Miracle

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. –Albert Einstein

New Day

"Initiation and awakening move the soul toward new pastures of experience: places we didn’t dare visit, situations we shied away from, inner stirrings we thought we should suppress. The ability to rise above everyday restrictions of old routines and move upward toward the spacious imaginative mountaintop of new possibilities becomes the new theme in life. This is the time to break free. Be responsible and do no harm, while simultaneously meeting the void of the unknown with an open heart and wing."

- Isha Lerner

Faith

As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky and water bearns them, as hawks rest upon air and air sustains them, so would I learn to attain freefall, and float into Creator Spirit’s deep embrace, knowing no effort earns that all-surrounding grace. --Denise Levertov

Open Heart

"Fill my heart with love, that my every tear drop may become a star. "

-Harat Inayat Khan

Rest like a giant tree..

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow, come and go like the wind.

To be happy,

rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all.

- Buddha

Relax

"To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.Go without sight, and find that the dark , too, blooms and sings,and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings."

-Wendell Berry

Synchronicity

"The same stream of life that runs through the world

runs through my veins night and day in rhythmic measure.

It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth

into numberless waves of flowers."

-Tagore

New Path

It is time to slow down, open the door and meet your destiny. Immerse yourself in nature. Look into the mystery of life with new eyes. Something magical is afoot. Identify your own journey and fly straight into the ecstasy of self-realization and rebirth.

To Give...

"By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth, we acquire great treasures."
- Budha

Beauty of Nature

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey - work of the stars"
-Walt Whitman

Bliss

"Today my heart glows with divine love. I shall walk this path of bliss."

"O happy soul: whose body has risen from the Earth which you wander and tread on during your sojourn in this world. Made to be the very mirror of Divinity, you have been crowned with divine imagination and intelligence."
- Hildegard of Bingen

Complete

"The valley spirit never dies. Call it the mystery, the woman. The mystery, the door of the woman, is the root of earth and heaven. Forever this endues, forever. And all its uses are easy."
-Tao Te Ching

"Dare to be the raptuous beauty that lives in your heart"

Patience

"A new moon teaches gradualness and deliberation. How one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect large work, like the Universe."
- Rumi

Know thy self

"The task is to define oneself, for oneself, in a manner that enables a relationship to oneself. In so doing, one becomes who truly is."

- Dr. Allen W. Anderson

There are no more maps, no more creeds, no more philosophies.
From here on in, the directions come straight from the Divine.
The cirricumlum is being revealed.
Millisecond by millisecond --invisibly, intuitively, spontaneously, lovingly.
As one of Thomas Merton's monks has it, "Go into your cell and your cell will teach you everything there is to know."
Your cell....
Yourself.

- Akshara Noor