This is my work, To keep this world green, Keep it all green. I began in the East, to help my friends. I keep this world green, Keep it beautiful. I begin to fill the creeks, To wet everything, Keep it beautiful and green, I begin in the East, Make everything beautiful! That is my work.
Prayer is naught else but a yearning of the soul... When it is practiced with the whole heart, it has great power. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart courageous, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of vision, a cold heart ardent. For it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up to the plentitude of God; it brings together these two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.
~ Mechthild of Magdeburg in THE HIDDEN TRADITION by Lavinia Byrne
