"A miracle is a shift in perception. Each of us can live in the victory of spirit, claiming for ourselves the miraculous power that has been given to us as children of God. It is our faith that miracles are possible–that the very fabric of the universe is miraculous–which opens the mind, and thus the future, to unimaginable possibilities. "Dear God, please send a miracle" is a powerful prayer for cosmic support. To pray is to take spiritual action." ~ Marianne Williamson, Everyday Grace
"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge. You would know in words that which you have always known in thought. You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams. And it is well you should. The hidden well-spring of your should must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea; And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes. But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure; And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Say not, 'I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have met the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals." ~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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"You who perceive yourself as weak and frail, with futile hopes and devastated dreams, born but to die, to weep and suffer pain, hear this: All power is given unto you in earth and Heaven. There is nothing that you cannot do. You will identify with what you think will make you safe. Whatever it may be, you will believe that it is one with you. Your safety lies in truth, and not in lies. Love is your safety. Fear does not exist. Identify with love, and you are safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your Self. Let me not forget myself is nothing, but my Self is all. I was created as the thing I seek. I am the goal the world is searching for." Gifts From A Course In Miracles
"The boy continued to listen to his heart as they crossed the desert. He came to understand its dodges and tricks, and to accept it as it was. He lost his fear, and forgot about his need to go back to the oasis, because one afternoon, his heart told him that it as happy. 'Even though I complain sometimes,' it said, 'it's because I'm the heart of a person, and people's hearts are that way. People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of treasures that might have been found but were hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.' 'My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer,' the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. 'Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.'" ~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
"The Openness to Possibility: At the end of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Rose of Sharon, beaten down by life–or so it appears–hungry, poor beyond your imagination, without hope, sits broken in a barn. She seems to have given up, and you can hardly blame her. But then something magical and miraculous happens; she lies down beside a starving man, who is near death. Gently pressing his head to her breast, she begins to nurse him. In the moment of greatest surrender, when she gives herself up to the awesome forces of the universe that have tried to destroy her family–floods, famines, the cruelty of property owners–she finds an answer, and her commitment to life and to the life of those in the universe around her shines through. It cannot be dimmed. I often think, in these moments, of the Chinese word for 'crisis'; it is made up of the two Chinese symbols for opportunity and change. In your darkest, most hopeless times, you can be most open to change, to possibility, if you surrender yourself to complete, open relationship with the world around you. Spend a few quiet moments thinking about a time in your life when you have been in a state of crisis. When you have given yourself time to spend thinking about the crisis, make a commitment to yourself: I commit myself to knowing and experiencing even the most difficult feelings fully so that each occasion of doubt is instead transformed into an event of wonder." ~ Gay Hendricks, A Year of Living Consciously
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