Love is the fire that burns all infirmities. By criticizing, by judging, by looking at wickedness with comtempt, one does not help the wicked or the stupid person. The one who helps is he who is ready to overlook, who is ready to forgive, to tolerate, to take disadvantages he may have to meet with patiently.
Hazrat Khan
The one and only thing that hinders man from advancing spiritually , or at least from advancing towards the goal for which he is destined and which he is longing to attain is this: that his mind is so absorbed by the demands and wants of the body that it hardly has a moment to give itself entirely to the reflection of the light of the soul.
- Hazrat Khan
But man, being divine in nature, has to love, and the trouble has been that he has loved wrongly. In the early stages of his development he places his love in the wrong direction, and, turning his back on the love of God, which is of the very nature of his own soul, he loves that which is connected with the form side of life, and not the life side of form.
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When we, as human beings, realise the divine purpose, and come to regard our physical bodies as means whereby the divine, indwelling Christ can be revealed, we shall gain a new vision of physical living and a renewed incentive for the proper care and treatment of the physical body
- A.Baily (From Bethlehem to Calvary)
'Today I am with you, tomorrow I go westward, but ere we go, I say unto you that your neighbour is your unknown self made visible. Seek him in love that you may know yourself, for only in that knowledge will you become my brothers'.
- Kahil Gilbran (Jesus the Son of Man)
The heart and soul - though scarred and saddened and sorely tested - will ultimately prevail, for we are all empowered by Godly sparks of goodness, compassion and love.
- Rabbi Wayne D Dosiak from Living Judaism
"What is love", I asked, "love is something like the clouds that ere in the sky before the Sun came out" she replied. "You cannot touch the clouds, you know, but you feel the rain and know how glad flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything".
- Helen Keller
This is the basis of partnership between God and humankind: God provides the wheat, we make the bread. Each partner has a unique and indispensable role.
- Living Judaism
A poem by Danny Siegal translates a rabbi's proverb -
If you will always assume
the person setting next to you
is the Messiah
waiting for some human kindness
You will learn to weigh your words
and watch your hands
And if he so choses
not to reveal himself in your time
It will not matter
More radiant than the Sun
Purer than the driven snow
Subtler than the ether
Is the Self, the spirit within my heart
I am that Self, that Self am I
- Ancient prayer
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
- T.S.Elliot, Four Quartets
Pray for a heart of flesh instead of stone, for the capacity to feel, to love, to grow, to celebrate the only life we've got:; to have faith to shape a better, more gentle world; to leave a sweet ripple in the lake of eternity.
And how shall we pray? Pray carefully, your prayers will be answered.
- Albert Vorspan
Keep your mind on the present journey, walk by faith not by sight, trusting me to open up the way before you.
- Sarah Young (Jesus Calling)
'It's cool to have powers, we just have to learn how to use them'
- Star High on Youtube
Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
- Zen proverb
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