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
A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-Sun Tzu
*The practice of mindfulness in our relationship to our ordinary, immediate lives can be every bit as rewarding and instructive as taking wild journeys to far-off and exotic places to be with the greatest teachers in the world. - Joan Halifax
Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectly than it is to do somebody else’s work perfectly. - Bhagavad-Gita
You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life. - Les Brown
The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point at which we shut down on life. We heal as we heal others, and we heal others by extending our perceptions past their weaknesses. Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who that person is. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is. Forgiving others is the only way to forgive ourselves, and forgiveness is our greatest need. - Marianne Williamson, Illuminata
God gives us the gift of compassion. We practice compassion through acts of forgiveness, releasing resentment, anger and hurt. We understand forgiveness when we realize that every act is either an expression of love or a call for love. - Mary Manin Morrissey
There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else. - Cyrus Curtis
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. - John Quincy
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness. - Thomas Jefferson
*The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J Boorstin
*Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot
Love without attachment is light. -
Along our spiritual journey, every one of us is thrust into the desert. We find ourselves in a relationship wasteland or financially barren. We feel lost and abandoned, but it is during this time in the desert that God grows our souls. - Mary Manin Morrissey
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. - unknown
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. - unknown
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. - unknown
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. - Aldous Huxley
The Prophet said, Let him groan, for groaning is one of the Names of God in which the sick man may find relief. - Muhammed quoted in Merton and Sufism: The Untold Story, A Complete Compendium edited by Rob Baker and Gray Henry
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. - John Bowring
We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush. - Jean Pierre de Caussade quoted in The Inner Treasure by Jonathan Star
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. - Bishop Mandell Creighton
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. - Robert Maynard Hutchins
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. -
How can God work in all these unseen realms at the same time, being fully available to each of us? We simply cannot get our minds around this mystery, and the truth is, we're not meant to know. Who would
want a God so easily understood? When we embrace, instead of dissecting mystical experiences, we become more in tune with this infinite, loving Presence we call God - Mary Manin Morrissey
Faith requires contemplation before action. When Mother Teresa was asked what sort of person could possibly tackle such an overwhelming problem as poverty, she responded: It's never a person who wants to save the world. They always become discouraged. But send me a contemplative. Send me someone who has a deep heart for God, and one day at a time, they serve. One day at a time, we serve. We learn to orchestrate our lives one God thought at a time until we realize that anything is possible. -Mary Manin Morrissey
People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life....I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive. - Joseph Campbell
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. - Author Unknown
If you find yourself slandering anybody, first imagine that your mouth is filled with excrement. It will break you of the habit quickly enough. - His Holiness the Dalai Lama in The Path to Tranquility
What does spirituality mean? It is related to the word spirit - not a child's concept of a white-sheeted Holy Ghost flying in and out of our lives, but an inner attitude that emphasizes energy, creative choice, and a powerful force of living. It is a partnership with a Power greater than ourselves, a co-creatorship with God that allows us to be guided by God and yet to take responsibility for our lives. - Father Leo Booth, When God Becomes A Drug
Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family. - Anthony Robbins {American Speaker, Peak Performance Expert}
Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse -- always open, always full, always abundant...such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul -- its gaiety or its sadness. As with our perishable flesh talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power. - Eugène Delacroix {1798-1863 French Artist}
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. -
*In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer
*Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
There are no secrets to success: Don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for who you work, and persistence. - General Colin Powell
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. - John F. Kennedy
Do not follow where the path my lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. - Franklin P. Jones
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. - Rod Serling
Waking up this morning, I see the blue sky. I join my hands in thanks for the many wonders of life;
for having twenty-four brand-new hours before me. -- Thich Nhat Hanh in Call Me by My True Names
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. - Charles Kuralt
*When Isido Rabi, the 1944 Nobel Prize winner in physics, was interviewed about his achievements, he said he owed it all to his mother. When we got out of school, all the mothers would ask their children what they had learned that day. My mother would inquire instead, 'What did you ask today in class?' - Rabbi Nilton Bonder in Yiddishe Kop: Creative Problem Solving in Jewish Learning, Lore, and Humor
You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand. Take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose. - Elizabeth Kubler Ross
Benjamin Franklin said this prayer every day: O Powerful Goodness, Bountiful Father, Merciful Guide, Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform that
that wisdom dictates. Father of Light and Life, Thou Good Supreme, teach me what is good. Teach me Thyself. Save me from folly, vanity, vice, from every low pursuit. Fill my soul with knowledge, conscious
peace, virtue pure, sacred, substantial, never-fading perseverance. - Benjamin Franklin
*Theology divides; service unites. - Margaret Fell, co-founder, Quakers.
The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal. -
A devout man came to the Baal Shem Tov with a complaint: I've made an enormous effort to serve the Lord sincerely and honestly, but I haven't noticed any change or improvement. I'm still the same ordinary, ignorant person as before. The Baal Shem Tov answered: You've realized you are ordinary and ignorant,
and that in itself is a great accomplishment. - Rabbi Nilton Bonder in Yiddishe Kop: Creative Problem Solving in Jewish Learning, Lore, and Humor
*To him who is in fear, everything rustles. - Sophocles, 5th Century BC
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation. - Pearl S. Buck {1892-1973 American Novelist}
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln
*The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. - John F. Kennedy
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings
A dog thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me... They must be Gods!
A cat thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me... I must be a God! - anonymous
Why Not Be Polite?
Everyone
Is God speaking.
Why not be polite and
Listen to
Him? - Hafiz in The Gift translated by Daniel Ladinsky
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
We trained hard—but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. - Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.
God is present everywhere. For those who understand Jesus' teaching, it is always the Sabbath Day, and the place whereon they stand is holy ground. - Emmet Fox
The hours that make us happy make us wise. - John Mansfield
What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. - Phyllis Diller
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. - Antonio Smith
Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant whistle of locomotives pounding through the night, by the caravans leaving on the Golden Road to Samarkand, by quinqueremes of Nineveh from distant Ophir ... Our grandchildren will likewise have their inspiration-among the equatorial stars. They will be able to look up at the night sky and watch the stately procession of the Ports of Earth-the strange new harbors where the ships of space make their planetfalls and their departures. - Arthur C. Clarke
*It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. - James Thurber
*Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. - Richard Bach
Great things happen when men and mountains meet. - William Blake
The significant problems we face can never be solved at the level of thinking that created them. - Albert Einstein
*I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it. - Abraham Lincoln
It is from within the heart, not just the mind, that we can know God's will for us. God speaks to all of us every day and God's voice is as loud as our willingness to listen.--Mary Manin Morrissey
In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped. - Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
Put your troubles in a pocket with a hole in it. - Author unknown
The confidence which we have in ourselves engenders the greatest part of that which we have in others. - François de la Rochefoucauld
Spirit offers us defining moments when life is going to forever be different if we pay attention and if we do not, life will just continue to be what it was. These moments are God's voice speaking to us in a way that catches our attention and we can either say, Nice message, and keep going, or we turn aside from the way we've been headed and begin the walk into our greatness. What is the message Spirit has for
you today? - Mary Manin Morrissey
*Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. - Robert F. Kennedy
At times we get into believing that we are the character we're playing in the world, but deep within us is a knowing, a place that has never forgotten who we are, that remembers that as a son or daughter of the
living Spirit, there is no thing that's ever happened that could tarnish or hurt or mar or disintegrate or disempower that real self. Today, practice bringing this wisdom of the heart through the power of
your mind, so that you may be your authentic self in the world. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called All the Things That Could Go Wrong. They don't have a mind-set that puts Things to Fear before Things to Love. Unless we can be like little children, we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven; unless we can be like little children, we can't be happy. Children are happy because they don't have all the facts yet. - Marianne Williamson, Illuminata
When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other, Long and short define each other, High and low depend on each other, Before and after follow each other. Therefore the Master Acts without doing anything, And teaches without saying anything. - Tao Te Ching, Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Our activity in the world is our work. Our primary work, as we have already established, is to love and forgive. Our secondary work is our worldly employment. The meaning of work, whatever its form, is that it
be used to heal the world. - Marianne Williamson, Illuminata
Sometimes our mind doesn't know how to handle difficult situations but our heart does, because this is where God is. All we really need to do is ask, What would Love do here? and then listen. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*Do not keep the alabaster box of your love & friendship sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier. The kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go. - George William Childs
The Holy Encounter takes place when we release our attachment to our comfort in the smallness of our ego and let ourselves be touched by God. This is a perceptual shift that removes our blocks to an
awareness of Love's presence. Our encounter with the Divine occurs when we quit hiding and just let God love us. - Mary Manin Morrissey
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love. - Sophocles
The same life-force that grows an oak from an acorn, a mountain from the earth's molten core, a stream from the spring thaw, a child from an egg and a sperm, an idea from the mind of a human being, is present in all things, all thoughts and all experiences. There is no place where God is not. - Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Fire In The Soul
*Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain
When we look inside the great religions of the world, where the differences melt, we find that every one of them teaches us that we're here to learn the lesson of love, to really learn how to love one another and love God. And when we wonder how to do that, all we have to do is look at the content of our lives where the lesson of love is trying to be made known for us. That's where God's shows up for us, in the everyday of our lives. That's where we find the holy encounter. - Mary Manin Morrissey
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
*Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. Lick once and you suck forever. - Anonymous
Until we get to the point where we've had enough of the thing that hurt and long more than anything for a peaceful love, we are bound to take painful roads. We are destined to play out our frivolous disasters
until we declare ourselves finished and done with them. How much pain do we have to suffer before we are sure we want no more? As much, it seems, as we have to until we don't. - Marianne Williamson, A Woman's Worth
When we are completely healed, there is no person who is outside the circle of our love. And that means that when we ask to be healed, in the content of our lives this week, God will show us somebody who is
marginalized, either in our family or in our workplace by some aspect of them that has set them apart from the presence of Love. It is up to us to be the one to reach out. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to.
It is content with the low places that people disdain.
Thus it is like the Tao.
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
When you are content to be simply yourself,
And don't compare or compete,
Everybody will respect you. - Tao Te Ching, Translated by Stephen Mitchell
The personal spiritual journey is my own, and your own - but the best spirituality is manifested between us. - James Autry
All sense of separation, all dis-ease, all dis-order in our lives - meaning out of peace, out of sync with ourselves -- comes from our thinking. We're created in the image and the exact likeness of God in a unique way. We are each a point in the mind of God through which God's Power moves but most of us live most of our lives without even knowing that, so it's like having a trickle from the faucet instead of
experiencing the ocean. Tune in today to what is noble, true and loving, to what really is God. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*The wise man in the storms prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. - Emerson
Love is our fuel. It gives grace to progress and blessing to our will for power. We fail in our deepest responsibility to God and to ourselves each time we fail to declare love and act on love and witness to love. - Marianne Williamson, A Woman's Worth
When we practice being miracle-minded, it's not just big miracles but lots of little ones, until every breath becomes a miracle. -Mary Manin Morrissey
*There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein
Think of one's self as a teakettle: Though up to it's neck in hot water, it continues to sing. - Unknown
If you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done, but ... whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive. - Matt 21:21-22
Jesus is known as the greatest possibility thinker that ever walked the planet. All things are possible, he said. If you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Be removed,' and it shall be removed. So, what is the mountain in our lives, and do we trust God enough to allow that power to move through us? This mountain of fear or difficulty or discord in a relationship, this mountain of a dream that we don't know how to make come true can all be removed, when we really trust in God. - 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
God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of his life in us. - Thomas Keating in Active Meditations for Contemplative Prayer
*Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day. - George Carlin
There's a temptation in every one of our minds to believe in our problems more than we believe in God because our problems look and feel so real. But the truth is, God is real and if we open up, God will feel more real than the problem and we will see that that problem is plastic to the power of God. When we are willing to tune in and keep our minds focused so that we can hear God's word to us, we can bring a different response to the challenges we face. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. - Jacques Benigne Bossuel
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. - Woodrow Wyatt
Love knows no distance and Love knows no time and Love knows no boundary. Love knows no limits. - Mary Manin Morrissey
When you work in the right consciousness, when your work becomes organically a part of your whole self, and when you do your work out of that commitment, no matter what other people do, no matter what the
compensation may be, doing it for the health of your own soul, then you open the door by which the affluence of the Universe flows forth into your life. - Eric Butterworth, Spiritual Economics
We make resolutions because we have some clarity about the distance between how we're living and the life we want to inhabit. Our resolution is to close that gap, in the way we treat our bodies, in our desire to let go of a resentment, to be more creative in our work. When you find yourself falling off track, honor the inner prodding that longs for God. Only relationship with God can help us close the gap. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Psychological courage entails a cleansing of the doors of perception, allowing us to see things as they really are rather than through the distorted lens of the past. The more we are cleansed of expectations,
the more we see what is and the more we can respond to it creatively. - Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Fire In The Soul
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses. --Katherine Mansfield
Forgive those who have hurt you and release those who have offended you. Remember to forgive yourself. -- Buddhist Prayer
Positive thinking is the popular term. However, we do not mean sitting around mouthing a lot of cheerful platitudes, such as, everything is going to be all right. The fact is, everything will not be all right until you achieve a consciousness of all-rightness. Much so-called positive thinking is little more than wishful thinking, voicing a lot of Pollyanna words that you really don't believe. It is a matter of synchronizing your self in mind with the flow of the Infinite. The ideal, of course, is to think the kind of thoughts that lead to the
kind of conditions that you want to see manifest in your life. - Eric Butterworth, Spiritual Economics
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring men on
the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. - Carl Schurz
I saw a bumper sticker that read: If I'm not feeling close to God, who moved? God never abandons us, but we do move away from our Creator. We begin the journey back by remembering our true selves: We are the sons and daughters of the living God, created in the likeness of our Creator. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise. - Kitty O'Neill Collins
*We are more often frightened than hurt: our troubles spring more often from fancy than reality. - Seneca
Spiritual courage grows through our willingness to keep on remembering, to keep on searching for the sacred behind all the seemingly mundane and even terrible facets of life. - Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Fire In The Soul
Begin each morning by asking God: What would You have me do today?. God will direct you to settle a dispute, call a friend in need, create your heart's desire, all actions to align you with your divine nature, which is love. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Transformation doesn't necessarily happen overnight. When we travel down life's highway, we make small shifts. A slight move today, another shift tomorrow, and in six month's time, we will find ourselves in a totally new place. We find a new sense of being right with ourselves and a whole new sense of connection with God. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Life is fundamentally a matter of growing, a growth experience. Missing the mark is one of the ways in which we learn to hit the target. Failure is a vital part of achieving success. We have erroneously
thought of success as getting there while actually success is earning the right to be there. And earning means learning. Setbacks, even failures, may be an important part of that learning. - Eric Butterworth, Spiritual Economics
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. - Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
*In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams
*There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. - Douglas Adams
Spiritual hope is more likely to emerge when we let go of will and open ourselves to trust. - Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Fire In The Soul
Imagine if someone handed you a clean, crisp $20 bill. Now suppose someone handed you that same bill, only crumpled and slightly torn. Would you value it any less? Of course not. What happened to the bill
doesn't change its worth. God sees us the same way. No matter what happens in our lives, we remain highly valuable to God. Our Creator knows everything about us, and loves us, no matter what. - Mary Manin Morrissey
If there is a lack of any kind, whether it is a need for employment or for money or for guidance or even for healing, something is blocking the flow. And the most effective remedy: Give! You may be thinking, but
I need to receive. My hands are empty. I need someone to give to me, but you see, under the law of giving, when things get tight, something's got to give. Look for some way to start the giving flow. - Eric Butterworth, Spiritual Economics
None of us can make the decision: I'm going to live the rest of my life closer to God. The commitment feels too huge. But we can make a decision for God each day. Just as each morning, we choose not to leave the house before combing our hair or brushing our teeth, we can make the decision to connect with God. We can begin every day close to our Creator. And that choice will shine light into our entire day. - Mary Manin Morrissey
*Think of your richest moment of the past year. Was it falling in love? Making a new friend? Perhaps a certain look on your child's face? For most of us, the richest moments have nothing to do with money and
everything to do with relationship. When we really stop and think about it, what makes life rich isn't finance, but feelings, how we relate to one another. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. - Lord Chesterfield
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters—one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. - John F. Kennedy quoting Saul David Alinsky in 1959
If you want to shrink something, You must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, You must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, You must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtle perception Of the way things are. - Tao Te Ching, Translated by Stephen Mitchell
*I once sat with a group of people, some of whom made under $30,000 a year, while others made more than ten times that amount. Yet when we talked about what motivated us, not one person said money. What motivated each person was MEANING, feeling that what they did with their lives had purpose. Every one of us, prince or pauper, can experience the richness of meaning, the richness of relationship. - Mary Manin Morrissey
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. - Noël Coward
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