It is easy to get caught up in the struggles of life. We can reach the point where the struggle becomes normal, just the way life is or even the way it is supposed to be. Our lives become full of suffering and turmoil which we simply accept. When we reach this point we canContinue reading “Life is a Gift”
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Put a little love in your heart
We end this month’s discussion on being led by love with a song that is just as relevant today as when it first came out in the 1960s. —I love all my readers, Continue reading “Put a little love in your heart”
Hope Begins in the Dark
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.” – Anne Lamott
Surely the day will come…
“Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice, and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.” – Josephine Baker
If there is no love for others…
“If there is no love for others, love of country is just a slogan.” ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with “The Divine Presence”
Walking the earth like brothers
“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
Surrender your self-interest
“Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.” – Lao Tzu
Hatred ceases through love
“Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.” – Buddha
There is still much that is fair
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Only three things matter
“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” – Buddha
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