1. Listen

“Hear, for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.” -Bible, Old Testament, Proverbs

2. Ask Me

“And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” -Bible, New Testament, Matthew

3. Keep Turning

“Remembering God is the cure for the heart.”...”If you walk toward Him, He comes to you running.” -Koran

4. Wide Open

“Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.” -Kabbalah, Babylonian Talmud

5. Inside

“That which you have will save you, if you bring it forth from yourselves.” -Dead Sea Scriptures

6. Be Still

“His mind becomes calm. His word and deed are calm. Such is the state of tranquility of one who has attained to deliverance through the realization of truth.” -Dhammapada

7. There is Always a Way

“All men will come to him who keeps to the One, for there lie rest and happiness and peace. Passersby may stop for music and good food, but a description of the Tao seems without substance or flavor. It cannot be see, it cannot be heard, and yet it cannot be exhausted.” -Tao Te Ching

8. I Give My Word

“The secret of immortality is to be found in purification of the heart, in meditation, in realization of the identify of the Self within and Brahman without. For immortality is simple union with God.” -Vedas, Upanishad III, Katha

9. Hope

“Then will the manifold favours and outpouring grace of the holy and everlasting Spirit confer such new life upon the seeker that he will find himself endowed with a new eye, a new ear, a new heart, and a new mind.” -Writings of Baha’u’llah, The True Seeker and the Search

10. Rise

“The Master said: He who heard the truth in the morning might die content in the evening.” -Analects of Confucius

11. Truth Be Known

“...And then may we be those who shall transfigure this world. O Mazda, Lords, be present to me with support and truth, so that thoughts may be concentrated where understanding falters.” -Zend-Avesta, Yasna