Prayer of St. Theresa

May today, there be peace within
May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith
May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you....
May you be content knowing you are a child of God....
Let this presence settle into our bones and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance and to bask in the sun….
It is there for each and everyone of you….
~ St. Teresa

Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.
~  Martin Luther

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
~  Mother Teresa

To have attained to the human form must be always a source of joy.
And then to undergo countless transitions with only the infinite to look forward to what incomparable bliss is that!
Therefore it is that the truly wise rejoice in that which can never be lost, but endures always . . .
~  Taoist Teaching

What you are is God's gift to you,
What you do with yourself is your gift to God.
~  White Buffalo Calf Woman

If more politicians knew poetry and more poets knew politics,
I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
~  John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Any form whatever, by the mere fact that it exists as such and endures,
necessarily loses vigor and becomes worn; to recover vigor,
it must be reabsorbed into the formless if only for an instant;
it must be restored to the primordial unity from which it issued; in other words,
it must return to “chaos”….
~  Mircea Eliade [in The Myth of Eternal Return]

Follow the way of Love.
Let love be your greatest aim.
Eagerly pursue and seek to acquire [the love of God] make it your greatest quest.
~1 Corinthians 14:1

Pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks…
~I Thessalonians 5:17

Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good:
Ever dig and it will ever flow.
~  Marcus Aurelius

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage,
while being free to do what one must, what is right,
is real freedom.
~  Nisargadatta Maharaj

One who cultivates the higher self will soon find that the lower self follows in accord.
~ Mencius

Three passions ~ simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life;
the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for
the suffering of mankind.
~  Bertrand Russell

The greatest human quest
is to know what one must do
in order to become a human being.
~  Immanuel Kant

The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.
~  Montaigne

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
~  Ovid

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
~  Søren Kierkegaard

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.
~  P.D. Ouspensky

What is important us is that the old ways are correct and if we do not follow them we will be lost and without a guide. 
We must remember that the heart of our religions is alive and that each person has the ability within to awaken and to walk in a sacred manner. The manner with which we walk through life is each man’s most important responsibility and we should remember this with every new sunrise.
~  Thomas Yellow-Tail, Crow Holy Man