Michael Elmore-Meegan

Everything changes when you wake up in the morning and decide to own today. It will not be taken from you by anyone else, it will be yours

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

Your energy is powered by your thoughts, negative thoughts drain you, loving thoughts fill you with love

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

Every now and then its good to step back a little. When we let go a little and remove ourselves from the drama , we can see more clearly. So often we are caught up in the stress we fail to see what triggers our worries. When we are still and put distance between our problems we often discover the solutions

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

Perhaps the secret of being happy is about letting go of fear , embracing energy that enriches us . Ignoring those who drain us and diminish , channeling ourselves towards goodness and positive acts

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

All God wants of man is a compassionate heart.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most loved and cherished.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

All life, every living thing is a word for God in His mystery.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

Only one thing is expect of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself and love with all your being and all your light without stopping.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

God is at home and is content, it is we who are looking and are not at one in ourselves.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

In order to create and to heal, to do and to serve, ..to act we need detachment.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

Even if we were offered everything that exists, it is nothing compared to the freedom and power of being loved

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

If you only utter a single prayer in this life let it be Thanks, with all your heart

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

The best thing you can say is the thing that you have not uttered.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

The more we possess the less we have.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

The more we own the less we have.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

The outward efforts will never be insignificant if the inner light is great.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

The price of doing nothing is far greater than the cost of error.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

To be full of things is to be empty of what matters. To be empty of things is to be full of freedom.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

It is in crisis we find ourselves, so when we are broken then this light is nearest to us.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

When you are defeated it is your own attitude that is wrong.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

Words take their meaning from the original word.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

You may call God truth, you may call God hope. But the best name for God is love.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

If you really want to know who your friends are, see you stands by you in a storm

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

Remind yourself of your vision, keep your hopes close yo your heart, be passionate about them and always, always always be true to them

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

The most important language of personal joy is the often complex linguistics of silence

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

A loving person is one who is awakened and transformed into empathy.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

“The ICROSS philosophy has always been that change occurs by empowering women. You can only empower women by educating them. This was a part of our policy twenty years before it became development sector.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

“There is a dangerous deception within international organizations, called Participation of local communities. This is essentially based on a lie. Communities are invited to participate on the terms of the donor who has the money. Unless all the choices and decisions are owned and made by the communities, there can be no authentic lasting development.”

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

The deepest and most enduring thirst common to us all is the desire for love and happiness. You and I spend a great part of our lives struggling towards self-fulfilment and joy, while at the same time we are very occupied in the daily responsibilities to our families, our work, the countless little things that absorb our time.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

All our emotional scars and mental stress come from the pain of being fully accepted and cherished in ourselves.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

Anxiety is often related to having to perform and act an acceptable role in order to be admitted into relationships.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

Ulcers, high blood pressure and heart attacks, insomnia and depression, all stem from trying to do more than we can in a situation that has lost its humanity.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

We have all, at one time or another, been used, or have experienced someone being unfair to us.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

We know how it feels to be in the wrong and have someone shout at us or frown and walk past,we feel dreadful. We try to be friendly but so often it turns into a strained smile as someone replies curtly and asks what we want.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

We want to be good, but it’s difficult to know a safe place to start. We want to reach out our hand in friendship, but we don’t want it bitten off.

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

If someone humiliates and hurts us, it is difficult to give them a second chance and turn the other cheek. They might just take another swing at us, we are not ready for that kind of abuse. Who needs it?

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

Because of the distrust that has grown from our experience, we are very careful whom we welcome. We are selective in our companions, we look suspiciously those who sit beside us in a bar and start talking to us: “is he crazy? What’s he up to?” we wonder. The city becomes a desert. With groups of friends who are nobody else’s friends. As Emily Dickinson, the reclusive poet, once wrote: “The soul selects its own society, then shuts the door.”

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

“Today we can change the future for someone, we have only to act.”

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

“Be quiet enough to know what to say with your actions. Never limit yourself, live the impossible, always step beyond yourself. This is what you were born to be, to become light in a world on great need. We may not be the solution, but are part of the solution.”

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

“Vision without action which fails to touch the lives of the poor is not vision, but self delusion.”

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

“That someday there will be no them and us. There will be no colour and no differences between us. There will be only one human family working together.”

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

“The future lies in education, for 36 years ICROSS has focused on educating girls and making sure that they see their own potential”

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

“There is no such thing as change in international development, unless it belongs to the people who want to change”

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

“The biggest lie and dishonesty about change or the impact of projects is created by the lords of poverty who profit from the business and industry of aid.”

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

“People can’t eat our pity, dehydrated children can’t drink our sorrow nor can a child be educated by our anger at injustice. No one has ever been lifted out of poverty by us being overwhelmed or shocked. The only thing that ends poverty is our actions.”

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

“Waterborne diseases kill millions every year, over 1.3 billion people have no clean water. ICROSS has provided safe drinking water to over 300 000 people through innovative ground breaking research spanning three decades”

— Michael Elmore-Meegan