Suffering, in Jewish Tradition, confers no privileges. It all depends on what ones makes of that suffering. It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.
-Elie Weisel
June 2
Love means to learn to look at yourself the way one looks at distant things. For y you are only one thing among many. And whoever sees that way heals his heart without knowing it, from his various ills.
-Czelaw Milosz
June 3
I measure time by how a body sways.
-Theodore Roethke
June 4
No one can listen to your body for you. . . To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
-Jon Kabat-Zinn
June 5
I sent my word and healed you and delivered you from your destructions.
-Psalms 107:20
June 6
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but many come further.
-Soren Kierkegaard
June 7
No, not rich. . . I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
June 8
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
-Leo Buscaglia
June 9
Happiness is like a religion and should never be rationalized.
-G.K. Chesterton
June 10
The Lord will keep you from all evil. . . The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and forevermore.
-Psalm 121:7-8
June 11
Let us love the country of here below. It is real; it offers resistance to love. But it is this country God has given us to love. God has willed that it should be difficult but possible to love it.
-Simone Weil
June 12
Drawing bad pictures awakens both the desire to draw well and the impulse never to draw again. Praying badly creates the same bipolar impulse.
-Mary Rose O'Reilley
June 13
The greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the who serves.
-Luke 22:26
June 14
You can't make a date with enlightenment. Gaining enlightenment is an accident. Spiritual practice simply makes us accident prone.
-Suzuki Roshi
June 15
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of things.
-Thomas Merton
June 16
I heal your broken heart and bind up your wounds.
-Psalms 147:3
June 17
There is an inmost center is us all where truth abides in fullness.
-Robert Browning
June 18
The spiritual journey or process itself, is what Jesus called the Kingdom of God. If we are on the journey, we are in the Kingdom.
-Thomas Keating
June 19
Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel. All forces that reside in the body are angels.
-Moses Maimonides
June 20
That you need God more than anything you know at all times in your heart. But don't you know also that God needs you?
-Martin Buber
June 21
Failure is an event, never a person.
-William D. Brown
June 22
My words are life to you and health (medicine) to all your flesh.
-Proverbs 3:8; 4:22
June 23
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the power to reflect, in human meekness, and in human responsibility.
-Vaclav Havel
June 24
The greatest challenge of the day is how to bring about a revolution of the heart.
-Dorothy Day
June 25
To be content with little is hard, to be content with much, impossible.
-Marie von Ebner-Erchenbach
June 26
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
-Jean Paul Richter
June 27
Be not lax in celebrating. Be not lazy in the festive service of God. Be ablaze with enthusiasm. Let us be an alive, burning, offering, before the altar of God.
-Peace Moments
June 28
Carry on as you are doing and endure what you have to do, but change your attitude to all these things. And this change is simply to say, "I will" to all that God asks.
-Jean- Pierre de Caussade
June 29
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
-Jean Houston
June 30
I have always danced when mere walking would have done, so glad was I of love, so full of health.
Don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God and, trust in me. There are many rooms in my Father's house. I would not tell you this if it were not true. I am going there to prepare a place for your will come back and take you with me so that you may be where I am going.
