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The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces. Let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting-beds weary and content and undishonoured, and grant us in the end the gift
... See moreRuskin Bond • A Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the Hills
If abiding in Christ really be our first aim, let us beware of all needless excitement. Let us watch even in lawful and necessary things against the wondrous power these have to keep the soul so occupied, that there remains but little power or zest for fellowship with God. Then there is the restlessness and worry that come of care and anxiety about
... See moreAndrew Murray • Abide in Christ
faith and a silent mind.
Sydney Banks • The Enlightened Gardener
The spiritual investigator must bring about the silence of all the senses, just as in sleep attention is turned away from every impression of the outer world. But whereas in sleep the soul sinks into unconsciousness through the faculty of spiritual surrender, it awakens in the divine spiritual stream of the cosmic forces to a consciousness compared
... See moreRudolf Steiner • Guidance in Esoteric Training
waking and dreaming as an ongoing conversation between two worlds,
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
sleep itself is a spiritual path, dreaming a means of walking this path, and awakening its gracious gift.
Rubin Naiman • Healing Night: The Science and Spirit of Sleeping, Dreaming, and Awakening
I will cut short this distressful dialogue. I still persisted in my purpose, and he still persisted in his opposition. This excited my suspicions anew; but these were removed by solemn declarations of their safety.