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Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles
Caroline Myss

1 "There are no such things as coincidences or accidents. Look for the meaning in your synchronistic enounters."

2 "I can see that the power of prayer and intention – theirs, yours, mine – forges the grace that holds our world together."

3 "Folklore and fairy tales are filled with lessons about the values of love, compassion, generosity, and caring for family, friends, the sick, and the elderly. These are the virtues that matter to heaven. These are the virtues that matter even if there is no heaven. And these are the virtues we are required to develop and refine on our spiritual journey."

4 "Everything we do COUNTS. There is really no such thing as a small act of service or goodness. This is in accord with most of the world's spiritual traditions."

5 "Know that underlying the storm is peace, and under the chaos is order. Use the power of faith as your anchor: faith that there is a reason why things happen as they do; faith that you will make it through a crisis; faith that you are moving forward to a better place."

6 "Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other." Euripides

7 "Politeness serves a purpose…civility and kindness are moral imperatives." Jane Austen

8 "We each are an individual fragment of a collective soul and are called to help each other, to live with a compassionate awareness of all of humanity."

9 "I release into this universe my trust that my journey in life and all who walk my path with me are there by divine design."

10 "Only when we see ourselves in our true human context, as members of a race which is intended to be one organism and 'one body', will we begin to understand the positive importance not only of the successes but of the failures and accidents in our lives." Thomas Merton, 'No Man Is An Island'

11 "We all are one and even if those specific words are not taught to us, we develop an inner sense of their spiritual truth."

12 "It is impossible to be both wise and pessimistic."

13 "Have benevolence toward all living beings, joy at the sight of the virtuous, compassion and sympathy for the afflicted, and tolerance towards the indolent and ill-behaved." Tattvarthasutra 7:11 (Jainism)

14 "By cultivating one's nature one will return to virtue." Chuang-Tzu

15 "Synchronistic encounters are meaningful; they are manifestations of an invisible power working with you and through you."

16 "Anything you do for others, as well as the support you receive in your own life, has healing consequences for the whole human community."

17 "We are meant to care about each other and the well-being of the entire human family because our physical survival and spiritual survival depend on one another. We are drawn to help each other, to be there for one another, because we are made of the same spiritual substance."

18 "Our heart's primary task, of course, is to recognize our own spirit in every stranger and to 'love our neighbor as ourselves.'"

19 "You will continually find yourself with opportunities to acknowledge that all of us are one until you make it a part of your life creed and act according to its promptings."

20 "Faith is an active force – not a passive one – an invisible power, like love."

21 "The Talmud states, 'All are responsible for each other.' And Jesus taught, 'That which you do to the least of these my brethren you do unto me.'"

22 "The call to be of service to one another, the intuition that prompts us to use our power to help others, is wired into our physical and spiritual nature."

23 "A seed for transformation exists within the soul of each act of goodness."

24 "You have to CHOOSE to make the best of a difficult situation and to trust that a reason beyond your understanding is always at work."

25 "We are spiritually responsible for each other and we are meant to discover and nurture the divine that exists within each person."

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite