| Don't hide your light
under a bushel.
- Jesus, Sermon on the Mount
To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in
the process, for he hides behind it.
- Meister Eckhart
God calls you to the place where your deep gladness and the
world's deep hunger meet.
- Frederick
Buechner
The late E.F.
Schumacher believed that there are two places to find wisdom:
in nature and in religious traditions. To seek wisdom in nature
we should obviously go to those who have loved nature enough
to study it. Because science explores nature it can be a powerful
source of wisdom. In just about every culture imaginable, religion
and science were teammates who offered to the people a cosmic
myth that allowed them to live out their lives with meaning.
- Matthew
Fox, Original
Blessing
It is a weakening and discoloring idea that rustic people knew
God once upon a time, but that it is too late for us. In fact,
the absolute is available to everyone in every age. There never
was a more holy age than ours, and never a less.
- Anne Dillard, cited by Rob Brezsny, Secrets
of Pronoia (PDF)
Where do the souls of unrealized dreams go?
- Poi
Dog Pondering
Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
- Kurt Vonnegut
The voice of the people is the voice of God. (Vox Populi, Vox
Dei)
- Alcuin
These prayers are the constant road across the wilderness.
These prayers are the memory of god.
- Paul Simon
In every corner of my soul there is an altar to a different
god.
- Fernando Pessoa
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer
world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the
overlap.
- Novalis, quoted in News
of the Universe
Ask yourself: 'Am I ready to stop equating cynicism with insight?
Do I dare take the risk that exposing myself to uplifting entertainment
might dull my intelligence?' If you doubt your ability to handle
relaxing breakthroughs, you should stop reading now.
- Rob Brezsny, Secrets
of Pronoia/The Sun (PDF)
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank
you, it will be enough.
- Meister
Eckhart
God loves the soul so deeply that were anyone to take away
from God the divine love of the soul, that person would kill
God.
- Meister
Eckhart
The messiah will come when he is no longer needed.
- Franz Kafka
I owe my soul to each fork in the road, each misleading sign.
- Poi
Dog Pondering, Thanksgiving
I have faith in how things seem to start again.
- Poi
Dog Pondering, Fruitless
Often our trust is not full. We are not certain that God hears
us because we consider ourselves worthless and as nothing. This
is ridiculous and the very cause of our weakness.
- Julian of Norwich
Am I not here, who is your Mother? Are you not under my protection?
Am I not your health? Are you not happily within my fold? What
else do you wish? Do not grieve nor be disturbed by anything.
- Virgin of Guadalupe to Juan Diego
Everytime you lie, you lose a piece of your soul.
- Poi
Dog Pondering, I've got my body
When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.
Saint Francis of Assisi
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him,
but you will not rid men's minds of him.
- Desiderius
Erasmus
Dying trees still grow greener when you pray.
-
Bruce Cockburn
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