2010 The burden which is well borne becomes light. Ovid 1201/2010 It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in t he contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. Rachel Carson 12/02/2010 Claiming your own blessedness always leads to a deep desire to bless others. Henri Nouwen 12/03/2010 Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Jalaluddin Rumi 12/04/2010 The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It giv es them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 12/05/2010 If you want to receive divine light, pray. If you have begun to make progress an d want this light to be intensified within you, pray. And if you have reached th e summit of perfection and want to be super-illumined so as to remain in that st ate, pray. Angela of Foligno Complete Works (Paulist Press) 12/06/2010 Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 12/07/2010 An optimist isn't necessarily a blithe, sappy whistler in the dark. To be hopefu l in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. If we remember those times and pl aces where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us energy to act and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different di rection. Howard Zinn 12/08/2010 In a gentle way you can shake the world. one of Cesar Chavez's favorite quotes from Gandhi 12/09/2010 If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each othe

r. Blessed Mother Teresa 12/10/2010 Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that wil l endure as long as life lasts. Rachel Carson 12/11/2010 No one has ever become poor by giving. Anne Frank 12/12/2010 Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci 12/13/2010 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt 12/14/2010 A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime , no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 12/15/2010 To see a world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. William Blake 12/16/2010 One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this bef ore? What if I knew i would never see it again?" Rachel Carson 12/17/2010 Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the w orld. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead 12/18/2010 All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love 12/19/2010 Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and som etimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demand s that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new. Jalaja Bonheim Aphrodite's Daughters 12/20/2010 The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness. Eckhart Tolle 12/21/2010 Take care of yourself you never know when the world will need you. Rabbi Hillel 12/22/2010 That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always fe el as if it costs you nothing. Simone de Beauvoir 12/23/2010 Faith is crumpling and throwing away everything, proposition by proposition, unt il nothing is left, and then writing a new proposition, your very own, to throw in the teeth of despair. Mary Jean Irion Yes, World: A Mosaic of Meditation 12/24/2010

It takes a person of great heart to see...the wisdom the elders have to offer, a nd so serve them out of gratitude for the life they have passed on to us. Ken Nerburn 12/25/2010 Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small. Blessed Mother Teresa 12/26/2010 I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. Duke Ellington 12/27/2010 Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divi ne Presence. David Steindl-Rast A Listening Heart 12/28/2010 To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refin ement rather than fashion....In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and uncon scious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony. William Ellery Channing 12/29/2010 Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on grea t winds across the sky. Chippewa, translated by Robert Bly 12/30/2010 An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by its own fullness, not by its recept ion. Harold Loukes 12/31/2010 Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got h old of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw From a speech given at the Municipal Technical College and School of Art in Brig hton 1/01/2011 The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into str ange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves i n sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there. Thomas Merton 1/02/2011 Riding sidesaddle with envy is a dangerous practice: I would be happy if I had w hat he or she possesses. By contrast, giving thanks constantly and in all circum stances liberates us from envy. Edward Hays The Great Escape Manual 1/03/2011 What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of hum an experience? Rollo May The Courage to Create 1/04/2011 All beauty of this world is wet with the dew of tears. Theodor Haecker 1/05/2011 In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Kahlil Gibran The Prophet

1/06/2011 When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. Willie Nelson 1/07/2011 Gratitude is the most passionate transformative force in the cosmos. When we off er thanks to God or to another human being, gratitude gifts us with renewal, ref lection, reconnection. Sarah Ban Breathnach 1/08/2011 The whole of the holy life is good friends. The Buddha to his cousin Ananda 1/09/2011 Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole unive rse. Zen Master Dogen 1/10/2011 Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including y our family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all l iving sentient creatures. Paramahansa Yogananda 1/11/2011 The hope that is left after all your hopes are gone -- that is pure hope, rooted in the heart. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 1/12/2011 The unthankful heart...discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep th rough the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! Henry Ward Beecher 1/13/2011 Goodness is the only investment which never fails. Henry David Thoreau 1/14/2011 As i walked down the avenue, the late afternoon sun was turning the lovely and d ying sycamore leaves into fragments of brilliant stained glass, and i said to my self, "This alone is worth the price of admission to our broken and glorious wor ld." Linda Larsson from an email 1/15/2011 God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a p rocess of subtraction. Meister Eckhart 1/16/2011 Appreciation is the vessel for future blessings. Michael Berg 1/17/2011 I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott 1/18/2011 When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, ofte n for the first time. Rachel Naomi Remen 1/19/2011 A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human. Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. 1/20/2011 We can't control our destiny, but we can control who we become.

Anne Frank 1/21/2011 Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure. Bede Griffiths 1/22/2011 A bird does not sing because he has an answer. He sings because he has a song. Joan Walsh Anglund 1/23/2011 To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 1/24/2011 When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying. Rabbi Abraham Heschel 1/25/2011 I draw prayer round me like a dark protective wall, withdraw inside it as one mi ght into a convent cell and then step outside again, calmer and stronger and mor e collected again. Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life 1/26/2011 As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is o pen. Hazrat Inayat Khan The Bowl of Saki 1/27/2011 Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the peb ble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all. Margaret Fuller 1/28/2011 "One can't believe impossible things," Alice said. "I daresay you haven't had mu ch practice," said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an h our a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass, Chapter V 1/29/2011 Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 1/30/2011 All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy. Rainer Maria Rilke In Praise of Mortality, translated and edited by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy 1/31/2011 Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will sub tly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov 2/01/2011 Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency. Wayne Muller Workshop, Unity Temple, Santa Cruz, September 5, 2004 2/02/2011 Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot. Hausa proverb from Nigeria 2/03/2011 I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish. Blessed Mother Teresa

2/04/2011 Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly. George MacDonald 2/05/2011 Heaven and earth are threads from one loom. Shaker proverb 2/06/2011 Drop by drop fills the pot. Duala Proverb 2/07/2011 When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual g rowth, no situation can really be a bad one. Paul Brunton 2/08/2011 The little things? The little moments? They aren't little. Jon Kabat-Zinn 2/09/2011 Nothing is a waste of time if you use your experience wisely. Auguste Rodin,1840-1917 2/10/2011 Wholeheartedness is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and then walk it impeccably....It's like s omeone laughing in your ear, challenging you to figure out what to do when you d on't know what to do. It humbles you. It opens your heart. Pema Chdrn The Wisdom of No Escape 2/11/2011 A problem is a chance for you to do your best. Duke Ellington 2/12/2011 How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionat e with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and str ong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver 2/13/2011 If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets. Attar 2/14/2011 Even if I should be locked up in a narrow cell and a cloud should drift past my small barred window, then I shall bring you that cloud, Oh God, while there is s till the strength in me to do so. Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life 2/15/2011 I like not to know for as long as possible because then it tells me the truth in stead of me imposing the truth. Michael Moschen 2/16/2011 Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listeni ng ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have t he potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia 2/17/2011 The same pain that can blemish our personality can act as a creative force, burn ishing it into an object of delight. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 2/18/2011 Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the h allmark of the mystic, the source of all true art....It is a privilege to be ali

ve in this time when we can choose to take part in the self-healing of our world . Joanna Macy 2/19/2011 Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a give n moment offers. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 2/20/2011 Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not l ose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedy ing them every day begin the task anew. Saint Francis de Sales 2/21/2011 The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer. Attributed to the Prophet Muhammad 2/22/2011 Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes. Dietrich Bonhoeffer 2/23/2011 May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder. John O'Donohue 2/24/2011 By saying grace, we release the Divine sparks in our food. Rabbi Herschel 2/25/2011 Your life is always working, whether you know it or not. Sometimes it works to b ring you what you want, and sometimes it works to keep you from what you think y ou want. Neale Donald Walsch Tomorrow's God 2/26/2011 In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus 2/27/2011 We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is ou tside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see i t. Thomas Merton 2/28/2011 A harvest of justice is sown in peace by those who make peace. James 3:18 New Testament 3/01/2011 We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart. Brother David Steindl-Rast 3/02/2011 Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. David Lloyd George 3/03/2011 We cannot hold a torch to light another person's path without brightening our ow n. Ben Sweetland 3/04/2011 We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the w eeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest fo r all. Dorothy Day

3/05/2011 Music...gives wings to the mind, a soul to the universe, flight to the imaginati on, a charm to sadness, a life to everything. Plato 3/06/2011 Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. A.A. Milne (via Eeyore) Winnie-the-Pooh 3/07/2011 Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, b y daily looking into the mirror of introspection. Paramahansa Yogananda 3/08/2011 When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength. Paul Brunton Meditations for People in Crisis 3/09/2011 If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your de stiny. Paramahansa Yogananda 3/10/2011 If you see to it each day that your conduct is impeccable, the following day wil l be completely clear, and you will be free to carry out your plans, always vigi lant that you leave no loose ends. In this way, each new day will find you free and well disposed. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov 3/11/2011 Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. Thomas Moore 3/12/2011 First thing in the morning, before you meet or greet anyone, remember to greet a ll of nature, all visible and invisible creatures. Say to them: "I am grateful f or your work, I love you and want to be in harmony with you!" At this very momen t, in response to your greeting, all of nature will open to you and send you ene rgy for the entire day. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov Prosveta Publishing 3/13/2011 Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, th e entire world was created." Baal Shem Tov 3/14/2011 When the bridge is gone, the narrowest plank becomes precious. Hungarian Proverb 3/15/2011 If planetary peace seems beyond our reach, recall: Miracles are natural when we rely on the Source of All to carry our burdens with us. Then, even peace is poss ible. Nan Merrill with Barbara Taylor Peace Planet: Light for Our World 3/16/2011 You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? Robert Louis Stevenson 3/17/2011 True affluence is not needing anything. Gary Snyder Quoted on Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac"

3/18/2011 The day I acquired the habit of consciously pronouncing the words "thank you", I felt I had gained possession of a magic wand capable of transforming everything . Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov 3/19/2011 You cannot give your life more days, but you can give your days more life. Unknown 3/20/2011 People are like stained glass windows: They sparkle and shine when the sun is ou t, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. Elisabeth Kbler-Ross 3/21/2011 If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find somet hing to be thankful for. Terry Lynn Taylor 3/22/2011 What a wonderful life I ve had! I only wish I d realized it sooner. Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Quoted in Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese, by Kathryn and Ross Petras 3/23/2011 We must slow down to a human tempo and we ll begin to have time to listen. Thomas Merton 3/24/2011 A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord. Paramahansa Yogananda 3/25/2011 Every exit is an entry somewhere else. Tom Stoppard 3/26/2011 In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singi ng softly to itself and to you. Rachel Naomi Remen 3/27/2011 The creation is not a study, a roughed-in sketch; it is supremely, meticulously created....Even on the perfectly ordinary and clearly visible level, creation ca rries on with an intricacy unfathomable and apparently uncalled for. Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek 3/28/2011 We will know what both the fullness and the fulfilment of life mean only when th e consciousness that the Spirit is our own very self comes to life within us. Paul Brunton Perspectives 3/29/2011 Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm. St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Embrace the World 3/30/2011 Eternal Spirit -- Earth-Maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver; source of all that is an d that shall be; Father and Mother of us all. Loving God, in whom is heaven. The hallowing of your name echoes through the universe! The New Zealand Prayer Book 3/31/2011 Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much care the less; but try to obtain what you need in lif e, and make the best of every moment of your life. Hazrat Inayat Khan Gayan

4/01/2011 Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly. G.K. Chesterton 4/02/2011 If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And when I am for myself, what am 'I '? And if not now, when? Hillel the Elder Ethics of the Fathers, 1:14 4/03/2011 Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the hist ory of the world, we will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 4/04/2011 Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hea r her breathing. Arundhati Roy 4/05/2011 If we could see the miracle of a single flower, our whole life would change. The Buddha 4/06/2011 Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. Whe n you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. Victor Hugo 4/07/2011 Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them onl y to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts . Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables 4/08/2011 We don t know what life will bring, so it is what we bring to life that matters. Patricia Campbell Carlson Gratefulness.org Newsletter - January 2011 4/09/2011 The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences. Hazrat Inayat Khan Gayan 4/10/2011 Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the h eart has turned to stone. Thomas Merton 4/11/2011 I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- tho se who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has gi ven itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable. Alice Walker Living by the Word 4/12/2011 Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then f or what it is and live each moment anew. Paul Brunton 4/13/2011 Our approach to gratefulness has to be big enough to embrace all the difficultie s of the world. Brother David Steindl-Rast spoken teaching on May 5, 2007 4/14/2011 Today is only a small manageable segment of time in which our difficulties need

not overwhelm us. This lifts from our hearts and minds the heavy weight of both past and future. Anonymous One Day at a Time in Al-Anon 4/15/2011 Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi 4/16/2011 One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to lov e. Leo Tolstoy 4/17/2011 Borrow the Beloved's eyes. Look through them and you'll see the Beloved's face e verywhere. No tiredness, no jaded boredom...things you have hated will become he lpers. Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks We Are Three 4/18/2011 Feeling grateful towards someone or something in your life actually attracts mor e of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. Christiane Northrup 4/19/2011 We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. W e do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which t rue life is full. Thomas Merton 4/20/2011 Don't let other people's opinions burn holes in your dreams. Elsa Joy Bailey 4/21/2011 The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. Jalaluddin Rumi 4/22/2011 God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, r enewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. Dag Hammarskjold 4/23/2011 Take more time, cover less ground. Thomas Merton Dancing In The Waters of Life 4/24/2011 Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. Lucius Annaeus Seneca 4/25/2011 Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. Jacques Prvert 4/26/2011 Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow wher e they lead. Louisa May Alcott 4/27/2011 We are the convergence of the whole universe. We all have a great need for immen sity. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 4/28/2011 As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight,

as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds. The Buddha 4/29/2011 Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest t imes. Vaclav Havel 4/30/2011 So much of modern life is a feverish anticipation of future activity and excitem ent. We have to learn to step back from this into the freedom and possibility of the present. Fr. Bede Griffiths 5/01/2011 The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective. Blessed Mother Teresa 5/02/2011 Seeing the bounty and ease within and all around and diligently fanning the flam e of certainty opens the channel for dissonance to resolve naturally into harmon y. Dhyani Ywahoo Voices of Our Ancestors 5/03/2011 Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion. Meister Eckhart 5/04/2011 The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 5/05/2011 The Friend of God has these three qualities: a generosity like that of the ocean , a compassion like that of the sun, and a humility like that of the earth. Bayazid Tadhkirat 5/06/2011 Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is t he spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Dennis Waitley 5/07/2011 Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not att ained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller 5/08/2011 Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation to reach out to a sphere of light, beauty, truth, love, and power. Paul Brunton Meditations for People in Crisis 5/09/2011 As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the worl d -- that is the myth of the "atomic age" -- as in being able to remake ourselve s. Mahatma Gandhi 5/10/2011 Today the planet is the only proper "in group." Participate joyfully in the sorr ows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. Joseph Campbell 5/11/2011 Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved

the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Sarah Williams from "The Old Astronomer to His Pupil" in Best Loved Poems of the American Peopl e 5/12/2011 Wisdom comes from metabolizing what we learn from others and from experience to a point where it can be shared. Mary Catherine Bateson Spoken at Legacy of Wisdom conference, April 17, 2011 5/13/2011 Grateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into g rateful events. Raimundo Panikkar 5/14/2011 There's a self expansive aspect of gratitude. Very possibly it's a little known law of nature: the more gratitude you have, the more you have to be grateful for . Elaine St. James 5/15/2011 The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the hea rt, a revolution which has to start with each one of us? Dorothy Day 5/16/2011 Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. Alice Walker 5/17/2011 The happy heart gives away the best. To know how to receive is also a most impor tant gift, which cultivates generosity in others and keeps strong the cycle of l ife. Dhyani Ywahoo Voices of Our Ancestors 5/18/2011 Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred b y human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Call of the Dervish 5/19/2011 There was something formed out of chaos, that was born before Heaven and Earth. Quiet and still! Pure and Deep! Tao Te Ching, Robert G. Henricks translation 5/20/2011 There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think w ill be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the pres ent. Grenville Kleiser 5/21/2011 May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowe rs. Shantideva, 8th century Buddhist teacher 5/22/2011 There will be something, anguish or elation, that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: Hail to the morning! Come down to me, my beautiful u nknown. Jessica Powers 5/23/2011 I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to kno w tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, to night. I'm not worried about anything. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

address in Memphis the night before Dr. King's assassination 5/24/2011 Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives. Jalaluddin Rumi Camille and Kabir Helminski's RUMI: JEWELS OF REMEMBRANCE 5/25/2011 In the midst of gathering darkness, light becomes more evident. Bonnie Bostrom 5/26/2011 We have a spiritual practice of thinking of a fire hydrant as a saint - it's sta nding there waiting to be of service. It's a way to start reframing our relation to all the everyday things around us. Frederic Brussat 100 Ways to Keep Your Soul Alive 5/27/2011 "I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today." Julia Butterfly Hill 5/28/2011 Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets. Jane Fonda paraphrase from Legacy of Wisdom conference, April 17, 2011 5/29/2011 Where there is great love there are always miracles. Willa Cather 5/30/2011 Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build th eir philosophy of life. A.J. Cronin 5/31/2011 The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sym pathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us. Hazrat Inayat Khan A Bowl of Saki 6/01/2011 Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. Shirley Chisholm 6/02/2011 How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning? Fred Rogers The World According to Mister Rogers 6/03/2011 It is never too late to become what you might have been. George Eliot 6/04/2011 Kindness does wonderful things to a face. Dixie Doyle 6/05/2011 Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of our selves. Carl Jung 6/06/2011 When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And let it arm itself with all its longing and zeal against whatever caused this. For the former fervor can ret urn only through the same door through which it was lost. St. John Climacus

The Ladder of Divine Ascent 6/07/2011 For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. Anne Morrow Lindbergh 6/08/2011 As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more the good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude. Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life 6/09/2011 The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. Marcus Aurelius 6/10/2011 No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed an uncharted lan d, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. Helen Keller 6/11/2011 Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. Henry Ward Beecher 6/12/2011 I find ecstasy in living -- the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson 6/13/2011 If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence, like the sunlight will illumi nate you in God. St. Issac - 7th Century Hermit Monk 6/14/2011 What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss th at separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of dis covery. Thomas Merton 6/15/2011 Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is bro ken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. Dag Hammarskjold 6/16/2011 As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John Fitzgerald Kennedy 6/17/2011 Never lose a holy curiosity. Albert Einstein 6/18/2011 While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. St. Francis of Assisi 6/19/2011 The store was closed so I went home and hugged what I own. Brooks Palmer clutterbusting.com 6/20/2011 In the continuous flow of blessing our heart finds meaning and rest. David Steindl-Rast A Listening Heart 6/21/2011 There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experience of a way of li fe that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possession

s of which no fate can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if, for one moment in eternity, we have really lived. Eric Shipton 6/22/2011 Don t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go out and do it . Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Thurman 6/23/2011 Ever let mercy outweigh all else in you. Let our compassion be a mirror where we may see in ourselves that likeness and that true image which belong to the Divi ne nature and Divine essence. St. Isaac of Syria Directions on Spiritual Training 6/24/2011 A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts fro m within. Eudora Welty 6/25/2011 Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a f riend. It makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie 6/26/2011 Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at th e single bright moon. Ikkyu - Zen-monk poet, 1394-1481 6/27/2011 Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong. Hildegard von Bingen 6/28/2011 God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship? Martin Buber 6/29/2011 Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. L ove every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the p lants, love every separate fragment. If you love each separate fragment, you wil l understand the mystery of the whole resting in God. Fyodor Dostoevsky 6/30/2011 To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to ma ke you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being c an fight, and never stop fighting. e.e. cummings 7/01/2011 I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forw ard. Thomas Edison 7/02/2011 So far as past errors are concerned, forget them and start afresh, as if it were your first day in this body; but so far as your present contacts are concerned, be kind to them, as if it were your last day in this body. Paul Brunton 7/03/2011 So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied. Helen Keller 7/04/2011 We want to create a context of dignity for suffering people. To do so, it is ess ential to put our fingers on the pulse of our own hearts and make sure our own c

ontext of dignity is intact. Roshi Joan Halifax Spoken at Legacy of Wisdom conference, April 17, 2011 7/05/2011 I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks. Mahatma Gandhi 7/06/2011 Those who would climb to a lofty height must go by steps, not leaps. St. Gregory the Great from a letter to Augustine of Canterbury 7/07/2011 Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person. Rachel Naomi Remen 7/08/2011 Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of thyself. Ralph Waldo Emerson 7/09/2011 Cherish all your happy moments: They make a fine cushion for old age. Booth Tarkington 7/10/2011 As the Sun shines upon my heart, so may my heart shine upon others! The Upanishads 7/11/2011 Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. His Holiness the Dalai Lama 7/12/2011 The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. An d that is what makes all the difference. Thomas Merton Thoughts in Solitude 7/13/2011 Looking behind I am filled with gratitude. Looking forward I am filled with visi on. Looking upwards I am filled with strength. Looking within I discover peace. Quero Apache Prayer 7/14/2011 Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. Faith Baldwin 7/15/2011 The word "impossible" is only in the mind and not in the heart. Sri Chinmoy 7/16/2011 We are the ones for whom we have been waiting. Hopi Elders 7/17/2011 Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction. Paul Brunton Perspectives 7/18/2011 All attack is a call for help. When you know this, you begin at once to look dee ply into the question of what kind of help is being called for. Neale Donald Walsch Tomorrow's God 7/19/2011 You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giv ing thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will hav

e set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for , the more will be given you. Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance 7/20/2011 Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches or uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous ser vice. Swami Ramdas 7/21/2011 Gratitude is so close to the bone of life, pure and true, that it instantly stop s the rational mind, and all its planning and plotting. Regina Sara Ryan Praying Dangerously 7/22/2011 An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by its own fullness, not by its recept ion. Harold Loukes (Quaker) 7/23/2011 You will never be commonplace if you are vigilant in love. Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity 7/24/2011 Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and impor tance of that question. Tennessee Williams 7/25/2011 A humble life dedicated to a great purpose, becomes great. Paul Brunton Perspectives 7/26/2011 Thanks to the human heart by which we live; thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears. William Wordsworth 7/27/2011 L ilha ill Allh. (There is nothing other than the One.) Qur'n 37:35 and 47:19 7/28/2011 A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, ke ep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. Arabian Proverb 7/29/2011 All sorrows can be borne if you tell a story about them. Karen Blixen 7/30/2011 If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy which uplifts those who are around you. If you can maintain this habit, this energy will turn into a steady flow of love. Annamalai Swami 7/31/2011 To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the birds, and the waters to those who live i n water, giving abundantly to all the basic needs of life, not as a private poss ession, not restricted by law, not divided by boundaries, but as common to all, amply and in rich measure. Gregory of Nazianzus 8/01/2011 In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged v ocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all

wounds. Henri Nouwen 8/02/2011 Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate departm ent of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital a wareness that pervades all realms of our being. Brother David Steindl-Rast 8/03/2011 Gratitude makes us feel bursting with delight, just to remember the gifts we hav e received. Thus we are doubly blessed when we receive something: for the gift i tself and later, in recall, for the miracle of having been given it. M.J. Ryan 8/04/2011 Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we e ver have. Pema Chdrn 8/05/2011 To travel hopefully is better than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson 8/06/2011 Prayer is an act of love, words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts thoug hts, all that is needed is the will to love. St. Teresa of Avila The Way of Perfection 8/07/2011 If a nightingale sings with her breast against a thorn, why not we? Susan Gilbert Dickinson to Emily Dickinson in 1861 8/08/2011 Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism. Ann Haymond Zwinger The Mysterious Lands 8/09/2011 Keep inviolate an area of light and peace within you. Corazon Aquino 8/10/2011 Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt. St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Embrace the World 8/11/2011 We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. Marcel Proust 8/12/2011 The grateful heart sits at a continuous feast. Proverbs 15:15 8/13/2011 When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for other s, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration. Jean Vanier 8/14/2011 Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy wo uld lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to tak e things as they come along with patience and equanimity. Carl Jung 8/15/2011 Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. Karl Barth

8/16/2011 I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable...but through it a ll I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christi 8/17/2011 Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direc tion. Albert Einstein 8/18/2011 How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. A.A. Milne Winnie-the-Pooh 8/19/2011 Tapping into something beyond ourselves is something we are all able to do, and which has the capacity to evoke gratefulness within us. Johanna Glaser Despair, Self-Deception, and Authentic Possibilities 8/20/2011 Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want. Geoffrey F. Abert 8/21/2011 Each of us can become a blessed channel of peace for the healing of Earth's woun ds: We can awaken from apathy and find creative, non-violent ways to transform t he abuses rampant in today's world. Nan Merrill with Barbara Taylor Peace Planet: Light for Our World 8/22/2011 For all that has been, thanks; to all that will be, yes. Dag Hammarskjold 8/23/2011 Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth th at the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 8/24/2011 How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me fro m your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me. Rabia Al-Adawiyya translated by Andrew Harvey 8/25/2011 God always provides what we need, but we must be ready to open our eyes and see it. The Midrash 8/26/2011 Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the marke t. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without." Jack Kornfield After the Ecstasy, the Laundry 8/27/2011 When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not hav e a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me." Erma Bombeck 8/28/2011 Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering. Padre Pio 8/29/2011 To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and ey es to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of

us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of it s benediction. Mark Twain 8/30/2011 Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of anothe r day. Kent Nerburn 8/31/2011 Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb. Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B A Tree Full of Angels 9/01/2011 Every time you express gratitude or compassion for any aspect of yourself or som eone else, you breathe life in. Mariah Fenton Gladis Tales of a Wounded Healer 9/02/2011 If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looki ng-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine. Thomas a Kempis 9/03/2011 When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, o r in the life of another. Helen Keller 9/04/2011 Most of us look at our ideals, say how far we are from them, and get depressed. But it is heroic simply to say, "Here are my ideals," state them before the worl d, and then spend your life trying to live up to them. Keshavan Nair New Dimensions Radio interview 9/05/2011 We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny, but what we put into it is ours. Dag Hammarskjold 9/06/2011 The Glory of God is a human being fully alive. St. Irenaeus 9/07/2011 A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if m y body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face. Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life 9/08/2011 Nobody in the world can prove to be your ideal unless you make yourself one. Hazrat Inayat Khan Gayan 9/09/2011 When we understand how precious each moment is, we can treat each breath, each m oment, as a newborn baby. Michelle McDonald 9/10/2011 Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ours elves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world. Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life

9/11/2011 To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love all pray in their distress, and to these virtues of delight return their thankfulness. William Blake The Divine Image 9/12/2011 We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell 9/13/2011 Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Madame Marie Curie 9/14/2011 Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one d ay a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul. Simone Weil 9/15/2011 The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. W.H. Murray "The Scottish Himalayan Expedition" 9/16/2011 The future has many names. For the weak it is unattainable. For the fearful it i s the unknown. For the bold it is opportunity. Victor Hugo 9/17/2011 Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring ackn owledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties. Sara Ban Breathnach 9/18/2011 I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate. Georgia O'Keeffe 9/19/2011 The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which o nce realised makes all movements full of meaning and joy. Rabindranath Tagore 9/20/2011 Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature he als and gives strength to body and soul alike. John Muir 9/21/2011 True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the l egacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire. Cesar Chavez Eulogy for Rufino Contreras, Calexico, CA, Feb. 14, 1979 9/22/2011 In this place of which you say, "It is a waste"...there shall be heard again the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the v oice of the bride, the voices of those who sing. Isaiah 33:10-11 9/23/2011 No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of nig ht. Elie Wiesel 9/24/2011 Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeli ng that nurtures the soul.

Rabbi Harold Kushner 9/25/2011 It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need eno ugh hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness. Corita Kent 9/26/2011 A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupi ed. St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Embrace the World 9/27/2011 We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill 9/28/2011 Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. Michael J. Gelb 9/29/2011 A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse. Mark Twain 9/30/2011 If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, ou r protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are w orkable. Pema Chdrn When Things Fall Apart 10/01/2011 Grief and gratitude are kindred souls, each pointing to the beauty of what is tr ansient and given to us by grace. Patricia Campbell Carlson (Letter to a friend) 10/02/2011 In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hear ts of others. Paramahansa Yogananda 10/03/2011 At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now. David Steindl-Rast A Listening Heart 10/04/2011 I personally believe that each of us was put here for a purpose to build not to destroy. If I can make people smile, then I have served my purpose for God. Red Skelton, Comedian, 1913-1997 10/05/2011 For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high m ountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door. Rabindranath Tagore 10/06/2011 Perpetual gratitude toward people around us initiates habits of thankful prayer. It also starts a chain reaction of giving thanks, till our friends and loved on es and our whole world become imbued in grateful living. Edward Hays The Great Escape Manual 10/07/2011 The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what to hope for. And th e most you can do is live inside that hope. Barbara Kingsolver 10/08/2011 At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable. Christopher Reeve

10/09/2011 A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul compla ins even in paradise. Baha'u'llah 10/10/2011 It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through underst anding. Kahlil Gibran 10/11/2011 All the way to heaven is heaven. Catherine of Siena 10/12/2011 Happiness is not what makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy. David Steindl-Rast A Listening Heart 10/13/2011 When I dare to be powerful -- to use my strength in the service of my vision, th en it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. Audre Lorde 10/14/2011 We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the ear th below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support. Natalie Goldberg Writing Down the Bones 10/15/2011 Everybody is unique. Do not compare yourself with anybody else lest you spoil Go d's curriculum. Baal Shem Tov 10/16/2011 Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the exp ected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was go ing to be? Elizabeth Bibesco Balloons 10/17/2011 The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from grea tness of soul and the bearing of infirmities. St. Isaac of Ninevah On the Harm of Foolish Zeal that Has the Guise of Being Divine 10/18/2011 Trouble creates a capacity to handle it....meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. Oliver Wendell Holmes 10/19/2011 If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recog nize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary soci al fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. Margaret Mead 10/20/2011 The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes , nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with t he years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of go od is retained. Alexander Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipelago 10/21/2011 Love wisdom, and she will guard you; cherish her, and she will lift you high; if only you embrace her, she will bring you honor. She will set a garland of grace

on your head and bestow on you a crown of glory. Proverbs 4:6-9 10/22/2011 The more you sense the rareness and value of your own life, the more you realize that how you use it, how you manifest it, is all your responsibility. We face s uch a big task, so naturally we sit down for a while. Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi 10/23/2011 Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Wha tever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful. Sri Swami Satchidananda 10/24/2011 Will you ever understand how near God is to you? Lalla, fourteenth century C.E. 10/25/2011 In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself t he right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little ch ance of my being anybody else. Thomas Merton "Day of a Stranger," Thomas Merton Reader, p. 431 10/26/2011 The whole universe is breathing as our breath; we limit the process by our assum ption that we are doing the breathing. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Alchemical Wisdom 10/27/2011 A lack of a daily tonic of gratitude results in an anemic soul, which, in turn, contributes to a physical sense of listlessness. A grateful soul, on the other h and, is vibrant and animated and so permeates your body with zest and with an en joyment of a life littered with gifts. Edward Hays Prayer Notes to a Friend, Forest of Peace Publishing, 2002 10/28/2011 This world is a mountain, in which your works are echoed back to you. Jalaluddin Rumi 10/29/2011 Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder. E.B. White Charlotte's Web 10/30/2011 As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. David Steindl-Rast Friends of Silence newsletter, December 2008 10/31/2011 Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth. attributed to Sophocles 11/01/2011 The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the d ay with gentleness and understanding. Thich Nhat Hanh Peace Is Every Step 11/02/2011 People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rush ing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure. David Steindl-Rast 11/03/2011

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from dominat ion of outside conditions. Robert Louis Stevenson 11/04/2011 May God protect us, grant us wisdom's fruit; may we gain energy to know the Trut h; may our intellects grow clear and bright; may we cherish no ill feelings towa rd anyone. Om, peace, peace, peace be unto all. Taittiriya Upanishad 2.1.1 11/05/2011 Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. Mary McLeod Bethune 11/06/2011 Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mer cy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neith er are you free to abandon it. The Talmud 11/07/2011 If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure grati tude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everythi ng. Shunryu Suzuki Roshi Branching Streams Flowing in the Dark 11/08/2011 I think over again my small adventures, my fears, those small ones that seemed s o big, all those vital things I had to get and to reach, and yet there is only o ne great thing: to live and see the great day that dawns, and the light that fil ls the world. Old Innuit Song 11/09/2011 Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with w hich to fly. Padre Pio Quiet Moments with Padre Pio (Patricia Treece ed.) 11/10/2011 What is real prayer? Praise to God. And the meaning of praise? Appreciating; thu s opening the heart more and more to the divine beauty one sees in manifestation . Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan Bowl of Saki 11/11/2011 You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can decide how you 're going to live now. Joan Baez 11/12/2011 If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost. That is where t hey should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau 11/13/2011 The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft. Gustave Flaubert 11/14/2011 "Some one ought to do it, but why should I?" -- "Some one ought to do it, so why not I?" Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution. Annie Besant 11/15/2011 As long as the candle burns, there is time to make repairs. Rabbi Salanter 11/16/2011 I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what contro l we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselve

s to them. Jeanne DuPrau The Earth House 11/17/2011 To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly. Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Quoted in Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese, by Kathryn and Ross Petras 11/18/2011 The next message you need is always right where you are. Ram Dass 11/19/2011 Widen your consciousness to the dimension of the earth and you will have a place for everything. Mira Alfassa (The Mother) 11/20/2011 I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a gu ardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an archite ct of peace. Diane Ackerman 11/21/2011 To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage a nd strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength i s in the heart. Jack Kornfield A Path with Heart 11/22/2011 In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefuln ess opens the door. David Steindl-Rast Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer 11/23/2011 Love is...like a spring coming up out of the ground of our own depths. "I am gif t." All that I am is something that's given, and given freely. Being doesn't cos t anything. There's no price tag, no strings attached. Thomas Merton The Springs of Contemplation: A Retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani 11/24/2011 Being extravagantly generous is an enchanting way to become holy and Godlike, fo r God is awesomely extravagant as is revealed by even a casual glance at creatio n. Edward Hays The Great Escape Manual 11/25/2011 To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything. Thomas Merton Thoughts in Solitude 11/26/2011 Asking good questions is half of learning. attributed to Muhammad 11/27/2011 People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I say that the mos t liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This emp owers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. Salma Hayek 11/28/2011 What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it' s a force that can light a room. Ray Charles 11/29/2011

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had bet ter get out of their way and let them have it. Dwight D. Eisenhower 11/30/2011 My storehouse having been burnt down, nothing obstructs my view of the bright mo on. Masahide, Zen poet 12/01/2011 In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and e ndure. H.W. Chosa 12/02/2011 The heart is right to cry even when the smallest drop of light, of love, is take n away....You are right to do so in any fashion until God returns to you. Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky The Gift: Poems by Hafiz 12/03/2011 We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is sp iritual globalization. Sister Joan Chittister Charter for Compassion Trailer 12/04/2011 Some people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy. Abraham H. Maslow 12/05/2011 We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious o f our treasures. Thornton Wilder 12/06/2011 The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. Thomas Merton 12/07/2011 I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman 12/08/2011 A heartfelt smile gives warmth enough for three winters. Mongolian Proverb 12/09/2011 Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not givin g it. William Arthur Ward 12/10/2011 What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has etern ity in it. Isaac Bashevis Singer 12/11/2011 Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow. " The Talmud 12/12/2011 We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good wea ther, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to hav e enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is. Brother David Steindl-Rast 12/13/2011

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay 12/14/2011 For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven , it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy. St. Thrse of Lisieux 12/15/2011 There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. Proverb 12/16/2011 In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we underst and. We will understand only what we are taught. Baba Dioum, Senegalese conservationist (b. 1937) 12/17/2011 Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth. Karl Barth 12/18/2011 The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Gospel of Ramakrishna 12/19/2011 We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to tran sform them. Simone Weil 12/20/2011 If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. Margaret Fuller 12/21/2011 Shower Thy grace upon us in the moment of our greatest need, protect us from our selves, and allow us to be a beacon of light rather than a dark cloud for the am bience that surrounds us. Only with Thy aid can we create that peace within and harmony with the outer environment, both natural and social, for which our souls yearn. Seyyed Hossein Nasr from Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer (anthology) 12/22/2011 I no longer want to have anything to do with love that forgets to be grateful. O therwise I will only go on lying to You: and I want to be done with all insincer ity for ever and ever. Thomas Merton The Sign of Jonas, p. 290 12/23/2011 Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized soci ety. Cesar Chavez 12/24/2011 If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a d eeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are min or compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely rele ased. Dr. Albert Schweitzer 12/25/2011 If I knew for certain that I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole. Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life 12/26/2011 The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.

Sri Nisargadatta 12/27/2011 There are many things to be grateful "for" but, as I ripen with the seasons of l ife, the many reasons blend into a sacred mystery. And, most deeply, I realize t hat living gratefully is its own blessing. Michael Mahoney 12/28/2011 Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices. Oscar Wilde 12/29/2011 Great compassion is the root of all forms of worship. His Holiness the Dalai Lama 12/30/2011 Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, praising God until we ourselves are a constant act of praise. Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM Radical Grace: Daily Meditations 12/31/2011 Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disa ppear and obstacles vanish into air. John Quincy Adams 01/01/2012 People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they 're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. His Holiness the Dalai Lama 01/02/2012 In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle 01/03/2012 The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 01/04/2012 Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin 01/05/2012 Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe th at the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. Noam Chomsky 01/06/2012 When the pearl is cast down in the mud it does not become dishonoured the more, nor if it is anointed with balsam oil will it become more precious. But it has i ts worth in the eyes of its owner at all times. Philip the Gnostic, translated by R. Wilson The Gospel of Philip 01/07/2012 When you let go of trying to get more of what you don't really need, it frees up oceans of energy to make a difference with what you have. When you make a diffe rence with what you have it expands. Lynne Twist 01/08/2012 Whoever does not see God in every place does not see God in any place. Rabbi Elimelech 01/09/2012 If we perceived Life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical Life and walk the Earth in a very deep sense of gratitude. Gary Zukav Thoughts from the Seat of the Soul 01/10/2012

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. Emily Dickinson 1/11/2012 It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful co untry lies in between. Diane Ackerman 1/12/2012 Just to be is a blessing; just to live is holy. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel 1/13/2012 It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedroc k of truth, however hard. May Sarton 1/14/2012 Those who are awake live in a constant state of amazement. Jack Kornfield 1/15/2012 Truth has all the benefits of sham without the disadvantages. Dutch proverb 01/16/2012 Bless those who challenge us for they remind us of doors we have closed and door s we have yet to open. Native American Prayer 1/17/2012 Laughing is the shortest distance between two people. Victor Borge 1/18/2012 The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality out side us for which we exist....It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door. Thomas Merton Contemplation in a World of Action 1/19/2012 People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we mus t lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. Dorothy Day 1/20/2012 In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love an d be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, wha t is most precious today? Roshi Joan Halifax Interview with Wild River Review 1/21/2012 The important thing is not to think much, but to love much; and so, do that whic h best stirs you to love. Saint Teresa of Avila 1/22/2012 Who is it that can make muddy water clear? No one. But left to stand, it will gr adually clear of itself. Lao-Tzu Tao Te Ching 1/23/2012 Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. Emily Dickinson 1/24/2012 My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight. Eudora Welty 1/25/2012

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is not a prove rb till your life has illustrated it. John Keats 1/26/2012 The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sh arper. Eden Phillpotts 1/27/2012 Gratitude places you in the energy field of plentitude. Perceiving life in a con sciousness of gratitude is literally stepping into another dimension of living. Suddenly the seeming ordinariness of your days takes on a divine sparkle. Michael Beckwith 1/28/2012 All respectability, all honor is meaningless if it drives you against your natur e. What can you do if you are not a lotus flower, but just a marigold? Enjoy bei ng a marigold. Chandan 1/29/2012 Pray - period! Don't expect anything. Or better, expect nothing. Prayer cleanses us of expectations and allows holy will, providence, and life itself an entry. What could be more worth the effort - or the non-effort? Thomas Moore 1/30/2012 May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others. Roshi Joan Halifax Spoken at Legacy of Wisdom conference, April 17, 2011 1/31/2012 Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are su fficient, and that realization frees us. Joanna Macy 2/1/2012 There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of ange ls, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful. Howard Thurman 2/2/2012 The true human is infinitely deeper than the merely human. Blaise Pascal 2/3/2012 Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp o r shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are. Joan Chittister The Friendship of Women 2/4/2012 Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness. Paramahansa Yogananda 2/5/2012 Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche. Jane Fonda Spoken at Legacy of Wisdom conference, April 17, 2011 2/6/2012 Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meani ng. David Steindl-Rast A Listening Heart 2/7/2012 I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas Alva Edison 2/8/2012 Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and m ore.

Melody Beattie 2/9/2012 One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. Persian Proverb