If you see me in the street call me out. Especially if I ain’t livin’ what I’m talkin’ ’bout. What good is the Word if you cain’t walk it out? If it cain’t change you homeboy shut yo mouth. 

-rapper unknown

“Is there anything that I can do to make myself enlightened?”

“As little as you can do to make the sun rise in the morning.”

“Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?”

“To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.”

Zen master to his disciple

I asked for strength that I might achieve;
I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for health that I might do greater things;
I was given infirmity that I might do better things.
I asked for riches that I might be happy;
I was given poverty that I might be wise.
I asked for power that I might have the praise of men;
I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things that I might enjoy life;
I was given life that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing that I had asked for,
but everything that I had hoped for.
Almost despite myself my  unspoken prayers were answered;
I am, among all men, most richly blessed.

– unknown confederate soldier

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O God, where beauty is, Thou art. Within the chalice of the Rose; Within the temple of my heart, Thy Kingdom grows.

 – unknown

When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe in one of two things: there will be earth upon which to stand or you will be given wings. – unknown

When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past. – unknown