Peter G Kimble: Fish on Friday.

Good day brothers and sisters. Here are photos of recent work from me accompanied by sayings we can if we wish, meditate on/with, that were written before me here, first by other mystics.

To reach satisfaction in all
desire its possession in nothing.
To come to possess all
desire the possession of nothing.
to arrive at being all
desire to be nothing.
To come to the knowledge of all
desire the knowledge of nothing.
—- St. John of the Cross

True individuality consists in reducing oneself to zero. the secret of life is selfless service. The highest ideal is to become free from attachment.
— Ghandi
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.
— Meister Eckhart

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Quotable quotes from the Christian mystics and poets and saints and great spirits

July 30, 2009 by Rev. Paul McKay

Russian Orthodox at Compline

Everything praises God. Darkness, privations, defects, evil too praise God and bless God.
— Meister Eckhert

Time . . . can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have people of good will. we must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time always ripe to do right. . . . Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.’
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We are more truly in heaven than on earth.
— Julian of Norwich

It is in God that we live, and move, and have our being.
— Paul in Acts 17:38
The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw–and knew I saw–all things in God, and God in all things.
— Mechtild of Magdeburg

God hugs you.
You are encircled by the arms
of the mystery of God.
— Hildegarde of Bingen
Fear is driven out by perfect love.
— John in 1 John 4:18

Where there is fear, there is no religion.
— Ghandi
All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Moon and Stars.
All praise be yours, my Lord, through Brothers Wind and Air;
All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Water.
— St. Francis of Assisi

Do you have a body? Don’t sit on the porch!
go walk in the rain!
— Kabir (6.32)
You cannot devalue the body and value the soul
or value anything else.
The isolation of the body sets it into direct conflict with everything else in Creation.
Nothing could be more absurd than to despise the body and yet yearn for its resurrection.
— Wendell Berry

The earth does not belong to the people; the people belong to the earth. . . this earth is precious to the Creator and to harm the earth is to heap contempt upon its Creator. . . . Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red people. We are part of the earth and it is part of us.
— Chief Seattle

To be is a blessing. To live is holy.
— Rabbi Abraham Heschel
As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.
— W.H. Auden

Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind to it! People take little pleasure in the naturl and quiet and simple things.
— Pablo Casals

You have made all your works in wisdom!
— Ps. 104:24

The force that drives the water through rocks
Drives my red blood.
— Dylan Thomas
For anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation; the old creation is gone, and now the new one is here. It is all God’s work.
— Paul, 2 Cor. 5:17-18
A spirituality that preaches resignation under official brutalities . . . and total submission to organized injustice is one that has lost interest in holiness and remains concerned only with a spurious notion of ‘order.’