"God is that universal spirit that animates and binds all things in existence."
- From 'A Friend' in the movie "Bedazzled"* * *
"Now Power"
Grant me the strength, Creator,
to greet this new day
with a joyful, open, smiling heart.
To see its beauty and soak up its light.
To live each moment fully,
aware of the potential for creation
that is the true power.
Help me to surrender my lower self
so that my higher self may rule.
Help me to create my own heaven on Earth
by letting go of all my fears,
so that I may instead
fill each moment with love.
Help me to be grateful for each moment
and all that is created in it
from God through me.
Amen
c Sr.97
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Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds!
Shine.
Buddha
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"Service Gives Meaning to Life"
Sr. 2006
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
By being happy, we sow enormous benefits upon the world.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao tzu
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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
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Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart
give yourself to it.
Buddha
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From Mark Morford's 2.2.07 column in the San Francisco Chronicle:
[God is a...]
"deep, all-pervasive non-judgmental ambisexual pulse of white-hot love running like a cosmic electrical current through everything at all times in all places everywhere...."
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Gratitude inspires devotion.
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AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
"All is thought. Affirmative prayers lift your thought to gratitude and love. These high vibrations attract more reasons to feel grateful and loving. It's possible to create and attract anything that your mind thinks about, believes in, and feels joy and gratitude toward. These thoughts and emotions of positive expectation set up a matching wavelength that creates or attracts what you're thinking about.
Hermes Trismegistus
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* * * T H I N K P O S I T I V E L Y * * *
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What is the difference between our soul and spirit?
The spirit is the whole. The soul is the individual. The soul of a man is a mere speck in space, yet the soul -- though indefinite -- is that vital force or activity which is everlasting.
What is the nature of spirit?
Spirit is the First Cause, the primary beginning, and the motivative influence -- as God is spirit. Spirit is...the life itself of the soul, whether in man, in a nation, in a city, in a group, or what.
Edgar Cayce
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