“Each moment contains a hundred messages from God. To every cry of “O, God”, He answers a hundred times, “I AM here.”
—Rumi
Quotes & Thoughts
This section is for anyone to use who is looking for inspiration for the day, the moment or for deeper spiritual thought. I have always collected people’s thoughts and quotes in my life and would spend a day, weeks or months sitting in meditation with the thought or quote. I realized that this was also a wonderful way for me to expand my mind, heart and soul. The following quotes and thoughts are from wonderful people who in their wisdom have impacted and inspired me. I hope that you find this area just as inspiring. I would suggest that if you find something on here that upsets you or you want to dismiss perhaps you could benefit by sitting in prayer, meditation or in discussion with a friend... we never know where the seeds will grow within us.
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“We experience ourselves as separate from the rest...we must free ourselves from this delusion...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
– Albert Einstein
“Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.”
– Maya Angelou
“The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam in it.”
– Nityananda
“Anything we turn in the direction of God is a prayer.”
– St. Ignatius of Loyola
“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.”
– Leo Buscaglia
“Anything we turn in the direction of God is a prayer.”
– St. Ignatius of Loyola
“It is the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us.”
– Joan Chittister
“Why I pray: I pray because I can’t help myself, I pray because I am helpless-
it’s a need that flows out of me when I am awake and when I am asleep-
it doesn’t change God, it changes me.”
– C.S. Lewis
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“What lies before us and what lies behind us, are small matters compared
to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Say not, ‘I have found the path of the soul.’ Say rather, ‘I have met the soul walking upon my path.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
– Socrates
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain”
– Kahlil Gibran
“Where there is no love, put love – and you will find love.”
– St. John of the Cross
“Sometimes the obstacle is the journey.”
– Zen
“Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.”
– Thich Nhat Hahn
“Patience is active acceptance of the process required
to attain your goals and dreams.”
– Ray Davis
“Hope is essential for us. What the breath is to our
physical bodies, hope is to our human spirit.”
– John R. Claypool
Lorie’s Certifications
- 1996One Brain Practitioner Certification
- 1997One Brain Advanced Practitioner Certification
- 1999Polarity Therapy and Polarity Reflexology Certification
- 2000Traditional Reflexology Certification
- 2001Usui Reiki Master/Teacher Certification
- 2002Ordained Interfaith Minister
- 2005Completion of 2-Year Shaman Practitioner Apprenticeship
- 2006Tachyon Holistic Practitioner Certification
- 2008Clinical and Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Certification
- 2009Master Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Certification
- 2012Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner Certification
- 20143-Year Completion Integrated Imagery Certification