Pocketful of Miracles Quotes

“May Day is the ancient festival of Beltane, the midway point between the vernal (spring) equinox and the summer solstice.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“Seed Thought Everything in the Universe has its own song. A chorus of frogs. The wind in the trees. Songs inspire the soul to remember how to love. Ave Maria opens the heart to compassion. Kyrie Eleison awakens forgiveness. Shalom Aleichem beckons the tired soul to rest. Om restores harmony and unity. Music is a powerful connection to our Source.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“Today, as you go about business, be aware of any judgments you have about another person’s spirituality, values, behaviors or attitudes.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“According to the Dalai Lama, the most important spiritual practice is kindness. His ability to bless the very people who tortured the Tibetans and destroyed their temples and their land, certainly has prevented any hardening of his attitude.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“Most of us do have the tendency to take ourselves way too seriously, which instantly blocks the flow of God’s creative energy through us and leads to terminal hardening of the attitude.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“Talk to your guardian angel about any questions you might have concerning the direction of your life.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“How strange it is that people who fear to do this do not hesitate to pray for the most difficult objectives of all, such as the peace of the world. .”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“How strange it is that people who fear to do this do not hesitate to pray for the most difficult objectives of all, such as the peace of the world.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“Spring is a very good time to let your creativity out of the bag.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“If I hold on to anything—expectations”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“When I find myself obsessing about things I can’t change”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“I sincerely ask Your forgiveness for indulging in the poison of self-hatred which keeps us apart.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“In the secret recesses of the heart beyond the teachings of this world calls a still, small voice singing a song unchanged from the foundation of the world. Speak to me in sunsets and in starlight Speak to me in the eyes of a child You Who call me from a smile My cosmic beloved Tell me who I am And who I always will be. Help me to remember.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“there is nothing annoying that is not suffered easily by those who love one another.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“May my heart shine with its true light, allowing me to see all people without judgment, so that the great peace of your understanding can manifest in my life and on this earth.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“Today, it is enough to notice what is there, give thanks for the learning opportunity that it presents and dedicate its future working through for the benefit of all beings.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“Mnemosyne.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“Get two glasses of water, one representing Lethe and the other Mnemosyne. Take a few letting-go breaths and patiently, slowly enter the place of inner wisdom. What are the mind-habits you are willing to let go of now?”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“So everything is a question of training and the power of habit.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“We are already perfectly trained by and for samsara, trained to get jealous, trained to grasp, trained to be anxious and sad and desperate and greedy, trained to react angrily to whatever provokes us.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“Let your mind be quiet, realising the beauty of the world, and the immense, the boundless treasures that it holds in store.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“When we catch ourselves thinking belittling, judging, cynical or snide thoughts, we are on the way to surrendering old habits of mind and planting the seeds of kind, encouraging thinking. Awareness of our thought habits and the intention to change them is an important aspect of cultivating kindness.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“May I learn to consider every circumstance of my day, and every person that I meet, as a teacher. Free me from the pitfall of idealization and disappointment, receiving every teaching as a gift—especially those that are not pleasing.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“August is a time for us to bring about balance between our male and female aspects so that we can harvest the fruitfulness of our souls.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“August reminds us of the impermanence of all things.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“Pray for help in overcoming fear.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“is good to keep the words of Mother Teresa in mind: “We cannot do great things in this world, we can only do little things with great love.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“Contemplate this thought: When people talk about their life review, they say that they see every event through the eyes of the people with whom they interacted. If they brought love, joy or encouragement to another, they felt that. If they caused fear, anger, hurt or helplessness in another, they felt that. The life review can be very painful when we recognize that we are responsible for every action. It is also very uplifting when we realize that we can learn from our mistakes. People often say that without the unqualified love and support of the Being of Light who leads the review, it would be far too painful to endure.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“classic Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita, says, “It is better to do your own duty, however imperfectly, than to assume the duties of another person, however successfully. Prefer to die doing your own duty; the duty of another will bring you into great spiritual danger.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

“Inner freedom manifests itself when we no longer march to the beat of any drum but to that which calls from within, the still, small voice of our own Higher Self.”
― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year