Everyone can be great. Because everyone can serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action. -
Sometimes life's shadows are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Here is a definite way by which you can separate truth from falsehood. Truth is a friendly force that gives its rewards RIGHT NOW, this very instant. There is no waiting, there is no future, it is NOW ! Falsehood, on the other hand, always promises its rewards of happiness and "change for the better" in the future. Falsehood says it will happen tomorrow, when time passes. Truth declares it will happen today, this moment.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. - Arthur Schopenhauer
You can't do anything about the length of your life but you can do something about its width and depth. - Evan Essar
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. - R.G. Ingersoll
Forgiveness emanates from the heart. It is a state of mind that pierces a hole in the heart, allowing Light to penetrate consciousness - Norma Milanovich and Shirley McCune
Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment. - Tom Morris
The measure of a man is not determined by his show of outward strength or the volume of his voice, or the thunder of his action. It is to be seen rather in terms of the strength of his inner self, in terms of the nature and depth of his commitment, the sincerity of his purpose, and his willingness to continue "growing up." - Grade E. Poulard
To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. - Grenville Kleiser (1868-1953) American Author
I see on an immense scale, and as clearly as a demonstration in a laboratory that we are made strong by what we overcome. - John Burroughs
If you were conscious, that is to say totally present in the Now, all negativity would dissolve almost instantly. It could not survive in your presence. - Eckhart Tolle
A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle aged habit and convention. - Aldous Huxley
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. - Richard Bach
He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has. – Epictetus
A man owes nothing to any other human being on earth except to be himself, but since few see this, most men stagger under the burdensome debt of artificial behavior. It is tragic illusion that we can do anything for others before we have done something for ourselves. -
The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored. – Goethe
Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. - Brendan Francis [Behan] (1923-1964) Irish Author
Slight not what is near through aiming at what is far. - Euripides
The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it, and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more. - George MacDonald
I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. - Leo C. Rosten (1908-1977) American Writer
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. - John Berry
The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. - William F. Scolavino
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. - Carl Jung
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. - Bishop W.C. Magee (1821-1891)
Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. - Saint Francis de Sales
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. - George Bernard Shaw
The unthankful heart.discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart.will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. - Henry Ward Beecher
It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends. – Euripides
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. - Marcus Aurelius
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery. - Janet Erskine Stuart
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. - Ben Sweetland
Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown. - Thomas F. Woodlock
When a person mentions his problem, there is always a deeper problem underneath it. The woman who asks, 'How can I make my husband more considerate?' also asks, 'How can I banish my pain of being ignored?' People seldom mention the deeper problem, partly because they are unaware of it, and partly because they dislike admitting it. In your situations, proceed wisely by digging down to the deeper problem. When self-insight dissolves it, the surface situation ceases to exist as a problem to you. -
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. - Samuel Goldwyn
Part of living with love is also learning how to say "no." This may sound selfish, but in fact what it means is that we are choosing how we will love the world that day. - Bernie Siegel
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. - Dag Hammarskjöld
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish Writer
Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter. - Matthew Fox
We all experience "soul moments" in life-when we see a magnificent sunrise, hear the call of the loon, see the wrinkles in our mother's hands, or smell the sweetness of a baby. During these moments, our body, as well as our brain, resonates as we experience the glory of being a human being. - Marion Woodman
No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it-to remain children of light. - Albert Schweitzer
No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work. - Mother Teresa
You know the disease in
I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through - Listen to this Music. - Hafiz
Love is something you can leave behind you when you die. It's that powerful. - John Lame Deer
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. - William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another. - William Law
The whole of Western thought is profoundly influenced through and through by the idea that all things - all events, all people, all mountains, all stars, all flowers, all grasshoppers, all worms - are artifacts; they have been made....The Chinese do not think of nature as something that was made. Instead, they look upon it as something that grows....When you make something you put it together...working from the outside to the inside. However, when you watch something grow, it works in an entirely different way. It does not assemble its parts. It expands from within and gradually complicates itself expanding outward like a bud blossoming... - Alan Watts, The Tao of Philosophy
Despite some of the horrors and barbarisms of modern life which appall and grieve us, life has - or has the potential of - such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams. - Arthur Holly Compton (1892-1962) American Physicist
Looking for God is like seeking a path in a field of snow; if there is no path and you are looking for one, walk across it and there is your path. - Thomas Merton
Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. - Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist
When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and the joy of living. – Tecumseh
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. - John Ruskin (1819-1900)
One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. - Sigmund Freud
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. - Richard Bach
The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous. - Margaret Fontey
Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement. - Thomas N. Carruther
Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God. - Thomas Merton
Seek refuge in the attitude of detachment and you will amass the wealth of spiritual awareness. Those who are motivated only by the fruits of action are miserable, for they constantly are worried about the results of what they do. - Bhagavad Gita
I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship. Behind the harsh appearance of the world there is a benign power. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. - John Milton (1608-1674) English Poet
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. - St. Thomas Aquinas
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others. - David Seabury
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. - Agatha Christie
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power. - Lord Alfred Tennyson
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. - Donald A. Adams
All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors. - Kahlil Gibran
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - Henry Ford
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - The Dalai Lama
Every man has an obscure respect for courage in others, especially if it is moral courage, the rarest and most difficult sort of bravery... It makes the very brute understand that this man is more than a man. - Passage from Life of Christ
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. - John Ruskin (1819-1900) English Art Critic
It was on the eve of his betrayal that Jesus spoke these words, 'Let not your heart be troubled,' with that calm certainty which has ever been given to the believing. He was not afraid ... We are to know that passing events cannot hinder the onward march of the soul. The temporal imperfection of the human cannot dim the eternal integrity of the Divine. - Ernest Holmes
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. - Chinese proverb
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. - Nicholas Murray
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. - Carl G. Jung
One of the first things to do, is to love everybody ... with love, all things are possible ... and the one who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love. - Ernest Holmes
The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ablility to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself. - Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529) Chinese Philosopher
The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but return. - Alan Cohen
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
Children need models rather than critics. - Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher
Perhaps for just one minute of the day, it may be of value to torture yourself with thoughts like, "I should be doing a hell of a lot more with my life than I am - cause I'm so damned talented." But remember, for just one minute of the day. With all the rest of your time it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does. For He knows your true royal nature. God is never confused and can see only Himself in you. - Hafiz The Subject Tonight is Love
We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Then someone - our parents, teachers, analysts - hypnotizes us to "see" the world and construe it in the "right" way. These others label the world, attach names, and give voices to the beings and events in it, so that thereafter, we cannot read the world in any other language or hear it saying other things to us. The task is to break the hypnotic spell, so that we become undeaf, unblind, and multilingual, thereby letting the world speak to us in new voices and write all its possible meanings in the new book of our existence. Be careful in your choice of hypnotists. - Sidney Jourard
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life. - Sir William Osler (1849-1919) Canadian Physician
Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add some thing to yourself in order to be yourself more fully.
All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less.
These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you.
- Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
Consider that people are like tea bags. They don't know their own strength until they get into hot water. - Dan McKinnon
I call that mind free which sets no bounds to its love - recognizing in all human beings the image of God. - Ellery Channing
If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins them. - Francis Bacon
Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength. – Anonymous
It is on our shoulders to create the future. Nobody's going to do it for us. And my own greatest passion is for helping people to awaken to this urgency within themselves. Those of us who are sincerely interested in finding spiritual liberation, and in that liberation coming to a deep understanding of what it means to be a human being, need to start creating the future together. We have to take responsibility for it in the biggest way. Why? Because as a race we are at a very delicate, dangerous, and exciting time in our evolutionary development. We are between stages. Those of us at the leading edge have transcended the old but we have not yet created the new. We actually need to create the next philosophical, spiritual, moral, and ethical context for our own lives. And this evolution cannot happen in any other way except through us. That is the awe-inspiring truth of what it means to be a human being in our time. - Andrew Cohen
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
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. - Sir Edmund Hillary
Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process. - Phillips Brooks
"Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, finds yet a precious jewel upon its head ...I would not change it." – Shakespeare
A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle aged habit and convention. - Aldous Huxley
I am like you. You are like me: We always find ourselves in others. . . . It is never too far to find our brothers There is nowhere to go but home. - E. B. de Vito quoted in "Divine Things" by Robert Kirschner
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
When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it. (From her biography of naturalist Eustace Conway.) - Elizabeth Gilbert
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. - Albert Einstein
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." – Anonymous
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. - Mencius (371-291 B.C.)
Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect. - Alain De Botton
Duality...let it be a duet, not a duel. - Pearl Glenn
We understand why children are afraid of the darkness, but why are men afraid of the light? - Plato
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. - Thich Nhat Hanh
You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work. - Thomas Dreier
God has no religion. - Mohandas Gandhi
Much of what is said about intuition is non-sensical and misleading. It usually appeals to what people want to believe about themselves. Tell someone he possesses rare powers of intuition and his wish to believe it robs him of all sensible examination of the subject....The tragedy is the person's inability to see that his assumed powers have no practical value whatever. He still goes through his day in dazed worry. True intuition is the natural outcome of consistent self-work which gives no place to delusions, letting us see things as they are, instantly, without conditioned thought. True intuition first appears to sincere seekers as a brief glimpse of another way , a faint hint of a new world. There is no mistaking its realness. -
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. -
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you'll never walk alone. - Audrey Hepburn
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. - Allophones Karr
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
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. - Epictetus (55-135 AD) Roman Philosopher
Many people want to govern others before maturing into self-government. They want to feel happiness before growing out of self-concern. We can reach heights all right, but we must put growth before grasping. -
Inside yourself or outside yourself you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it. - Thaddeus Golas
It is a delusion to think that we can obtain more of God by contemplation or by pious devotions or by religious retreats than by being at the fireplace or by working in the stable. - Meister Eckhart
It sounds too simple to say that lack of self-insight causes our grief, but that is the plain fact. -
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. - Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet
Be Impeccable. I have told you this dozens of times. To be impeccable means to put your life on the line in order to back up your decisions, and then to do quite a lot more than your best to realize those decisions. When you are not deciding anything, you are merely playing roulette with your life in a helter-skelter way. - Don Juan Matus in, The Art of Dreaming
[Money] is Intelligence forever finding new outlets for its own creative action. - Raymond Charles Barker
Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out. - Eleanor Porter (1868-1920) American Novelist
The state in which most of us live is like a vast, peaceful desert in which a tiny radio is blaring. Although the peaceful nature of the desert is always present as the background, and is itself unaffected by the noise, the noise appears to be the predominant experience. However, turning off the radio reveals the noise to be nothing more than a surface disturbance. In the same way, if we shut off the constantly chattering mind, the ever-present peace of the subtle mind will be available to us. - Bertram W. Salzman
One thing seems endless - human gullibility. An animal kingdom was once ruled by an evil fox. One day the sheep in his kingdom felt unhappy with their miserable conditions, and threatened to revolt. The fox hastily called for advice from his chief minister, a cunning crow. The fox asked how he could keep the sheep in a dazed submission. Smiling, the crow assured the fox that it was very simple. All he had to do was to continue to treat he sheep like sheep while calling them lions.
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance, in the middle of the fighting. Dance, in your blood. Dance, when you're perfectly free. Struck, the dancers hear a tambourine inside them, as a wave turns to foam on its very top, begin. Maybe you don't hear that tambourine, or the tree leaves clapping time.
Close the ears on your head that listen mostly to lies and cynical jokes. There are other things to hear and see: dance-music, and a brilliant city inside the Soul.
- Rumi, The Longing
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
"How shall I forgive others?"
"If you never condemned, you would never need to forgive."
- Anthony de Mello
Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice. - John McCain
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment. - Hermann Hesse
Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside. - Brian Tracy
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. - Helen Keller
For all his holiness, the Master seemed vaguely opposed to religion. This never ceased to puzzle the disciples who, unlike the Master, equated religion with spirituality. "Religion as practiced today deals in punishments and rewards. In other words, it breeds fear and greed - the two things most destructive of spirituality."
Later he added ruefully, "It is like tackling a flood with water; or a burning barn with fire."
- Anthony de Mello
There are two simultaneous processes: One is insight-the willing of attention, the channeling of awareness to focus precisely on what you want to see. The other process is surrender-letting go of all arising thoughts. That is real meditation; that is how you cut free of the mind. - Dan Millman
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. - Buddhist Proverb
The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received. – Confucius
Jesus said, "If those who lead you say to you, 'See the kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather the kingdom is inside of you and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty." – Jesus, The Gospel of Thomas
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers. - Richard Bach
We have free will, but our free will lies in our choice of thought. - Emmet Fox
To a distressed person who came to him for help the Master said, "Do you really want a cure?" "If I did not, would I bother to come to you?" "Oh yes. Most people do." "What for?" "Not for a cure. That's painful. For relief." To his disciples the Master said, "People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favor progress, provided they can have it without change." - Anthony de Mello, SJ
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. – Confucius
Do not let other people interfere with what you must do for yourself. Under the spell of psychic hypnosis, and therefore not wanting rescue for themselves, they may try to discourage your efforts to break out. Be aware of their hostility toward truth, then quietly remove your mind from their influence. Be a
The best way to prepare for tomorrow is to make today's consciousness serene and harmonious. All other good things will follow upon that. - Emmet Fox
I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force....My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day. - Og Mandino
There's no praise and no blame on the path you've chosen. Praise and blame are forms of manipulation that you no longer require. - Dan Millman
The Master was in a mellow mood and the disciples were inquisitive. Did he ever feel depressed? they asked.
He did.
Wasn't it also true the he was in a continual state of happiness? they persisted.
It was.
What was the secret? they wanted to know.
Said the Master, "This: Everything is as good or as bad as one's opinion makes it."
- Anthony de Mello, SJ
Know that an idea about God is not God. People have thousands of strange ideas about God, based on personal desires and fears. People are not in contact with God at all, but pray only to their own idea about God. No mere idea about something is the object itself. A thought about an apple is not an actual apple. God exists in a reality above all human thought. To reach God's help, rise above your own human thoughts. Do this by seeing their limitations. -
My Sufi master once said: If you put the world between you and God, the world becomes a spiritual obstacle; if you use the world to remember God, the world becomes your spiritual friend. - Robert Frager in "The Wisdom of Islam"
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Though the unknown, remembered gate when the last of the earth left to discover is that which was the beginning... Quick now, here, now, always - A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)...
- T. S. Eliot, "The Gidding"
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder. - W.J. Slim
Therefore, Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Betake yourselves to no external refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. - Buddha
Time-lapse photography has allowed us to glimpse the unfolding of flowers and embryos and galaxies. If we were able to view the sense of self in a similar way, we would be able to glimpse also the external deconstruction and reconstruction of the sense of self in ever-moving, sequential, and beautiful patterns of unfolding. We do not yet have a good vantage point on ourselves. - Kathleen Dowling Singh
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