Love means to learn to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many. And whoever sees that way heals his heart, Without knowing it, from various ills. A bird and a tree say to him: Friend
~ Czeslaw Milosz from "Love" in NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS 1931-2001
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God is the friend of silence. We need to find God But we cannot find God in noise, in excitement.
See how nature, the trees, the flowers, the grass Grow in deep silence ... the stars, the moon and the sun Move in silence ...
The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of prayer Is faith. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service ... (The fruit of service is peace.)
~ from LOVE: A FRUIT ALWAYS IN GOOD SEASON by Mother Teresa with thanks to Alice Howell