UU Words
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to focus.
– Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor of the telephone, & Unitarian agnostic
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Sources of Wisdom
O Great Spirit, help me always speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.
– Cherokee Prayer
UU Words
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
– Frank Lloyd Wright,
American architect & Unitarian Universalist
Sources of Wisdom
Even when the gates of heaven are shut to prayer, they are open to tears.
-The Talmud (a central text of Rabbinic Judaism)
Sources of Wisdom
Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.
— Buddha, Dhammapada 223
Sources of Wisdom
For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but love […] For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
– Galatians 5:13-14
UU Words
The birds who go on singing to their mates in peace, war, peace,
The ten-cent crocus bulb blooming in a used-car salesroom,
The horseshoe over the door, the luckpiece in the pocket,
The kiss and the comforting laugh and resolve—
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