To worship God you must go beyond words to speak with your heart.
You can mouth the words of a prayer all day long and just waste your time, unless you also speak with your heart. And to speak with your heart means to embody first. If you pray for love, be loving. If you pray for wealth, be generous. If you pray for health, practice health yourself. What is your favorite prayer? How can you begin to embody it?

"Tu cauţi o metodă prin care să faci ca viaţa să decurgă bine. Ceea ce cauţi tu e altă variantă a Căii Vechi. Eu aş vrea să îţi arăt Calea Nouă. Orice metodă pe care o alegi devine stăpânul tău. Ai slujit la mulţi stăpâni în viaţa ta, dar  ţelul tău a rămas acelaşi. Tu nu vrei altceva decât Viaţa mai Bună pe care experienţa te-a învăţat s-o doreşti. Ţelul acesta e un idol. Trebuie abandonat. Tu îţi doreşti lucruri mici. Aspiraţiile mărunte dau naştere la idoli, dumnezei nevrednici cărora le sacrifici viaţa ta. Rugăciunile tale sunt o închinare la idoli. Ai fost legat de dorinţa ta de o Viaţă mai Bună, pe care o defineşti prin prisma experienţei tale cu privire la plăcere şi durere. Aş vra să-ţi arăt Calea Nouă spre o Speranţă mai Bună. Tu vrei să afli o metodă eficientă, nu te preocupă să afli  ce e sfânt.
[...] Caută numai binecuvântarea prezenţei lui Dumnezeu şi vei şti ce să faci pt a fi fericit. Aceasta îţi va umple sufletul de bucurie."

Eu cred ca adevărul, dacă nu este unic, nu există…  - Petre Ţuţea

Today you have a cause for celebration.
Today, you should celebrate what an unbelievable life you have had so far: the accomplishments, the many blessings, and, yes, even the hardships because they have served to make you stronger. Just as a gem cannot be polished without friction, nor can a life be perfected without trials. Take a time to acknowledge your life and to praise God.

‎"Iubirea nu trebuie să fie neapărat perfectă, dar trebuie să fie neapărat adevărată."

‎"Când te afli în faţa unui obstacol, nu te gândi la cât de dificil e să-l depăşeşti, ci la cât de bucuros vei fi după ce îl vei fi depăşit."

Although forgiveness is very hard, it is necessary.
Holding onto anger and old hurts hardens your heart and hurts only you. Ask for help in letting go of the anger. Ask to see the situation through the eyes of compassion. Allow yourself to feel the lightness of forgiveness.

Nu cunosc soluţia pentru a atinge succesul, dar ştiu că pentru a eşua e suficient să încerci să multumeşti pe toată lumea. (Bill Cosby)

There is no such thing as conditional love.
Love is either unconditional or it's no love. You might like someone conditional on their personality or behavior or circumstances. But love accepts no boundaries. So never say 'I love you because', for love has no cause, love comes from God.

Your pilgrimage to God is your pilgrimage to yourself.
It's never too late to start, and it's never too soon to take one more step on your pilgrimage.

When we renounce our dreams and find peace, we go through a short period of tranquility. But the dead dreams begin to rot within us and to infect our entire being.
We become cruel to those around us, and then we begin to direct this cruelty against ourselves. That’s when illnesses and psychoses arise. What we sought to avoid in combat – disappointment and defeat – come upon us because of our cowardice.

And one day, the dead, spoiled dreams make it difficult to breathe, and we actually seek death. It’s death that frees us from our certainties, from our work, and from that terrible peace of our Sunday afternoons - Coelho

There is no such thing as conditional love.
Love is either unconditional or it's no love. You might like someone conditional on their personality or behavior or circumstances. But love accepts no boundaries. So never say 'I love you because', for love has no cause, love comes from God.  - Coelho

‎"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.", J.M. Power

You have to pass through a dark night of the soul.
Everyone does, including you. A time comes when what you have always believed is true melts away underneath you. When you cast in doubt even the most obvious, the most simple. When it seems that dark night is all around, and you are all alone. Take heart, this journey through abyss is the final barrier before your emergence into the heavenly light of a new synthesis of your being. God is waiting for you on the other side.

There is no such thing as a problem without a Divine gift hidden within it.
You have these problems because you need the gifts they carry within.

Ideile sunt caramizile. Dar pe mine ma intereseaza arhitectura. 
- Paul Zarifopo

Întâmplarea este o altă mască a Divinului, atunci când nu doreşte să fie recunoscut. - Albert Einstein

Inevitable is best accepted with serenity. There are times when you absolutely see no solution. When you've thought and thought and prayed and prayed; when you've sat still in meditation listening for an answer and still no answer comes. There are times when it's okay to just surrender.

Rugăciune

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going,
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.

Nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.

But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.

I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road,
though I may know nothing about it.

I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

Thomas Merton

If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one. - Coelho

Iubirea nu caută să găsească o persoană perfectă, ci caută să iubească perfect o persoană imperfectă.

"There are many ways to climb a mountain. There are many ways to worship God. There are many ways to live a life. Allow each person to choose their own path."

‎The world only gets better because people risk something to make it better. - Coelho

Omul nu are nimic. El este totul. - Sf. Ignatiu de Antiohia

"Nu suntem fericiţi făcând ceea ce vrem, ci ştiind/conştientizând ceea ce facem."

Eu - zice DOMNUL - te voi invata, si-ti voi arata calea pe care trebuie s-o urmezi, te voi sfatui, si voi avea privirea indreptata asupra ta.
PSALMUL 32, vs. 8

"There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. That's a quote by Albert Einstein. Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle."

Optimistul vede trandafirul, nu ghimpii sai;

 pesimistul vede numai ghimpii, uitand de trandafir.

Your unspoken prayers will be answered.
Yes, God knows you, God hears you, God loves you, God is there for you. 
You are blessed.

When you come to a wall, you can either climb it, or you can simply walk around until you find a door.
Don't make life so hard, - look for the doors!

"True faith flowers from and through doubt.
If you never questioned your beliefs, - you are just a puppet dancing to somebody's strings. 

If God had wanted your mindless obedience, you would've been created without mind and without free will. But you have both so you can come to God of your own accord. Just look at the lives of   

saints, - most of them had gone through a dark night of the soul, and that's why their faith was so strong.

The path to true faith always goes through doubt. So ask those questions you've always been afraid to ask, and find the answers, and then your faith will become unshakable."

‎"Changes only happen when we go against everything we're used to do."

‎"You are not to shut love out of your life by saying it is impossible to find and keep.
The quickest way to find love is to give love. If you want it too badly, you will not find it. The most secure way to keep love is to give it space and care to grow. If you hold it too tightly, you will lose it."

I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” - Coelho

‎"Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live." - Coelho

"Daca vezi ca apele involburate te ineaca,... rezista, El te va scoate la mal... in curand vor veni si zile mai senine!!
Daca simti ca ai cazut intr-un abis din care nu mai poti iesi... rezista, El te va ridica... in curand va veni si ziua aceea!! Daca crezi ca totul a scapat de sub control... ti se pare doar, caci El are totul in control... in curand vei vedea aceasta!..."

‎"Ca si guma de mestecat, ingrijorarea iti va da ceva de facut, dar nu-ti va rezolva problema."

You cannot let this day pass without telling the people you love that you love them. 

Do not take for granted the people closest to your heart. Nothing is permanent, celebrate them now.

‎"You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it." - Coelho

‎"When you focus on problems, you will have more problems.
When you focus on possibilities, you will have more opportunities."

‎Exista doar doua feluri de oameni: oameni sfinti care se considera pacatosi si oameni pacatosi care se considera sfinti. - Blaise Pascal

Sunt sigur de Tine, nu sunt sigur de mine. Singurul meu mod de a fi sigur de mine este sa fiu destul de sigur de Tine. - Monsenior Vladimir Ghika

Sunt trei mari iluzii ale omului istoric: progresul infinit, autodesăvârşirea şi autosalvarea. -  Petre Ţuţea

Proiecţia face percepţia.