God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you have two wings to fly, not one. - Rumi quoted in Love Is a Fire by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
We cannot let ourselves off the hook by thinking that the world will improve by somebody else's effort. Martin Luther King didn't sit back and say, Somebody ought to fight for civil rights. Gandhi didn't say, How can just one Indian attorney transform a nation? There is a power in you, a Soul Force that can make changes for the better. That fire is burning in you, right at this moment. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. - Lucille Ball
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content when I cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress. - Elizabeth Montagu
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed. - Eileen Caddy
*Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson
One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived. - Paul Bourget, 1852-1935, French novelist
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Charles Du Bos
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it. - Mark Twain
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. - Max DePree, Author
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others. - David Seabury
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. – Aristotle
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. - Oscar Wilde
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. - Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German dramatist, poet
It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard, 1813-55, Danish philosopher
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov, b. 1921, British actor
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong, b. 1942, American author
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, This is the real me, and when you have found that attitude, follow it. - William James
Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. - George Santayana, 1863-1952, American philosopher, poet
Where is God? We know that God is here. That means God is in every single person that we meet, regardless of the personality or the behavior, regardless of the circumstance. Even with difficult people, God is in the experience, operating through this person in a way that is meant to awaken our souls. As a daily practice, thank God today for the difficult people and ask to be shown the gift. - Mary Manin Morrissey
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true. - Demosthenes, 384?-322 B.C., Greek orator
Fame is proof that the people are gullible. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
*Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of
Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well. - Danish proverb
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. - Marcus T. Cicero 106-43BC; Roman statesman, orator & writer on rhetoric & philosophy
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. - Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher and author
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. - John Keats, 1795-1821, English poet
When there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. - Charles F. Kettering, 1876-1958, VP General Motors
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things. - Michel de Montaigne, 1533-92, French essayist
In love, there is transformation that occurs. But it occurs only when we remember that God is to be found in every situation and person. When we have the greatest challenge being in love, this is when the greatest gifts are there for us. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The second coming of Christ is not how many of us have been taught it would be, with Jesus coming on the clouds. It is the coming of that Christ consciousness within each and every one of us. As you and I begin to practice remembering, we know that God is in every person we meet. God is in the center of me. God is in the center of this situation. As we practice remembering that, in the context of our everyday lives, something opens up and there's a shift that can occur. Today, remember. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. – Lord Chesterfield
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. - John Steinbeck
All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors - Khalil Gibran
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. - Henry Ford
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and women. - Pearl S. Buck
What happens when someone dies? There is not one of us who will get through this life without having someone we love move through that doorway before us. A God of love would never create an experience where love is removed. Our relationships with those who have passed on can remain living and vital and loving. - Mary Manin Morrissey
That best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. - William Wordsworth
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't. - Sir William Temple 1628-1699; British author and diplomat
The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it. - Blaise Pascal, 1623-62, French scientist and religious philosopher
You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. - Abraham Lincoln
Who we are is not limited to our physical form. We can lose a hand or a foot, and not lose ourselves. We have a body and we have thoughts and feelings, but there is a way of knowing that is beyond physical, five-sensory perception. If we think the only way we can know things is through our senses, we cut off much of what God has to give each of us, every day. - Mary Manin Morrissey
No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. - Isaac Babel, 1894-1940, Russian short-story writer and playwright
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for. - Mary Ellen Chase, American author (1887-1973)
When we pray and ask God to be present in our lives, are we praying to something outside of ourselves? Instead, when we pray, we can ask to simply be aware of the God presence within. We can ask to have awakeness that we might experience our connection to God and to all beings. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Animals have these advantages over man; they have no theologians to instruct them; their funerals cost nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. - Voltaire, 1694-1778
*In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. - Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887;
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. - Samuel Johnson, 1709-84, English author, lexicographer
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. - Samuel Johnson, 1709-84, English author, lexicographer
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. - Mary McCarthy, 1912-89, American author, critic
The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber. - William Mather Lewis
There are lessons to be learned in every place. The mark of spiritual mastery is the ability to remember God wherever we go, and through whatever we experience. - Alan Cohen, The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore
The chief action for a man of spirit is never to be out of action; the soul was never put into the body to stand still. - John Webster
People in every century since the Book of Revelation was written have predicted the end times, have said, This is the time. We are the people. And this is the place. The time has come. And they were right. It is always the time for the second coming. The Apocalypse happens when our world falls away and there is nothing left but God. - Mary Manin Morrissey
In all persons, all creatures, the Self is the innermost essence. And it is identical with Brahman: our real Self is not different from the ultimate Reality called God. - The Upanishads, As Translated by Eknath Easwaran
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. - Pearl S. Buck, 1892-1973, American author
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. - Michel de Montaigne, 1533-92, French essayist
Nothing is good or bad but by comparison. - Thomas Fuller, 1608-61, English clergyman and author
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. - Lewis Mumford, 1895-1990, American social philosopher
The rich must live more simply, so that the poor may simply live. -Charles Birch quoted in Life Abundant by Sallie McFague
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he was poor. - Sir William Temple, 1628-1699; British author and diplomat born in
We associate spirit with positive and creative energy. This energy gives us the power to live, work, and create. Spiritual people are positive and creative human beings. They know, deep inside themselves, that they have the power to create the difference in their lives. They have looked within and found what can be called their yes to life, and this yes shines forth in their attitudes and actions. - When God Becomes A Drug, Father Leo Booth
Have courage for the great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. - Victor Hugo
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. - Anna Jameson
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, 1869-1948
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato
Better to remain silent and to be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. - Erich Fromm, 1900-1980, American psychologist
I don't have an hourglass figure. I have an hour and a half. I have a little too much time on my ass. - Wendy Liebman
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. - B. F. Skinner, 1904-1990; US psychologist, author & educator
Each soul comes to earth with gifts. Each soul takes upon itself a particular task. It may be the task of raising a family or communicating ideas through writing, or transforming the consciousness of a community, such as the business community. It may be the task of awakening the awareness of the power of love at the level of nations, or even contributing directly to the evolution of consciousness on a global level. Whatever the task that your soul has agreed to, whatever its contract with the universe, all of the experiences of your life serve to awaken within you the memory of that contract, and to prepare you to fulfill it. - Gary Zukav, Seat of the Soul
Fire transforms all things it touches into its own nature. The wood does not change the fire into itself; but the fire changes the wood into itself. In the same way, we are transformed into God, so that we may know him as he is. Acting and becoming are one. God and I are one in this work; he acts, and I become. - Meister Eckhart, German Christian minister, 1260-1327
Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, Joy is not in things, it is in us. - Joan Borysenko
Knowing the truth and living the truth are two different things. We can acknowledge the wisdom of the Apostle Paul, who wrote from prison: I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me, but the information alone doesn't change us very much. We need to act on these words in order for them to have true meaning. Inspiration is fine, but transformation occurs when we put these truths into action in our own lives. Today, remember: There is nothing that God and I together cannot handle. - Mary Manin Morrissey
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. - Albert Einstein
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together, or we are going to learn to live together; and if we are to live together, we have to talk. - Eleanor Roosevelt
*The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. - Jack London
We're not invited into relationship with God at a deeper level in the absence of our challenges, but in the midst of all of life, including our challenges. Difficulties provide us a chance for greater closeness. Every situation in life carries with it an incredible opportunity for sweetness, depth and wonder. Receive every experience today as an opportunity and a gift. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice. - William Shakespeare
We have two ears and only one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less. - Diogenes, c.412-323 B.C., Greek Cynic philosopher
Listening is the only way to entertain some folks. - Kin (Frank McKinney) Hubbard, 1868-1930, American humorist, journalist
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
- American poet Robert Frost
If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born. - Jonas Salk
Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it. - Jeremy Taylor 1613-1667; British theologian & author of religious texts
In any way that men love Me, in that same way they find My love; for many are the paths of men, but they all in the end come to
We can go to God with everything on our minds. But once we pour out our souls, then it is time to listen while asking: How can I see this differently? What can I do? I know many people who worry forever about finances or relationships and never do anything differently about how they handle them. Remember, God can only do for us what God can do through us. Practice not only asking for your life to be different; be willing to BE different. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. - Chinese proverb
The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing and its sound is love. – Kabir
The Apostle Paul made the most extraordinary promise about the experience that awaits us when we develop close connection with our Higher Power: And the peace of God which transcends human understanding will guard your heart and mine. In the midst of any overwhelming difficulty, we can feel inner security in a way that defies logic. We can walk through great challenge and not be consumed by it. We can live in a sense of God's love, no matter what. Start today by remembering God's presence at least once every hour. - Mary Manin Morrissey
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. - Albert Camus, 1913-60, French writer
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd be millionaires. - Abigail Van Buren, 1918-, American columnist
Principle - particularly moral principle - can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. - Edward R. Lyman
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. - Hans Selye
*A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught! - Thomas A. Kempis
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. - Jerome K. Jerome, 1859-1927, English humorist and playwright
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. - J. Raper
*It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all. - James Thurber, 1894-1961, American humorist
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. - Red Skelton
Good things, when short, are twice as good. - Baltasar Gracian, 1601-58, Spanish Jesuit philosopher and writer
Brevity is the soul of wit. - William Shakespeare
It is not natural for our minds to be open to what is other; we have to cultivate it. - Carol Bly quoted in The Force of Spirit by Scott Russell Sanders
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822, English poet
We are at peace when we are in alignment with God's will, with that in us that is true, that in us that is right, that in us that is the Presence and Power that is God, the real self in us. When you are not at peace, look within and ask, Where am I not in alignment with God? Then, choose again. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. - Mother Teresa
Every one of us is a teacher for God. We are created in the image and the likeness of God and we are meant to represent, to re-present God in this realm. Today, re-present the face of Love. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued. - Jean De La Bruyere
Acquit me, or do not acquit me, but be sure that I shall not alter my way of life, no, not if I have to die for it many times. - Socrates, Greek philosopher
The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame. - Rod Steiger,
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. - May Sarton,
Gratitude releases a dynamic current of spiritual energy to go before us to exert a mighty influence in our world. - John Randolph Price
As a rocket takes off into space, a tiny directional shift at the point of takeoff can mean a difference of hundreds of miles later in the flight. Our small choices can have huge consequences. Today, pay attention to the tiny decisions you make. Choose Love as your direction. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination. - Mahatma Gandhi
The quieter you become the more you can hear. - Baba Ram Dass
It is better to say, This one thing I do than to say, These forty things I dabble in. - Washington Gladden
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. - Gloria Steinem, 1934-,
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. - Henry David Thoreau, 1817-62),
We have got but one life here. It pays, no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time. -
What you can do, or think you can, begin it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God. - Bayazid Al-Bistami
To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. – Emerson
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. - Joseph Joubert
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. -
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian
To achieve great thing we must live as though we were never going to die. - Marquis de Vauvenargues, French moralist
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. - William Hazlitt, English essayist and critic
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. - Samuel Butler 1835-1902; British musician, painter & writer born in Nottinghamshire
The World is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. - Henry Miller
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle
*Begin at once to live - and count each day as a separate life. - Seneca c.AD-40; Roman author of works on rhetoric
Abraham Maslow said that peak performers, those great achievers in life, are not people with something added that the rest of us don't have. They simply have nothing taken away. We all have everything we need to experience the great dreams God is dreaming for our lives and to give our unique gifts to the world. - Mary Manin Morrissey
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs. - Francois Fenelon
It is easy to live for others; everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. poet
*I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed. - George Carlin
The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. - Thomas Szasz, Humanist
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. – Kabir
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. -
Every increase of our spiritual understanding means more light appearing and dispelling the darkness of sense. - Joel Goldsmith
I've been married for forty-three years, and it ain't easy. By way of comparison, forty-three years is longer than most murderers spend in jail - Irv Gilman
What we believe to be true moves through the lens of our mind as living energy and becomes the reality of our lives. If we believe ourselves to be limited, we get to be right about that - but it is not our ultimate truth. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others. - Arthur Schopenhauer
What can one person do? There's something going on in your workplace, in your family, in your life, where Spirit is saying, I've got you uniquely placed, because there's something I would do through you. For this I have created you. For this I have called you into being. You are free, to be and do all that God created you to be. - Mary Manin Morrissey
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know who his grandson will be. -
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. – Aristotle
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. - Liane Cardes
Every day, the dog and I, we go for a tramp in the woods. And he loves it! Mind you, the tramp is getting a bit fed up. - Jerry Dennis
If you do not live the life you believe, you will believe the life you live. - Zig Ziglar
*Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. - James Baldwin, Novelist and civil rights activist
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. - Saint-Exupery, Writer and aviator
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings. - Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss critic (1821-1881)
There is no need to run outside for better seeing, nor to peer from a window. Rather abide at the center of your being; for the more you leave it, the less you learn. Search your heart and see if he is wise who takes each turn: The way to do is to be. - Lao-Tsu
To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life. - J.E. Buchrose
Energy and persistence conquer all things. - Benjamin Franklin
I now leave, not knowing when, or whether, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon
Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside. - Brian Tracy
Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. - Lord Rochester, Poet and courtier
Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. – Socrates 469-399BC
The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. - Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855; Danish theologian & philosopher
Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments. - Actor Kevin Costner
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. - Winnie the Pooh
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton, American author
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney
All sense of separation, all dis-ease, all dis-order in our lives - meaning out of peace, out of sync with ourselves - comes from our thinking. We're created in the image and the exact likeness of God in a unique way. We are each a point in the mind of God through which God's Power moves but most of us live most of our lives without even knowing that, so it's like having a trickle from the faucet instead of experiencing the ocean. Tune in today to what is noble, true and loving, to what really is God. - Mary Manin Morrissey
If you really do wish to alter your life, if you really do wish to change yourself-to become a different person altogether in the sight of God and man-if you really do want health and peace of mind, and spiritual development, then Jesus, in his Sermon on the Mount, has clearly shown you how it is to be done. - Emmet Fox
I drank a whole bottle of bug repellent by mistake the other day.... Now my fly doesn't work- unknown
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Henri B. Stendhal 1783-1842; French writer of biographies, critical works, novels
Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself. - Harvey Fierstein
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