WIND

“If there is no wind, row.”

“Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel.
Our reason is the pilot that steers her.
Without winds the vessel would not move
and without a pilot she would be lost.”

~ Proverb

DESIRE

"Thy desire is thy prayer;
and if thy desire is without ceasing,
thy prayer will also be without ceasing. . . .
The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer."

~ Saint Augustine

HUMILITY

"Humility, that low, sweet root,
from which all heavenly virtues shoot"

~ Thomas Merton

THE DESTROYERS

“These things will destroy the human race:
politics without principle,
progress without compassion,
wealth without work,
learning without silence,
religion without fearlessness
and worship without awareness.”

~ Anthony de Mello

SILENCE

"We need to find God,
and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence;
see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls."

~ Mother Theresa

Unhappiness

“There is only one cause of unhappiness:
the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”

~ Anthony de Mello

Great Things and Small Things

"Great things are not done by impulse,
but by a series of small things brought together."

~ Vincent Van Gogh