♥RaK ♥

I THANK thee that I am none of the wheels of power but I am one with the living creatures that are crushed by it.

"We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we
become increasingly resentful and afraid,
or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder.
We always have the choice."

~Dalai Lama~

"There is no they, only us. We're part of a large
fellowship called "the human race."
We all hurt the same. We all love the same.
We all bleed the same.
We all need understanding and care."

~ "Keep It Simple" daily meditation book

"A human being is part of the whole, called by us "universe," limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as
something separated from the rest
- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

This delusion is a prison,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons close to us.

Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by
widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity
and the whole of nature in its beauty."
~Albert Einstein

We are one, after all, you and I.
Together we suffer,
together exist, and forever will
recreate each other.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

All works of love are works of peace.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
~ Mother Teresa~

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Kahlil Gibran

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean;
if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.

By Mohandas K. Gandhi:

Silver Birch's teachings;

" If you help only one soul to find itself, if you comfort only one mourner, if you heal only one sick person, then the whole of your earthly life is justified. How privileged you are to be aware of the tremendous power that is around and about you, that enfolds you, guards you, directs you and ensures that you will continue to unfold your latent divinity and the gifts which are your cherished possession."

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in
rising every time we fall."

Confucious

"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem
to be or actually are, raise your sights and see
possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there."

Norman Vincent Peale

"Hope is like a bird that senses dawn and carefully starts
to sing while it is still dark."

Author unknown
Banner for Hope

"One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one
another is listen to each other's stories."

Rebecca Falls

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - M.L.King

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"Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds.
They imply a great deal of thinking about others.
This in itself is rare,

but they also imply a great deal of thinking about others

without the thoughts being criticisms.

This is rarer still."
~ E.W. Faber

19th century playwright

THE LAW OF ONE
We are all one.
When one is harmed, all are harmed.
When one is helped, all are healed.
Therefore, in the name of who I AM,
and I am one with all;
I ask that ONLY THAT WHICH IS THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL
CONCERNED happen here and now, and through all time and space.
I give thanks that this is done.
SO BE IT!

"Every person is a new door to a different world."

- from movie "Six Degrees of Seperation"

Unending Love
~ by Rabindranath Tagore
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times... in life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs, that you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms, in life after life, in age after age, forever.

"WE are One species.
We are starstuff"

-Carl Sagan-

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*Heal the past*
"What you bring forth out of yourself from the inside will save you. What you do not bring forth out of yourself from the inside will destroy you."

Gospel of Thomas

The darkness has never been able to suffocate the
light, just as the light has always illuminated the
darkness.
So, with these two truths, may we all strive for,
seek, and live within the light. May the glow we emit,
even to those not yet ready to see, be warmed and
comforted by it. May our light be a beacon to guide
others to a path of virtue and compassion. May we be
as the sun, the life bringer to all life. May we
penetrate even the most obscure places and the
shadows, aspiring that not a single being left overlooked.