Virtue

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"Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it."

-- David Starr Jordan

"The small truth has words that are clear; the great truth has great silence."

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

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Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots,

Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits.

 

Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds

Fill it with sunshine, Kind words and kind deeds.”

 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Blessings

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Give thanks for unknown blessings
already on their way.

Native American prayer

Bird of Paradise

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You and your shadow are forever present in this world.

You are that glorious Bird of Paradise.

~ Rumi

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Loneliness

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My loneliness was born when men praised

my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
 
~ Kahlil Gibran

Grace

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Through your Grace
I have found a treasure within myself.

I have found the Truth of the Unseen World.

~ Rumi ♥
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Wealth & Wants

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Wealth consists not in having great possessions
but in having few wants. 

Esther De Wall

Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict 

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Rain ~ AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

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 When rain falls on dry land, it activates certain compounds
in the soil that release a distinctive aroma.
"Petrichor" is the word for that smell.
If you ever catch a whiff of it when there's no rain,
it's because a downpour has begun somewhere nearby,
and the wind is bringing you news of it.
I suspect that you will soon be awash
in a metaphorical version of petrichor, Aquarius.
A parched area of your life is about to receive much-needed moisture.

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I love the smell of the rain falling on parched soil... and didn't know why!

That's been my life recently...
Rain Rain come again come again the rain come down...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor

The Artist

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The artist is not a person endowed with free will

who seeks his own ends,

but one who allows art to realize

its purpose within him.

Carl Jung

The Spirit of Guidance

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As the light of the sun helps the plant to grow,

so the divine Spirit helps the soul towards its perfection.

                        Bowl of Saki, April 8, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

The Spirit of Guidance is a plant that grows and blossoms when it meets with response and care; and when it is watered by the rainfall of divine inspiration it blooms in the light of the divine sun. The Spirit of Guidance is the light of God, which may be likened to a lantern that the farmer carries when walking on the farm in the darkness of night. It is like a searchlight, which shows up any object upon which it is thrown; and so when the light of the Spirit of Guidance is thrown upon any aspect of life, man receives a keen insight into it. In the Spirit of Guidance one finds a living God active in the heart of every person.

   from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/IX/IX_15.htm

Thoughts Become Your Destiny

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“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

Lawrence Block

 “Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.”
Douglas Adams

Heaven

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Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Thomas More

Destiny Quotes

“Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.” Destiny Quotes       “The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.” Waste Quotes
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Dream & Destiny

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Look for the dream that keeps coming back. It is your destiny.
Orison S. Marden

As High ast the Stars...

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When you sleep in a house

your thoughts are as high as the ceiling,

when you sleep outside

they are as high as the stars.

Bedouin Proverbs

Truth

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Truth may walk through the world unarmed.
Bedouin Proverb

I have always felt this way and now see it put so well, and so simply, in words. Gracias = Grace.

Sun & Shadows

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Turn your face to the sun,
and the shadows fall behind you.

Maori proverb

Evolution & Truth

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According to his evolution, man knows truth.

Bowl of Saki, March 29, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
Every person's desire is according to his evolution. That for which he is ready is desirable for him. Milk is a desirable food for the infant, other foods for the grown-up person. Every stage in life has its own appropriate and desirable things.

   from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VII/VII_30.htm


When one realizes the ultimate truth, one comes to understand that one single underlying current to which all the different religions, philosophies and faiths are attached. These are all only different expressions of the same truth, and it is the absence of that knowledge which causes all to be divided into so many different sects and religions.

The Alchemy of Happiness

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Volume VI - The Alchemy of Happiness

THE SECRET OF LIFE

MAN'S attitude is the secret of life, for it is upon man's attitude that success and failure depend. Both man's rise and fall depend upon his attitude. By attitude I mean that impulse which is like a battery behind the mechanism of thought. It is not man's thought which is man's attitude; it is something behind man's thought pushing it to the fore; and according to the strength of that impulse the thought becomes realized. Behind every word one speaks, the attitude is the most important factor in bringing what one says to its successful accomplishment.

There are three different aspects of this subject which one should observe. One aspect is one's attitude towards oneself: whether one treats oneself as a friend or as an enemy, whether one is in harmony with oneself or in disharmony. 

Not everyone is in harmony with himself, and not everyone treats himself as a friend, although he may think so. For man is generally his own enemy. He does not know it, but he proves it in his doings.

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Teacher

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There is one Teacher, God Himself; we are all His pupils.

Bowl of Saki, March 22, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
 
According to the Sufi point of view there is only one teacher, and that teacher is God Himself. No man can teach another man. All one can do for another is to give him one's own experience in order to help him to be successful. For instance if a person happens to know a road, he can tell another man that it is the road which leads to the place he wishes to find. The work of the spiritual teacher is like the work of Cupid. The work of Cupid is to bring two souls together. And so is the work of the spiritual teacher: to bring together the soul and God. But what is taught to the one who seeks after truth? Nothing is taught. He is only shown how he should learn from God. For no man can ever teach spirituality. It is God alone who teaches it. And how is it learned? When these ears which are open outwardly are closed to the outside world and focused upon the heart within, then instead of hearing all that comes from the outer life one begins to hear the words within. Thus if one were to define what meditation is, that also is an attitude: the right attitude towards God. The attitude should first be to seek God within. And, after seeking God within, then to see God outside.

   from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VI/VI_8.htm