Quotes from JOAN BORYSENKO

A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.

Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.

Rather than thinking in terms of good and bad, it is more helpful to think in terms of conscious and unconscious, aware, and unaware.

You are at my side, dear friends, and God is everywhere. Yet ultimately we are alone, making our way home by the candle of the heart. The light is steady and sure but extends only far enough to see the next step. Many times the light seems to go out. But another light, one held by a stranger or friend, a book or a song, a blackbird or a wild flower, comes close enough so that we can see our path by its light. And in time we realize that the light we have borrowed was always our own.

For, without the knowledge of love, fear is all that remains, and we can never feel safe.

What a paradox that is. The things you dislike the most succeed in taking up the majority of your mental time.

We emerge into the light not by denying our pain, but by walking out through it.

There is a nearly unerring, unconscious radar that zeros in on relationships that repeat our childhood experiences.

psychic healers that practice in the Phillippines [sic] [are] able to reach through a person's energy body and pull out diseased tissue as an energy form

the thymus regulates the boundary between earth and heaven

There's a Buddhist saying that peace is like a sun that's always shining in your heart. It's just hidden behind clouds of fear, doubt, worry, and desire that continually orient you toward the past or the future. The sun comes out only when you're in the present moment.

May Day is the ancient festival of Beltane, the midway point between the vernal (spring) equinox and the summer solstice.

Seed Thought Everything in the Universe has its own song. A chorus of frogs. The wind in the trees. Songs inspire the soul to remember how to love. Ave Maria opens the heart to compassion. Kyrie Eleison awakens forgiveness. Shalom Aleichem beckons the tired soul to rest. Om restores harmony and unity. Music is a powerful connection to our Source.

When will and intention are developed through living a disciplined life, according to rules that we consider a divine template for right living, tremendous personal power results. [...] They include such gifts as prophecy, healing, bilocation, mind reading, and the ability unto levitate or walk on water.

The source of healing power [is, first] the healer's own adrenal glands. And the adrenals are indeed the furnace that generates lifeforce energy.

How can rape, murder, war, and illness be loving acts? [...] all events happen for the greater good, that nothing is accidental or without the capacity to spur our evolution as loving co-creators with God.

Lifeforce energy is distributed through the body by seven chakras or energy transformers

For this is the vision that unites all seven paths and creates the rainbow bridge to a new earth and a new heaven.

A lot of energy is used up in the name of this false patience.

Real patience requires a gentle willingness to let life unfold at its own pace. This willingness, in turn, requires mindfulness.

Patience is peace. Learning to be patient is a continual practice that takes years to ripen. Let it unfold, day by day, and be gentle with yourself in the learning.

it's better to prepare the speaker than the speech,