Immigrants First - Appreciation and Inspiration
 
Many clients have expressed their appreciation for our services, but that is only half the story. Our clients and their families deeply inspire and transform us by their courage, strength, ambition, humility and faith. Some of our clients have been through unspeakable horrors and yet they walk a path of forgiveness and a willingness to see the best in life. Daily we are reminded how lucky we are to serve such remarkable people.

As a thank you to all the people in our lives who inspire us to keep working towards a more fair, just and equal world, we wanted to share some inspirations of our own with you . . .
 
On Human Rights

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal
and inalienable rights of all members of the human family
is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world . . .
Everyone has the right to . . . life, liberty and security of person
. . . to freedom of movement and to leave any country . . .to
marry and found a family [which] is entitled to protection by
society and the State . . . to own property . . . to freedom of
expression . . . to work and to have equal pay . . . to rest and
leisure . . . to a standard of living adequate for health and
well-being, including food, clothing, housing and
medical care . . . to education . . .

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
 

On the Oneness of Humanity

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,

         There is a field. I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,

         The world is too full to talk about.

Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other”

         Doesn’t make any sense.

Rumi – 13th Century
 
On Living Your Truth and Power
Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. The current of the river swept silently over them all – young and old, rich and poor, good and evil. The current going its own way, knowing only its own crystal self.

Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life and resisting the current what each had learned from birth.

But one creature said at last, “I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.”

The other creatures laughed and said, “Fool! Let go and that
Current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed
Across The rocks and you will die quicker than boredom!”

But the one heeded them not and taking a breath did let go
And at once was tumbled and smashed by the current
Against the rocks.

Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current
Lifted him free from the bottom and he was bruised and hurt
No more.

And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger
Cried, See a miracle! A creature like ourselves yet he flies!
See the Messiah, Come to save us all!

And the one carried in the current said, “I am no more Messiah
Than you. The river delights to lift us free if you only we dare
Let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.

Richard Bach
Ilusions, The Adventure of a Reluctant Messiah
 

ON JOY
Joy is very contagious – Mother Teresa

 

Lisa outside courthouse with happy client after winning a grant of asylum.
 
 
On Generosity

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
Mother Teresa
 
On God ~ For We Are Deeply God

Down through starry corridors of light, we came, and entered in through shining portals
To this realm . . . Star clad, we left our robes behind to be of form and substance born. Blessed and sweet was the song our Mother sang that called us to her in our innocence; for we are deeply God, And would know the Allness of our Being, would walk the ways of earthen ones and feel the dust upon our earthen feet . . . We would sing the ancient songs sung of the silence long before the world began, voiceless prayers of light eternal and sublime, and dream ancient dreams of Being beyond space and time . . .
I rise up and dance the star waves and wonder that I exist but know only that I am, forever that I am . . . This alone is known: God is, I AM. All else is transparent as the
Gossamer veils of light between the worlds.

Grace ~ A Language of Light
 


Client got green card and is now serving in Haiti

  

on service and faith

If you pray you will have faith,
And if you have faith
You will want to serve.
Faith in action is service.
The fruit of love is service.
And the fruit of service is peace.
All of us should work for peace.

Mother Teresa
 
On Playing Small

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of use, it is in everyone. And s we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson ~ A Return to Love: Reflections on Principles of A Course in Miracles
 
THE SUN IS SHINING SOMEWHERE SO LET IT
WARM YOUR HEART AND MIND TO KNOW THERE
IS LOVING LIGHT SMILING ON US.

THE WORLD IS A WONDEROUS PLACE. WE PICK
AND CHOOSE WHEN AND WHERE THE WONDERS
WILL BE REVEALED.

WE ARE A GIFT FROM THE CREATOR, TO BE
LOVED AND TO GIVE LOVE BACK TO THE CREATOR.
WE ARE NEVER SMALLER OR LARGER THAN THE
SUM OF CREATION.