![]() "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. ![]() ![]() If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself." - Tecumseh Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. "When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad." - Rainer Maria Rilke But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you. "You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. We need silence to be able to touch souls." - Mother Teresa See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. "We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. I cannot make even my own body obey me." - Thomas Merton I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. Then they will answer and say, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thristy or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison, and not minister to your needs?' he will answer them, 'Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.'" - Matthew 25: 43-45 "For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, a stranger and you gave me no welcome, naked and you gave me no clothingm ill and in prison, and you did not care for me. "Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden." - Corrie Ten Bloom It is a longing of the soul." - Mahatma Gandhi make it a conversation." - Author Unknown "Wait and be patient, and later you will be glad you did." - Sirach It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a divine mystery, or a waterfall." - Fulton J. "Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. "Contemplation is vital, thinking is vital he who thinks little errs much." - Leonardo Da Vinci "It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream." - Benjamin E. ![]() "Certain thoughts are prayers." - Victor Hugo "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 "The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart." - Henry Wadsworth LongfellowĪll reality is a reflection of God. "It's all about the journey, not the outcome." - Carl Lewis "God knows us from within ourselves, not as objects, not as strangers, not as intimates, but as our own selves." - Thomas Merton Drucker "The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search." - Ernest Dimnet "The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection." - Thomas Paine ![]() From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." - Peter F. "A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions." - William Kingdon Clifford "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest." - Confucius "You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose." - Indira Gandhi "Follow effective action with quiet reflection. ![]()
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