Words

Do all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place you are. 

Nkosi Johnson -- Twelve-year-old Zulu boy, living with AIDS 

 

Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth. 

 Joan Halifax -- Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death 

 

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what to hope for.

And the most you can do is live inside that hope. 

Barbara Kingsolver 

 

Do your best and then relax.

Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them. 

Paramahansa Yogananda 

 

You don't get to choose how you're going to die.

Or when.

You can decide how you're going to live now. 

Joan Baez 

 

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise. 

Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan  --  Bowl of Saki 

 

Each minute of life should be a divine quest. 

Paramahansa Yoganand 

 

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