Permanent – Page 36 – Permanent Prayer 4 Peace

29th August

[simage=350,max,n,center,] Gratitude is a twofold love — love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest. Henry Van Dyke

[simage=349,max,n,center,] One finds love not by being loved, but by loving. We can never know love if we try to draw others to ourselves; nor can we find it by centering our love in them. For love is infinite; it is never ours to create. We can only channel it from its source in InfinityContinue reading “28th August”

27th August

[simage=348,max,n,center,] Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. Khalil Gibran

26th August

[simage=347,max,n,center,] You cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us..how we can take it, what we do with it..and that is what really counts in the end. Joseph Fort Newton

25th August

[simage=346,max,n,center,] Within ourselves there is a silence into which the world cannot intrude. There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost. From “A Course in Miracles”

24th August

[simage=345,max,n,center,] By expanding our desire not to harm, we create a powerful pebble-in-the-pond phenomenon. The ever-widening circles of respect and love we create touch countless people. Sue Patton Thoele

23rd August

[simage=344,max,n,center,] You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. Jim Rohn

22nd August

[shashin type=”photo” id=”491″ size=”large” columns=”1″ order=”user” position=”center”] There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all ourContinue reading “22nd August”

21st August

[simage=342,max,n,center,] Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand – an infinite ocean of calm, which nothing can disturb; nature’s own exceeding peace, which “passes understanding”. That which we seek with passionate longing, here and there, upward and outward, we find at last within ourselves.Continue reading “21st August”

20th August

[simage=341,max,n,center,] Ultimately we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world. Etty Hillesum