On this page
are a few of the flowers of wisdom I have collected over the years and pressed between the pages of my books and
memory. They are arranged here in no particular order but as a collage of thought. Enjoy!
Heather
Pass in, pass in,
the angels say,
In
to the upper doors,
Nor count compartments of the floors
But mount to paradise
By the stairway of surprise.
Emerson
The most
beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of
all true art and science.
Einstein
When physical
vision has transcended space,
Another sky opens to the eyes of the soul.
Rumi
Jesus...set
before me the book of nature; I understood how all the flowers He has created are beautiful, how the splendor of the rose
and the whiteness of the lily do not take away the perfume of the little violet or the delightful simplicity of the daisy.
I understood that if all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty, and the fields would no
longer be decked out with little wildflowers. And so it is with the world of souls, Jesus' garden.
Therese
of Lisieux
Holiness
grows so fast where there is kindness.
The world is lost for want of sweetness
and kindness.
Do not forget we need each other.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
The softest
things in the world overcome the hardest things.
Lao-tzu
Think,
when you behold a flower,
that it
is calling specially to you.
Contemplate beauty in the world
around you,
and
you yourself will become beautiful.
Anonymous
The angels
speak to us through flowers.
Meredith Young-Sowers
It is
not a matter of thinking much but of loving much.
Teresa of Avila
Our doubts
are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might
win,
By fearing to attempt.
Shakespeare
If you
hear a voice within you saying, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint...and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
You must
not set yourself up as a judge--
that is God's right alone.
Your only mission is to be an angel
of peace.
Therese of Lisieux
To love
for the sake of being loved is human,
but to love for the sake of loving is
angelic.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Whatever
you can do, or dream you can, begin it...
Goethe
Be patient
toward all that is unsolved in your life.
Learn to love the questions themselves,
until some distant day, without
your knowing,
you will have lived into the answers.
Rainer Maria Rilke
I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson
I never
found the companion that was so companionable
as solitude.
Thoreau
To live
content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable,
and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act
frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up
through the common--this is my symphony.
William Henry Channing
Of all
earthly music that which reaches farthest into heaven
is the beating of a
truly loving heart.
Henry Ward Beecher
Love is
always the answer to healing of any sort.
And the pathway to love is
forgiveness.
Louise Hay
Forgiveness
is the fragrance the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
We are
all born for love.
It is the principle of existence and its
only end.
Disraeli
And think
not you can direct the course of love,
for love if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Kahlil Gibran
My religion
is kindness.
The Dalai Lama
At last
I have found it...My vocation is Love!
Therese of Lisieux
Whatever
the question, the answer is love.
Barbara DeAngelis
I
have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
Rabindranath Tagore
If you don't
know what your passion is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it....God can dream a bigger dream
for you than you could ever dream for yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
The past
shapes us, but by following the deep calling to heal ourselves and throw off old curses, we may be able to reshape our response
to that past and perhaps even the way in which we remember it.
Gregg
Levoy
It is
never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
The soul
is here for its own joy.
Rumi
An angel
is an idea of God.
Meister Eckhardt
The human
heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed.
Charlotte Bronte
Our life
is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.
Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow
that never leaves.
Buddha
...The key
to enchanted possibilities in intimacy is the element of God's love, the choice to invite a mystical Third to live with us
and breathe in us.
Marianne
Williamson
Whoever
you are, wherever you may be, the Golden Key to harmony is in your hand now....All that you have to do is this:
Stop thinking about the difficulty, whatever it is, and think about God instead.
Emmett Fox
Jesus has
no need of books or teachers to instruct souls; He teaches without the noise of words. Never have I heard him speak,
but I feel he is within me at each moment. He is guiding and inspiring me with what I must say and do. I find,
just when I need them, certain lights that I had not seen until then, and it isn't most frequently during the hours of prayer
that these are most abundant, but rather in the midst of daily occupations.
Therese of Lisieux
Deep,
unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
George Eliot
There
is no cure except the retreat into love
For the suffering of subtly afflicted
hearts.
Rumi
To change
how we see things takes falling in love. Then the same becomes altogether different. Like love, a shift of
sight can be redemptive...
James Hillman
Overcome
any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of pain that was entrusted to you. Like the
mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, each one of us is part of her heart, and therefore endowed
with a certain measure of cosmic pain. You are sharing in the totality of that pain. You are called upon to meet
it in joy.
Pir
Vilayat Khan
Nothing
can bring you peace but yourself.
Emerson
Take a deep
breath and realize that your life will turn out exactly as it is meant to turn out...You can spend a lot of time and energy
anquishing about it,...but in the end, it will unfold exactly as it is meant to.
Dr. Joy Browne
There
is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
Ralph Blum
Keep your
face to the sunshine,
and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller
Use your
words not to describe your life but to create it.
Joel Osteen
As you
change your words, you change your world.
Catherine Ponder
Without
this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is
incalculable.
Jung
I am certain
of nothing but of the holiness of the
Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination--
What the imagination seizes as Beauty
must be truth
--whether it existed before or not.
Keats
I have often
thought that the best way to define a man's character would be do seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which,
when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice
inside which speaks and says: "This is the real me!"
William
James
We fear
that what is inside of us is dark, ugly, and overpowering. But once we gain the courage to wrestle with this fear, we
learn an astonishing fact: what is hiding inside us is our own blocked life energy. It is love; it is light; it
is the essence of God. And releasing this energy is the ultimate purpose of love relationships.
Harville Hendrix
The angels
can rearrange someone's priorities more efficiently and quickly than any form of psychotherapy....If your life is a succession
of problems, look to why you feel you don't deserve happiness. Then expect happiness and establish a zero-tolerance
policy toward unhappiness.
Doreen Virtue
The essence
of all beautiful art...is gratitude.
Nietzsche
There
are two ways of spreading light:
to be the candle or the mirror that reflects
it.
Edith Wharton
Believe
in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and
a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.
Rainer
Maria Rilke
Create
beauty in all you do,
and beautiful things will always come
into your life.
Lao Russell
Our birth
is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our life's
star,
Hath elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness...
Wordsworth
Miracles
do not happen in contradiction to nature,
but only in contradiction
to that which is known
to us of nature.
St. Augustine
The magic
of love can be so hard to hold onto while we are living in this world. The veils of limitation and despair that wrap
themselves around our brains each day, the obstructions to joy that are the rule and not the exception to the emotional tenor
of our times, the disappointments and fears that press down on our hearts from every angle of our lives, make breaking through
to a more miraculous state seem like little more than a childhood fantasy. Yet spiritual practice makes it possible.
Marianne
Williamson
Cast thy
burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.
Psalms
The heart has
its reasons
which reason knows nothing
of.
Pascal
It is
only with the heart that one can see rightly:
what
is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine
de Saint-Exupery
