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We love because it is the only true adventure. Niki Giovanni

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart It is a simple look toward heaven It is a cry of recognition and love embracing both trial and joy. St. Therese of Lisieux

St. Francis Prayer Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console’ To be Understood as to understand; To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in the pardoning that we are pardoned It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.

We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. Thomas Merton

Traditional Gaelic blessing Deep peace on the running wave to you Deep peace on the flowing air to you Deep peace on the quiet earth to you Deep peace of the shining stars to you Deep peace on the gentle night to you Moon and stars pour their healing light on you Deep peace to you Traditional Gaelic blessing

WHAT CANCER CANNOT DO Cancer is so limited… It cannot cripple love, It cannot shatter hope, It cannot corrode faith, It cannot destroy peace, It cannot kill friendship It cannot suppress memories, It cannot silence courage, It cannot invade the soul, It cannot steal eternal life, It cannot conquer the SPIRIT. Author Unknown

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein

William Ellery Channing There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revelation, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when… to dare, is the highest wisdom. William Ellery Channing

The day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire. Teilhard de Chardin

The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well. Hippocrates

No one can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. Kahlil Gibran

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. The Buddha

Complete health and awakening are really the same. Tarthang Tulku

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all. Emily Dickinson

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Mother Teresa

Freedom is emptying the mind of experience. J. Krishnamurti

The soul force is indestructible and it goes on gaining power until it transforms everyone it touches. Mohandas Ghandi

Feeling is God’s mirror; intuition is God’s telephone. Kenny Loggins

When your fear touches someone’s pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes compassion. Steven Levine

Just as the ocean waves, and the sun has rays, so the mind’s own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. The ocean has waves, yot the ocean is not particularly disturbed by them. The waves are the very nature of the ocean. Waves will rise, but where do they go? Back to the ocean. And where do the waves come from? The ocean. Sogyal R.

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time. TS Elliott

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Serenity prayer

Man has no body distinct from his soul. William Blake

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Anything we do with a whole heart can be a prayer" (David Steinal-Rast).

Be patient to all that is unsolved in your heart, And try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek the answers that cannot be given you, Because the point is to live everything, Live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually without noticing it, Live along some distant day into the answers. We, who squander our sorrows, How we look beyond them into the mournful passage of time To see whether they might end. But they are seasons of us, yes, our winter— Abiding leafage, meadows, ponds, landscapes we are born into, Inhabited by birds and creatures in the reeds.

True health is the strength to live, the strength to suffer and the strength to die Health is not a condition of my body it is the power of my soul to cope with the varying condition of that body. Jurgen Moltman

A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe, a part limited in time and space, he experiences himself his thoughts and feelings as something seperated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prism for us restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a very few persons nearest us Our task must be to free ourselves from this prism by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of Nature In its beauty. Albert Einstein

Song of Pain and Joy What is this pain in my heart – it is you What is this joy in my heart – it is you too What is this sadness, What is this gladness It is you, you are one and not two (repeat over and over)

Spirituality is inclusive Spirituality is inclusive. It is the deepest sense of belonging and participation. We all participate in the spiritual at all times, whether we know it or not. There’s no place to go to be seperated from the spirituallll “themost important thing is defining spirit is the recognition that spirit is an essential need of human nature. There is something in all of us that seeks the spiritual. This yearning varies in strength from person to person but it is always there in everyone. And so healing becomes possible. Rachel remen.

Rob.Rutledge@cdha.nshealth.ca