“For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you. When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart, I will let you find me, says the Lord.” Jeremiah 29: 11-14 NRSV Bible
Category: Religious Messages
Happy Valentine’s Day
Without Love
“If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.” 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 
Be Free of Attachments
“How can attachment bring us suffering?
We just have to think of chocolate and there is the temptation of eating more than is good for us. Or as example, my favorite story: the way people used to catch monkeys in South India:
One takes a coconut and makes a hole in it, just large enough that a monkey can squeeze its hand in. Next, tie the coconut down, and put a sweet inside. What happens next is pure attachment. The monkey smells the sweet, puts his hand into the coconut, grabs the sweet and … the hole is too small to let a fist out of the coconut. The last thing a monkey would consider is to let go of the sweet, so it is literally tied down by its own attachment. Often they only let go when they fall asleep or become unconscious because of exhaustion.
Ultimately, the Buddha explains that our attachment to life keeps us in cyclic existence or samsara, which does not bring us continuous happiness.” From – http://www.viewonbuddhism.org
Love
I Radiate Grace, Strength, and Beauty from Within
“The Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross likened people to stained-glass windows. ‘They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.’
Even when the outer world looks dark or dimmed, I continue to express deep appreciation and joy because I know the light of God shines from within me. This inner light constantly uplifts and sustains me, illuminating my way. I radiate gratitude for the harmony, prosperity and beauty that surround me.
I am a beacon for God’s love. Divine life works through me to radiate grace, strength, and beauty to all I meet.”
“And there will be no more night; they need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light.” Revelation 22:5 dailyword.com
Many Paths to Take
Worrying Is Pointless
“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” Luke 12:24
The Dalai Lama on Religious Terrorism
Thank you Maya, from Turkey and the U.S., for this wonderful video!
Mother Teresa – Her Own Heart-filled Words
Mother Teresa says, “If you really want to know the poor, you must know what is poverty…”
She says,”There are two kinds of poverty. We have the poverty of the material, for example like in India and Ethiopia and other places, where the people are hungry for a loaf of bread and real hunger. But there is a much deeper, much greater hunger. And that is the hunger for love and that terrible loneliness and being unwanted, unloved… being abandoned by everybody. And some people you find in, what you call them, shut-ins, people that are sleeping in the streets of London and are found in the homes. Maybe that kind of “unwanted-ness,” unloved {person}. Maybe in our own homes, we may have somebody who is handicapped like that and nobody takes any notice. Nobody even recognizes that there is this child, this man, this woman who is hungry for love, hungry to be recognized and to accept with respect and love the person.” In the video below, she speaks from her heart.