Difficulties

“When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. “ - Saint Francis de Sales

Becoming Peace

"Life molds itself into the shape of your actions, - do something long enough and you become it. Fighting for peace makes more war. Loving for peace makes more peace." - Myra Salas

Identity

"Your identity is not equivalent to your biography. There is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there's a seamlessness in you, and where there is a confidence and tranquility." - John O'Donohue

Divine Water

"The divine water says: "Live here! Don't carry me around in buckets and pans." - Rumi

Psyche

"The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room, not try to be or do anything whatever." - May Sarton

Enlightenment

"What stops us from knowing our own enlightenment is our identification with the conditioned personality." ~ Leslie Temple-Thurston

Better Days

"Speak quietly to yourself & promise there will be better days. whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. offer comfort in practical and tangible ways -- as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. tomorrow comes more brightly." - Mary Anne Radmacher (Learning Wisdom Everyday)

Find Peace

"Find peace within your heart today. It is there, hiding behind the illusions of... fear. Your level of peace is a good gauge for where your connection to God/Source is at any moment. When you find peace in the chaos, you know that you are deeply connected to God.

When you have anxiety, you know that you may have lost that connection, or perhaps your "signal" is low. Go within to boost your connection. You will know you are fully connected by the level of peace that you feel." - Sherri Lane

Managing Our Emotions

"Emotions are the next frontier to be understood and conquered. To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional energies and intentions.... It's time for human beings to grow up emotionally, to mature into emotionally managed and responsible citizens. No magic pill will do it."  - Doc Childre

New Truth

"Stay with yourself, bring yourself to the present moment, maybe by just listening to your breath, maybe by looking at something in the room. Then quietly, softly, give yourself permission to make a new choice if you wish. Embrace a new truth."  - Neale Donald Walsh

About Silence

“Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.” - John Lahr

Longing

"There are lovers content with longing. I'm not one of them."  - Rumi

Listening

"With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing." - Catherine de Hueck Doherty

To Listen

"The first duty of love is to listen."  - Paul Tillich

Therapy

"The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites." - James Hollis