Your Eternity

You must live in the present,

launch yourself on every wave,

find your eternity in each moment.

Henry David Thoreau

Goodness

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, and good, without the world being better for it, without someone being helped and comforted by the existence of that goodness.

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)

Crammed With Heaven

Earth's crammed with heaven,

And every common bush afire with God.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Presence of God

Spiritual awakening begins with the awareness that we are not victims of random forces in the universe. There is no "God up there" deciding who prospers and who doesn't. Prosperity begins with you. It begins in your mind. It starts as a vision of a better life and better circumstances. It flows outward from within.

God is not a power over you. It is a power in you. Its ideas lead to your prosperity. Its life runs through your veins. Its vision for your life rises up from within as intuition, hunches, and new ideas. Follow the best that's in you, and watch your life be transformed. Practice being aware of the presence of God, and you will always live a prosperous life.

from The Prosperous Life Journal
by Chris Michaels and Edward Viljoen

Love Needs No Words

Love has no need of words.

Love understands the thought unspoken
and the hope unvoiced.
My eager spirit reaches expectant hands
to claim its blessing,
and in faith rejoices to know
my hungry heart is understood.
And lo! as parents still an infant's cry,
so does God, rich in every good,
fill all my needs
from limitless supply.

adapted from Bonnie Day
in Best-Loved Unity Poems, 1946

All Beings

May all beings be at ease.

Whatever living things there may be,
Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none,
The great or the mighty, medium, short, or small,
The seen and the unseen,
Those living near and far away,
Those born and to-be born,
May all beings be at ease.
One should cherish all living beings;
Radiating kindness over the entire world
Spreading upwards to the skies,
And downwards to the depths;
Outwards and unbounded,
Free from hatred and ill will.
Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down,
Free from drowsiness,
One should sustain this recollection.

adapted from the Metta Sutta
(The Buddha’s words on kindness)

God is Love

I believe that God is love.
I believe that love is at the center of everything;
therefore, I accept love as the healing power of life.
I permit love to reach out from me
to every person I meet.
I believe that love is returned to me
from every person I meet.
I walk in confidence with love,
which I feel to be everywhere present,
within, around, and through me.
In that love I am safe, secure, and cared for.

adapted from Ernest Holmes
in Creative Ideas