"People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. "
...Doc Childre
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
...Maya Angelou
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"Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity."
...Doc Childre
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"Harmonizing heart and brain through love is what can establish a complete intelligence, a complete self, where a child can look at life and realize there are no dead ends, there are always possibilities. The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love."
...Doc Childre
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"I can be changed by what happens to me.
But I refuse to be reduced by it."
...Maya Angelou
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"Love fulfilled sees where we could have gone the way of love before, if we'd known how, and how insecurities limited many of our choices. Love fulfilled perceives new meaning and higher reasons behind many of the mysteries of why things happened as they did. Living from the heart is business — the business of caring for self and others. Understanding this will take us past the age of information into the age of intuitive living."
...Doc Childre
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"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
...H. L. Mencken
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"True friends are like angels. They are precious and rare, and false friends are like leaves, found everywhere."
...Happie Lala Queen
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"Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy."
...Dogen Zenji
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"As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love."
...Eric Wilson
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"Little children, headache; big children, heartache."
...Italian Proverb
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"Tie up the tiger and return it to the true lair;
Bridle the dragon and gradually increase the elixir.
Nature should be as clear as water,
Mind should be as still as a mountain.
Turning the breath, gather it into the gold crucible;
Stabilizing the spirit, guard the jade pass.
If you can increase the grain of rice day by day,
You will be rejuvenated."
...Sun Bu-er
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"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.
Wake Up and Live!"
...Bob Marley
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"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses."
...Hanna Rion
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"The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-tzu's dictum:
"Those who know, do not say; Those who say, do not know."
When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant.
Said the master,
"Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?"
All of them indicated that they knew.
Then he said, "Put it into words."
All of them were silent."
...Anthony DeMello
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"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
...Henry Ward Beecher
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"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."
...Pope John Paul II
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"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."
...Pope John Paul II
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"If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight."
...Margaret Thatcher
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"We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are."
...The Talmud
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"We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups."
...Deborah Tannen
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"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."
...Ayn Rand
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"Play with life,
laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin."
...Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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"There can be no hope when there lacks interest for better. There can be no trust when there lacks confirmation of truth. There can be no faith when there lacks complete confidence of purpose."
...Adlin Sinclair
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"Mind is like a fan. Only when you turn the fan in your direction can you enjoy the breeze. Similarly, only when you turn your mind towards God, you can experience the breeze of bliss."
...Sathya Sai Baba
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"The river of Zen is quiet,
Even in the waves;
The water of stability is clear,
Even in the waves."
...Xuedou
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"Woman was taken out of man;
not out of his head to top him,
nor out of his feet to be trampled underfoot;
but out of his side to be equal to him,
under his arm to be protected,
and near his heart to be loved."
...Anonymous
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"I am extraordinarily patient,
provided I get my own way in the end."
...Margaret Thatcher
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"Despite the fact that your ego hates unpredictability, the truth is that you have benefited from it again and again. Think for a moment about the unexpected opportunities that have come your way, offers of help you never anticipated, sudden brainstorms and inspirations, impulsive decisions to move or to talk to a stranger that opened new horizons. This is the natural way to live."
...Annie B. Bond
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"Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world."
...Mother Theresa
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"The shortest distance between impossible and possible, is you."
...Anonymous
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"A woman is like mahogany:
the older she is, the better she is."
...Haitian proverb
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"Love came down at Christmas;
Love all lovely, love divine;
Love was born at Christmas,
stars and angels gave the sign."
...Christina Rossetti
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"I touch the future; I teach."
...Christa McAuliffe
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"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
...Warren Buffett
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"Actually, we have no problems -
we have opportunities
for which we should give thanks...
An error we refuse to correct has many lives.
It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings
and wisdom to do something about them."
...Edgar Cayce
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"The spirit is life.
The mind is the builder.
The physical is the result."
...Edgar Cayce
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"No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves."
...St. Francis of Assisi
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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."
...Margaret Anderson
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"...boy, nothing will eat you up more than hate... not cancer, not booze...there is nothing in the world worse for you than hate."
...Raymond R. Hirst
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"Gratitude helps you to grow and expand.
Gratitude brings joy and laughter into your lives
and into the lives of all those around you."
...Eileen Caddy
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"The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate."
...Bern Williams
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"Learn to look at YOUR PART -- because your life and the way you approach it is a REALITY YOU CREATE and that will NEVER change, history will, again, repeat -- until you crack your ego open and admit -- YOU are the problem."
...Marc Whittemore , 12and12.net
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"When you're a undrafted guy like me and J.P, you're used to having to fight for everything you get, and you don't give up when something doesn't go you're way. You just fight harder."
...Quintin Mikell , Philadelphia Eagles
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"I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF!"
...Jack Handey
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"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved."
...Sun Tzu
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"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."
...Anonymous
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"If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep."
...G.D. Prentice
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"The truth is not always the same as the majority decision."
...Pope John Paul II
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"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."
...Saint Augustine
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"There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who won't anymore, and who always will. So don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future."
...Anonymous
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"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it.
I want to have lived the width of it as well."
...Diane Ackerman
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"Cherish your vision; Cherish your ideals; Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. If you remain true to them, your world will at last be built."
...James Allen
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"So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind,
Is all this sad world needs."
...Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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"When people lose everything and they have nothing left to lose -- they lose it."
...Gerald Celente
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"What was subculture 30 years ago is now pop culture, and it is eager to snatch children, poach their innocence, scramble their brains and hand them back tattooed, pierced and curled around a stripper pole. A father's role as protector and defender has never been more crucial, but the traditional father has never been more embattled. Today, if your father thought enough of you to stick around to raise you, if he gave you safety and stability in a world that has little, give him a hug."
...John Mullane
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"As was his language so was his life."
...Seneca
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"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."
...Stephen Covey
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"I have spent the first half of my life looking for the answer in books, friends, colleagues and experts. Each author or person has given their own perspective. A perspective is neither right nor wrong; however, it comes with limitations. The search has in some ways expanded my imagination and knowledge, but it robbed me of the deep connection with my own wisdom.
Have you ever made adjustment to how you live your life, conduct your work, make decisions or even raise your children by what the experts, friends or relatives are saying?
Their intentions may be great, however; you are the best judge of your own circumstances. Listen to your experience, intuition, feelings and know that even if you make the wrong decision, it will serve you in making the right choice the next time. Don't deprive yourself of the wisdom in making the wrong decisions. It is through failure we truly succeed, gain confidence and learn. Right and wrong are subjective. It is one way to build your capacity to make right choices."
...Neerja Bhatia
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"I ride on my passion and rise with compassion."
...Sanjay SR
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"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
...Sun Tzu The Art of War
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"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance."
...Sun Tzu The Art of War
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"My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle."
...D. H. Lawrence
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"That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience
themselves is awakening."
...Dogen Zenji
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"I have vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals."
...Butch Cassidy
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"When life hands you lemons, punch life in the face and squeeze the citrus in its eyes!"
...Ryan Cutillo
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"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
...Epictetus
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"I'm telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I'm discovering that things were never in my hands."
...Anonymous
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"Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life."
...Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Our true character is evident with how we act when no one is watching…"
...Michelle McFarlane
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"I am drumming,
I am drumming,
I am drumming
for my Love's ever nearing union.
They say get a life.
What is all this drumming?
I swear to that Love,
the day that I stop drumming,
is the day that I will stop living."
...Rumi
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"Father, to Thee I raise my whole being,
a vessel emptied of self. Accept Lord,
this my emptiness, and so fill me with
Thyself - Thy Light, Thy Love, Thy
Life - that these, Thy precious Gifts
may radiate through me and overflow
the chalice of my heart into
the hearts of all with whom I
come in contact this day
revealing unto them
the beauty of
Thy Joy
and
Wholeness
and
the
serenity
of Thy Peace
which nothing can destroy."
......Francis Nuttall
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"If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness."
...Jack Handey
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"The old pool shooter had won many a game in his life. But now it was time to hang up the cue. When he did, all the other cues came crashing to the floor. 'Sorry,' he said with a smile."
...Jack Handey
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"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow'."
...Mary Anne Radmacher
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"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."
...Hyman Rickover, U.S. Admiral
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"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death."
... James F. Bymes
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"If you treat a man as he is, he will stay as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become the bigger and better man."
... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild."
... Welsh Proverb
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"Soft candle stars the gloom
About a single rose:
Flower and bough of pine perfume
The twilight hour; in flame that throws
A nimbus round the evergreen.
Whilst fragrance breathes the Living Name
Of Love Incarnate yet unseen,
Rising from petal, pine and thorn.
Mary the pure is kneeling fair,
Of Gabriel's "Awe!" now aware,
Wondering if aright she's heard
"Blessed art thou"—unsought acclaim,
Immaculate vessel that the Word
Made flesh may shine on Christmas morn."
... Rev. Steven Marshall
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"The ego is what separates each individual. Those that have yet to abandon the ego are still under the impression that everyone is separate. However, this could not be further from the truth. We are all one; we are one of the same God. Because of this, the ego blinds us. Without the ego, we are able to see that we are all brothers and sisters. Through meditation, the ego is torn down, and the true essential meaning of life is revealed."
... The Gnostic Jesus
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"As a warrior you take responsibility for holding the balance between light and dark within you and, by extension, the world around you, and ultimately when you go deep enough, the universe."
... Barefoot Doctor
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"She did not consciously think, Ah, today I learned this and that; I gained this much. You do not do it step by step that way, by adding on coatings of varnish, or new paint. When learning becomes you, then it appears as you need it, when you are being you. Sometimes true learning surprises you when it emerges."
... Chungliang "Al" Huang
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"The samurai must maintain his faith in his beliefs, even as the social or political climate shifts and alters. He must be patient, must act in a manner that may at times seem irrational or illogical, must resist the temptations of instant gratification, and must work towards fulfilling what may seem to be an impossible idea. As a result, the samurai is often something of an outsider, a rebellious figure because he refuses to conform to the habits of the day."
... Takahiro Kitamura
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"You have said it, but you have not understood."
... Jesus of Nazareth
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"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."
... Paul McCartney
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"No more meekly saying 'yes'
When my heart is screaming 'no'
No more taming of my feelings
So my power won't show
No more hiding my exuberance
From disapproving eyes
No more watering down myself
So my spirit won't rise
No more 'smalling up' of me
Pretending I am not here
No more running from the music
And the spotlight's glare
No more living in this prison
Barricaded by my fears
No more turning and retreating
In the face of new frontiers
Even as I am speaking
I am taking shape and form
Harnessing my powers
Like a gathering storm
There's no obstacle so bold
As to dare stand in my way
I am taking back my life
And I am doing it today."
...Jean Wilson
No More Smalling Up Of Me
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"The name "Three Teachings"
was empty right from the start--
Miss even one one and all go wrong.
Looking inward or outward, see there is no fixed self.
Break in the front door, if you want to enter your home."
...Dogen Zen
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"Know the strength of man,
But keep a woman's care!
Be the stream of the universe!
Being the stream of the universe,
Ever true and unswerving,
Become as a little child once more.
Know honour,
Yet keep humility.
Be the valley of the universe!
Being the valley of the universe,
Ever true and resourceful,
Return to the state of the uncarved block."
...Lao Tsu
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"The best thing to spend on your children is your time."
...Louise Hart
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"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
...Mother Teresa
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"God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence;
see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls."
...Mother Teresa
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"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."
...Mother Teresa
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"If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are."
...Mother Teresa
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"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
...Mother Teresa
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"My heart turned to effulgent wings.
When has love not given freedom?
When has adoration not made one free?"
...Hafiz
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"I believe a man is born first unto himself--for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.
Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was."
...D.H. Lawrence
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"For the man who prays in his heart, the whole world is a church."
...Sylvain of Athos
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"Contemplate the workings of this world, listen to the words of the wise, and take all that is good as your own. With this as your base, open your own door to truth. Do not overlook the truth that is right before you. Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from the holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants, and trees - should be your teacher."
...Morihei Ueshiba
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"I have spent the first half of my life looking for the answer in books, friends, colleagues and experts. Each author or person has given their own perspective. A perspective is neither right nor wrong; however, it comes with limitations. The search has in some ways expanded my imagination and knowledge, but it robbed me of the deep connection with my own wisdom. Next time in doubt, reach deeper... for the answer is within you."
...Neerja Bhatia
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"Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't, it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."
...Barack Obama
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"Each of us is here to discover our true Self…
that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form…
that we're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences…
that we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences."
...Deepak Chopra
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"Achievement, of whatever kind, is the crown of effort, the diadem of thought. By the aid of self-control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and well-directed thought a man ascends. By the aid of animality, indolence, impurity, corruption, and confusion of thought a man descends."
...James Allen
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"Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark."
...Rabindranath Tagore
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"We need 4 hugs a day for survival.
We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance.
We need 12 hugs a day for growth."
...Virginia Satir
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"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it."
...A Course in Miracles
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"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."
...Kahlil Gibran
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"Faith is an oasis in the heart
which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking."
...Kahlil Gibran
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"Just as Jesus created wine from water,
we humans are capable of transmuting
emotion into music."
...Carlos Santana
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"It's not what you call me, but what I answer to."
...African proverb
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"In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade."
...D.H. Lawrence
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"Keep the faith!!! Work hard, make good informed decisions and things will work out."
...Frank Perri
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"If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while
waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to
meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and
dont be afraid... and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. If you follow
your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else."
...Joseph Campbell
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"Before you have the urge to go to an expert for the answer, remember even the experts don't have the answer for anyone other than their own selves. Unless the expert has good questions to draw the answer from you, stay away from their cookie cutter approach to all situations.
Listen to what others have to say and then look for the confirmation from within... What feels right and is logical for you is the best answer. Your answer is custom made to fit you and can only come from you.
For instance, you are on the crossroads and you want to make a decision about changing careers.
Your gut has made the decision way before your intellect realizes. So why not go to the source first and then consult the intellect for practicality.
Following are the ways to reach the source:
1. Sit still until the mind becomes silent.
2. While in the place of silence watch your breath come in and out.
3. Continue to watch the breath till you reach a place of rest, where there is no mental agitation, worry, or concern.
4. Now ask your question and remain silent until the first thought, image, feeling or sensation comes to you.
5. Take that thought, image, feeling or sensation and discover what it means to you.
For instance, a feeling of happiness would mean to move ahead whereas a feeling of anxiety would mean to research more or abandon the project. Thoughts and images are very personal and the interpretation would depend upon individual experience and the meaning you attach to it.
Next time in doubt reach deeper for the answer is within you."
...Neerja Bhatia
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"Have you ever made adjustment to how you live your life, conduct your work, make decisions or even raise your children by what the experts, friends or relatives are saying?
Their intentions may be great, however; you are the best judge of your own circumstances. Listen to your experience, intuition, feelings and know that even if you make the wrong decision, it will serve you in making the right choice the next time. Don't deprive yourself of the wisdom in making the wrong decisions. It is through failure we truly succeed, gain confidence and learn. Right and wrong are subjective. It is one way to build your capacity to make right choices."
...Neerja Bhatia
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"Each soul in entering the material experience does so for those purposes of advancement towards that awareness of being fully conscious of the oneness with the Creative Forces."
...Edgar Cayce
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"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."
...Mother Teresa
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"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses."
...Proverbs 27:19
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"Gandha, forget relationships and learn how to relate. Once you are in a relationship you start taking each other for granted. That's what destroys all love affairs. The woman thinks she knows the man, the man thinks he knows the woman. Nobody knows either. It is impossible to know the other, the other remains a mystery. And to take the other for granted is insulting, disrespectful.
To think that you know your wife is very very ungrateful. How can you know the woman? How can you know the man? They are processes, they are not things. The woman that you knew yesterday is not there today. So much water has gone down the Ganges; she is somebody else, totally different. Relate again, start again, don't take it for granted.
And the man that you slept with last night, look at his face again in the morning. He is no more the same person, so much has changed. So much, incalculably much, has changed. That is the difference between a thing and a person. The furniture in the room is the same, but the man and the woman, they are no more the same. Explore again, start again. That's what I mean by relating.
Relating means you are always starting, you are continuously trying to become acquainted. Again and again, you are introducing yourself to each other. You are trying to see the many facets of the other's personality. You are trying to penetrate deeper and deeper into his realm of inner feelings, into the deep recesses of his being. You are trying to unravel a mystery which cannot be unraveled.
That is the joy of love: the exploration of consciousness. And if you relate, and don't reduce it to a relationship, then the other will become a mirror to you. Exploring him, unawares you will be exploring yourself too. Getting deeper into the other, knowing his feelings, his thoughts, his deeper stirrings, you will be knowing your own deeper stirrings too. Lovers become mirrors to each other, and then love becomes a meditation. Relationship is ugly, relating is beautiful."
...Publilius Syrus
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"Self-empowerment - that's learning to respect other people's music, but dance to your own tune as you master harmony within yourself."
...Osho
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"The Superman cape, it's an intoxicating costume. For one thing, the Superman cape works like an invisibility cloak in reverse: Put it on and you can't see your own faults. Instead, you see everyone else's with lightning clarity and assume the authority to judge them. The Superman costume is like the shirt of Nessus, a wedding gift to Hercules that was supposedly charged with supernatural power. In reality, it was saturated with poison. He could not peel it off as it burned away his skin.
Spiritually, the Superman cape brings great danger. It blinds us to our own faults, so exhilarated are we by the faults of others. We develop contempt for others, and describe them and their beliefs in the language of insult. We can become addicted to anger, an explosive and thrilling emotion. The saying is true: Anger is an acid that destroys its container. It leads us to see our opponents as subhuman, as not deserving of rights. It leads us to see ourselves as perfect, heroic, immortal.
Fortunately, we are not immortal. We are on a planet hurtling through space, and we have only this lifetime to love one another. Is there an alternative to this poisonous self-valorizing? Can we instead cultivate humility? Can we recognize our own faults? Can we treat enemies with love?
Heck no, I'm not serious. We know what happened to the last guy who suggested all that."
...Frederica Mathewes-Green , from: Perils of the Superman Cape
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"Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening."
...Seneca
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, I see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
...Steve Jobs
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"If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it."
...Unknown
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"In the garden the door is always open into the holy."
...May Sarton
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"If One Voice Can Change
A ROOM
Then it can change
A CITY.
If it can change a city,
Then it can change
A STATE.
If it can change a state,
Then it can change
A NATION.
If it can change a nation,
Then it can change
THE WORLD."
...Barack Obama, The Power of ONE VOICE
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"Six humans trapped by happenstance
in bleak and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood
or so the story's told.
Their dying fire in need of logs
but a white man held his back.
For of the faces round the fire
he noticed one was black.
The next man looking cross the way
saw one not of his church.
And couldn't bring himself to give
the fire his stick of birch.
The third one sat in tattered clothes
he gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use
to warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back and thought
of the wealth he had in store.
And how to keep what he had earned
from the lazy, shiftless poor.
The black man's face bespoke revenge
as the fire passed from his sight.
For all he saw in his stack of wood
was a chance to spite the white.
The last man of this forlorn group
did naught except for gain.
Giving only to those who gave
was how he played the game.
Their logs held tight in death's still hand
was proof of human sin.
They did not die from the cold outside
they died from the cold within."
...Jay Patrick Kinney
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"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."
...Buddha
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"An idea is salvation by imagination."
...Frank Lloyd Wright
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"What is imagination?
It is getting into an attitude so deeply that the very attitude becomes reality.
Sit in a lonely place: if the surrounding is natural, it is good, it not, then a room can also do. Then close your eyes and imagine a spiritual force is felt within and without. Within you a river of consciousness is flowing and it is going all over the room, overflowing. Within and without, around you, everywhere, spirit is present, energy is present. And don't only imagine it only in the mind, start feeling within the body... your body will start vibrating. When you feel that the body has started vibrating, it shows that the imagination has started functioning. Feel that the whole universe by and by is spiritualized ? everything, the walls of the room, the trees around you, everything has become non-material, it has become spiritual. Matter is no more.
Through imagination you are reaching to a point where, by your conscious effort, you are destroying the structures of the intellect, the patterns of the intellect. You feel that there is no matter, only energy, only spirit, within and without. Soon you will feel that within and without have disappeared. When your body becomes spiritual and you feel it is energy, then there is no distinction between the within and the without. The boundaries are lost. Now there is only a flow, an ocean, vibrating. This is the real also ? you are reaching to the real through imagination."
...Sufi Teaching
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"Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them...he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?"...God said, "I did do something. I made you."
...Sufi Teaching
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"Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat."
...Caroline Schoeder
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"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be."
...Patanjali
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"What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?"
...Dr. Robert Schuller
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"The only people that know what sanity is really about -- are the crazy people who made it back."
...Marc Whittemore
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"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."
...Charles R. Swindoll
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"That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad of things is delusion. That the myriad of things come forward and experience themselves is awakening."
...Dogen Zenji
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"A zen master's life is one continuous mistake."
...Dogen Zenji
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"Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them."
...Richard Carlson
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"You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world."
...Sheila Graham
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"The idea of being unworthy is one that is instilled in us by a society that has an investment in maintaining the status quo. It's an effective way to cripple individuality, creativity, and any form of rebelliousness. We need to break free of this hypnotic suggestion.
So drop the idea of unworthiness, it is simply an idea. And with the dropping of it, you are under the sky. There is no question of doors; everything is open, all directions are open. That you are is enough to prove that existence needs you, loves you, nourishes you, respects you.
The idea of unworthiness is created by the social parasites. Drop that idea. Be grateful to existence...because it only creates people who are worthy, it never creates anything which is worthless. It only creates people who are needed."
...Osho Times, Beyond Psychology
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"Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is like when you trust yourself to the water. You don't grab hold of the water when you swim, because if you do you will become stiff and tight in the water, and sink. You have to relax, and the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging, and holding on. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
...Alan Watts
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"Love is what, literally, makes the world go round. It is what created the world. Love was the first manifestation of existence, prior to which was simply the unknowable. Of all things that can be known, love is the ultimate and the primary. It exists on the cusp between the unknowable and the knowable. Love cannot be defined. It is the definer, coexisting with the Creator and all creative forces. Therefore, it is the closest thing, within the knowable, to the power of existence. It is a proto-energy — that which motivates things into being energetic."
...Glenda Green
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"Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken. Although its light is wide and great, the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide. The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in dewdrops on the grass, or even in one drop of water. Enlightenment does not divide you, just as the moon does not break the water. You cannot hinder enlightenment, just as a drop of water does not hinder the moon in the sky. The depth of the drop is the height of the moon. Each reflection, however long or short its duration, manifests the vastness of the dewdrop, and realizes the limitlessness of the moonlight in the sky."
...Zen Master Dogen Zenji
Moon in a Dew Drop
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"That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things
is called delusion;
That the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self
is called enlightenment."
...Zen Master Dogen Zenji
Moon in a Dew Drop
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"Baibai is the practice – in ceremonial Taoism – of offering incense to an altar. The offering of incense represents the separation of pure from impure; and the internal alchemical "burning" which results in the refinement and purification of internal energies. As the practitioner offers the incense, s/he is aware that the ashes that fall represent impure air that sinks; and the smoke, pure air that rises. The practice of baibai also symbolizes the human body as being the meeting-place of Heaven and Earth: as the smoke rises, and the ashes fall, the practitioner makes a connection to both earth and sky."
...Elizabeth Reninger
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"If you think you're too small to have an impact try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."
...Anita Koddick
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"I asked God for strength, that I might achieve
I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for help that I might do greater things
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.
I asked for riches, that I might be happy
I was given poverty, that I might be wise.
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life
I was given life, that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing that I asked for
but everything I had hoped for.
Despite myself, my prayers were answered.
I am, among all men, most richly blessed!"
...penned by a Confederate soldier from Georgia
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"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
...St. Francis of Assisi
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"Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder."
...Eberhard Arnold
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"Psychologists say that a person living in western countries never sleeps for more than 14 minutes at a stretch - more often it is less. After 14 minutes he comes back to the dream state or wakeful consciousness or just floats in the dream level. Again he goes back to sleep for a maximum of 14 minutes. Then he comes back to the dream level. Again he goes back to sleep. They call this the rapid eye movement or REM sleep pattern.
You never sleep totally even when you sleep. There are levels of mind in which you will never have dreams. You never need to have any dreams. You can directly enter into deep sleep, if you know how to live in the now, the present moment.
If you know how to live in now, you will know the art of eating, the art of sleeping, and the art of doing everything. That is the art of living.
Can you try to remember one incident from your day in complete detail? You are more dead than alive even when you are awake. You almost live like a man in half sleep. You do things without fully knowing what you do. You do recall brushing your teeth; but do you remember the sensation of cold water in your mouth? Do you remember the feel of the taste of the toothpaste in your mouth or the pressure of your toothbrush upon your gums? And how did you feel after brushing? Or how was the water being poured on your body in the shower? How did the whole thing happen? What is happening after you have eaten your food? Look at your life; look at your face; you are all almost bored. Somehow you are pulling along. Life is just a drag. Why? Because, all you do, all that you know to do for everything is how to postpone. Your mind never sits with your being. Your mind never lives in the same moment that you are in. You are always in the space of tomorrow or in the space of yesterday. It is never in the space of today, now, the present.
Live in the present. This is the secret art of living."
... Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda
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"Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard… "
...Lao-Tzu
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"When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked."
...Rev. Gordon Atkinson
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"So many people proclaim their spirituality and yet have no idea what makes them happy or sad. Do you actually know the inner workings of your own true Self? What creates happiness or sadness? Why do we co-create personal dramas and disasters to wake-up? Why is anger so potent when values are questioned? Or fear so scary? The true inner Self is not angry, jealous, or afraid. It is not our wounded female or male or even our crying inner child. The true Self is inner JOY and enthusiasm—it is our birthright—the innermost part of Self, which is free from limitation and completely abundant with unconditional Love.
The act of "being spiritual" means to love, honor, and accept the "whole self" (body/mind), every nook and cranny. It means to take the necessary steps to responsibly nurture ourselves on every level and live fully in the physical body. Wounds run deep. It's surprising how many "spiritual" people get defensive or angry when they are questioned. Many can't distinguish if they are thinking or feeling energy, although they are wizards at 'woo-woo' dialogues that would make anyone spin. There are so many tools to get you back to God that it gyrates me. Do you think Jesus sat in the garden of Gethsemane memorizing the color of the rays? Or Buddha sat under a Banyan tree with a pendulum deciding his next move? I don't think so. They built inner relationships, stopped the mental chatter, calmed the emotions and remembered a distinct inner quality of Love. When we develop a healthy relationship with our own Self, the relationship we have with fear and illness changes. In the bigger picture, we know very little about the true Self."
...Paula Muran
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"believe God's favor is something intangible where you've got God's blessings on your lives. I'm not saying it's not a struggle, but you believe for good things.
There are so many people who don't expect anything good in life. They don't expect to get breaks, they don't expect to get promoted, they don't expect anything positive. So I just try to get people to say, I believe if we expect God's favor, if we declare it, if we thank him when we do see good things happening, then we're going to see more of that."
...Rev. Joel Osteen
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"Vision looks inward and becomes duty.
Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.
Vision looks upward and becomes faith."
...Stephen S. Wise
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"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
...Richard Buckminster Fuller
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"EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We're looking for something, though we're not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist."
...Rev. Gordon Atkinson
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"Kindness in words creates confidence,
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness,
Kindness in giving creates love."
...Lao-Tzu
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"There is an Eye that never sleeps,
beneath the wind of night.
There is an Ear that never shuts,
When sinks the beam of light.
There is an Arm that never tires,
When human strength gives way.
There is a Love that never fails,
When earthly loves decay."
...George Mathewson
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"If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work."
...D.H. Lawrence
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"To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself."
...Bernard Iddings Bell
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"The secret of prosperity is...
1. To break the hypnosis of self-limitation. The heights that any man has attained can be attained again by others—by anyone, each in his own way—given enough time, dedication, and focused energy.
2. Not to fritter energy away with trivial desires and wishful thinking. A leaky faucet, drop by drop, wastes many gallons.
3. Finding pleasure in simplicity.
4. Holding positive expectations, supported by a dynamic will.
5. Recognizing that people can be your best investment. Be a true friend to all.
6. Realizing that what you own is held by you in trust. Treat it responsibly. If you squander it, the trust will pass to another.
7. Finding strength in yourself. Don't wait for passing waves to propel you forward.
8. Realizing that one cannot truly prosper by the diminishment of others. Bless everyone. An expansion of self-identity is a mark of prosperity, and also a condition for its attainment.
9. Extending a willing hand to the needy; helping them, above all, to help themselves.
10. Common sense: Don't depend on luck, but on a realistic assessment of whatever situation you face. Only in practical stages can you transform "improbables" into realities."
...Swami Kriyananda
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"God can and will bring your dreams to pass…you were created to live in health and abundance."
...Rev. Joel Osteen
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"When we feel stuck, going nowhere--even starting to slip backward--we may actually be backing up to get a running start."
...Dan Millman
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"A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men."
...Martin Fraquhar Tupper
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"Many translate Yoga as 'union'. Please understand, Yoga is not 'union'. It is 'uniting'. Yoga is not a noun. Yoga is a verb. Yoga is not an end result. Yoga is a process. It is a process of intense enthusiasm. Krishna says in the Gita clearly that Yoga is what you have to be, without expectations and without attachments. It is not doing but being.
There is nothing to achieve by practicing Yoga. You will be shocked to hear this. Many people have told you that Yoga will cure you of asthma, it will cure you of chronic pain, it will cure you of high blood pressure and so on. Perhaps it does; but not because of what you practice, but because you believe.
Especially in the west, Yoga is sold as a product; either a cheap or expensive product depending on where the teacher is located. If you practice this asana, they say, you will be cured of this and that. It has become a prescription medicine. I saw an advertisement for an Instant Super-luxury Kundalini Yoga offered at thousands of dollars. Patanjali, who formulated the technique of Yoga, will roll in his samadhi if he comes to know about it! The only person who benefits is the advertiser, not the user!
It is the process of Yoga, the practice of Yoga that unites the mind-body-spirit system. What unites is not the exercises that you perform. This again will shock you. It is the intention. You create a memory in your muscles and that gets embedded.
It is essential to start any Yoga practice with a clear intention of what you wish: it may be health, it may be enlightenment; whatever it is make a positive intention. Before you perform the asana, the exercise, with full awareness of that intent visualise the posture you plan to adopt. Go through in your mind every single step of that asana. Then practice that asana.
Just by sitting comfortably in any position with your spine erect to allow energy flow you can derive the result of any asana through intention and visualisation. This is the truth. However, this is too simple for you to believe. You need something more tangible, more strenuous to prove to yourself that Yoga works. Then, practice Surya Namaskar, the most integrated of all Yogasana. Start with a clear intent, visualise all steps and do the process. You need nothing more. Be in Bliss!"
...Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda
Yoga, a process of intense enthusiasm
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"Remember; too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
...Leo F. Buscaglia
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"Luke's Gospel account of the Christmas event is full of activity…And yet, in the middle of the frenetic action, here is this woman wrapped in mystical silence…She demonstrates the necessity of a quiet place within ourselves at Christmas time—that place where we are most ourselves in relation to God.
It is a place of silence, not because it is untouched by all the activity of our lives, but because it is capable of wonder. Every prayer begins with silent wonder before it turns to words. Our first response to God is dumbstruck awe at who he is and what he has done for us."
...William Frebuger
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"How does one proceed from the normal human condition to the goal of enlightenment?
The easiest way to achieve this Ultimate Goal is to follow in the footsteps of those who have passed this way already. The sages, saints and ascended masters of all times have found this path - sometimes through their own unaided efforts but more often by following the written or spoken guidance of a previous Teacher or Guru. The enlightened master sees the grand achievement and encourages others to find the immense treasure within the reach of every sincere seeker. They point out the path, warn of dangers, offer encouragement, and elucidate the methods of advancing on the way.
Short of direct guidance by a living enlightened one (a Very rare piece of good fortune), there is no better way than to read the lives of saints and pay close attention to their words. These powerful beings are alert on the other side, watching for the seekers, waiting to help and remove hindrances in the path of all those aspiring to the higher life in spirit.
Read their stories. Draw forth their grace. Create that subtle link of consciousness with them. Their photographs are full of power; their words highly instructive; their stories saturated with the essence of enlightenment. Meditate on their actions and you will approach their subtle perfection."
...Cosmic Harmony
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"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come. Your old nature, which is dominated by sin, is replaced with a new nature that is under the influence of God's Spirit."
...Romans 6-7
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"When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future."
...Bernard Meltzer
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"Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting."
...Bernard Meltzer
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"A lady came to me complaining that she is hurt by even small criticisms coming from others. She said she was very sensitive.
I asked her to stop using that word. I said, 'You are not sensitive. A really sensitive person will be porous; she will allow the words to pass through her. Only arrogant people get hurt. If you are hurt, please understand that you are arrogant. You are strong like a stone, which is why words come and hit you.'
A sensitive person would have allowed the words pass through her; she will never suffer. Even if someone is deliberately rude, a sensitive person understands where such a person is coming from and is not defensive.
Suffering is always from arrogance, never from sensitivity. A person who is sensitive will never suffer. A sensitive person will suffer on account of another person in distress, not for oneself. You suffer from words when you stop them, when you resist them, when you create your own meaning out of them. When we do not create our own meanings out of words, we do not suffer. We play with words. We always choose nice words to support our ego. We do not say, 'I am hurt because I am arrogant.' We always use polished words such as, 'I am hurt because I am sensitive.' Please don't cheat yourself with words. Let your words be unfiltered by your ego."
...Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda
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"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."
...Saint Augustine
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"An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes. This unification of speaker and listener is actually and extension and enlargement of ourselves, and new knowledge is always gained from this. Moreover, since true listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the other. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will fell less and less vulnerable and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the duet dance of love is begun again."
...M. Scott Peck, MD
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"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."
...Corrie Ten Boom
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"One of the biggest contributors to low-energy fatigue is blame. Blaming a boss who made you work late or your "impossible, overloaded life" will only drain you. Fatigue from emotional energy drain results in diminished presence during the workday.
Sincere effort to maintain heart presence helps us stay conscious of our energy levels and make needed adjustments to sustain our vitality throughout the day. Maintaining presence means we are more able to hear the heart's intuitions and act on them so that we don't slip into energy drains of anxiety, overwork or blame that lead to fatigue.
When we learn to manage our emotions long enough to stop and shift our attention to the quieter message of the heart, we can gain a wider perspective on any situation, often saving ourselves from hurt, frustration and pain."
...Doc Childre and Howard Martin
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"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritances."
...Ruth E. Renkel
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"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely."
...Jorge Luis Borges
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"Ego is a social phenomenon. It gives you a social hierarchy. If you stay satisfied with it, you miss the opportunity to find yourself. That's why you are miserable. With a false life, how can you be ecstatic? Ego creates miseries, millions of them. You cannot see it, because it is your own darkness. You are attuned to it. All miseries enter through the ego. It cannot make you blissful, only miserable. Ego is hell.
Whenever you suffer, watch and analyze. You will find that ego is the cause. And the ego goes on finding causes to suffer. You are an egoist. Everyone is. This ego clashes continuously with others because every ego is under confident about itself. It has to be, for it is a false thing.
The man who attains his true self will never clash with anyone."
...Osho
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"Nothing is so strong as gentleness,
and nothing is so gentle as real strength."
...St. Francis de Sales
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"How do you recognize God's voice? The same way I have learned to recognize my in-laws' voices over the phone. WITH PRACTICE! The closer the relationship, the more time you spend with someone, the more you invest in getting to know them, the easier to recognize them and their impact on your life. To know God's voice, listen. He is talking to you. Ask Him for His help in hearing him. Be serious in your desire to find Him and His will. Forget the rule book, whatever religion you claim. Get to know the author of the scriptures better than you know the scriptures.
"
...Andrey Swystun
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"Never speak out of anger,
Never act out of fear,
Never choose from impatience,
But wait... and peace will appear."
...Guy Finley
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"That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."
...Henry David Thoreau
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"All around us, we come across people who are running towards God, or who they think God is!
They spend so much time and effort in seeking God in all kinds of places. Often, after they believe they have found Him in one place of worship, they will again begin their search in some other new place. They become professional seekers. Even those who deny God, the atheists, are seekers. They too are seeking their own version of God.
In reality, seekers do not ever truly find God. This is because in the inner world, the logic is very different. The process of seeking is not the same as in the material world, where things exist in separate physical forms. In the spiritual realm, God is not at the end of a journey, He is not the achievement — He is just in the Awareness.
God is already in each one of us, only we have lost the sensitivity to know His presence. When God is all around us, and inside us — it means that we cannot run towards Him, for in which direction shall we choose to run? He is everywhere! This is the Awareness we need to have to reach God."
...PARAMAHAMSA SRI NITHYANANDA
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"Mysticism is the pivotal point of Sufi poetry. The Sufi way is direct communion and absorption in the Supreme with sheer love and devotion. Sufis believe that God is present in every human being but He is hidden from us by khudi or ego, what is called aham in Sanskrit. We need to overcome khudi before we can become one with the Supreme.
The path chosen by Sufis for this purpose is Ishq Majazi to Ishq Haqqiqi. In Ishq Majazi lovers have normal earthly feelings of joy, pain, agony and ecstasy. In Ishq Haqqiqi the lover is a human being and the beloved is God. But the Sufis do not ask for worldly comforts. They neither yearn for Heaven nor live in fear of Hell. They seek only the enchanting sight of the Beloved.
This emotion is narrated by the Persian poet Rabia-Al-Basri:
'If i love thee for fear of Hell/ Put me in the fires of Hell/ If i love thee for the sake of Heaven/ Deprive me of this bliss for all times/ My love for thee is thine alone..."
...M G Kapahy
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"The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
...Gandhi
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"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
... Robert A. Heinlein
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"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
... Charles du Bois
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"Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you."
... H. Jackson Brown
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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
... Marcel Proust
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"My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description."
... D.H. Lawrence
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"Superstitious awe of astrology makes one an automaton, slavishly dependent on mechanical guidance. The wise man defeats his planets--which is to say, his past-by transferring his allegiance from the creation to the Creator. The more he realizes his unity with Spirit, the less he can be dominated by matter. The soul is ever-free; it is deathless because birthless. It cannot be regimented by stars."
... Paramahansa Yogananda
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"You have to save yourself from so many good-intentioned people,
do-gooders, who are constantly advising you to be this, to be that.
Listen to them, thank them.
They don´t mean any harm -- but harm is what happens.
You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.
In the real journey of life, your own intuition is your only teacher."
... Osho
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"All the misery on the planet arises due to a personalized sense of "me" or "us." That covers up the essence of who you are. When you are unaware of that inner essence, in the end you always create misery. It's as simple as that. When you don't know who you are, you create a mind-made self as a substitute for your beautiful divine being and cling to that fearful and needy self. Protecting and enhancing that false sense of self then becomes your primary motivating force."
... Eckhart Tolle
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"When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.
Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form."
... Eckhart Tolle
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"If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, peace."
... Eckhart Tolle
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"A great teacher is one who possesses information, intelligence, and the instincts to know how to present what she knows."
... Socrates
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"Meditation is a way of manufacturing what we call ojas.
When we eat food, digestion manufactures the body in a certain way. This is important for our physical existence, but the body by itself does not serve any purpose. The body can be a means of great suffering. The body is capable of pleasure also but its limitations will be unfulfilling over a period of time.
In meditation, we are using energy to manufacture something much subtler than the physical body. Now the process of shifting life forces into a different level of manufacture, where instead of physical body cells, it begins to manufacture subtler energies, or ojas, is known as meditation.
The quality, intensity and volume of ojas makes the difference between one human being and another. Why one person's presence seems to be so strong and transforming, and another's weak is simply because of the ojas he carries with him ."
... Vasudev
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"For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong."
... H. L. Mencken
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""the dog he play
the dog he run
the dog he live his life from day to day
the dog he always have fun
the dog have lot's of friends
the dog he smile
his love he sends
across the many miles
to people with no homes
to people sick and tired
even to people he does not know
the people he see he inspires
his hearts is full
it fly higher than the tallest of the tallest spires
for his life is complete
and his love will never deplete"
... m1le-st0nes
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"Easter is a time of love,
A time of death and pain undone,
So we may know the power of,
The love that lives in everyone."
... Barry Taylor
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"My people? Who are they?
I went into the church where the congregation
Worshiped my God. Were they my people?
I felt no kinship to them as they knelt there.
My people! Where are they?
I went into the land where I was born,
Where men spoke my language...
I was a stranger there.
'My people,' my soul cried. 'Who are my people?'
Last night in the rain I met an old man
Who spoke a language I do not speak,
Which marked him as one who does not know my God.
With apologetic smile he offered me
the shelter of his patched umbrella.
I met his eyes... And then I knew..."
... Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni
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"Speak only the essential — as if you are giving a telegram, so you have to go on choosing just ten words.
Just watch people talking, and you will be amazed: everywhere there is misunderstanding. You are saying one thing, something else is understood. The world would be a more silent and peaceful place if people were only saying five percent of what they are saying now — although that five percent will cover absolutely everything that is essential.
Your telegram means more than your long letter, condensed. Be telegraphic and you will be surprised that in the whole day there are very few times when you have to speak."
... Osho
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"There are two types of paths... the path of action and the path of meditation. The path of action is only concerned on the doer and what he does. The path of meditation is 'how to do' and not just 'what to do'."
... Prasanna
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"The purpose of partnership is to create something greater than we can create alone. Not because of any deficiency or incompleteness in us, but because each of us is unique, with our own talents and abilities, and in partnership we increase the efforts and talents available for creating something meaningful together. All partnerships, whether romantic, creative, or professionally-based, can be powerful relationships for personal growth. In partnership we harness the power of union.
It is important to choose our partnerships consciously. Sometimes forged quickly during times of need, we may find ourselves rushing into unions with perhaps not the clearest intentions. Partnerships created from those starting point might serve our immediate needs, but the repercussions of a union so quickly fostered without much thought can be difficult to recover from. Granted, there is something to learn from every relationship, but looking to another to fix or complete us can turn a partnership into a dependent bond. If we can stay clear about what we want and what we need in a partnership, while staying grounded and remembering that we are our own source of happiness and fulfillment, we can create partnerships that support and enhance the best of who we are.
Everyone in our lives is a mirror reflecting back the parts we love and dislike about ourselves. If we have the courage to recognize our reflections in each other, we can grow through our partnerships. A partnership that offers both acceptance of who we are and an opportunity for personal transformation can be fertile ground for growing a healthy, lasting union. When we find this kind of partnership, we are more likely to want to keep it, invest in it, and nurture it.
Life is a collaborative effort. Much of what we do can be enhanced through partnership. Together we are stronger because our personal power is multiplied by two. Through partnership we experience the joys of working, living, and loving together."
... Power Of Union
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"When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere."
... D. H. Lawrence
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"How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression."
... D. H. Lawrence
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"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
... D. H. Lawrence
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"For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible."
... D. H. Lawrence
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"Love is also expressed through an abiding and passionate involvement with one's chosen field of activity. Such single-minded pursuit is the secret of breaking barriers of normal human capacities. These find expressions in various fields — science, music, sports and spirituality. The crux lies in loving what you do and doing what you love."
... K. Vijayaraghavan
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"Faith is to believe in what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe."
... Pradeep Nair
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"To find an all-encompassing name without prejudice towards any one-belief system, I will use the word 'god' to refer to whatever or whoever it is that you pray to for assistance and guidance.
The Golden Rule, Karma, What Comes Around Goes Around, Cause and Effect, or whatever name you want to give it...it exists. If you make bad choices, bad things will happen. If you hurt people, people will hurt you. If you are living a negative lifestyle, then cry out for the gods to come save you from your misery, you are not likely to get any help. It's your life, your problems, your challenges.
Learn, grow, heal, move forward. You can tell your god that you are sorry for your part in creating the problem and that you are ready to change it.
Then prove it, by changing it. Your god will show itself somewhere along the way. Have faith and keep working.
Let us assume it is one of those times in life where you were happily going along doing your good deeds, having a positive attitude, and some nightmare blew up in your face anyway. What is your immediate response when that happens?
Do you claim there is no god and that all of your positive thoughts and deeds were of no use? Do you lose faith that your god will guide you through the event? Do you quit being a good person with a positive attitude because of some negative circumstance outside of yourself? Or, do you hold strong to your god and to your positive beliefs? Do you trust that you will see the lighter happier side of life again soon? Do you even find ways to continue seeing the beauty in life while overcoming the adversity? How much of this is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Negative people who don't have very much faith in themselves, in life, or in some form of a god tend to use life's adversities as proof that they're correct for being so pessimistic.
While people who are upbeat and positive, having faith in themselves, in life, or in some form of a god tend to use life's adversities to collect evidence that everything really does turn out for the best in the long run.
Whether we believe in a god or not doesn't effect whether or not there is some form of god out there looking over us. I can't even say for sure that believing in a god will inspire that entity to like you or want to help you. All I know for sure is that when we walk in faith that things will get better, they usually do. When we believe things won't get better, they usually don't."
... miracles do happen
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"You are not only your body, senses, emotions, or thoughts. You are a wave of the eternal and immortal. Realize this. Don't worry. In all circumstances, be happy, give, love all, exclude none. Life is like a procession which is rushing through a narrow lane. Just find your way and pass."
... Rama
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"… being hopeful is the bravest way to live." I love people, they amaze and fascinate me. I love being playful, fun and spontaneous. I'm a big dreamer and love helping people remember that living our dreams is possible."
... Kirsten Johnson
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"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time."
... Laura Ingalls Wilder
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"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."
... Lao-Tzu
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"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
... Douglas Noel Adams
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"If I had my child to raise all over again,
I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.
I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.
I'd take my eyes off the watch,
and watch with my eye.
I would care to know less,
and know to care more.
I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.
I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I'd run through more fields,
and gaze at more stars.
I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.
I would be firm less often,
and affirm much more.
I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I'd teach less about the love of power,
And more about the power of love."
... Diane Loomans
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"I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future."
... Billy Graham
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"Even if you are successful, negativity in attitude can crop up at any time for unknown reasons. Remember:
1. You alone are responsible for your attitude.
2. As is your attitude, so are your perceptions.
3. As is your perception, so is your interaction with the world.
4. As is the interaction, so is the experience of life and,
5. As is the experience, so is the quality of life."
... Anubhavananda
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"And from the very being, the nature of your being, you must say "So what?" That's the strongest affirmation that you'll ever hear.
When I was quite young attending college there were two things going on simultaneously. One, I was having a spiritual breakthrough, a spiritual opening while, at the same time, I was ending a career in selling marijuana.
The real miracle of living is when you're no longer intoxicated by praise or depressed by un-appreciation.
And, I just started crying. I just started sobbing and I turned my life over to God, surrendered my life to the universe, surrendered my life to love, to be an instrument to bring about love and harmony and peace, however the presence wanted to use me. My life would be dedicated to that for the rest of my life.
And if you begin to open up through your affirmation so what! You'll begin to move into the consciousness of what's so. So what contains the what so.
There's a dimension of us that has never been hurt, harmed, or endangered in any way and with intention, with practice, with love, prayer, meditation, you can uncover that dimension of your life that has no beginning and has no end and let it shine in this incarnation.
What is so? God has always loved you. What is so? Wholeness is inside of your being. What is so? Infinite supply surrounds you. What is so? It doesn't matter who's in the White House. Who's in your house? Who's in your house? Who's in your house?"
... Rev. Michael Beckwith
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"...anyone can meet, fall in love and have a relationship, it takes something special to keep on meeting, feeling that attraction and finding your way into a relationship."
... David Mingay
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"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."
... Ayn Rand
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"Run into the wind, when it comes
(For it comes)
The time is not now to be still
(When it comes)
The storm clouds are rolling
The lightning is flashing
The rain drops are pounding;
It comes.
Shout into the wind, when it comes
(For it comes)
Barefooted, dance out in the rain
(When it comes)
The storm clouds are rolling
The thunder is raging
The wind, it is seeking;
It comes.
Run into the wind as it comes."
... Crystalheart
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"The loss of ego results in a blissful state. Breaking your identification from thoughts and false images is like learning a new behavior, a new way of living without a sense of separateness. There's an inner emptiness that's both a quietness and conscious awareness of your existence, a stillness that's truth itself. This is your natural centre."
... Patrick Drysdale
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"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
... Anais Nin
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"It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere."
... Steve Goodier
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"I don't know if any words are really adequate to express our deepest spiritual desires. Moreover, what seems most crucial is not so much how "good" we are at praying, but that we simply pause regularly to nurture the soul. Prayer is a dose of spiritual medication that, taken daily, enhances all of life. Leonardo da Vinci spent countless hours ruminating upon things of the spirit as he worked on his famous canvas of the Last Supper. He spent so much time meditating in the cloister that some of the monks in that little church became concerned. They remonstrated with the artist about his wasting precious time and money. "Why do you spend so much time with us in prayer when you have come here to work?" they wondered. Leonardo answered, "When I pause the longest, I make the most telling strokes with my brush."
... Steve Goodier
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"Here we discuss one of the ways of chanting the Aum mantra.
First stage: Sit down relaxed, either in a temple or in your room and repeat AUM as loudly as possible, for one hour. Use the whole body to repeat it, as if thousands of people are listening to you without a microphone, and you have to be very loud so that the whole body trembles, shakes with it. Let the body be saturated with the sound of Aum. For almost three months, you should not bother about anything else, and only practice this first stage. The first stage is very important because it gives the foundation.
Second stage: After three months, when you feel your body is completely saturated, when you can feel deep down inside you that the word has entered into the body cells, as if your whole body can repeat it; then you are ready for the second step. The second step is to close your mouth and repeat and chant the word Aum mentally. The throat, the tongue, the lips, everything should be closed, the whole body locked, and this chanting should only be in the mind -- but as loudly as possible: with the same loudness you were using with the body. Now allow the mind too to be saturated with Aum.
Third stage: When the mind feels saturated... it is just like eating: you feel full, when it is enough; so also the mind will feel full when it is enough. Then starts the third step. Neither the body has to be used nor the mind has to be used at this stage. Just listen, and you will hear a sound coming to you from your own heart of hearts. The Aum will be there inside you, as if somebody else is chanting; and you are just the listener. This is the completion of the chant mantra."
... Amrit Sadhana
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"A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
... Sir Walter Besant
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"There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind."
... Angelo Bartlett Giamatti
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"The pure impulse of dynamic creation is formless; and being formless, the creation it gives rise to can assume any and every form."
... Kabbalah
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"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept."
... John W. Gardner
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"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."
... Confucius
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"The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.."
... Warren G. Bennis
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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
... Nelson Mandela
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"When I say... "I am a Christian" I'm not trying to be strong. I'm professing that I'm weak and need His strength to carry on.
When I say... "I am a Christian" I'm not bragging of success. I'm admitting I have failed and need God to clean my mess.
When I say... "I am a Christian" I'm not claiming to be perfect. My flaws are far too visible but, God believes I am worth it.
When I say... "I am a Christian" I still feel the sting of pain. I have my share of heartaches so I call upon His name.
When I say... "I am a Christian" I'm not holier than thou, I'm just a simple sinner, who received God's good grace, somehow! "
When I say... "I am a Christian" I'm not shouting "I'm clean livin'." I'm whispering "I was lost,
Now I'm found and forgiven."
When I say.. "I am a Christian" I don't speak of this with pride. I'm confessing that I stumble and need Christ to be my guide.
... Maya Angelou
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"Love is dynamic in action and contagious in effect. Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel. It is the undying flame that has set life aglow. Our emancipation depends upon our love for God and upon God's love for us. Where there is love, there is Oneness and, in complete Oneness, the Infinite is realized completely in every sphere of life, be it science, art or religion. The spirit of true love and sacrifice is beyond all ledgers and measurements. A constant wish to love and be loving, and a non-calculating will to sacrifice in every walk of life, high and low, big and small, between home and office, streets and cities, countries and continents, are the best anti-selfish measures that we can take in order to be really self-full and joyful."
... Meher Baba
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Ten signs that indicate the awakening of your consciousness:
1. A change of food habits - some may give up non vegetarian food, spicy food, milk; while natural stuff like fruits and vegetables may appeal more than ever before. Wheat may be your staple diet; yet, your taste buds may discover an inexplicably new sweet taste to it. A sweet metallic taste in the mouth may be felt without an external stimulus - much like the taste of an iontophoretic current. Allergies to particular food, fabric, pollutants may occur. Change in other likes and dislikes – eg the kind of fabric preferred so far may be replaced by something very different.
2. Heightening of the experiences of the five sense organs. Sounds otherwise relegated to the background like rustling of the wind, the chirping of birds may become the sphere of attention. An intense surge of happiness and blissful energy may occur at the sight of beauty. This could be a disturbing or an aesthetically appealing phase by turns.
3. A silent and loving communion with the elements of nature may be indulged in. You may feel like talking to a tree.
4. Sexual urges may be heightened as also the pleasure of the act. This could be channelized by an aspirant ready for the next stage of soul growth.
5. Relationships may be seen in a completely new light. Maya (the universal cosmic delusion which causes one to perceive what is not as what it is and vice versa) and its role becomes clearer. This could be a harrowing period if one has not cultivated 'sammatta' or equanimity to face and penetrate the futility of emotional upheavals.
6. A deeper and more penetrating insight into other human beings. An understanding of not just what the problem is with another, but also, what is the root cause and what the solution is; and further to that, how to gently steer the person towards his own awakening.
7. An emergence of skills, interests and parallel vocations so far unexplored.
All relationship, career and attitudinal shifts take place at this stage.
8. A sense of isolation.
9. A distaste for senseless gossip, criticism and inane talk.
10. A deep compassion with the bitter sweet realization of the common destiny of all beings.
... The Sunday India Times
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"Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound."
... Peace Pilgrim
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"From every angle we come to the same point that all we want in life is love, a divine love, a love that is ideal. The purpose in life is to flower and blossom in that ideal love. All of us want a love in our life that does not die out, a love that does not cause pain, a love that grows and stands forever. The question is how to get there and how to find out what obstructs this in our life. We must see that what is really obstructing us from that very innocent love is our EGO."
... Suresh Gupta
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"Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love."
... M. Scott Peck, M.D
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"And as far as arguing with God... shaaa-eet. I do it all the time. Curse at Him like an ex-marine truck driver too. But He's my best friend so I get to talk to Him anyway I want - no holes barred. AND what's mo betta is that He truly is non-judgemental and unconditionally loving, i.e: big enough to sluff off my tantrums. And on the other hand I always try and say "thank you" at the end of my day, no matter what and the beginning of the day (and often throughout the day) ask for intuitive thought or decision and how I can help another. One of the most freeing moments was when I threw out my old god and conceptualized one of MY OWN understanding (not what some dogmatic religion tried to stuff down my throat) - AND WHOA... when I was able to say "SCREW UUUUUUUUUUUUUUU" to God and know that He loves me no mata what just the same - and probably more because I was true to myself for saying "so"... How freeing is that!!!? As the time has gone on tho.. I trust him more and more.. and so.. the "screw yous" have become less and the "thank yous" more often."
... Marc W. - Los Angeles, CA
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"What I mean by the Principle of Oneness is this: That we must learn to realize that there's nothing separate or apart. That everything is part of everything else. That there's nothing above us, or below us, or around us. All is inherent within us. Like Jesus said, "The Kingdom is Within."
... Eden Ahbez
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"There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. That criterion is, have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them - so keep trying… "
... The Peace Pilgrim
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"...you can do anything you want to do. You can be anything you want to be. You can go anywhere from where you are -- if you are willing to dream big and work hard."
... Robert Schuller from: Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do.
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"I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun... I am the mist of morning, the breath of evening... I am the spark in the stone, the gleam of gold in the metal...
The rose and the nightingale drunk with its fragrance. I am the chain of being, the circle of the spheres, The scale of creation, the rise and the fall. I am what is and is not... I am the soul in all."
... Rumi
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"To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony. "
... William Channing
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"Your heart is one with the love of God, and God is one with reality. You might define truth as a triangle of God, love, and reality. Truth is the point where love and reality are one in God. This is why truth is the universal solvent for all blockages, limitations, conflicts, and problems of mortal existence."
... Love without end, Jesus Speaks.
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"For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be forever with Him."
... William Barclay
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"Bathing is one of the most beautiful phenomena — very simple, but if you start enjoying it, it becomes a meditation for the body. Just sitting under a shower and enjoying it, swaying or humming a song or humming a mantra — then it becomes doubly forceful. If you are sitting under your shower and humming "aum" and the water falls on your body and the aum falls in your mind, you are taking double showers: the body is being purified by the water, it belongs to the world of elements, and your mind is purified by the mantra of aum. After the bath you will feel ready to pray; you would like to pray. After this bath and the mantra you will feel totally different; you will have a different quality and aroma around you."
... Yoga: The Alpha and Omega
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"The cosmic Creator, nameless and formless, may be a great stream of cosmic energy in which every living soul is but a tiny droplet. A stream which surges over, under and through us as it joins other streams to flow into a greater cosmic ocean from where, like water, droplets evaporate again to resume the endless cycle of creation. Increased awareness of our inner spirituality may mark a new consciousness because evolved spirits will find no purpose for the wood, brick or stone with which we make deities or places of worship. This Great Spirit was the inspiration of all sages, prophets and founders of religions and so is greater than any of them. We will then need no priests who claim they are the sole selling agents of brands of God having divine powers to insure the future. If people can learn how to find the glory of this spirit within themselves, they will be freed from the bondage of sacrifices, penances and rituals. It will be the triumph of inner spirituality and the end of raucous religiosity."
... Murad Ali Baig
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"I revel in my senses; I touch with my eyes, taste with my nose, see with my fingertips, hear with my mouth and smell with my ears. My senses are alive and well – all six of them."
... Linda Alstead
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"The following visualization will help you to unite your inward aspirations with your outward activities. It has the power, truly, to transform your interactions, your customers and co-workers. While practicing it, don't think of people as individuals, lest their facial expressions distract you from the feelings you are to project. Think, rather, of the energy that you are sending out.
1. Visualize yourself centered in the heart. Mentally polish your heart like a silver orb, until it shines.
2. Now, see rays of light reflected off the surface of that orb radiating outward in all directions. Mentally see those rays reaching out and touching the hearts of human beings everywhere. See the light filling each person, and all life forms, with radiance and joy.
3. Meditate on the divine light shining outward from your heart to all souls, everywhere.
4. Now, see that light as a reflection coming to you from above, from its true source in God. The light you share is His gift to all, through you."
... Kriyananda
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"Just remember who you really want to hear when you talk."
... submitted by, Jen Tannenbaum
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"What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellowman. This is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary."
... Talmud
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"My approach to your growth is basically to make you independent of me. Any kind of dependence is a slavery, and spiritual dependence is the worst slavery of all. I have been making every effort to make you aware of your individuality, freedom, your absolute capacity to grow without help from anybody. Your growth is something intrinsic to your being. It does not come from outside; it is not an imposition, it is an unfolding.
All the meditation techniques that I have given you are not dependent on me — my presence or absence will not make any difference — they are dependent on you. It is not my being here but your being here, your being in the present, your being alert and aware that is going to help.
The whole past of man is, in different ways, a history of exploitation. And even the so-called spiritual people could not resist the temptation to exploit. Out of a hundred masters, 99% were trying to impose the idea that,"
Without me you cannot grow. Give me your whole responsibility". But the moment you give your whole responsibility to somebody, unknowingly you are also giving your whole freedom. "
... Osho , from: Beyond Enlightenment
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"A life devoted to the interests and enjoyments of this world, spent and wasted in the slavery of earthly desires, may be truly called a dream, as having all the shortness, vanity, and delusion of a dream; only with this great difference, that when a dream is over nothing is lost but fictions and fancies; but when the dream of life is ended only by death, all that eternity is lost, for which we were brought into being. "
... William Law
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"If you have ever been shamed in your enthusiasm and not given a chance to explain yourself, if you have ever been cursed for your goodness by people who misunderstood you and were powerless to make them see things in your way, then you have felt how God feels in this world."
... Ronald Rolheiser
, from: The Holy Longing
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"As we exhale, not only do we throw out carbon dioxide from our system, but also mental and emotional impurities. We not only draw air into our body as we breathe, but vitality, strength and courage as well. And when we exhale, not only do we throw out carbon dioxide from our system, but also mental and emotional impurities such as discouragement, weakness and despair. When a deliberate effort is made to absorb "energy" from the air that we breathe, then breathing can give us psycho-spiritual benefits as well. There is an intimate connection between the mind and the breath. When we are emotionally disturbed, the flow of energy in the body is also disturbed, and the effect on the breath is instantaneous: The breathing becomes erratic and rapid. This interesting truth can be turned to good advantage, for just as the mind influences the breath, so also does the breath influence the mind. Harmful emotional states can be overcome to a great extent by deliberate, deep, harmonious breathing.
A Breathing Exercise:
The next time you feel depressed, worried, or simply agitated, instead of brooding over why you feel so, or worrying over the fact that you worry too much, try breathing your way to better spirits. Inhale very slowly and deeply. Feel you are not merely inhaling air but joy, peace, strength, or courage — whichever positive quality you want to affirm. Sit very straight as you practice this exercise. Imagine the breath filling not only your lungs, but the whole body — starting from the feet and culminating at a point between the eyebrows."
... Swami Kriyananda
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"While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done."
... Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air, that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."
... Robert L Stevenson
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"I am an immortal child of God, living for a little while in the caravanserai of this body. I am here to behold the tragedies and comedies of this changeable life with an attitude of unchangeable happiness."
... Paramahansa Yogananda
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"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
... Albert Einstein
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"What is stupidity? It is that vanity which dares to declare,
I am wise."
... Thirukural
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"Imagine Jesus walking silently by your side, filling you with joy and peace and subtly waking you up to the divine in you and around you."
... Andrew Harvey
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"Man's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension."
... Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Today I will truly experience my world, as if for the first time.
As I awake, I am excited about all this new day has to offer. Just touching the velvet petals of a flower and taking in their sweet fragrance will enliven my senses. Recognizing that I share a spiritual kinship with people everywhere, I know the joy of being with all creations of God. All of this is experiencing the Creator - in all and as all. Taking life one day at a time I build on a consciousness of God. Living in the present will allow me to know the incredible joy that this awareness of God will bring me."
... submitted by Diane
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"Karma is action embracing the whole meaning of living. We are because of our karma. Our karma or actions, good and bad, decide our future in this or the next life.
Some say that the law of karma is deterministic: you are born according to your karma, things happen to you because of your past karmas, so it is not possible for one to change one's present life.
This, however, negates the whole basis of yoga which claims that one can change memories and hence one's life. All four systems of yoga: jnana, raja, bhakti and karma, teach us to live positively in thought, word and deed. This helps produce positive memories and hence good karma.
Every individual has the power to change his destiny and memories by his actions in this life. Our actions change the neural pathways in the brain and hence the mind, which guides us to our future course of action.
We can change our memories through yogic process and cultivation of deep thought, and change our karma. Deep thought on any subject for a long time is the essence of yoga, the sanyam in Patanjali yoga. Thinking deeply about a subject for a long time requires tremendous processing capability of the brain and it can only be achieved if the mind gets rid of some existing memories.
Deep thought allows a very intense experience. When we think continuously and deeply about a particular thought tremendous processing takes place in the mind, since the brain is evaluating millions of alternatives. This processing can be thought of as a cyclonic activity, which embraces other thoughts in its wake to produce the energy to focus on a single item. This process, when continued, helps in memory sublimation.
Why are we interested in getting rid of our memories? Our lives are full of happy and sad events. They produce happy and sad memories. Unhappy memories lead to violence, hatred and unhappiness. Willfully removing unhappy memories helps us live a more fruitful and happy life, liberating us from the cycle of birth and death. This is much superior to merely suppressing unhappy memories, for then, negative things become irrelevant, not suppressed. If we try to suppress negative feelings and memories they only come back with much greater force."
... Anil Rajvanshi
Karma and the Fine Art of Remapping Our Memories
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"Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed."
... Erastus Wiman
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"I can not stand to look at my/our brother Jesus on the cross. It makes me sick. I love crosses yet deplore crucifixes. My daughter called me and said "Daddy, do not come and see The Passion, I have walked out three times and Daddy it will kill you"...and I have never seen it.
You see… Hate/EVIL took its best shot...it whipped Him, it thorned Him, it tortured and maimed Him, it belittled Him, it stripped Him, it crucified Him, it stabbed Him and it buried Him...
And then He got up, dusted Himself off and said... "YO, THAT'S IT, THAT'S ALL YOU GOT"...
I love my G'Ma E. I look at Her picture, I look at the things that remind me of Her, but I don't have, nor wish to look at, a picture of Her dying of leukemia..."
... The Cross and the Crucifix, by me.
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"When love is there, it is up to you whether you can receive it or not. Only when love is not there can the other give it to you or withhold it from you.
It is just like a flower in the desert. No one may know that it has flowered and is giving out its perfume, but it will give it. It is not being given to anyone; it is just being given. The flower has bloomed, so the fragrance is there. Whether someone passes or not is irrelevant. If someone passes and is sensitive he may receive it. But if he is completely dead, insensitive, he may not even be aware that there is a flower there.
With a person who is free and loving, it depends on you whether you can take his love or not. Ordinarily love depends on the person who is giving. He may give love, he may not. But the love I am talking about is not dependent on the giver. He is completely open and giving every moment. Even when no one is present, the love is flowing."
... Excerpted from The Psychology of the Esoteric
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"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
... White Elk
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"Friend do it this way - that is, whatever you do in life, do the very best you can with both your heart and mind.
And if you do it that way, the Power Of The Universe will come to your assistance, if your heart and mind are in Unity.
When one sits in the Hoop Of The People, one must be responsible because All of Creation is related. And the hurt of one is the hurt of all. And the honor of one is the honor of all. And whatever we do effects everything in the universe.
If you do it that way - that is, if you truly join your heart and mind as One - whatever you ask for, that's the Way It's Going To Be."
... Lakota Instructions for Living
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"Rather than going to church, I attend a sweat lodge; rather than accepting bread and toast from the Holy Priest, I smoke a ceremonial pipe to come into Communion with the Great Spirit; and rather than kneeling with my hands placed together in prayer, I let sweetgrass be feathered over my entire being for spiritual cleansing and allow the smoke to carry my prayers into the heavens. I am a Kuwanyauma, and this is how we pray.
The interior of the sweat lodge is a circle representing the womb of Mother Earth, its darkness as human ignorance, the hot stones as the coming of life, and the hissing steam as the creative force of the universe being activated. The entrance faces east, source of life and power, dawn of wisdom, while the fire heating the rocks is the undying light of the world, eternity.
The Circle has healing power. In the Circle, we are all equal. When in the Circle, no one is in front of you. No one is behind you. No one is above you. No one is below you. The Sacred Circle creates unity. By sweat and prayer, we clean our bodies of toxins, our minds of negativities, and heighten our spirits -- come into a balanced relationship with ourselves, Mother Earth, and everything that surrounds us."
... Kuwanyauma , (butterfly showing beautiful wings)
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"The 10 most important things in life"
Love ...The Special Feeling that makes you feel all Warm and Wonderful.
Respect ...Treating others as well as you'd like to be treated.
Appreciation ...To be Grateful for all the Good Things Life has to offer.
Happiness ...The Full Enjoyment of each moment with a Smiling Face.
Forgiveness ...The Ability to let Things be without Anger.
Sharing ...The Joy of giving without Thought of Receiving.
Honesty ...The Quality of always telling the Truth.
Integrity ...The purity of doing what's Right no matter what.
Compassion ...The Essence of Feeling another's Pain, while Easing their Hurt.
Peace ...The Reward for living the 10 Most Important Things... "
... Metrospirituality
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"By being receptive, we can avail ourselves of the spiritual wealth available to us. By being open, we can receive things beyond what we ourselves might imagine."
... Deng Ming-Dao , from: Everyday Tao
"It is the creative person who steps aside from himself or herself and lets God through, who manifests otherworldly creations, celestial music, and spirit-filled stories. Even an ordinary person can accomplish extraordinary things when he or she steps aside and lets God in."
... Shoni Labowitz
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"Each one of us is unique. No one laughs and cries the way you do and no one walks, talks and works the way you do. We are all eminently qualified — to do the work just we can do in this world and to live the life only we can live in this world."
... Janina Gomes
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"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."
... Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Consider your own life — how many times a day does some situation pop up that leads to moments of frustration and anxiety? Surrendering your head to your heart in those moments will lead you to balance and fulfillment. As you listen to your spirit, peace follows. So follow your spirit. Build your foundation in your heart. Love must be your innermost and spontaneous response towards every person you encounter. Say to yourself inside, "I just love." Use these words as a key to start the engine running in your heart and watch life brighten with new love and understanding. Surrender to your new awareness and let love unfold the purpose of creation to you. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it."
... Sara Paddison- Hidden Power of the Heart
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"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."
... Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi - 13th century
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"The Beatitudes of Christ. They are eight statements reminding us of the virtues Jesus taught and the way to implement those virtues. The Beatitudes are a map of life, a series of directives helping us on our journey back to God. They are simply stated, but profound in meaning. Almost every great spiritual writer has written about the Beatitudes. Every Saint has lived the Beatitudes. They guide. They point. They teach the values of Jesus. Those same values can bring us all into the Kingdom of God after our journey on this earth is over.
The Beatitudes:
*Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
*Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the earth.
*Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
*Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be satisfied.
*Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
*Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.
*Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.
*Blessed are they who suffer persecution for justice' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
... Rev. Mark Connolly
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"Loneliness is misunderstood aloneness. Once you misunderstand your aloneness as loneliness, the whole context changes. Aloneness has a beauty and grandeur, a positivity; loneliness is poor, negative, dark, dismal.
Aloneness is our very nature, but we are not aware of it. Because we are not aware of it, we remain strangers to ourselves. Instead of seeing our aloneness as tremendous beauty and bliss, silence and peace, at - easiness with existence, we misunderstand it as loneliness.
So I remind you, don't misunderstand aloneness as loneliness. Loneliness is certainly sick; aloneness is perfect health. Your first and primary step towards finding the meaning and significance of life is to enter into your aloneness. Once you have entered your innermost core of being , you cannot believe your own eyes: you were carrying so much joy, so many blessings and so much love."
... Rajat Khosla
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"I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking."
... Albert Einstein
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"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"
... Jimmy Johnson
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"Those unrelentingly cruel ones, objects of compassion,
Maddened by delusion's evils,
wantonly destroy themselves and others;
May they achieve the eye of wisdom,
knowing what must be done and undone,
And abide in the glory of friendship and love."
... His Holiness, the Dalai Lama
from: Words of Truth, September 29,1960
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"Your first love will never leave your heart.
Even if they leave you, they will be forever in your heart, and no matter how hard you try to forget them, you never will."
... submitted by Abi
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"A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about."
... Douglas Noel Adams
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"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."
... Honoré de Balzac
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"...and now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
... 1 Corinthians 13:13
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"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
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... Paul William "Bear" Bryant
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"Your conscience is what lives within you. And having to deal with that conscience on a daily basis makes it imperative that you be a good person, live honestly and always strive to do your best. And that's exactly the way I choose to live my life.
Yes, I believe in God. But never have I feared Him. I was not brought up that way. My parents always instilled in me the idea that God was there to help me.
I pray everyday. There are two cushions next to a window in my house and I kneel on them and look out and talk to God.
And He listens to me.There was a time when all I did was thank God for what I had and ask him for more. For the last year or so, all I do is ask Him to give me what he thinks I deserve.
Both my brother and I were never forced into religion. We were left to find our own way, which is, perhaps, the best thing to do. As a result, I celebrate all festivals with equal enthusiasm. I was brought up very liberally and that has held me in good stead.
It might seem strange to some but I'm certain that my grandmother and my father take care of me and are always looking out for me. My brother always says I am God's child. I believe him.
There have been lots of times when things haven't gone right for me. My reaction is that there's either something better coming along; or whatever happened, happened for the best and God has another plan for me.
People ask me if I have ever experienced the presence of God. I experience it everyday. With the way my life has progressed, I don't have to question the work of God. He has always been on my side."
... Farah Khan
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"The answer to the question of how to make the best use of our life is through compassion and wisdom. Compassion alone is not enough. We also need to develop wisdom. How do we develop wisdom? We can develop wisdom only through our own effort, our own meditation practice. Wisdom comes from listening to the right teachings and reflecting and meditating on them."
... Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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"Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew."
... Dan Millman
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"Love is not blind - It sees more and not less,
but because it sees more it is willing to see less."
... Will Moss
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"If you read the writings of St. Paul, he makes it very clear that one of the secrets of happiness is to imitate the mind of Christ. If you analyze that expression, the mind of Christ, it simply means his value system, his principals and his convictions.
If you study the life of Christ you see that He only spent three years of his public life in active ministry. Much of the time was spent in prayer and meditation. If you read the New Testament you will find he taught charity, compassion and consideration. He wrote no books. He had no pulpit. He just preached and lived these qualities. These same qualities have outlasted any book for over two thousand years.
This same Christ taught us the value of the sacred. We all know he underwent an agony, a scourging, a crowning and a crucifixion. As suffering did not pass by Christ, it will not pass by us. He taught us very clearly that suffering is not always meaningless.
The life of Christ demonstrates a man who lived with hope. This was a man who could cure and forgive ten lepers knowing that ninety percent of them would walk away without thanking him. A man who, from the cross, could completely forgive the crowd of men and women who on Palm Sunday threw palm branches in his path while singing "Hosanna", then shouted "Crucify him!" on Good Friday.
This person called Jesus Christ was more than an historical figure. This same person, Jesus Christ, must become a reality in our lives. Without the mind of Christ influencing our mind there is chaos and confusion. With our mind being united with the mind of Christ, however, we can fulfill what St. Paul said, "With Christ I can do everything."
... Rev. Mark Connolly
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"I've learned...that when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you."
... submitted by JB
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"If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths."
... Alexis Carrel
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El Poppa
John Paul the Great
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"The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality. Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for it's own benefit."
... Chogyam Trungpa
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"You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation."
... Marian Wright Edelman
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"Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective."
... Steven Covey
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"Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.
But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason."
... Douglas Noel Adams, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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"We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned so far as to have
the life that is waiting for us."
... Joseph Campbell
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"It strikes me that this double love commandment lays the groundwork for a renewed understand of what it takes to be the very best lover you can be. The starting point for all Christian ethics is the profound sense of self worth that flows out of an awareness that one is, in fact, a child of God, reflecting the goodness of God in one's own nature. Ideally, a Christian moves about in the world fully aware of being loved by God, and empowered by God to enter into a loving relationship with others.
In the act of making love, nothing leads to satisfaction more reliably than the conscious effort to satisfy one's partner. Hence, the secret of being a better lover can be condensed into a single phrase, spoken by Jesus Christ himself: "Love your neighbor as yourself." Further, when a person of faith enters into such a mutually satisfying relationship with another human being, giving and receiving love, in the manner suggested by Jesus, then one also becomes aware that in the depths of one's love for another person one feels closest to the God of love.
So it should not seem strange or unusual at all to suggest that Christians make better lovers. Rather it is both tragic and surprising that this is not commonly understood. For if it were, you can safely bet that our churches would be packed to overflowing and our faith revitalized over night!"
... Rev. Mark Connolly
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"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
... Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"When I meditated on the word GUIDANCE, I kept seeing "dance" at the end of the word. I remember reading that doing God's will is a lot like dancing. When two people try to lead, nothing feels right. The movement doesn't flow with the music, and everything is quite uncomfortable and jerky. When one person realizes that, and lets the other lead, both bodies begin to flow with the music.
One gives gentle cues, perhaps with a nudge to the back or by pressing lightly in one direction or another. It's as if two become one body, moving beautifully. The dance takes surrender, willingness, and attentiveness from one person and gentle guidance and skill from the other.
My eyes drew back to the word GUIDANCE.
When I saw "G,"I thought of God, followed by "u" and "i" ...
God, you, and I dance. GUIDANCE. As I lowered my head, I became willing to trust that I would get guidance about my life. Once again, I became willing to let God lead.
May you abide in God as God abides in you. Dance together with God, trusting God to lead and to guide you through each season of your life."
... submitted by JB, author unknown.
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"This is a heartfelt tip: if you want anything to last, commit it to God, lift it up to Him, for then the material becomes spiritual and the spiritual stays with you."
... Cyrus Merchant
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"Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion's guestroom. Instead the angels were given a small space in the cold basement. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied,"Things aren't always what they seem."
The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife. After sharing what little food they had the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night's rest. When the sun came up the next morning the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in the field.
The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel how could you have let this happen? The first man had everything, yet you helped him, she accused. The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you let the cow die. "Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied."
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"The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty."
... Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"The sky turned from a frozen blue to an empty black, alive with stars. Father Frost passed among the trees, whistling ice crystals and snow flurries as we shuffled past. When he saw the snowmaiden, his eyes gleamed and he smiled. Sadly, the snowmaiden could not move or speak, but since Father Frost was the bringer of winter he could not give life, only take it away. He called to Mother Spring to blow a warm breeze of life into the little figure. She was to be the child of Winter of Spring..."
... from, "The Snow Maiden"
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"Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret."
... Laurence J. Peter
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"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
... Martin Luther King, Jr
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"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends."
... Japanese Proverb
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"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread."
... Mother Teresa
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"Some folks go through life pleased that the glass is half full. Others spend lifetime lamenting that it's half-empty. The truth is: There is a glass with a certain volume of liquid in it. From there, it's up to you!"
... Dr. James S. Vuocolo
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"The person who doesn't fit in with our notions of who is worthy of our love -- the bag lady at the corner, the strange old man who rides through town on a three-wheel bike all strung up with flags -- is just the person who, by not fitting into our patterns, insists that we expand not only our views but also our capacity to love. Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches no only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much."
... Daphne Rose Kingma
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"Oh, Mother of Perpetual Help, to Thee I send my plea.
Look down upon my soldier son, take care of him for me.
And when he's blue and sick at heart, discouraged and oppressed,
Give him the will to carry on, in heavenly grace to rest.
Show unto him a Mother's love, as Thou hast shown me.
Bring comfort to his lonely heart is mine, his mother's plea."
...Prayer of a Soldier's Mother
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"If God is your co-pilot, swap seats."
... Sign outside St. Bartholomew’s Church
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"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
... Franklin P. Jones
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"As you continue to send out love, the energy returns to you in a regenerating spiral... As love accumulates, it keeps your system in balance and harmony. Love is the tool, and more love is the end product."
... Sara Paddison , Hidden Power of the Heart
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"Love is like magic
And it always will be.
For love still remains
Life's sweet mystery!!
Love works in ways
That are wondrous and strange
And there's nothing in life
That love cannot change!!
Love can transform
The most commonplace
Into beauty and splendor
And sweetness and grace.
Love is unselfish,
Understanding and kind,
For it sees with it's heart
And not with it's mind!!
Love is the answer
That everyone seeks...
Love is the language,
That every heart speaks.
Love can't be bought,
It is priceless and free,
Love, like pure magic,
Is life's sweet mystery!!"
... Helen Steiner Rice , The Magic Of Love
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"A human being is a part of the whole that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature."
... Albert Einstein
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"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."
... 14th Dalai Lama
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"A good friend will come and bail you out of jail... But, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn... that was fun!"
... ...submitted by JB
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"And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
... Isaiah 2:4
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"We Muslims only articulate what God Almighty has commanded us to say in the Holy Qu'ran. We Muslims believe, that Jesus was one of the mightiest messengers of God that he was the Christ, that he was born miraculously without any male intervention (which many modern-day Christians do not believe today), that he gave life to the dead by God's permission and that he healed those born blind and the lepers by God's permission. In fact, no Muslim is a Muslim if he or she does not believe in Jesus! The Christian does not know that the true spirit of charity which the Muslim displays, always, towards Jesus and his mother Mary spring from the fountainhead of his faith - the Holy Qu'ran. He does not know that the Muslim does not take the holy name of Jesus, in his own language, without saying Eesa, alaihi assalam ("Jesus, peace be upon him") "
... Christ in Islam... by, Sheikh Ahmed Deedat
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"Let there be no compulsion in religion,
The Truth is/From your Lord:
Let him who will/Believe, and let him who will/reject it.
Those who believe in the Qur'an.
And those who follow the Jewish scriptures,
And the Christians and the Sabians,
Any who believe in God
And the Last Day,
And work righteousness,
Shall have their reward
With the Lord; on them
Shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve."
... The Holy Qur'an: (Surah 2: AI-Baqarah: 62)-(Surah 5: AI-Ma'idah: 69)
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"Christianity is not a religion; it is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ."
... submitted by 2shy
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"The charitable man is loved by all; his friendship is prized highly; in death his heart is at rest and full of joy, for he does not suffer from repentance; he receives the opening flower of his reward and the fruit that ripens from it. The charitable man has found the path of liberation."
... The Buddha
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"Fear is illusory; it cannot live. Courage is eternal, it will not die. Perils, calamities, dangers are the certain lot of every man who is a denizen of this world. Therefore, O Man! Fortify your mind with courage and patience. Fortitude, courage, presence of mind will sustain you through all dangers. Just as a rock on the sea-shore stands firm and the dashing of the waves does not affect it even a bit, even so a man who is endowed with courage is not affected by the dark perilous waves of this Samsara. He stands adamant in all trying conditions and circumstances and comes out victorious."
... Sivananda
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"In life always the giver is the master, the receiver is always the slave. Creditor is the master, debtor is surely a slave. The employer is the master, the employee the slave. When time employs you, you become the slave; but if you intelligently employ time, you become the master of time, and time your slave."
... Chinmayananda
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"Inspirations are wavelets of peace …invisible little strains that nurture the song in your heart. Inspirations are flowers that bloom in every hour and season, they are saintly sparks of wisdom with the power to stir your consciousness. Through inspirations, we experience the Lord's eternal truth manifesting itself through the vibratory power of the word."
... India Times
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"...God admires us not for what we do but for how much love we put into what we do. Together let us build a chain of love around the world. In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one. We cannot all do great things. But we can do small things with great love. It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving."
... Mother Teresa
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"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
... Albert Einstein
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"Financial, emotional or physical stress can be a real energy drain and ample motivation to play it safe. I don't like being at my edge, it's scary and unsettling. It calls up my anxiety and my old fears and doubts that I think I've resolved. Despite my resistance, I want to know what continues to push me forward, and creates the ability to withstand and thrive when I am pushed to my edge.
Where's your edge?
What are you at the brink of and wanting to press forward with in your life?
What dreams or passions are you denying because you want to stay safe in your comfort zone?
Here are some perspectives and suggestions to help negotiate the edge:
· Look around. Increase your sense of self-awareness.
· Find your solid ground. You can do this.
· What is the worst that can happen? Dare to take a look.
· Set up the structures that will help sustain you.
Living on the edge is nothing less than an art form. It takes practice, trust and a willingness to embrace all parts of yourself. This opportunity to practice the art of edge-walking will propel you forward in life."
... Helaine Iris
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"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth -- don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency."
... Aesop
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"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."
... Joseph Addison
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"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
... Seneca
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"MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going,
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think that I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road
though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore I will trust you always
though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my perils alone."
... Thomas Merton
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"The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career."
... Albert Einstein
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"I don't believe in God. Why do I need to believe in something I feel so strong about? When you feel angry, you don't say: "
I believe I'm angry."
When you are in love, you don't say: "
I believe I'm in love."
You know you are in love, because the feeling is so strong, that you can hardly think of anything else than the person you love.
So, in that sense, I don't believe in God, because there is no need to believe. I can feel the presence of God. But why to even use the word 'God'. Because our trying to name this force leads to so much hate, death and pain.
And why do we even have go to 'certain' places to meet God when God is everywhere? Well, do you think there are some places not good enough for God to be in? We keep asking God something but that is like saying we know better than God what's good for us."
... Yana Gupta
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"Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go round? Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground? You better slow down, don't dance so fast. Time is short, the music won't last.
Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask after your loved ones, do you hear their reply? When the day is done, do you lie unhappy in your bed with the next day's chores running through your head? You'd better slow down, don't dance so fast Time is short, the music won't last.
Ever told your most precious person we'll meet tomorrow and in your haste not seen his or her sorrow? Ever lost touch, let a great friendship die because you didn't have the words or the time or the forgiveness to call and say `hi'?
You'd better slow down, don't dance so fast Time is short, the music won't last. When you run so fast to get somewhere You miss half the fun of getting there. Life is then an unopened gift... thrown away. Life is no race, do take it slower Hear the music before your song is over"
... written by a woman from New York City
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"Faith... defined as an acceptance of certain religious doctrines is an essential element in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Hinduism and Buddhism, it is an attitude of devotion that opens a gateway to spiritual practice. In the broad scope of the spiritual life, we see faith not as something you have but as something you are in — a relationship. It involves an awareness of and an attunement to God's presence in our everyday experiences. Practicing faith, then, is like developing any relationship. You have to give it time and attention. It requires you to see, hear, feel, and constantly remember your partner — God. Have confidence in the relationship's viability, even when you are facing mysteries, doubts, and paradoxes. Trust in this faith, even to the point of staking your life on it. Many people assume that the chief challenges to faith are disbelief and doubt, but the real stumbling block to faith is resistance to God or the hardened heart. In the Biblical traditions, the heart is used as an image for the deeper self, the true and total person. The hard heart is not open to the sacred. It is similar to eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear. Difficulties can be catalysts to faith. During a dark night of the soul, sometimes all we can do is trust that this, too, will pass. Facing illness, death, or the myriad other challenges in our lives, we are strengthened by the knowledge that a Greater Power watches and waits with us. In the long run, it's the relationship that matters."
... Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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"Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear or biological annihilation, depends on one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face."
... Pope John Paul II
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"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides with the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon those with great vengeance and with furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know that my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."
... The Bible & Samuel L Jackson from Pulp Fiction
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"Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle."
... Amy Bloom
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"Thank you, God,for miracles in gloomy things, storms and snow, Thank you for the poems in forestsand fine rainthat in its silver sings.
Thank you, God,for grass with voice of greenand minty spring,Thank you for the stonesthat live in silence and wait for a butterfly's white wings.
This old world of problems does not seem so bad when I have You to walk beside me and see Your beautiful earth things. "
... Edgar A. Guest
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"How did people at your workplace greet you when you returned to it after the New Year? Mine leapt up, clutched at my knees, squealed. Teaching spirituality to little minds opened me up to a whole new world of innocence and hope. Do not kill that hope and innocence and most certainly not that lease of life God has given them. This one is especially for the parents of today - what an awesome and joyous responsibility God has given you, more powerful than any job in the world!
And what are you going to do with it? I can teach ten, hundred, a hundred thousand, ultimately each mother, father, guardian is going to raise one more member of the world club. Parents lack so much themselves, living broken lives cluttered with broken dreams, unresolved burdens and accumulated disappointments. It is fatal to enter marriage and parenthood until you have dealt with your own life. Save your child from a bad future and it will save you from your bad past.
I see parents already rushing through their children's lives, charting it all out from investments to ideologies; so politically correct. Essential, but this is not the edifice. This is just bread. Your child will need bread to survive yes, but to live a great life you need another kind of loaf.
Each child is born with its own star; let it follow that star. Provide your children with the most solid structure of spirituality in their life so that by the time they are teenagers they are walking in an inviolable character. Wash them every day in prayer, lead them to worship, introduce them to the world of righteousness, not just academic education. The world is full of educated people who are so savage with their minds; today's twenty and thirty year old men in majority are an offence to all that is God; such coarse sensibilities, such nauseating lives.
Pour so much wisdom in them that they make the correct choices in life. Place faith in their little hearts, hope in their little minds and expose them to the richness of the religious life. In your own way acquaint them to the beauty of a friendship with God.
For no matter how polluted and stormy the ocean, clean water finds clear water and the good are no longer at sea in life. Teach your child that the real miracle in life is not to walk on air or on the moon; but to walk honourably on Earth."
... Cyrus H. Merchant
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"I believe everyone has a higher self if only you care to reach out for it - it's that self which helps you shed negativity from your life and opens your mind to God. Two things I always remember - break down the word `ego' and you get `edge God out' and likewise, the word `fear' gives you `false evidence appearing real'.
God is within you. If you care to believe that miracles happen, you will be reclaiming what is rightfully yours - everyone has their personal angels who guide and support you. Like the Bible says... `Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened to you."
... Iravati Harshe , God & I
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"Yog means union. Union with a supreme power which is the source of creation, perfection and destruction. Union with the supreme intellect and the guiding force behind the perfect mechanism of the universe. Yoga is merging oneself with this force that guides the human being to a state of total bliss. A human being is a small universe in itself. When the consciousness of this small universe unites with the energy prevailing in the vast canopy of the universe the union is complete and the light of wisdom starts flowing in the human body. The light contains everything a human needs to evolve. A human is a part of nature and constantly striving for perfection. This is the natural course of evolution because God is the personification of ultimate perfection.
Evolving by flowing along with the universal force or balancing with Nature reveals the truth automatically. Balance is the key to the powers of nature. There should be a balance between two extremes because the Universe is balancing all extremely contradictory forces, day-night, sun-moon, man-woman, God–Satan. No hectic or tortuous way can lead to the truth. Balancing the body and mind and attuning both to Nature is certainly a step towards realization. Nobody can put down any syllabus or a short cut for self-realization. Yog, Jap, Tap , penance and many more so-called ways can help to control and develop self-discipline but certainly not guarantee the ultimate union. The basic requirement for attaining realization is Truth i.e. to be truthful on the three planes of Mansa, Vacha, Karmana (thought, word and deed). A person who is truthful on these three planes naturally gets guidance from the Supreme. It just flows spontaneously to the person who is balanced in emotions, tolerant, patient, humble, fearless, confident, satisfied, spreads happiness always, has speech full of love and compassion. Such a person becomes a perfect channel for cosmic energy that symbolizes the cosmic Mother. That is why Nature is called Mother Nature. She is the best guru. She just gives and shares her bounties without any commercial calculation. The human body has built-in remote controls for all mental and physical ailments. We only need to know how to operate these. Eighty percent of all diseases are the outcome of mental and physical abuse. Ill-balanced and unnatural ways of life cause the malfunctioning of hormonal glands. Hormonal secretions are the regulators of the body and mind. These regulators operate properly only if we are tuned to Nature. When we strain our relations with Nature by living an artificial life, there is an imbalance which causes the accumulation of toxins in the body. These toxins are to be removed from the body by thorough cleansing. Yoga helps to detoxify our body and regulate hormonal secretions, thus channelling our life force towards spirituality. Yoga is thus just not twisting the body to perform certain asanas or postures but balancing the mind and body, making it more receptive to the universal life force pouring from the Supreme Self."
... Meena Om
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"Once a high priest in Jerusalem called Jesus and asked him: "Are you King of the Jews?" Jesus replied: "I do not say so". The priest told Jesus: "You are leading the people astray by your wrong teachings. You are telling them that everyone can enter Heaven only through you." Jesus said that he had been telling the people to seek the Kingdom of Heaven. The priest asked: "Where is that Kingdom?" Jesus replied: "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you, within everybody. When this is my teaching, how can I be accused of claiming that the Kingdom of Heaven can be attained only through me?" How did Jesus get the courage to speak in this fashion? It was because he was proclaiming the truth. Truth is born of love, which comes from faith in God.
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... Sathya Sai Baba
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"BODH1CHITTA: CHERISHING OTHERS MORE THAN OURSELVES.
Bodhicitta is a very good state of mind, imbued with wisdom, in which kindness is combined with the highest intelligence. It is something quite marvelous. This sort of goodness and kindness brings us peace immediately, so we are less narrow minded and agitated. When we meet others, we do not feel claustrophobic and distant. On the contrary, we feel close to people. With a mind like this, we are never afraid but strong and courageous. This is a very useful attitude to have"
... His Holiness Dalai Lama
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"
In the midst of the dark shadows and hardships of life, through the "
dark night"
, God seems distant and cold. He is really there with us, closer than ever; He's teaching us by withdrawing His hand, just the way we teach children to ride a bike by running along beside, ready to catch them."
... Thomas H. Green
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Q: Is there anything you would want people to know about you?
A: "Its funny, this past week I've been just praying and asking God to show me not really my purpose but what He is trying to work in my life. The question that kept coming up to me was what kind of legacy I want to leave. It wasn't so much football. It wasn't so much personal goals. But one of the biggest achievements I think you can achieve is just living for God every single day. That's how I want to be remembered, not only in football but in life, that this man loved the Lord with all his heart, soul, strength and mind, and that he loved everyone the same.
"
... James Thrash , Philadelphia Eagles
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"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers."
... Maya Angelou
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"We all receive harm from living beings and from non-living things such as the elements. As long as our mind is habituated to recognizing such experiences as problems, we will find only more and more living beings and external conditions disturbing. The smallest, most insignificant matters will cause great pain in our mind and we will become angry extremely quickly. The very root of the problem is our strongly selfish mind. Train your mind to see the beauty in all problems. In order for problems to appear desirable to you, you have to stop looking at their shortcomings. Put all your effort into looking at the good aspects and benefits of problems. Whether a life situation is wonderful or not depends on the way your mind perceives and interprets it."
... Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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"You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing. Jesus made it very clear. Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me. Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me."
... Mother Theresa
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"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."
... John Quincy Adams , 6th US President
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"Jesus lived exactly as he taught, so studying His life is crucial to understanding His teachings. For me, the life of Jesus is His most basic teaching, even more important than faith in the resurrection or faith in eternity."
... Thich Nhat Hanh
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"There are at least two kinds of games: finite and infinite.
A finite game is a game that has fixed rules and boundaries, that is played for the purpose of winning and thereby ending the game.
An infinite game has no fixed rules or boundaries. In an infinite game you play with the boundaries and the purpose is to continue the game.
Finite players are serious; infinite games are playful.
Finite players try to control the game, predict everything that will happen, and set the outcome in advance. They are serious and determined about getting that outcome. They try to fix the future based on the past.
Infinite players enjoy being surprised. Continuously running into something one didn't know will ensure that the game will go on. The meaning of the past changes depending on what happens in the future.
All games are inherently voluntary. There might be consequences of not playing, but there is always a choice required. Driving on the right side of the road, shaking people's hands, and paying taxes are games one has a choice about playing. There are certain rules and boundaries that appear to be externally defined, and you choose to follow them or not. If you stop following them you aren't playing the game any longer.
There is no rule that says you have to follow the rules. All finite games have rules. If you follow the rules you are playing the game. If you don't follow the rules you aren't playing. If you move the pieces in different ways in chess, you are no longer playing chess.
Infinite players play with rules and boundaries. They include them as part of their playing. They aren't taking them serious, and they can never be trapped by them, because they use rules and boundaries to play with.
In a theatrical play the actor knows that she really isn't Ophelia. The audience knows that she really isn't Ophelia. But if she does a good job, Ophelia can express herself through the actor. The playing is most enjoyable when it is both clear that it is chosen play, that it is the actor doing it voluntarily, and at the same time it is so convincing, following the rules well enough that it seems real.
You can play finite games within an infinite game. You can not play infinite games within a finite game.
You can do what you do seriously, because you must do it, because you must survive to the end, and you are afraid of dying and other consequences. Or, you can do everything you do playfully, always knowing you have a choice, having no need to survive the way you are, allowing every element of the play to transform you, taking pleasure in every surprise you meet. Those are the differences between finite and infinite players. "
... by James P. Carse
"A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility""
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"Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine."
... Henry S. Haskins
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"You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.
And he called the people to him and said to them, Hear and understand:
not what goes into the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."
... Matthew 15:7-11
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"To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao."
... Chuang Tzu 22:1
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"Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back."
... Submitted by Unknown
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"I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring woods; - in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No wordy discussion is necessary or any explanation."
... D T Suzuki
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
"
... Mahatma Gandhi
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"Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important."
... Lisa Hoffman
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"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world"
... Bill Wilson
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"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."
... Leo Burnett
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"Water is an important teaching symbol in the Taoist tradition. It's Yin character, coolness, passivity, life-nurturing quality, ability to overcome obstacles with patience and conformity, and inherent capacity to seek its own path have placed it at the center of many Taoist maxims and stories. The Daode Jing observes that " In all the world, there is nothing more submissive and weaker than water. Yet for attacking that which is strong and hard, nothing can surpass it."
... Richard Wilhelm, Introduction to the I Ching.
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"A certain man planted a rose and watered it faithfully, and before it blossomed, he examined it. He saw the bud that would soon blossom and also the thorns. And he thought, "How can any beautiful flower come from a plant burdened with so many sharp thorns?" Saddened by this thought, he neglected to water the rose, and before it was ready to bloom, it died.
So it is with many people. Within every soul there is a rose. The God-like qualities planted in us at birth grow amid the thorns of our faults. Many of us look at ourselves and see only the thorns, the defects. We despair, thinking that nothing good can possibly come from us. We neglect to water the good within us, and eventually it dies. We never realize our potential.
Some people do not see the rose within themselves; someone else must show it to them. One of the greatest gifts a person can possess is to be able to reach past the thorns and find the rose within others. This is the characteristic of love, to look at a person, and knowing his faults, recognize the nobility in his soul, and help him realize that he can overcome his faults. If we show him the rose, he will conquer the thorns. Then will he blossom, blooming forth thirty, sixty, a hundred-fold as it is given to him.
Our duty in this world is to help others by showing them their roses and not their thorns. Only then can we achieve the love we should feel for each other; only then can we bloom in our own garden."
... The Rose Within
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"When one seeks to regulate something,
He is in fact contrary to it.
Where he seeks to embellish something,
He is in fact harming it.
Nonaction does not mean being completely inert,
But rather that nothing is initiated from the ego-self."
... from the Daode Jing
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"Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness"
... Zhuangzi
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"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."
... Joshua Heschel
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"To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind."
... Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain;
I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care.
As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown,
I have a world apart that is not among men."
... Li Po , Green Mountain
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"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easliy angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil,
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails."
... 1 Corinthians 13:4 -
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"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd."
... Bertrand Russell
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"Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness.
For some of us, the most effective way to do so is through religious practice. For others it may be non-religious practices. What is important is that we each make a sincere effort to take our responsibility for each other and for the natural environment we live in seriously.
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... Dalai Lama
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
... Anais Nin
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If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
... Anonymous
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"Symptoms of Inner Peace"
A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experience.
An unmistakable ability to enjoy the moment.
A loss of interest in judging other people.
A loss of interest in judging self.
A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.
An inability to worry (this is a very serious symptom!).
Frequent overwhelming episodes of appreciation.
Frequent acts of smiling.
Frequent acts of kindness.
An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than to make them happen.
An increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it.
... Thuten Kesang National Chairman, Friends of Tibet
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"
Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people]. I have wished to know why the stars shine.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart.
Of children in famine, of victims tortured And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, And I too suffer.
This has been my life; I found it worth living."
... Bertrand Russell, Agnostic
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"
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing
security of being identified with the majority."
... Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
... Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"
I took a small path leading up a hill valley, finding there a temple, its gate covered with moss, and in front of the door but tracks of birds; in the room of the old monk no one was living, and I staring through the window
saw but a hair duster hanging on the wall, itself covered
with dust; emptily I sighed thinking to go, but then
turning back several times, seeing how the mist on the hills was flying, and then a light rain fell as if it were flowers falling from the sky, making a music of
its own; away in the distance came the cry of a monkey, and
for me the cares of the world slipped away, and I was filled with the beauty around me."
... a poem by Li Po
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."
... Lao Tzu
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It is easy enough to be pleasant when life flows by like a song.
But the man worthwhile is one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong."
... Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1850-1919, Poet
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"The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas [enlightened heroes and heroines] -- it enables you to refrain from reacting angrily to the harm inflicted on you by others. You could call this practice "inner disarmament," in that a well-developed tolerance makes you free from the compulsion to counterattack. For the same reason, we also call tolerance the "best armor," since it protects you from being conquered by hatred itself.
It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a tolerance powerful enough to give such freedom. Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be effectively improved.
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... Dalai Lama
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Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music."
... George Carlin
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"
When written in Chinese, the word crisis has two characters. One represents tragedy,
the other one represents opportunity."
... John F. Kennedy
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Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!"
Immediately the fig tree withered away. When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree immediately wither away?" Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don't doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it would be done. All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
... Matthew 21-18/22
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In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy, sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things and happy in small ways."
... Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
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DELRAY BEACH -- On the coldest night of the year, as backyard gardeners all over South Florida fretted over fragile foliage, the owner of two small marijuana plants also may have been worried. So he climbed to the place where the illegal, foot-high plants grew -- on the roof of the Lakeview Baptist Church on Swinton Avenue -- to check on them. But a man shooting pool inside the church's youth building Friday evening caught a glimpse as he scaled the church. "The parent looked out and saw legs hanging over from the roof," said Pastor Klay Aspinwall. The person ran into some nearby woods.
The parent called the pastor, who reported the plants to police, who also found a bottle of water, a plastic bag and a spray bottle on the roof. Temperatures that night dipped into the 30s.
"We don't know, but they may have been concerned that the frost that night may have killed their marijuana plants," Aspinwall said. "I'm certainly surprised, but it reminds me that people throughout our community need a message of hope and peace."
... Palm Beach Post , Dani Davies, Staff Writer
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There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I've always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic. We believe our work should be our example to people. We have among us 475 souls - 30 families are Catholics and the rest are all Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs—all different religions. But they all come to our prayers. "
... Mother Teresa
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Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
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... Martin Luther King, Jr. 1963
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Karma is the law that every cause has an effect, ie, our actions have results. This simple law explains a number of things: inequality in the world, why some are born handicapped and some gifted, why some live only a short life. Karma underlines the importance of all individuals being responsible for their past and present actions. How can we test the karmic effect of our actions? The answer is summed up by looking at (1) the intention behind the action, (2) effects of the action on oneself, and (3) the effects on others. "
... Brian White, Buddha Dharma Education Assoc.
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty,
but the sight of the stars makes me dream. "
... Vincent Van Gogh
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I'm nobody! Who are you
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
They'd advertise -- you know!
How dreary to be somebody!
How public like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong day
To an admiring bog! "
... Emily Dickinson
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"
I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own; even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father. "
...John 10:14/18
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"
They bade me cast the thing away,
They pointed to my hands all bleeding,
They listened not to all my pleading;
The thing I meant I could not say;
I knew that I should rue the day
If once I cast that thing away.
I grasped it firm, and bore the pain;
The thorny husks I stripped and scattered;
If I could reach its heart, what mattered
If other men saw not my gain,
Or even if I should be slain?
I knew the risks; I chose the pain.
O, had I cast that thing away,
I had not found what most I cherish,
A faith without which I should perish,--
The faith which, like a kernel, lay
Hid in the husks which on that day
My instinct would not throw away! "
"
Doubt"
by Helen Hunt Jackson
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"
The wild pink verbena that grew so profusely along the slopes have
moved
to another area. In their place are yellow flowers, unfamiliar but
like
sunshine after a shower. A familiar saying is that the more something
changes the more it stays the same. Flowers, like people and
circumstances, change so swiftly and unexpectedly that it seems like
the
very foundation of the familiar is moving and changing before us. The
Cherokees call this a ma yi, creek water. It is always moving and
changing before our eyes. Nature reminds us to renew our minds - to
update and enlarge our vision instead of accepting the daily changes
of
the world that come to nothing. No one has ever been so perfect that
he
cannot surpass himself and bloom more brilliantly in another area."
"
A Cherokee Feast of Days,"
Joyce Sequichie Hifler
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"
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
...Martin Luther King Jr.
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Freedom for this man and his people, all people.
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"
Forgive everyone. Forgive all your abusers, even if
what
they have done to you is unforgivable. You forgive not for
their
sakes but for your own. So that you can begin to heal and
become
whole once again. So that the past and all the past abuses
can stay
in the past. So that you aren't imposing pain on yourself
every time
you think of someone who has abused you. It's only in
forgiveness
that we can then feel love, joy and peace of mind.
Forgiveness is
the answer to guilt and shame, and hate and
blame.....Forgiveness
frees the mind, the soul, the spirit and the heart.
Forgiveness is an act of self-love. Forgive every single
person,
including and especially yourself. Find peace in the
knowledge that
God has already forgiven you for all your sins. Forgive...
The past
is gone. Let it go. "
"
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge
the
future. "
...Paul Boese
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"
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves
ignorance. Know
well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and
choose the
path that leads to wisdom "
...Buddha
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"
Before you can love another you must first love yourself.
First you
must know yourself, your inner child, your silent voice,
before you
can ever love the person who you really are. "
... Gentle-Daydreamer
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"
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and
draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself
as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is
sufficient
to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life
proceeds
more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy! "
... Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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"
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence,
and toughness multiplies toughness,
in a descending spiral of destruction.
The chain reaction of evil must be broken,
or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
... Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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"
Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with
all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor
as
thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the
prophets "
... Matthew (22:36-40)
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"
Prayer is our entrance into the Unseen World. It is by prayer we can
call upon the powers and laws of the Great Spirit. The Spirit World
has powers and laws that are different from the Physical World. The
spiritual laws allow healing to take place; they allow forgiveness to
occur; they cause miracles to happen; they cause hate to disappear;
they heal broken relationships; they guide every moment of our lives; they
allow us to love even when it's hard. Prayer allows us access to the
Spirit World. Creator, teach me to pray."
... Thomas Yellowtail, CROW
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" The spiritual light, shining independently,
transcends the senses and objects;
the essence is revealed, real and eternal,
not confined to written words.
The nature of mind has no stain;
it is basically complete in itself.
Just detach from false mental objects
and be enlightened to being-as-is.
"
... Baizhang
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" People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't
need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be
there. I don't believe in Miracles, I rely on them. Life may not be the
party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance."
... submitted by, MOJO & JB
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" As you climbed, leaving the little village paths down below, the noise of the earth, the crickets, the quails and the other birds began their morning song, their chant, their rich worship of the day. And as the sun arose you were a part of that light and had left behind everything that thought had put together. You completely forgot yourself. The psyche was empty of its struggles and its pains. And as you walked, climbed, there was no sense of separateness, no sense of being even a human being.
"
... J. Krishnamurti
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" ... when I was coming up, it wasn't so much about the notes, it's about the story that you told. If it's bad, you need to go back to the woodshed and take care of business. I find myself there quite often."
... Grover Washington Jr.
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" The Road Not Taken "
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
... by: Robert Lee Frost
Click here for: Do Not Forget
submitted by...Ed Evans, MGySgt., USMC (Ret.)
It is regarding September 11, 2001 and how a MGySgt.,
in the United States Marine Corps feels.
It is haunting...
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" Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle: " A truck!"
... From Deep Thoughts
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" I am you and you are me
Why's that such a mystery ?
If you want it you got to believe
Who are we ?
We're who we are
Riding on this great big star
We've got to stand up if we're gonna be free yeah
The Son of God is in your face
Offering us eternal grace
If you want it you've got to believe
'Cause being free is a state of mind
We'll one day leave this all behind
Just put your faith in God
And one day you'll see it
The future's in our present hands
Let's reach right in
Let's understand
If you want it you've got to believe yeah
If you want it you got it
You just got to believe
Believe in yourself yeah
'Cause it's all just a game
We just want to be loved
"
... "Believe", a song by Lenny Kravitz
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" People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar."
... Thich Nhat Hanh
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" However many holy words you read,
However many you speak,
What good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
"
... Buddha
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"
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son! "
... "IF" by Rudyard Kipling
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" Man is a fool,
when it's hot, he wants it cool
when it's cool, he wants it hot
always wanting what is not.
"
... from a poem by Gabe Baluyut
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" I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot...and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed."
... Michael Jordan
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" Do as you please
so your friends ALL tease
And your parents see things in their own way.
Teachers teach and DO the world good
but most good teachers are misunderstood.
Plan to make the most of your day
and BE kind to everyone
in a special way."
... A Poem by Carl
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" Thank you, Dear God,
For reminding me that a job is just a job, a means to an end.
For reminding me that I like being a home-body and a person who focuses on a few quality friends rather than a quantity of aquaintenances.
For reminding me that I like being a person who takes the time to be here now.
For reminding me that simple abundance creates a whole lot of joy and love in my life. Keeping it simple lets me enjoy each moment.
For reminding me that I like having a mind that's receptive to new ideas and likes remaining teachable.
For reminding me that I adore being a person who puts my mate and my home FIRST AND FOREMOST in my life...
...not when I get around to it."
... Christianne
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" Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
... Victor Borge
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" The most effective sermon is expressed in deeds instead of words."
... Waite Phillips
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" If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
"
... Mother Teresa
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" You cannot grasp It;
Nor can you get rid of It.
In not being able to get It, you get It.
When you speak, It is silent;
When you are silent It speaks."
... Zen master Yung-Chia's song of Enlightenment
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" One who lives with passion is like a brightly burning fire. A small dim fire can easily be extinguished by gusts of wind, but a large bright one will grow bigger as the wind grows stronger.
In the same way, the more obstacles a passionate person encounters, the brighter and stronger that person grows."
... from"Open Your Mind, Open Your Life", Taro Gold
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" We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them."
... The Roman philosopher Seneca (BC 3 - 65AD)
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" The fool who knows he is a fool is for that very reason wise.
The fool who thinks himself wise is the greatest fool of all.."
... Shakyamuni
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" A great mentor is one who aims for others' abilities to surpass his own."
... Mahatma Gandhi
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"Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Nonviolence requires much more courage then violence."
... Mahatma Gandhi
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" There was once a baby circus elephant that could not break free from her leg chain, though she tried and tried. Eventually she gave up all together. Years later, she still had that little chain around her leg. Although she was now strong enough to break free, in her mind she had long accepted that she could not.
Become a revisionist of your own history. Go back into your halls of memory and find the courage to view those experiences again… only this time through the clear vision of retrospection. Give yourself the answers you did not have then, learn what you once failed to learn, and allow yourself and others to be wrong. Then let it go.
When you do this, you will feel a sense of boundless, joyful freedom. Then the chain will be just a string, a silly useless string. "
... from"Open Your Mind, Open Your Life", by Taro Gold
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" You can not do right in one department of life while occupied doing wrong in any other department. Life is one invisible whole. "
... Mahatma Gandhi
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" To meditate while you conjugate…
will always take you both...to heaven's gate.
"
... Gabriel
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What is Courage?
" Hearing more than others think is wise;
risking more than others think is safe;
dreaming more than others think is practical;
expecting more than others think possible.
"
... Admiral Arleigh Burke
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"
The mind it sometimes serves us well
But to the contrary I am here to tell
That we can get a better start
By using the intelligence of our heart
For deep within our living being
If we are open to conscious seeing
Are all the answers to the our questions
All the knowledge from our lessons
And any love that we desire
It burns within us like a mystical fire
It will consume the refuge of our minds
Help us leave our suffering behind
When a loving life we choose to create
It is through the heart we'll find the gate"
... submitted by Y
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" The Lotus Sutra, the ancient teaching that asserts all people have enlightenment within them and are essentially equals, is a radical teaching. If it were not, then racial, sexual and age discrimination, not to mention violence, terrorism, amd war would not exist.
We can try many ways to get rid of the darkness, but none is as effective as simply increasing the light.
"
... Chinese proverb
Click here for: Pretend
From " Thomas "
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" When we are upset, it's easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a glass of water. Now, imagine past negative experiences as sediment at the bottom of your glass. Next, think of others as spoons. When one stirs, the sentiment clouds your water. It may appear that the spoon caused the water to cloud...but if there were no sediment, the water would remain clear no matter what. The key, then, is to identify our sediment and actively work to remove all of it.
"
... Josei Toda
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" The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. Never failure but low aim, is life greatest tragedy.
"
... Benjamin E. Mayes
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" .. Dear God, I pray for healings, blessings and miracles to touch my life and the lives of every person whose life has touched mine in any way, and let the healings, blessings and miracles flow from them as well. And thank You for what I know has already been done."
... Christianne
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" An ye harm none, do what ye will.
"
... from the Wiccan Rede
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" Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!"
... Amanda Bradley
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" Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, Something is out of tune. "
... Carl Jung
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" Any stone in your boot always migrates against the pressure gradient to exactly the point of most pressure.
"
... Milt Barber
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness"...
... Thomas Jefferson
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" Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
"
...Dr. Martin Luther King, jr.
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"
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
...Lao Tzu
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"
It's the heart afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance...
It's the dream afraid of waking, that never takes a chance...
It's the one who won't be taken, who can not seem to give...
And, it's the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
"
... from, The Rose
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power... the world will know peace."
...Jimi Hendrix
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
...Buddha
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A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
"
...Mahatma Gandhi
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There are three marks of an angel's work. First, they always say :"Don't be afraid, We're here and taking care of things." Second, you are filled with warmth and joy. Home! cries your lost and lonley soul, flooding with rememberance. Third, you are never quite the same: you can not forget."
...Sophy Burnham
Dear God …
"
I give to you this night. Post angels round my home, my bed, my children, my loves, and everyone. Send angels through the world tonight, to heal the sick and awaken the dead. Let miracles replace the pain in all of us. Lay Your hands on all our eyes, that we might see at last."
...Marianne Williamson, "
Illuminated prayers"
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Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."
... Frank Outlaw
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Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
"
... Thich Nhat Hanh
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I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
"
... Jimmy Carter
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If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough
"
... Mario Andretti
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Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness.Truth is stronger than lies.
"
... Desmond Tutu
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...You know, we can't get out of life alive! We can either die in the bleachers or die on the field. We might as well come down on the field and go for it!
"
... Les Brown
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.Pray not for a lighter load, but for stronger shoulders.
"
... St. Augustine
" Creator and most loving God:
We are in pain, wounded by the actions of people we neither know nor understand.
-- Our horror grows as we watch the smoke from the buildings and the replays of the planes hitting their marks
-- Our sorrow grows as the number of people whose lives have been lost grows, and
-- Our grief grows over our own sense of loss -- the loss of safety and security.
Our hearts are filled with anger in response to the suffering, and we are confused.
Be with us, Sacred One, and help us -- by your presence with us -- to escape being poisoned by our own anger and our need for revenge.
But mostly, our initial task for today and the days to come is to lift up and honor those persons who passed through the doorway of death as a result of these evil actions. Carry their souls safely home and surround their friends and family with your holy angels as they grieve.
And lastly, Lord, we ask forgiveness for the times when our conversations break down and we turn to violence and terror in order to be heard. Help us that our hearts not be hardened.
Lord of Day and Night, of Life and Death,
We place ourselves in Your holy hands,through Christ our Lord
. Amen
"
... Reverend Maxine Maddox Dornemann
" After you've met your angel, it's not enough to sit back. Ask yourself, Whose angel can I become today?" Bring a child a surprise present, visit a sick person, give someone a compliment, or call a friend who's going through a hard time."
Susan Santucci ...Pathways to the Spirit
" Get up off of dat thang, and dance."
...James Brown
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Last updated February 5, 2012
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