Saturday, December 31, 2005

"For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning."
-T.S. Eliot

Friday, 30 December, 2005

"There is no way to peace; peace is the way."
- A.J. Muste

Sunday, December 25, 2005

Mind without soul may blast some universe to might have been and stop ten thousand stars, but not one heartbeat of this child; nor shall even prevail a million questionings against the silence of his mother's smile - whose only secret all creation sings.
- e.e.cummings

Saturday, December 24, 2005

"Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas."
- Dale Evans Rogers

Thursday, December 22, 2005

"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."
-Calvin Coolidge

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

"To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is travelled by dark feet and dark wings."
- Wendell Berry

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

"If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made."
- William Shakespeare

Sunday, December 18, 2005

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saturday, December 17, 2005

"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble."
- Joseph Campbell

Friday, December 16, 2005

"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."
- G.K. Chesterton

Thursday, December 15, 2005

"The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause."
- Gustav Mahler

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

"The best way to help the world is to start by loving each other, not blandly, blindly, but realistically, with understanding and forebearance and forgiveness."
- Madeleine L'Engle

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."
- Aldous Huxley

Monday, December 12, 2005

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Saturday, December 10, 2005

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
- Booker T. Washington

Friday, December 9, 2005

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
-Anon

Thursday, December 8, 2005

"I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down..."
- Abraham Lincoln

Wednesday, December 7, 2005

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."
- Martin Buber

Tuesday, December 6, 2005

"Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are."
- St Augustine of Hippo

Monday, December 5, 2005

"Be the change you want to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Sunday, December 4, 2005

"If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change."
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Saturday, December 3, 2005

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."
-Barbara Kingsolver

Friday, December 2, 2005

"This entire journey of the soul of which we speak is grounded in the life of God. Our restlessness, our hunger for understanding, our dissatisfaction with the world as it is, our sense of purpose and direction, our intimations of significance, our awareness of being lured beyond the horizon, these all begin to make sense once we understand that our lives are not arbitrary or meaningless."
- Mike Riddell