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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 me Lord, to be sweet and gentle in all the events of life, 

in disappointments, in the thoughtlessness of others, 

in the insincerity of those I trusted,

 in the unfaithfulness of those on whom I relied. 

 Let me put myself aside, to think of the happiness of others,

 to hide my little pains and heartaches 

so that I may be the only one to suffer from them.

Teach me to profit by the suffering that comes across my path; 

let me use it that it may mellow me, not harden or embitter me; 

that it may make me patient, not irritable; 

that it may make me broad in my forgiveness, 

not narrow or proud or overbearing.

May no one be less good for having come within my influence; 

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

for having been a fellow traveler with me 

on our journey towards eternal life.

Dear Jesus, help me to spread your fragrance everywhere.  

Flood my soul with your spirit and life.  

Penetrate and possess my whole being so completely 

that my life may only be a radiance of yours.  

Shine through me, and be so in me, 

that every soul I come in contact with may feel your presence in my soul.

Let them look up and see me no longer, but only you my Jesus!

- John Henry Newman

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