umi and love

“When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.’”

– Kahlil Gibran

“What is to come will be created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive you and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.”

– Carl Jung

“When we pray, we join the orbit of love: we flow with the rivers, sway with the trees, dance with the moon and sing with the birds. When we pray, we join with what is and has always been, in constant praise of the Divine.”

– A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love

“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”

– Kahlil Gibran

“But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God’s creation embraces me. We are one.”

– Michael Jackson

“For what is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the living ether?”

– Kahlil Gibran

Homecoming

“It takes a long time to sound like yourself.”

– Miles Davis

“I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.”

– Malcolm X

“Create no images of God. Accept the images that God has provided. They are everywhere, in everything. God is Change— Seed to tree, tree to forest; Rain to river, river to sea; Grubs to bees, bees to swarm. From one, many; from many, one; Forever uniting, growing, dissolving— forever Changing. The universe is God’s self portrait.”

– Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.”

– Vachel Lindsay