By Abraham Joshua Heschel
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement.
Get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually.
To be spiritual is to be amazed.
Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Polish-American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and philosophers of the 20th century.
By Hazrat Inayat Khan
Through the silence of nature, I attain Thy divine peace.
O sublime nature, in thy stillness let my heart rest.
Thou art patiently awaiting the moment to
manifest through the silence of sublime nature.
O nature sublime, speak to me through silence,
for I am awaiting in silence like you the call of God.
O nature sublime, through thy silence I hear Thy cry.
My heart is tuned to the quietness,
that the stillness of nature inspires.
Hazrat Inayat Khan was an Indian musician, poet, philosopher, and teacher of Sufism.
By Anne Lamott
“Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up. The opposite may be true: We may not be able to get it together until after we show up in such miserable shape. Continue reading
God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
The Serenity Prayer is attributed to theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.
By Martin Luther King, Jr.
“O God, we thank you for the fact that you have inspired men and women in all nations and in all cultures. We call you different names: some call you Allah; some call you Elohim; some call you Jehovah; some call you Brahma; some call you the Unmoved Mover. But we know that these are all names for one and the same God. Continue reading
By James Martin, SJ
Slow me down, God, slow me down, so that I may
see You more and move in my faster and faster life.
Give me a listening heart, and contemplative eyes,
so that I may see You in my active world.
Amen.
James Martin, SJ, is an American Jesuit priest and writer.
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields,
and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.
May the winds, the oceans, the herbs, and night and days, the mother earth, the father heaven, all vegetation, the sun, be all sweet to us.
Let us follow the path of goodness for all times, like the sun and the moon moving eternally in the sky. Continue reading
“If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.” –Turkish proverb
Listening is a magnetic and creative force.
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
When we are listened to, ideas begin to grow within us and come to life.
People are more happy and free when they are listened to. Continue reading