A few lessons I have learned
from my most important spiritual teachers: may we all contemplate & pray upon these words, that we may embody their beauty.

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 Lions tear antelope to pieces under blue skies.
Michael Short

In this world, we only hurt ourselves. 
GB Cornucopia

There are no throwaway people.
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

God don't make mistakes.
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

Feed everyone.
Neem Karoli Baba

I am not the doer.

My religion is kindness.
His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Right now, in this moment, I am okay.
Ram Dass

There is no compassion without humor. No love without pleasure. No freedom without enlightenment.  -Da Free John

So what.
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

Who am I?
Ramana Maharshi

Never doubt yourself.
Lotus Vangen

You are welcome in this world.
Alice Walker

Presence is the key to freedom.
Eckhart Tolle

The question is not, "If I stop to help the sanitation workers,
what will happen to me?" The question is, "If I do not stop to
help the sanitation workers, what will happen to them?"
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is "warm tenderness of heart."
St. Theophan the Recluse

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live;
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is discord, harmony; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is error, truth; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. o divine master, grant that i may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in dying [to self] that we are born to eternal life.
St. Francis of Assisi

I tell you, do not worry about your life...Consider the lilies of the field. They do not  labor or spin. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you
of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the faithless run after all these things... seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:28

All actions emanating from ego are defensive actions
taken from positions of judgment.
Bert & Christina

May i become at all times both now and forever a protector for those without protection a guide for those who have lost their way a ship for those with oceans to cross a bridge for those with rivers to cross a sanctuary for those in danger
a lamp for those who lack shelter a place of rugs for those who lack shelter and a servant to all in need.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama

ask to be the servant of the lord, a vehicle of divine love,   a channel of God's will. ask for direction and divine assistance  and surrender all personal will through devotion. dedicate one's  life to the service of God. choose love and peace above all other  options. commit to the goal of unconditional love and compassion for all life in its expression and surrender all judgment to God.
David R. Hawkins