“I am happy even before I have a reason.
I am full of Light even before the sky
can greet the sun or the moon.

Dear companions,
We have been in love with God
For so very, very long.”

– Hafiz, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy

“Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.”

– Katherine Anne Porter

“And in the end, I believe that we don’t need to do anything to be loved. We spend our lives trying to seem prettier, smarter. But I realised two things. Those who love us see us with their hearts and attribute qualities to us beyond those we really have.

And those who don’t want to love us will never be satisfied with all our efforts. Yes, I really believe that it is important to leave our imperfections alone. They are precious to understand those who see us with the heart.”

– Frida Kahlo

Love.

“Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.”

– Saint Theresa of Avila

“Be the one who, when you walk in,
blessing shifts to the one who needs it most.
Even if you’ve not been fed,
be bread.”

– Rumi

“When the artist loses himself in his art, then the art comes to life.”

– Hazrat Inayat Khan

“To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.”

– Thomas Merton

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson