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Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.
Quotes from Deepak Chopra. blog.gaiam.com/quotes/authors/deepak-chopra[SC1]
I hope you can find that which gives life a deep meaning for you. Something worth living for – maybe even worth dying for. Something that energizes you, enthuses you, enables you to keep moving ahead. I can’t tell you what it might be – that’s for you to find, to choose, to love. I can just encourage you to start looking and support you in the search.
Ita Ford M.M., Ignatian Solidarity Network. April, 2015.
The fast pace of our lives makes it difficult for us to find grace in the present moment, and when the simple gifts at our fingertips cease to nourish us we have a tendency to crave the sensational.
by Macrina Wiederkehr. Macrina Wiederkehr.A Joseph Cahill Website.
[An] implication that follows from the fact that God is everywhere is the essential oneness of all reality. While I am distinct from God (in the sense that I obviously am not God), still I am not separate from God, for apart from God (separate from God), I would simply cease to be. But this is true not just of me; it is true of every person and everything that is. Everything that is, is in God. I cannot be apart from God. If this is true, then it follows that, since I am one with God and you are one with God, we are one with each other. We are one with all reality.
Seeds of Peace: Contemplation and Non-violence, by William H. Shannon p. 45.
Actually, though, the problem today is not radicalism but a lack of radicalism. We lack the radicalism of love. By this I mean the deliberate, intentional, spiritual, transcendent, devoted, courageous, committed, proactive love of people who have awakened to the absolute necessity –if we are to survive as a species – of seeing every hungry child in the world as a child we must feed; each transgression against the earth as a limiting of our grandchildren’s chances to survive on the planet; every uneducated child as a security risk; and every thought or action of love as a contribution to the field of energy that alone has the power to drive the monstrous scourge of terrorism back to the nothingness from whence it came.
How Terrorism Loses and Humanity Wins by Marianne Williamson.
http://Marianne.com/terrorism-loses-humanity-wins
