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FAITH - SPIRITUALITY
The unendurable
is the beginning of the curve of joy.
Djuna Barnes
I maintain that faith is a pathless land,
and you can approach it by any path whatsoever,
by any religion, by any sect.
Jiddhu Krishnamurti
Faith is the bird that sings
When the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
The Way is long
let us go together.
The Way is difficult
let us help each other.
The Way is joyful
let us share it.
The Way is ours alone
let us go in love.
The Way grows before us
let us begin.
Zen Invocation
For years I sought the Many in the One,
I thought to find lost waves and broken rays,
The rainbow's faded colours in the sun--
The dawns and twilights of forgotten days.
But now I seek the One in every form,
Scorning no vision that a dewdrop holds,
The gentle Light that shines behind the storm,
The Dream that many a twilight hour enfolds.
Eva Gore-Booth
All suffering prepares the soul for vision.
Martin Buber
A person is not a thing or a process,
But an opening through which the absolute manifests.
Martin Heidegger
I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.
I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I've been circling for thousands of years
and I still don't know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?
Rainer Maria Rilke
Our deepest fear is not that
we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented,
fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other
people won't feel unsure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
As we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
(often attributed to
Nelson Mandela,
who used it in his 1994 inaugural address)