Word for the Day – gratefulness.org

If you want to receive divine light, pray. If you have begun to make progress and want this light to be intensified within you, pray. And if you have reached the summit of perfection and want to be super-illumined so as to remain in that state, pray.

Angela of Foligno Complete Works (Paulist Press)

Word for the Day

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

www.gratefulness.org

Gratefulness

So much of modern life is a feverish anticipation of future activity and excitement. We have to learn to step back from this into the freedom and possibility of the present.

Fr. Bede Griffiths

It may be when…

… we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Wendell Berry
Collected Poems

Our mind

We must deliver ourselves

with the help of our minds…

for one who has conquered the mind,

the mind is the best of friends;

but for the one who has failed to do so,

the mind will remain the greatest enemy.

- Bhagavad-Gita

It is never too late…

… to become what you might have been.

George Eliot

Practice Contentment

Contentment
is not the fulfillment
of what you want,
but the realization
of how much
you already have.

~Anonymous

Crazy about quotes :-))))

I’ve come across so many powerful quotes lately that it’s time to share some of my favorites.

“If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31)

“Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.” (Basil King)

“Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” (Sven Goran Eriksson)

And my favorite: 

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” (Carl Jung) 

Attitudes…

“Attitudes are more important than facts.”
~ Karl A. Menninger, psychiatrist

 

When you meditate…

“When you meditate, invite yourself to feel the self-esteem, the dignity, and the strong humility of the Buddha that you are.” – Sogyal Rinpoche