Amy K. Rosen

Not long afterward, you may begin to sense that center calling you even when you are not officially at prayer. In the midst of daily life, even as you move about in your ordinary awareness, you will notice the pulse of that underlying mutual yearning honing you to center. It is like a child you are carrying within you. Even as you go about your daily activities, you can sense it as a deeper life tugging and fluttering within you, reminding you of the greater life to which you belong. Centering Prayer is well named in this respect, because its most powerful physiological effect is that it will tend to develop in you a kind of habitual gravitation from within that is constantly calling you to your depths. ~Cynthia Bourgeault~

As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning. ~Cynthia Bourgeault~

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them. ~ Hugh Prather ~

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach~