Devotional Calendar

> "I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you to me in righteousness and justice, in steadfast love and mercy." — Hosea 2:19

> "And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." — T.S. Eliot, *Four Quartets*

> "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our freedom and our power to grow." — attributed to Viktor Frankl

> "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." — Albert Pine

> "The body is not a thing we have, it is a thing we are." — Maurice Merleau-Ponty, *Phenomenology of Perception*

> "Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition." — James Baldwin, *Giovanni's Room*

> "The wound is the place where the Light enters you." — Rumi, *Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi*

> "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." — George Bernard Shaw

> "The body is the temple of the spirit, and energy is its prayer." — adapted from the Tantric tradition

> "Be still and know that I am God." — Psalm 46:10

> "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." — Will Durant, summarizing Aristotle

> "No man is free who is not master of himself." — Epictetus, *Discourses*

> "We are the ones we have been waiting for." — June Jordan, *Poem for South African Women*

> "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." — Ambrose Redmoon

> "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." — Lewis B. Smedes, *Forgive and Forget*

> "There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all

> "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." — Matthew 11:28

> "The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays wi

> "Without great solitude, no serious work is possible." — Pablo Picasso

> "Ritual is the way we carry the presence of the sacred. We do it with our bodies, and that is what makes it a ritual." — Barbara Brown Taylor, *An A

> "The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable." — attributed to James A. Garfield

> "When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy." — Rumi, *The Essential Rumi*, translated by Coleman Barks

> "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." — Seneca, *Epistulae Morales*

> "Reverence is the perception of the divine in the ordinary." — Paul Woodruff, *Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue*

> "The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." — Carl Jung

> "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." — Carl Jung, *The Collected Works*

> "Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose — and commit myself to — what is best for me." — Paulo Coelho, *The Zahir*

> "Bhakti is not a uniform to be worn on certain days and abandoned on others; it is the very skin of the soul." — Swami Vivekananda

> "Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of th

> "The ego is not master in its own house." — Sigmund Freud, *A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis*

> "If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you,' it will be enough." — Meister Eckhart

> "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven." — Ecclesiastes 3:1

> "Form is emptiness, emptiness is form." — *Heart Sutra*

> "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

> "To love at all is to be vulnerable." — C.S. Lewis, *The Four Loves*

> "Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." — Rumi, *Masnavi*

> "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." — George Bernard Shaw

> "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." — Simone Weil, *First and Last Notebooks*

> "The knight serving in fin'amor was not degraded by his longing; he was refined by it. His yearning became a spiritual discipline." — adapted from A

> "If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it rain,

> "The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him." — Henry Stimson

> "Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces." — Rumi, *Masnavi*