Catholic Wisdom

Love is the seed of life in my own heart
when it seeks the good of the other.
— Thomas Merton in Thomas Merton: Essential Writings

New Thought Wisdom

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
— Marianne Williamson in Having the Time of Your Life by Allen Klein

Literary Wisdom

There is aways something to love. If you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
— Lorraine Hansberry in Wisdom of the African World by Reginald McKnight

Buddhist Wisdom

Trust in love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
— Natalie Goldberg in The Community of Kindness

Jewish Wisdom

Bless anything that shows you wisdom. Anything that shows you wisdom has become a part of who you are and has drawn you closer to life.
— Rachel Naomi Remen in My Grandfather’s Blessings

Celtic Wisdom

Sacred space can be wherever one invites the Beloved to participate in one’s joy, be it poached eggs for breakfast, a night of love, or the sight of anything that lifts your soul.
— Alice O. Howell in The Dove in the Stone

Proverb

Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted by the body.
— Sufi Proverb


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