Practice Understanding

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Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.- Rachel Naomi Remen -

“There is a moon, that rests in the quiet corners of a lover’s lips.”  - Sanober Khan-

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom -Socrates-

The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.  - Clarice Lispector -

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.  - Aristotle -

Only when our feet learn once again how to walk in a sacred manner, and our hearts hear the real music of creation, can we bring the world back into balance. --Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.- Michele Harper -

Know what sparks the light in you. Then use that light to illuminate the world.   -Oprah-

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.  - Antoine de Saint-Exupery -

Your openness is more powerful than the feelings you're opening to.- John Welwood -

 As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.-Mary Anne Radmacher-

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.   - Martin Luther King, Jr. -

You're on the inside of every kindness -Rumi-

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. -Rainer Maria Rilke-

“Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs, —
To the silent wilderness,
Where the soul need not repress its music.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.- Mahatma Gandhi -

The more alert we become to the blessing that flows into us through everything we touch the more our own touch will bring blessing.- David Steindl-Rast-

Even if, from the sky, poison befalls all,
I'm still sweetness
wrapped in sweetness
wrapped in sweetness... -Rumi -

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.     - Pablo Neruda -

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.  - Eckart Tolle -

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.- Margaret Drabble -

If you're right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.- Mahatma Gandhi -

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.- Lao Tzu -

True redemption is when guilt leads to good.   - Khaled Hosseini -

If you have built castles in the air; your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau -

You purified your own pain by willingly experiencing it with mindfulness  and equanimity. By experiencing another person's pain in this liberated way, you are subtly, subliminally helping them to do the same. --Shinzen Young-

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.  - Shigenori Kameoka - 

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. - Rumi - 

It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. - Rainer Maria Rilke -

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.  - Ekhart Tolle -

“Listen to the sound of waves within you”-Rumi-

Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength and the unlimited capacity to empathize with, feel for, care, and love one's brothers and sisters. --Addison Gayle

We need to find our way back to love, and the forgotten garden of the soul reconnects us to love--this is a part of its mystery, its magic. - Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee - 

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

Love is first and foremost exemplified by action --by practice -- not solely by feeling.- Bell Hooks-

Love says it all -Corey Smith-

We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!- Donella Meadows -