Take Your Time

William Blake says, “When the doors of perception are cleansed, everything appears as it is, infinite.”

You don’t know what real love is until you love all. When the mind is still, you see everybody as your own self.

Of the heavenly things God has taught me, I can speak but a little word, not more than a honeybee can carry away on its feet from an overflowing jar. . . . In the first choir is happiness, the highest of all gifts. In the second, gentleness. In the third, loving-kindness. In the fourth, sweetness. In the fifth, joyfulness. In the sixth, honorable rest. In the seventh, riches. In the eighth, merit. In the ninth, fervent love.

Between one thought and the next is a tiny gap when the mind is at peace. Extending that gap is the secret of an unhurried mind.

To have a still mind means there is a healing silence everywhere.

When the mind grows still, it is full of healing power

You are an exalted creature, with a spark of the divine within you that nothing you do can extinguish; and you have been granted life in order to give, because it is in giving that we receive,

Dwelling on yourself builds a wall between you and others. When you find yourself dwelling on your own needs, your own wants, your own plans, your own ideas, turn your attention to the needs of others.

When the mind is going too fast, it naturally begins to affect the body, because body and mind are not separate; they work together.

All negative thoughts are fast. They are going a hundred miles per hour, so of course we can’t turn, we can’t stop, we have got to crash. But positive thoughts are slow. Patience is always in the slow lane. Good will is never in a rush. And love is actually off the highway, for it is not a stream of thoughts at all but a lasting state of mind.