From time to time, sit close to the one you love, hold his or her hand, and ask, ‘Darling, do I understand you enough? Or am I making you suffer? Please tell me so that I can learn to love you properly. I don’t want to make you suffer, and if I do so because of my ignorance, please tell me so that I can love you better, so that you can be happy.” If you say this in a voice that communicates your real openness to understand, the other person may cry.

That is a good sign, because it means the door of understanding is opening and everything will be possible again.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. We must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the person we love. This is the ground of real love. You cannot resist loving another person when you really understand him or her.

~Thich Nha Hanh

We will not just say, “I love him very much,” but instead, “I will do something so that he will suffer less.” The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person’s suffering. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

From time to time, sit close to the one you love, hold his or her hand, and ask, 'Darling, do I understand you enough? Or am I making you suffer? Please tell me so that I can learn to love you properly. I don't want to make you suffer, and if I do so because of my ignorance, please tell me so that I can love you better, so that you can be happy." If you say this in a voice that communicates your real openness to understand, the other person may cry.

That is a good sign, because it means the door of understanding is opening and everything will be possible again.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. We must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the person we love. This is the ground of real love. You cannot resist loving another person when you really understand him or her. ~Thich Nha Hanh

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Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind rest at peace. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. ~Lao Tzu

We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment.  Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions.  It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is…Love’s tender dialogue between the soul and God. ~John Richard Moreland

Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate…. It supplies us
with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives. ~Alexis Carrel

Every time we experience a single day of inner stillness
and joy, we are empowered to expand it into a second
and a third day.  A space opens in our hearts, and when
two hearts recognize and acknowledge each other,
a connection happens.  It happens again and again
as other hearts are joined in this stillness.

~LaUna Huffines

We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed.  Silence gives us a new outlook on life. In it we are filled with the energy of God himself that makes us do all things with joy. ~Mother Teresa

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear,
resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? ~Buddha

Prayer is… Love's tender dialogue between the soul and God. ~John Richard Moreland
Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate….It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives. ~Alexis Carrel

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