Over My Morning Coffee

God is the mirror of silence in which all creation is reflected.
Paramahansa Yogananda


What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Thomas Merton


Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand.
Love every leaf and every ray of light.
Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment.
If you love each separate fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
Fyodor Dostoevsky


So much of modern life is a feverish anticipation of future activity and excitement.
We have to learn to step back from this into the freedom and possibility of the present.
Fr. Bede Griffiths


God always provides what we need, but we must be ready to open our eyes and see it.
The Midrash


Riding sidesaddle with envy is a dangerous practice:
I would be happy if I had what he or she possesses.
By contrast, giving thanks constantly and in all circumstances liberates us from envy.
Edward Hays

There only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people.
That comes afterward, when you've worked on your own corner.
Aldous Huxley

Life has lessons to teach.
We can remember them and share them with others, or we can forget them and have to learn them again.
Jan Pishok

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him:
"What are you going through?"
Simone Weil

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life, which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau