umi and love

“Therefore strive that your actions day by day may be beautiful prayers.”

– Abdu’l-Bahá

True family

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”

– Richard Bach

“Humility”

Once a rabbi, a story goes, praying alone in the temple, glimpsed the infinitude of the Universe. Ritualistically tearing his shirt, he shouted in awe, “I am nobody! I am nobody!”

The chairman of the temple saw the rabbi in ecstasy and also tore his shirt and began to shout, “I am nobody!”

The janitor, seeing the rabbi and the chairman, was also engulfed in ecstasy, tore his shirt, and exclaimed joyfully, “I am nobody! I am nobody!”

At that, the chairman and rabbi fell silent. The chairman pointed to the janitor and said, “Look who thinks he’s nobody.”

– Gary Zukav, Spiritual Partnership

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Eid Mubarak

“Prayer is a light, charity is proof of faith, and patience is illumination.”

— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

In service is thy elevation
In sharing is thy expansion
In prayer is thy purification
In meditation is thy illumination
In wisdom is thy salvation
Serve, share, pray, meditate, realise.

– Sri Swami Sadananda

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

― Lao Tzu

“The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.”

– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.

We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new.

And so I think it is with you;
your ideas mature gradually — let them grow, let them shape themselves, without undue haste.

Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be.

Give Our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.”

– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin