Every Day I See or Hear Something

That More or Less Kills Me With Delight.

That Leaves Me Like a Needle in the Haystack of Light. Mary Oliver

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

~ Rev. H.W. Beecher

Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.

~ Dr. Mae Jennison

Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination…For prayer is not a request for something:

it is the expression of a mode of being, a means of existing and of causing to exist,… The organ of Prayer is the heart,

the psycho-spiritual organ, with its concentration of energy, its himma [intense spiritual resolve]…Prayer is a “creator” of vision,…

~ Henry Corbin

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Service becomes a prayer when we serve our sisters and brothers

with love and compassion that comes from God. If we forget that

God is the source of our love, we deplete ourselves and end up serving

from our emptiness rather than our fullness. People in the helping

professions often speak about becoming drained, feeling dry, wondering if they have anything left to give. I believe these experiences occur not only when we forget to turn to God to be filled with love, but also when we forget to treat ourselves with the same love and

compassion with which we treat our neighbors.

~Jane E. Vennard

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

~Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

~Hippocrates

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

~ Loren Eiseley

You will always find an answer in the sound of water.

~ Zhuangzi

Such is the grace and power of baptism, not an overwhelming of the world as of old, but a purification of the sins of each individual, and a complete cleansing from all the bruises and stains of sin. And since we are double-made, I mean of body and soul, and the one part is visible, the other invisible, so the cleansing also

is twofold, by water and the Spirit, the one received visibly in the body, the other concurring with it invisibly and apart from the body, the one typical, the other real and cleansing the depths.

~ Gregory of Nazianzus

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

~ Loren Eiseley

You will always find an answer in the sound of water.

~ Zhuangzi

Such is the grace and power of baptism, not an overwhelming of the world as of old, but a purification of the sins of each individual, and a complete cleansing from all the bruises and stains of sin. And since we are double-made, I mean of body and soul, and the one part is visible, the other invisible, so the cleansing also

is twofold, by water and the Spirit, the one received visibly in the body, the other concurring with it invisibly and apart from the body, the one typical, the other real and cleansing the depths.

~ Gregory of Nazianzus