Your Pain

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.  Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that it's heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.  And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not be less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.  And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief."  Kahlil Gibran

"Who can tell what miracles
Love has in store for us
If only we have the courage to become one with it?
Everything we think we know now
Is only the beginning
Of another knowing that itself has no end.
And everything we now can accomplish.

Will seem so derisory to us
When the powers of our divine nature
Flower in glory and act through us."

Iqbal (Sufi Mystic)

Be Here Now

"To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Women and Healing

"A period of healing from childhood wounds frequently occurs for women in their mid-thirties and early forties as the profound changes leading to menopause begin.   I call this seven year period in the feminine life cycle "turning straw into gold".   Therapists often notice that old memories of emotional and physical abuse surface during this period preceding midlife.   It is a miracle of feminine biology that we undergo mental housecleaning in preparation."   Joan Borysenko

Miracle Worker

"Behave in ways consistent with love and harmony and do not be attached in any way to the fruits of your labor.   If you can attain this state of grace your life will become miraculously peaceful.  Live your life entirely on purpose and renounce any and all credit that may come your way from your actions.   This is the way of the miracle worker."   Bhagavad Gita

Love and Miracles

"Where there is great love there are always miracles.   Miracles rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing powers coming to us from afar off, but on our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always."   Willa Cather