GRATITUDE
When you are filled with gratitude, you are also very aware of your intuition.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
A thousand things went right today.
- Ilan Shamir
Love is "warm tenderness of heart."
- St. Theophan the Recluse
"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
There is no room in a grateful heart for anger.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, www.kashi.org
Before He created them, He praised them; before they glorify Him, He gave them thanks.
- Al-Hallaj, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters
Strawberries are too delicate to be picked by machine. The perfect ripe ones bruise at even too heavy a human touch...Every strawberry you have ever eaten - every piece of fruit - has been picked by callused human hands. Every piece of toast with jelly represents someone's knees, someone's aching back and hips, someone with a bandanna on her wrist to wipe away the sweat.
- Alison Luterman, quoted on p. 262 in After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path
