Life and Existence

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

Death has made His darkness beautiful with thee.

 

In this life there’s nothing new in dying,

 

In this life there’s nothing new in dying,

 

Come, my friends. ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

 

“Each man’s soul is his genius.”

Terror … often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.

 

It is not what he has, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.

I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity - in all things, generosity.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.

If thou should never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.

If thou should never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.

'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.' J. R. R.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.

Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

A belief is not true because it is useful.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad.

I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.