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Love is the flame which, when it blazes,
consumes everything other than the Beloved.
- Rumi, Mathnawi [V, 588]

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“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.”

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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“Every house a temple, every heart an altar, every human being a priest.”

- Moritz Lazarus, German-Jewish philosopher and psychologist (1824-1903)

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“One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer”

- Muhammad

Today begins Eid al Adha – The Feast of Sacrifice in Islam

For more information, consider: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_ul-Adha

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”Should we free our mind from attachment to all ‘things,’ the Path becomes clear; otherwise, we put ourselves under restraint.”
-The Sutra of Hui Neng

Today is Bodhi Day - Buddha's Enlightenment

For more information, consider: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohatsu

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"It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest."

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

- Anonymous

Pictured above is Mother Teresa with a child in Calcutta

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“It is not a virtue to refrain from hurting others, but it is a virtue to bear a hurt patiently.”
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Mibhar HaPeninim