INNER BEAUTY
There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.
- Thomas Merton
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"Don't go outside your house to see the flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals.
That will do for a place to sit.
Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty
inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens."
- Kabir
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
- The Velveteen Rabbit
Know the true nature of your Beloved.
In His loving eyes, your every thought, word, and movement,
is always, always, beautiful.
- Hafiz
Now is the time to know
That all you do is sacred.
- Hafiz
You were born with wings/why prefer to crawl through life?
- Rumi
Live as the flowers live, opening your heart to the sunlight of God's love.
- White Eagle, quoted in The Quiet Mind
"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
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.
Freedom from pride comes from listening to others. You then learn to listen to your own pure heart.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, www.kashi.org