Muslim Wisdom
“The goal of human life is to beautify the soul through goodness and virtue and to make it worthy of offering to God Who is the Beautiful.
— Seyyed Hosssein Nasr in The Heart of Wisdom
Jewish Wisdom
Do not imagine your home as a castle, a defense against the world.
Rather live without defenses, seeing everyone as family, sons and daughters of the Only One we call God.
— Rami Shapiro in Ethics of the Sages
Catholic Wisdom
Hospitality is a natural outgrowth of my membership in the human family. It's hands-on, open-armed virtue rooted in an instinct to grow beyond my inner landscape, like a flower turning its face to the sun.
— Thea Jarvis in Every Day Hospitality
Zen Wisdom
We're busy trying to figure out who is right and who is wrong and we're exactly the same.
— Cheri Huber in When You're Falling, Dive!
Mystical Wisdom
All of humanity
is part of our family.
All are our friends.
No one is a stranger.
— The Cloud of Unknowing in There Is A God, There Is No God by John Kirvan
Literary Wisdom
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
— Maya Angelou quoted in Like a Child
Blessing
May our walking on the earth
be as gentle as the union
of the butterfly and the flower.
— Traditional Buddhist blessing in Earth Blessings by June Cotner