“Our daily prayer ought to be: Please universe, help me help myself and help me show others how to help themselves.”
“We not only don’t have fun with what we are supposed to enjoy, but whatever we don’t enjoy has started having fun with us.”
“Everyone belongs to God. Rather black or white there is no colour for God. He loves all.”
“You can t expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you re thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways. You must be what it is that you re seeking— that is, you need to put forth what you want to attract.”
“Humans assign gender to God, so the first question to ask ourselves is who decided God was male? The second question is why?”
“Annie s message is timeless, her shining spirit and healing gift from the Spiritual Universe will capture your heart. She was born with birth defects in a time when special children and their mothers were put to death or banished. But have things changed really that much? Have they changed enough? No! Bullying, abuse, ridicule, and inequality thrives in the lives of women and children in our global modern society, just as surely as it did in the mid-1600s Colonial America. Based on factual research.”
“God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. You were speaking of the Last Judgement. Allow me to laugh respectfully. I shall wait for it resolutely, for I have known what is worse, the judgement of men. For them, no extenuating circumstances; even the good intention is ascribed to crime. Have you at least heard of the spitting cell, which a nation recently thought up to prove itself the greatest on earth? A walled-up box in which the prisoner can stand without moving. The solid door that locks him in the cement shell stops at chin level. Hence only his face is visible, and every passing jailer spits copiously on it. The prisoner, wedged into his cell, cannot wipe his face, though he is allowed, it is true. to close his eyes. Well, that, mon cher, is a human invention. They didn t need God for that little masterpiece.”
“God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.”
“A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.”
“When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song. When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest. When my beggarly heart sits crouched, shut up in a corner, break open the door, my king, and come with the ceremony of a king. When desire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, O thou holy one, thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder.”
“Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity. [Trans. Purohit Swami]”
“Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.”
“Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.”
“When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.”
“If you re really listening, if you re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.”
“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”
“Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender”