"The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the Sower, of the need for our loving, mortified reception and cultivation in our hearts and souls of the seeds and roots of the supernatural gifts and virtues necessary for progress in the ascetical/mystical ascent of our souls toward union with God and with the divine will for Creation and Kingdom"

-- John Stokes

#Heart Quotes #Garden Quotes #Roots Quotes

“The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses. When the mind can find no differences and no likenesses, as is the case when monotony is present, it restlessly, then resentfully, and at last frantically seeks for contrast that it may again busy itself with observing differences and likenesses.”
“Granted that I must die, how shall I live?”

Source : Michael Novak (1970). “The Experience of Nothingness”, p.46, Transaction Publishers
“The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.”

Source : "A 'Cooked Seed' Sprouts After All, In America". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 12, 2013.
“The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.”
“Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.”
“The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.”
“The mind and body communicate constantly. What the mind thinks, perceives, and experiences is sent from our brain to the rest of the body.”
“Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind.”

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