Buddhist wisdom
No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the fuoriz clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.
Dugen
Jewish wisdom
Charity is equal in importance to all the other commandedments combined
Hindu wisdom
Meditation is needed
Only when the mind is distracted
By false imagining
Knowing this, I am here
Without joy or sorrow, Grapping at nothing,
...

Buddhist wisdom
Now you have seen the true doctrine, your guileless heart loves to exercise its charity, for wealth and and money are inconstant treasures, twere better quickly to bestow such things on others.
Fo Sho-Hing Tsan King
Jewish wisdom
As so wisdom As soon as father Abraham conceives of Judaism, the process of Go forth begins.
Muslim wisdom
Forgive us. our Lord. Overlook our transgressions and remit from us our evil deeds. Condemn us not for our...

Prayer of the Day
God is our Refuge
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble
therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change and though the mountains shake at the swelling thereof. Selah
There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the holiest dwelling place of the most high. God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God is in the midst of her, She shall not be moved, God shall help her, at the approach of morning....

Muslim wisdom
Seek what you wish from God, not from men.
Be satisfied in joy, there is none therein.
On friends and relatives be not a burden,
Rich is he who hopes from God, not from men.
-Al-Ghazzahi, "Ilya Uhm Id-Did"

Hindu wisdom
The sorrows of duty
Like the heat of the sun,
Have scorched your heart,
But let stillness fall on you.
With its sweet and cooling showers
And you will find happiness....

Day by Day, dear Lord of Life,
Three things I pray,
To see you more clearly,
To love you more dearly,
To follow you more nearly,
Day by Day.
St. Richard of Chichester
Christian
Jewish wisdom
A Jewish ecology is not based on the assumption that we are no different from other creatures. It begins with the opposite idea; we have a special responsibility because we are different, because we know what we are doing.

Buddhist...

Day by Day, dear Lord of Life,
Three things I pray,
To see you more clearly,
To love you more dearly,
To follow you more nearly,
Day by Day.
St. Richard of Chichester
Christian
Jewish wisdom
A Jewish ecology is not based on the assumption that we are no different from other creatures. It begins with the opposite idea; we have a special responsibility because we are different, because we know what we are doing.

Buddhist...

Muslim wisdom
If you wish to shine like the daylight, burn up the night of self-importance, Dissolve the self like copper in the elixer, dissolve in Him who fosters in existence. But you are bound by the discord of "I" and "We". The cause of your ruin is this sad dualism.
-Rumi
Buddhist wisdom
It is in everybody's interest to seek those actions that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inexorably...

Jewish wisdom
May your fear of God be as strong as your fear of men.
Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, Babylonian Talmud,
Buddhist wisdom
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched.
But to be without sores is more more pleasurable still.
Nagarjuna, "Precious Garland"

Prayer for a Summer Day
Long warm days,
The pace of life slows,
A time for picnics and rest in the shade,
Lord, help me to rest awhile in the cooling shade of your presence. Slow down my restless heart and fill me with gentle compassion for all of your people.

Buddhist wisdom
Therefore the practice is like a key, the key of meditation. If we have the right key in our hand, no matter how tightly the lock is closed, when we take the key and twist the lock falls open. If we have no key we can't open the lock, we will never know what's in the trunk.
Ajahn Chah, "Living Dharma"
Jewish wisdom
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness, of a belief.
Arthur Schnitzer
Hindu wisdom...

Hindu wisdom
The guru is the formless self within each one of us. He may appear as a body to guide us but that is only his disguise.
Ramana Maharshi
Muslim wisdom
God hears the words of the women who complains to Muhammed about the cruelty of her husband. God hears her words when she complains directly to him. God listens to everything that is said; he hears all and observes all.
Buddhist wisdom: We travel with our thoughts
The whole world we travel with...

Prayer for a Sick Brother
O Lord, holy Father, creator of the Universe, author of its laws, you can bring the dead back to life, and heal those who are sick. We pray for our sick brother and that he may feel your hand upon him, renewing his body and refreshing his soul. Show him the affection in which you hold all of your creation.
Dimma, seventh century Irish monk
Christian

Angel wisdom
Angels tolerate and accept our shortcomings. We'd do well to emulate...

Angel wisdom
Every human soul is under the direction of an angel who is like a father.
Origen

Jewish wisdom
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza

Hindu wisdom
By loving me he comes to know me truly, then he knowing my glory and enters into my boundless being. All his acts are performed in my service, and through my grace he wins eternal life....

A Prayer for Mivkeh
Our mothers, Rebekka and Rachel, were betrothed and began new lives at the gently flowing waters of the well.
Our mother Tzipporah gave life to her child Moses in the ever-flowing waters of the Nile.
Our sister Miriam danced for the saving of lives beside the overflowing waters of the Sea of Reeds.
Water is God's gift to living souls, to cleanse us, to purify us, to sustain us, and to renew us.
Moses and Aaron and the priests of Israel washed...

Angel wisdom
Angels are bright still, though the greatest fell.
-William Shakespeare

Jewish wisdom
Pleasures are manifestations of God's love.
-the Baal Shem Tov

Buddhist wisdom
If you want to seek too much, it may hinder the way. For your part, can you your work is done? If not, then a thousand kinds of clever talk do not enhance your mind; what is the reason for ten thousand kinds of thought?
Chih-men, "Teachings of Zen"...