“What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power to not do.”  Aristotle

“It is indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine.”  George Santayana

“A man consists of the faith that is in him.  Whatever his faith, he is.”   Bhagavaad Gita

“It usually happens that the more faithfully a person follows the inspirations he receives, the more does he experience new inspirations which ask increasingly more of him.”  Joseph De Guibert

“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”  Samuel Johnson

“Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes the void.”  Simone Weil

“Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene.”  Epictetus

“Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you’re going to do about it.”  Kathleen Theisen

“You are a system of Light, as are all beings.  The frequency of your Light depends upon your consciousness.  When you shift the level of your consciousness, you shift the frequency of your Light.”  Gary Zukav

“Reverence is a perception of the soul.  When the personality is aligned with the soul, it cannot perceive Life without reverence.”  Gary Zukav