That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. - Rumi translated by Kabir and Camille Helminski in The Rumi Collection
*You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
*I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. - Booker T. Washington
There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less. - Kurt Hahn (1886-1974)
*Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. - Pierre Coneille
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good and how he treats people who can't fight back. - Abigail Van Buren
Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life have been without it? - Homer Simpson
When we release the bitterness, judgment and blame of the past, whether of ourselves or others, the past becomes a stepping stone to spiritual growth, to increased compassion, understanding and love. Today, repeat several times, I bless my past and see it as a stepping stone to greater good. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. - William Penn
*It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis. - Margaret Bonnano
Life is like playing a violin in public ...and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Margaret Bonnano
If you have the same ideas as everybody else, but have them one week earlier than everyone else
then you will be hailed as a visionary. But, if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic. - Barry Jones
*It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. - Tom Robbins
We have lost the sense of belonging in our world and to the God who creates, nurtures, and redeems this world and all its creatures, and we have lost the sense that we are part of a living, changing, dynamic
cosmos that has its being in and through God. But we can return consciously. -Sally McFague
The quality of life depends upon what society gives to individuals and equally what those individuals give back. - Bernie Slepkov
Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry. - Charles Evans Hughes, former Chief Justice Supreme Court
I thank you Lord, for knowing me better than I know myself,
And for letting me know myself better than others know me.
Make me, I ask you then, better than others know me.
Make me, I ask you then, better than they suppose,
And forgive me for what they do not know. - A Muslim prayer quoted in The Children's Book of Poems, Prayers and Meditations compiled by Liz Attenborough
Religion, in the largest and most basic sense of the word, is the experience of being grasped by ultimate concern. - Paul Tillich
*When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/ they will be drawn to your door./ The way that cannot be heard/ will be echoed in your voice./ The way that cannot be seen/ will be reflected in your eyes. - Lao-tzu, Tao-te Ching
*When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. - Shunryu Suzuki quoted in Advent, Christmas and Epiphany by Megan McKenna
*Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. - Sam Levenson
Anything you fully do is an alone journey. - Natalie Goldberg
As the ones in whom the universe has become conscious ... we should acknowledge a sense of personal grandeur, living as affectionate, intelligent, imaginative creatures in profound communion with all other creatures and with a sense of our special place in a marvelous universe. -Sally McFague
*Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know....Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. - George Kneller
*To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. - Emerson
In our monastery, we sleep with the lights on in every room. The reason is to imprint brightness in our minds instead of darkness, helping us in our efforts to enlighten our minds. It is preferable, also, not to take naps during the day, for then you are practicing the dark mind on a bright day. - Master Jae Woong Kim in Polishing the Diamond, Enlightening the Mind: Reflections of a Korean Buddhist Master
Happiness is a butterfly. When pursued, it is always beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly, it may alight upon you. - N.
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. - Albert Camus
The trouble with loving is that pets don't last long enough and people last too long. - Unknown
*There is a story about Achaan Cha, a famous meditation master in
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
*Another invites us to bless strangers quietly, secretly. Offer it to people you notice on the street, in the market, on the bus. May you be happy. May you be at peace. Feel the blessing move through your body as you offer it. Notice how you both receive some benefit from the blessing. Gently, almost without effort, each and every blessing becomes a Sabbath. - Wayne Muller in Sabbath: Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest
It is folly for man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain for himself. - Epicurus
The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts. - Alan Cohen, Rising in Love
It is a great moment when you break out of the prison of negative self-criticism and develop a sense of the inner adventure of the soul. - John O'Donohue in Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Yearning to Belong
Work of the eyes is done. Now go and do heart work. - Rainer Maria Rilke
*The greatest disease is not TB or leprosy; It is being unwanted, unloved and uncared for. - Mother Teresa
Thank God for days filled with nothing much at all. Nothing much is more than enough. - Steven Z. Leder in The Extraordinary Nature of Ordinary Things
Rejoice in all your relationships, the ones that are easy and the ones that are not. They are bringing you exactly what you need to know for your soul's awakening and evolution. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*Every act done in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred. - Thich Nhat Hanh quoted by Lama Surya Das in Awakening to the Sacred
Hearts need education and refinement just as the body needs exercise and moderation. - Kabir Helminski in The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation
If I have committed myself to God, I am free to commit myself to another person in a way that creates the deepest kind of love between two human beings. Because my happiness is not dependent on you, I am free to love and serve you in the most joyous, exciting, and most rewarding way; I am free to give you all my love because, through my foundation in God, I know that the more love I give, the more I have to give. - Alan Cohen, Rising in Love
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. - Oscar Wilde
The paradox of control is simple. The more we try to control life, the less control we have. - Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Minding The Body, Mending The Mind
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. *Napoleon Bonaparte {1769-1821 French General & Emperor}
A successful marriage is the union of two 'forgivers.’ - unknown
In the film Good Will Hunting, the wise therapist says to Will, the young man who's hurting, Bad things draw our attention to the good things we've overlooked. - Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in Good Will Hunting
*You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. - Jim Rohn, American Businessman, Author, Speaker, & Philosopher
To be impatient is to be hooked on the future. - Gerald Jampolsky
Every destructive emotion is a wasteful emotion. They always waste your energy and make you less able to meet a situation, whatever it may be...encourage and develop your capacity to express love, happiness,
contentment. -
*It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. - Claude Bernard {1813-1878 French Physiologist}
Even on hot summer days when my mind could not tolerate the heat, I surrendered my discomfort and it lessened the pain. The heat became bearable. It may have been a little hot out, but I no longer had to put
up with my suffocating annoyance. - Jae Woong Kim in Polishing the Diamond, Enlightening the Mind
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. - Kahlil Gibran {1883-1931 Lebanese Poet & Novelist}
The light that we want is not some thing that God has to give; it is God Himself. God does not give us life or love as a thing. God is life and light and love. More of Himself in our consciousness, then, is what we all want, no matter what other name we may give it. - H. Emile Cady, Lessons In Truth
*Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. -
I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense. - Rabbi Harold Kushner
*I believe that the true moral path of the twenty-first century will be very different from the modern era because it will be marked by generosity: not Everyone for himself (or herself) but Who can give away the most? -- the most time, the most of one's gifts, the most of one's dreams and hopes and accomplishments of hands, head, and heart. - Matthew Fox in Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. - Barbara De Angelis {American Relationship Author}
*The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. - Marcellinus Ammianus {Egyptian Historian & Author}
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
One candle in a dark room dispels the darkness. Sometimes, all we have to do is remember God just once, and we dispel the darkness. Through remembering, we are enlightened. - Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe. The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightening and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not. - The Upanishads
An old story says that some monks in a certain monastery were told that one of them might be the messiah and this possibility transformed their relationships. What if we knew that one of us or our neighbor was called to be the messiah? On the off chance that one among us might be the chosen one, would we not treat ourselves and each other with extraordinary respect? Think about this when you think of yourself and others today. - Mary Manin Morrissey
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
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity. - Samuel Johnson
*We need a spiritual recovery program for those addicted to the separate self. - Kabir Helminski in The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation
As we hold others in our hearts with extraordinary respect, there is something that happens in the experience that facilitates a revelation or a bringing into form that which is God. In that moment we really do experience the presence of God. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. - Leo Tolstoy
I am not suffering from insanity, I am enjoying every single minute of it! -Unknown
How strange it is to see with how much passion people see things only in their own fashion. - Moliere
*We are that which activates the body. - Peace Pilgrim 190? - 1981
Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. - Gene Fowler
To use all of your powers to the fullest along the lines of personal excellence. - Greek Definition of happiness (approx)
Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of passion, everything invites me to cherish it. - Ninon de Lenclos
*The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks. - Peter McWilliams
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. - Galileo {1564-1642 Italian Astronomer & Mathematician}
A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose-and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours. – Leo Buscaglia {American Lecturer & Author}
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. - Unknown
Prayer is the one thing that can make a change in your life. It matters not what your religion may be or whether you adhere to none. If you will go direct to God in simple, affirmative prayer, you can heal your body, bring peace and harmony into your life, enlarge your social contacts, and make prosperity a reality. - Stake Your Claim, Emmet Fox
*Mother Teresa was asked once by an interviewer, When you pray, what do you say to God? She said, I don't talk, I listen. The interviewer then asked, What does God say to you? Mother Teresa replied, He
doesn't talk. He listens. And if you don't understand that, I can't explain it to you. There is a place of union, of communion, that goes beyond human language. In your spiritual practice, in prayer, open yourself to experience this holy moment. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one. - Vladimir Nabokov
We contain more than we've ever thought; we are far greater than our ideas can comprehend. When a difficulty pushes us to the edge of what we've known about ourselves, we can fall off or expand our borders. If we choose the latter, we discover we are bigger than the problem confronting us. And we learn that every challenge contains the gift of greater knowing. - Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey
Most of us are in touch with our intuition whether we know it or not, but we're usually in the habit of doubting or contradicting it so automatically that we don't even know it has spoken. The first step is
to pay more attention to what you feel inside, to the inner dialogue that goes on within you. - Shakti Gawain, Living in the Light
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. - Richard Bach
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. - Chinese Proverb
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Ann Landers
When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, helps others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them. - Jane Roberts
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
Optimism means that we take our mind off the problem and lift it to God. Instead of focusing on what's missing, look to a solution. - Rev. Mary Mannin Morrissey
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. - Albert Einstein
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy. - Charles Caleb Colton {1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer}
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - unknown
Who knows for what we live, struggle and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. -Alan Paton
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. - Alan Paton
All the great things are simple - Winston Churchill
He who is being carried does not realize how far the town is. - Nigerian proverb
Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. - Swedish proverb
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. - Mary Ellen Kelly
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. - General George Patton
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
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy. - Anonymous
All consumed are their imperfections,
Doubts are dispelled, their senses mastered,
Their every action is wed to the welfare of their fellow creatures:
Such are the seers who enter Brahman and know Nirvana.
- Bhagavad Gita, chapter 5
In thought, faith
In word, wisdom
In deed, courage
In life, service
- unknown
The best way to predict your future is to create it. - unknown
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else. - unknown
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us. - unknown
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. - Zadok Rabinwitz
*What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - John Lubbock
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb
*He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions. - unknown
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying. - unknown
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. - James Oppenheim
*The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. - Buddha
*Now, Kalamas, don’t go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, ‘This contemplative is our teacher.’ When you know for yourselves that, ‘These qualities are skillful; these qualities are blameless; these qualities are praised by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to welfare & to happiness’ — then you should enter & remain in them. - Kalama Sutta (Thanissaro’s translation)
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. - Storm Jameson
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret B. Runbeck
There are times when a man should be content with what he has, but never with what he is. - William George Jordan
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. - La Rouchefoucald
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
By your thinking, you are either adding to your good or you are taking away from it. The law is inexorable. Failure or lack in your life is simply the result of continuously minus-ing yourself. Conversely, success and prosperity are the results of constantly plus-ing yourself. - Eric Butterworth, Spiritual Economics
God intends for us to live in prosperity: to enjoy rewarding relationships and fulfilling careers. God never intended that we drudge through the day and come home to collapse on the sofa, too tired to
appreciate those around us. As co-creators, however, we have to make a decision for prosperity. If we don't decide to prosper, we unconsciously choose limitation and scarcity. All the abundance in the
world is available to us, once we open ourselves to God. - Mary Manin Morrissey
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. - Lao Tse
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. - Douglas MacArthur
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. High expectations are the key to everything. - Sam Walton
Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed. - The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Eknath Easwaran
Whenever we give help, we unfailingly see that the answer to all our needs is already within the very situation we think is hurting us. By becoming totally open and harmless, we see that there is no one who
cannot help us and no instant when we are not surrounded by God's love and His guiding presence. - Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD, Teach Only Love
Whatever your needs may be, the answer is not to get God to give you more through some divine sleight-of-hand process, but rather to uncover and release your own imprisoned splendor. - Eric Butterworth, Spiritual Economics
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you. - William Arthur
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. - Dennis Wholey
*My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. - Abraham Lincoln {1809-1865 16th President of the
*Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm S. Forbes
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. - Thomas Edison
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure. - Thomas Edison
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self. - Marcus Bach
Modern man thinks he loses something; time; when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains; except kill it. - Erich Fromm
*Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper
When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Goethe
One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own. - John O'Donohue in Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Yearning to Belong
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never fires, and a touch that never hurts. - Charles Dickens
He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance. - Ling
Happiness and joy are not one in the same. Happiness is the elation that accompanies good fortune, while joy is the evidence of God's presence in the human experience. Joy is not a destination; it is a way of traveling. - Mary Manin Morrissey
God is on your side. God has a stake in you. God is not someone to reach for but a Presence to accept. Instead of dwelling on how difficult things are for you, turn often to the center of your being and relax in the assurance that you are God's living enterprise and that your good fortune is secure because it is God's good pleasure to give it to you. - Eric Butterworth, Spiritual Economics
To be nobody does not mean doing nothing. It means acting without self-display and without craving for results. The mango tree had shade to give, but it did not display its wares or fret whether anyone wanted its shade. This ability allows for inner peace. - Ayya Khema in Be an
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. - Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T. S. Eliot
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. - Confucius
The more conscious you become, the more unconscious you realize you are. You don’t stop. There is no stopping place. There is an openness that is part of a new style of thinking. - Patricia Sun
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. - Beverly Sills
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. - Anais Nin
Somewhere there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats… a circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free. - Starhawk
*I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted, and behold, service was joy. - Rabindranath Tagore
*It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service. - Albert Einstein
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. - Albert Schweitzer
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. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. - Les Brown {American Author & Motivator Lecturer}
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. - Oprah Winfrey
*When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. - Mae West
*Already we are immersed in one of the primary causes of violence – all violence -- namely, dualistic thinking, the human compulsion to divide everything into adversarial opposites. - Diarmuid O'Murchu in Poverty, Celibacy, and Obedience: A Radical Option for Life
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson
Applied to other people, forgiveness is a process through which we seek to free ourselves from the bondage to another person that is maintained for as long as we stand in judgment of them. - Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Fire In The Soul
One of Jesus' favorite visual aids is a child. Every time the disciples get into head games, he puts a child in front of them. - Richard Rohr in Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
It is overdoing the thing to die for love. - French Proverb
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. - General Douglas MacArthur
A positive attitude won't let you do anything. But it will let you do everything better than a negative attitude will. - Zig Ziglar
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing, that's why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar
Milk-toast-ness is a sin. Neutrality in the heat of injustice is a sin. Passionlessness is a sin, a misuse of our love-energy. - Matthew Fox in Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh
Develop a powerful and deep relationship with God so that energy to operate the tools you use comes from God. Spiritual maturity is willingness to align with God in everything you do. - Mary Manin Morrissey
We have an opportunity to live in joy. Do not postpone happiness until the debts are settled and relationships rearranged. Joy doesn't exist out in the world somewhere; we find it inside. - Mary Manin Morrissey
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