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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is 'thank you' that would suffice. 

- Meister Eckhart

It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

- Mahatma Gandhi

So you sit down to meditate not only because it helps you to find rest in the arms of the formless Beloved but also because it increases your chances of being stunned by beauty when you get back up.

-  Mribai Starr

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

- Mother Teresa

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself.

- Mother Teresa

Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.

- John Vianney

The whole reason why we pray is to be united into the vision and contemplation of God to whom we pray.

-  Julian of Norwich

Therefore, when you decide to undertake this work of prayer and feel by grace that you are called by God, lift up your heart to God with a meek stirring of Love.

- Cloud of Unknowing

Don't just do something, sit there.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Once there is seeing their must be action.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Every day you wake up, you should pray that you can be the answer to someone else's prayer.  

- Chris Jeffcoat

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FRAGRANCE

Teach us to profit by the suffering 

that comes across our path; 

Let us use it that it may mellow us, 

not harden or embitter us; 

that it may make us patient, not irritable; 

that it may make us broad in our forgiveness, 

not narrow or proud or overbearing.

May no one be less good 

for having come within our influence; 

no one less pure, less true, less kind, less noble, 

for having been a fellow traveler with us 

on our journey towards eternal life.

Dear Jesus, 

Help us to spread your fragrance everywhere.  

Flood our souls with your spirit and life.  

Penetrate and possess our whole being so completely 

that our life may only be a radiance of yours.  

Shine through us, and be so in us, 

that every soul we come in contact with may feel your presence in our soul.

Let them look up and see us no longer, 

but only you my Jesus!

- John Henry Newman

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