Quotes for the Day, from a wide variety of sources, are posted on our website, as well as on our Riverwalker Facebook page.
“I believe that in our good days a well-ordered mind has a new thought awaiting it every morning. And hence, eminently thoughtful men, from the time of Pythagoras down, have insisted on an hour of solitude every day, to meet their own mind and learn what oracle it has to impart. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware of the ruling powers! For they do not befriend a person except for their own needs: They seem like friends when it is to their advantage, but they do not stand by a man when he is hard-pressed.
–From The Living Talmud
The Earth Is Waiting for You
The Earth is always patient and open-hearted.
She is waiting for you.
She has been waiting for you
for the last trillion lifetimes.
She can wait for any length of time.
She knows you will come back to her one day.
Fresh and green, she will welcome you
exactly like the first time,
because love never says, “This is the last time”;
because Earth is a loving mother.
She will never stop waiting for you.
–Thich Nhat Hahn
And Jesus answered: “Seek not the law in your scriptures, for the law is life, whereas the scripture is dead… In everything that is life is the law written. You find it in the grass, in the tree, in the river, in the mountain, in the birds of heaven, in the fishes of the sea; but seek it chiefly in yourselves. For I tell you truly, all living things are nearer to God than the scripture which is without life. God so made life and all living things that they might by the everlasting word teach the laws of the true God to man. God wrote not the laws in the pages of books, but in your heart and in your spirit. They are in your breath, your blood, your bone; in your flesh, your bowels, your eyes, your ears, and in every little part of your body. They are present in the air, in the water, in the earth, in the plants, in the sunbeams, in the depths and in the heights. They all speak to you that you may understand the tongue and the will of the living God.”
–From The Essene Gospel of Peace