The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. - William Ellery Channing, author of Spiritual Freedom
I'm the spirit's janitor. All I do is wipe the windows a little bit so you can see out for yourself. - Godfrey Chips, Lakota Medicine Man, quoted in Walking on the Wind by Michael Garrett
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. - Meister Eckhart
Like all weak men, he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. - W.
When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge...is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness. - Caroline Myss, Ph.D., Anatomy of the Spirit
A wonderful life is not an end product. A wonderful life is a way of living, a way of realizing our full potential as sons and daughters of the living God. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Conscious love has as its motive the impassioned desire that the one who is loved fully realize his or her inherent perfection, without regard for the consequences to the lover. - Stewart Emery
Enhancing the other person’s ability to live more beautifully and to grow is an exciting challenge for us. The purpose of life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, would you at least not hurt them? - Leo Buscaglia
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each one of us must do it for himself. - Josiah Royce (American Philosopher, 1892)
*The difference between
*What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left. - Oscar Levant
Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees. - J. Willard Marriott
At least if you're failing, you know you're alive; you're participating, engaged, learning, and therefore contributing to evolution. The Japanese have a phrase for this -- they call it the nobility of failure, implying, Look at all the great things at which this person failed. She was really alive. - Caroline Casey in Making the Gods Work for You
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of loss of power. - John Steinbeck
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. - Joan Baez
*Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I rest not from my great task to open the Eternal Worlds; to open the Immortal Eyes of man inwards into Worlds of Thought, into Eternity, ever expanding in the Bosom of God, the Human Imagination. - William Blake
A man is never so ridiculous by those qualities that are his own as by those that he affects to have. - Benjamin Franklin
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. - Lao-Tzu
...meditation is very much like training a puppy. You put the puppy down and say, Stay. Does the puppy listen? It gets up and it runs away. You sit the puppy back down again. Stay. And the puppy runs away over and over again. Sometimes the puppy jumps up, runs over, and pees in the corner or makes some other mess. Our minds are much the same as the puppy, only they create even bigger messes. In training the mind, or the puppy, we have to start over and over again. - Jack Kornfield, A Path With Heart
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. - Wayne Dyer
*How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver
The cloud weeps, and then the garden sprouts.
The baby cries, and the mother's milk flows.
The Nurse of Creation has said, Let them cry a lot.
This rain-weeping and sun-burning twine together
to make us grow. Keep your intelligence white-hot
and your grief glistening, so your life will stay fresh.
Cry easily like a little child.
- Rumi, translation by Coleman Barks, quoted in Love, Soul & Freedom:
Dancing with Rumi on the Mystic Path by Denise Breton and Christopher
Largent
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. - Leonardo da Vinci
Do not exchange the pearl of thy soul for the tinsel of the world. - Kabir
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. - Nadia Boulanger
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. - Author unknown
*Our duty is not to see through one another, but to see one another through. - Leonard Sweet in A Cup of Coffee at the Soul Cafe
Your very desire is itself your prayer; if your desire is continued so is your prayer also. Whatever you are doing, if you are desiring to pray, you are praying. If you do not wish to cease from prayer, do not cease from desire. -
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. - Lloyd George
All that is needed to be successful is ignorance and self-confidence. Then you can't fail. - Mark Twain
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake. - Nelson Boswell
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs. - Maxwell Maltz
*An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. - Gandhi
Everyone who comes to my house brings God into it. -- Jamini Roy quoted in Thomas Merton's The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength. - Goethe
Simply be the mirror in which others can see themselves as God sees them. -- Edward Hays in The Gospel of Gabriel
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness. - Meister Eckhart
Necessity is not an established fact but an interpretation. - Nietzsche
God gives, but man must open his hand. - German proverb
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity. - George Bernard Shaw
Conscience never deceives us and is the true guide of humanity. She is to the soul what instinct is to the body; whoever follows her pursues the direct path of nature and need not fear being misled. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
*The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness. - Albert Einstein
Never fear periods of darkness in life. They are the atrium to new phases of life, the threshold to new experience, the invitation to move on from where you are to where there is more for you to learn. -- Joan Chittister in Light in the Darkness
A book must be the axe for the frozen seas inside us. - Franz Kafka
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. - Henry Ward Beecher
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. - Theodore Roosevelt
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us. - Alexander Graham Bell
Many of us grew up in dysfunctional families, because modern society is a dysfunctional place. But the spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up
and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that now poison the present. - Marianne Williamson, A Woman's Worth
Be kind; for everyone you meet is fighting a difficult battle. -- Philo
If we believe that the universe is unfriendly and that our very souls are in danger, peace will be elusive at best. - Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Fire In The Soul
God can only do for us what God can do through us. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Life is a treasure hunt, but the treasure is in the hunting. - Amy Furnans
Christ has no body now on earth but ours;
No hands but ours;
No feet but ours;
Ours are the eyes through which Christ shows His compassion to the world;
Ours are the feet through which He is to go about doing good;
Ours are the hands with which He is to bless now. - St. Teresa of
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet. -
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. - Robert H. Schuller {American Minister & Author}
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than before; you see more in you than there was before. -
*I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. - Kahlil Gibran
Every one of us has known betrayal. Perhaps you trusted a friend who violated a secret, engaged in a relationship with an unfaithful partner or lost money to a dishonest business associate. Perhaps you were a child born to a family that never honored your innocence or nurtured your growth. We have all felt betrayed; and we have all had a part in betraying someone else. Yet it is through betrayal moments that we have the opportunity to be transformed into non-reacting, everlasting love. - Mary Manin Morrissey
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up. - Les Brown {American Speaker, Author & Trainer}
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. - Emily P. Bissell
*I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do. - Edward Everett Hale
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars
One message that keeps us separate from the love that can free us goes like this: If I've been hurt, I never want to hurt like that again. I'm going to build a wall and never really trust. Never let go again. I'm going to build that wall of isolation. In You've got a Friend, James Taylor sings: People can be so cold. They'll hurt you and desert you, and take your soul if you let them... We feel that way at times, but closing your heart doesn't build what we want to experience. We require something greater. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Once you exercise fear and make it your practice, once you try resentment and make it your habit, once you employ aggression and make it routine, those actions will dominate your destiny. No matter how painfully you've been wronged, stand in love in the midst of a huge temptation to be vengeful, prideful or hold back. The real nature of love is that the person you think has betrayed you the most is actually an agent of the divine offering you the opportunity for grace. - Mary Manin Morrissey
When you forgive you release critical judgment of yourself as well as of others. You lighten up. You do not cling to negative experiences that resulted from decisions that you made while you were learning. - Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul
All faiths, despite their contradictory philosophies, possess the ability to produce fine warmhearted human beings. Therefore, there is every reason to appreciate and respect all forms of spiritual practice that make better human beings and help create a happier, more peaceful world. -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Spiritual Advice for Buddhists and Christians edited by Donald W. Mitchell
Ultimately, what we are looking to is the deepest connection within ourselves. As we get more connected to that, we begin to feel in harmony with other people and with the rest of the world. - Shakti Gawain, Author of Creative Visualization
When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves. - Shakti Gawain
*Only when lions have historians will hunters stop being heroes. - West African proverb
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. - H. Jackson Browne
I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. - Andrew Wyeth
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. - Meister Eckhart
A tradition that derives from the kabbalah is to stay up without sleep during the whole night of Shavuot and study the Torah. . . . The mystics also tell us that studying during the night may bring the opening of the
heavens and the receiving of revelation. - Sara Shendelman and Dr. Avram Davis in Traditions: The Complete Book of Prayers, Rituals, and Blessings for Every Jewish Home
If you love something enough, it will reveal itself to you. - George Washington Carver
*To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehensions of one’s opponent so fully that one can see the world through his eyes. All well-meaning people should try to contribute as much as possible to improving such mutual understanding. - Albert Einstein
*I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives. - Peace Pilgrim 190? - 1981
I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one. - Gandhi
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. - Dr. Loretta Scott
Be careful how you live. You may be the only Bible some person ever reads. - William J. Toms
All minds are joined. Therefore, all healing is self-healing. Our inner peace will, of itself, pass to others once we accept it for ourselves. - Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD, Teach Only Love
In rock climbing there's something called a commitment move. You're tied to the ropes, and there's a moment when you're standing and have to let go of solid ground to move to the next higher place. It's a
scary step. You must trust what you're tied to more than what you're standing on. Jesus offers us the same lesson: What you're tied to is so much greater than the little bit you're standing on. The One to whom you're connected is far greater than any circumstance in your life. So step out for the higher place. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting
again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. - Richard Bach
God waits for the chances we give him to show his great generosity. - John Chrysostom in The Doubleday Christian Quotation Collection compiled by Hannah Ward and Jennifer Wild
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything. - Harry Browne {1996 Libertarian Presidential Candidate}
All our progress is an unfolding...like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. - Confucius
Have you ever wondered who answers God's prayers? A seeker asked God, How is it that a loving Creator allows people to be disabled, lonely, and poor? Why don't you do anything for them? And God replied, I did. I created you. Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. - Norman Cousins
Trying to change anything is a form of battle; wanting something that can only be ours in the future is to block our potential to be happy now. Therefore, set for yourself a goal that can be fulfilled where you stand. Make this instant your door to freedom and you will find that it will crack open a little further each time you return to this moment in peace. - Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD, Teach Only Love
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Until the pain of remaining the same hurts more than the pain of change, most people prefer to remain the same. - Dr. Richard D. Dobbins
Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance. - Robert Conklin {American Teacher, Author & Speaker}
No one person can love enough to make a relationship work. - Unknown
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. - Mahatma Gandhi {1869-1948 Indian Political & Spiritual Leader}
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice. - Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
The essence of our being is love. Love cannot be hindered by what is merely physical. Therefore, we believe the mind has no limits; nothing is impossible; and all disease is potentially reversible. And because love is eternal, death need not be viewed fearfully. - Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD, Teach Only Love
Whether you are an extrovert who thrives in social settings, or an introvert who finds joy in quiet moments, you are a unique individual with gifts that can enrich the lives of others. You are part of the vast One-ness that is God. - Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. - Aristotle {BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher}
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. - Henry Drummond, (1786-1860), English politician and religious leader.
Character is not made in a crisis - it is only exhibited. - Robert Freeman
No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself. - Seneca
No wonder I'm confused. One of my parents was a man and the other was a woman. - Ashley Brilliant
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads. - Erica Jong
Man is born to live and not prepare to live. - Boris Pasternak
All men are alike in their dreams, and all men are alike in the promises they make. The difference is what they do. - Moliere (1622-1673) French Playwright
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same. - Flavia
When we are alone, we tend to embrace three major fallacies about the power of relationships: First, we believe if we could just be involved with someone, our sense of isolation would vanish as if by magic. Second, we tend to accept that being in a relationship will cure our sense of brokenness, the Humpty-Dumpty approach to love. Third, we believe that being in a relationship will guarantee happiness. - Mary Manin Morrissey
It is our right to hate the actions of an evil man, but because his deepest self is the image of God, it is our duty to honor him with love. - Rav Kook in Meetings with the
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
You'll see things you never knew you never knew. - Disney's Pochahantas
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. - Emily Dickinson
Each friend represents a world in us. A world possibly not born until they arrive. And it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. - Anais Nin
When we act as if we are separate from God, we cling to our substance, our money, that which we think is ours. When we live in abundance, we know that God is our support, and we no longer have to look to our bank account or any place else. When we have an ongoing relationship with God, creative power moves through us. Jesus said: Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you. (Luke 6:38) -Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. - Jim Rohn {American Businessman, Author & Motivational Speaker}
For certain is death for the born, and certain is birth for the dead; therefore, over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve. - The Bhagavad Gita, Book of Daily Thoughts and Prayers
Darkness is lack of light as sin is lack of love. It has no unique properties of its own. It is an example of the 'scarcity' belief, from which only error can proceed. Truth is always abundant. Those who
perceive and acknowledge that they have everything have no needs of any kind. . .You were given everything when you were created, just as everyone was. - A Course In Miracles, Foundation for Peace
All truth goes through three steps: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. - unknown
*Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The Buddha also taught lay people the virtue of making the seven offerings that cost nothing: a compassionate eye, a smiling face, loving words, physical service, a warm heart, a seat, and lodging. - Jiko Kohno in Right View, Right Life: Insights of a Woman Buddhist Priest
Marriage is not a 50/50 proposition. It's 100/100. - Kevin Lehman
To conquer oneself is the noblest and greatest triumph. - Plato
The danger is not that religion has become the content of television shows, but that television shows may become the content of religion. - Neil Postman
New Thought teaches that there is no separation between God and ourselves. The only separation exists in our minds, in our beliefs. We are in God and God is in us. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: Jesus Christ
belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul ... He saw that God incarnates himself in man and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of this world ... He declared he was God; thus He is, and as I think, the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man. -Mary Manin Morrissey
Look past the body, past the personality, past the behavior, into the window of one another's souls. There we make a connection. The God in me recognizes and honors the God in you. -Mary Manin Morrissey
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. - Frederick Buechner
There's a bumper sticker that reads: If you're not feeling God's Presence, who moved? God exists everywhere. Whenever we feel abandoned by God, remember, it is we who have moved. God is always fully present to us when we remember to open our hearts to that Presence. -Mary Manin Morrissey
When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book? - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crisis. There is no birth of consciousness without pain. - Carl G Jung
You miss 100% of the shots you never take. - Wayne Gretzky
There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problems of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand. - Chapman
At times, although one is perfectly in the right, one's legs tremble; at other times, although one is completely in the wrong, birds sing in one's soul. - Rozinov
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience. - Euripides
485-406 B.C.
Dig deep enough into any human being and you will find something divine. -
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times. - Rita Rudner
It's never too late to be the person you could have been. - George Eliot
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. - Nietzsche
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. *James Allen {1849-1925 American Novelist & Short-Story Writer}
Always new, always exciting, always full of promise. The mornings of our lives, each a personal daily miracle. - Gloria Gaither
*He not busy being born is busy dying. - Bob Dylan
Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength. But, it makes you see the
nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it. - Bloy
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley
There is a Jewish tradition that a single visit to someone's sickbed takes away one sixtieth of their illness. The ancient sages understood that just being in the presence of another human being can lift a person up. - Naomi Levy in To Begin Again: The Journey Toward Comfort, Strength, and Faith in Difficult Times
We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. - Judith Martin
On the anger habit: Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it. - Peace Pilgrim 190? - 1981
We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves. - La Rochefoucauld
Life in itself is neither a good nor an evil; it is the scene of good and evil. - Seneca
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. - Mark Twain
Five centuries before Jesus Christ, Lao Tsu, in the Tao Te Ching offered a prescription for living: Everyone says my way of life is of a simpleton. Being largely the way of a simpleton is what makes it
worthwhile. It is simple. If it were not the way of a simpleton, it would have been worthless long ago. These possessions of a simpleton, being the three I choose and cherish: To be humble, to care, to be fair. When a man is humble, he can grow. When a man cares, he is unafraid. When a man is fair, he has enough for others. Living a simple life means keeping our priorities in order. -Mary Manin Morrissey
No one tests the depth of the river with both feet. - African proverb
*The sea is dangerous and it's storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore... unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible. It is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors... to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown. - Ferdinand Magellan
*Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. -
Individuality, not individualism, is the cornerstone of community. . . . (It) can flourish and survive only when each member flourishes, living in the full potential of her or his purpose. To honor and support its
members is in the self-interest of any community. - Malidoma Patrice Some in The Healing Wisdom of
Never mistake motion for action. - Ernest Hemingway
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. - Barry LePatner
The soul that has not been practiced over a long time and educated fully in knowledge of self is not raised up to knowledge of God. In vain he raises the eye of the heart to see God when he is not yet prepared to
see himself. Let a person first learn to see his own invisible things before he presumes he is able to grasp at invisible divine things. - Richard of St. Vicar quoted in Son of Man: The Mystical Path to Christ by Andrew Harvey
Silence engenders the space called, so evocatively and beautifully by David Steindl-Rast, the Benedictine monk, God bathing. In God bathing, the body is still, speech is silent, the mind is at peace. One bathes in
the presence of, the very Being of God. - Kathleen Dowling Singh in The Grace in Dying: How We Are Transformed Spiritually as We Die
In order for our lives to be happy, we need to know the meaning of true happiness, to understand that it is not based on material or emotional satisfactions. True happiness is based on appreciating our true selves. In other words, we need to know who we really are before we can have satisfactions, before our minds judge what ‘is’ and what ‘is not’ satisfying. Real happiness cannot be based on temporary satisfactions. It can only be based on understanding the original meaning of life. Zen at Work, Les Kaye
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible. – Arthur Clarke
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. - Madame Swetchine
People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work -
blurring the lines between work and play - the gains will be greater. - Ellen Langer
*Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. - Ralph W. Sockman
When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. Be far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge .. is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness. - Caroline Myss, PH.D., Anatomy of the Spirit
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LOVE your collection of quotes here, Tom! Thank-you...
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