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"Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything, you will perceive the divine mysetery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better everyday. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent..."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky (Submitted by Sharee P.)
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"Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment, or unlearning, of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts."
--Marianne Williamson
"Faith and initiative rightly combined remove mountainous barriers and achieve the unheard and miraculous. An enthusiastic attitude is nothing more than faith in action."
--Henry Chester
"Life is eternal; and love is imortal; and death is only a horizon; And a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."
--Rossiter Worthington Raymond
(Submitted by Sarah A.)
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THE GARDEN
Come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses...
FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR DAILY LIVING...
PLANT THREE ROWS OF PEAS:
- Peace of mind
- Peace of heart
- Peace of soul
PLANT FOUR ROWS OF SQUASH:
- Squash gossip
- Squash indifference
- Squash grumbling
- Squash selfishness
PLANT FOUR ROWS OF LETTUCE:
- Lettuce be faithful
- Lettuce be kind
- Lettuce be patient
- Lettuce really love one another
NO GARDEN IS WITHOUT TURNIPS:
- Turnip for meetings
- Turnip for service
- Turnip to help one another
TO CONCLUDE OUR GARDEN WE MUST HAVE THYME:
- Thyme for each other
- Thyme for family
- Thyme for friends
Water freely with Patience and cultivate with Love. There is much fruit in your garden because YOUR REAP WHAT YOU SOW.
(Submitted by Sheryl F.)
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THE WORLD YOU CHOOSE
If it is important enough to you, you will find a way,
If it is not, you will find an excuse.
Difficult circumstances can challenge you but they cannot stop you.
Only you can stop you.
Others can give encouragement, can teach you and help you, or they can conspire against you to hold back.
Only you can decide what to do with it all, and what to make out of what you've been handed.
There are some roads that lead to success and others that lead to despair.
The road you are on depends entirely on the road you have chosen.
Whether you see a life filled with beauty and positive possibilities or whether you see no hope at all, your assessment will most certainly provide to be true.
So which one will you choose to experience and the world you most sincerely choose to live in is precisely the world where you will be.
--Ralph Marston (submitted by Sheree P.)
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He who laughs last, thinks longest.
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There was a young man walking down a deserted beach just before dawn. In the distance he saw a frail old man.
As he approaced the old man, he saw him picking up stranded starfish and throwing them back into the sea.
The young man gazed in wonder as the old man again and agin threw the small starfish from the sand to the water.
He asked, "Old man, why do you spend so much energy doing what seems to be a waste of time?"
The old man explained that the stranded starfish would die if left in the morning sun.
"But there must be thousands of beaches and millions of starfish!" exclaimed the young man. "How can you make any difference?"
The old man looked at the small starfish, in his hand and as he threw it to the safey of the sea, he said, "It makes a difference to this one!"
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