There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when they feels that we have sympathized with them, understood them, at this moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living.

When you are grateful about your past,
no matter how painful it was, you know you
are healed. When you are healed you are
free to create the new life of your dreams!

Have compassion for everyone you meet,
even when they don't want it. What seems
conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always
a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes
have seen. You do not know what wars are
going on down there where the spirit meets
The bone.

Sometimes you just have to be brave.
You have to be strong. Sometimes you
can't give in to weak thoughts.
You have to bet down those devils that
get inside your head and try to make you
panic. You struggle along, putting one foot
a little bit ahead of the other, hoping that
when you go backwards it won't be too far
backwards, so that when you start going
forwards again you won't have too much
to catch up.


Taken from Brother Shaki Sherif