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
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. - Percy Williams Bridgeman American scientist (1882-1961)
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilites waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. - Brian Tracy
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
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. - Richard Bach
Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big. - George Carlin
We have free will, but our free will lies in our choice of thought. - Emmet Fox
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 higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received. – Confucius
In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. - Richard Bach
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. - Thomas A. Bennett
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. - Richard Bach
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. - Buddhist Proverb
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. - Lao Tzu
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. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. - Richard Bach
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. - Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least. - Anne Sophie Swetchine, Russian-French author (1782-1857)
There's no praise and no blame on the path you've chosen. Praise and blame are forms of manipulation that you no longer require. - Dan Millman
Ann Landers said; If I were asked to give what I consider to be the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Trouble is an inevitable part of life. When it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye, and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.' Don't deny your problem. Just recognize that the Divine Spark that gives you life can overcome any financial or relationship difficulty. You cannot be defeated. - Mary Manin Morrissey
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well. - Peter Pindar, Poet
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. - Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor
In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. - John 16:33 It is when we live in an idea of comparison, duality, good-bad, better-worse, that we enter into shame. When we know who we are, we can't help but love ourselves and know that this is a good and an abundant universe. The good life is not a life of ideal situations, but of knowing who we are. Trials and tribulations are part of every life. When we know who we are, we recognize that within those troubles is an opportunity to be bigger, to find more, to experience the greatness that we are all the time. Practice. Jesus told us to be of good cheer. We make a decision today to live a soul-sized life, to say no to doubt and shame, to live fully in our feelings and choose how we are going to be. We choose to live in greatness. - Mary Manin Morrissey's Life Keys Soul Sized
If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. - Mother Teresa
Always remember that the only thought that you need to concern yourself with is the present one. The thoughts of yesterday or of last year do not matter now, because if you can get the present thought right it will make everything else right here and now. - Emmet Fox
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one 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
I have discovered that patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. - Joyce Meyer, American minister and author
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Norman MacFinan
One of the good things that can come out of a tragedy is that we can be reminded, at a deeper level, about the precious quality of life. Become an instrument through which other lives are enriched. Reach out to your children and friends, to all your loved ones. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Know thyself since thou art my image. So shalt thou know me, whose image thou art and so shalt thou find me in thyself. — William of St. Thierry from In His Image - Paul Brand & Philip Yancey
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half sorrow. - Swedish proverb
Many things are lost for want of asking. - George Herbert, 1593-1633
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; 1829-1906; German-American legislator, reformer, and journalist
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good. - Calvin Coolidge
The fewer the words, the better the prayer. - Martin Luther
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. – Confucius
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. - Katharine Hepburn
You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them. - Malcolm Forbes
While the word is yet unspoken, you are master of it; when once it is spoken, it is master of you. – Arab proverb
A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view. - Wilma Askinas
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true. - Woodrow T. Wilson, 1856-1924; US 28th President
People do not live in the present always, at one with it. They live at all kinds of and manners of distance from it, as difficult to measure as the course of planets. Fears and traumas make their journeys slanted, peripheral, uneven, evasive. - Anais Nin, American writer (1903-1977)
Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live in an institution? - Groucho Marx
When we are confronted with darkness of any kind, as our world witnessed in the attack on the
We never know other persons by general concepts but rather by acts of intuition and imagination, which grasp their inner lives. - Ian G. Barbour, Religion and Science
I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. - Linda Ellerbee
Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, and labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph. - Theodore Roosevelt, speech before the
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times, but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. – Goethe
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. - Marcus Aurelius, 121-180; Roman emperor idealized as model of the perfect ruler
We can do no great things; only small things with great love. - Mother Teresa
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no. - Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907-1972
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. - Charles F. Kettering, 1876-1958;
I praise loudly; I blame softly. - Catherine the Second
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. - Franklin P. Adams
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. - Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. - Joshua L. Liebman
If you're not growing anywhere, you're not going anywhere. - Simon Cooper
There is a kind of truth I call noetic truth, which is a feeling of absolute inner certainty that something is true in the absence of concrete proof. - William James
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - General George S. Patton
Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit. - Thich Nhat Hanh in Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. - Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
In the path of your happiness shall you find the learning for which you have chosen this lifetime. - Richard Bach
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder. - W.J. Slim
*They say not to put all of your eggs in one basket, but I'll be damned if I am going to roll twelve shopping carts out of the grocery store. - Erin Page
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. - Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962
Those who would give up essential freedoms for security, deserve neither freedom nor security. - Benjamin Franklin
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds. - The Buddha
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people do that, but great people make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain
We see ourselves as broken, and then set out on a long and frustrating journey to fill our emptiness. But it is not fixing that we require; it is awakening. - Alan Cohen
Three days after a huge stone blocked the sealed tomb of Jesus, the burial pace of Christ was found empty. Something miraculous and mysterious is in your midst as well, and its power is greater than any stone blocking the way. - Mary Manin Morrissey
It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are. - James Mackintosh
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right. - Henry Ford
It is only in the absence of your conscious oneness with God that you can fear. - Joel Goldsmith
We have come at an awkward time. We feel ourselves unfit. But there is no one but us. There never has been. - Annie Dillard
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. - English proverb
Our separation from each other is an illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein
Activity and sadness are incompatible. - Christian Bovee
My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith. - Mahatma Gandhi
Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation - these are the great values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives. - Jesse Herman Holmes
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. – Socrates
We are what our thoughts have made us: so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. - Swami Vivekananda
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. - Humbert H. Humphrey
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same... Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Determine that a thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. - Abraham Lincoln
When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. - Henry David Thoreau
A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice. - Bill Cosby
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mahatma Gandhi
No one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed which envelops and constantly penetrates more deeply within each of us. With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossible for us to act or think otherwise than collectively. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), (The Formation of the Noosphere, 1947)
Faith is the pierless bridge supporting what we see unto the scene that we do not. - Emily Dickinson
All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough. - Anna Quindlen
Let him that would move the world, first move himself. – Socrates
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. - Helen Keller
There is a magnificent artist in you just waiting to be brought forth. You can reproduce your parent's story, leave the canvas blank, or you can recognize your true identity and create a masterpiece. The life you hold is in your hands. - Mary Manin Morrissey
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail. -
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
In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air. - Jonathan Raban
Man is what he believes. - Anton Chekhov 1860-1904; Russian author of short stories & plays
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. – Duguet
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. - Mother Teresa
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. - Hindu proverb
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. – Socrates
It must be peace without victory--Only a peace between equals can last. - Woodrow Wilson
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. - John Andrew Holmes
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. - Winston Churchill
Money often costs too much. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are really two ways we can develop and deepen our relationship with God. One that many of us have chosen is pain; we only turn to God when our world is falling apart. The other is to commit ourselves to serious spiritual practice. In this practice, we stay awake to our thinking and choose thoughts that give life, saying no to thoughts that don't give life. This brings us to greater awakeness to who we really are, created in the image and likeness of God. Practice is the key word. We are like a sailboat tacking into the wind. If we get off the path we can always come back. -Mary Manin Morrissey
There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows. - John Farrar
Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time. - Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. - John Quincy
There are many different languages for love. Pay attention to the language someone else is using. Then love them in the way they recognize that they're loved, instead of the way you would prefer to be loved. Talk their language of love. -Mary Manin Morrissey
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill
What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. - Portuguese proverb
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. - Beatrix Potter
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination. - Albert Einstein
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know. - Charles Kingsley
Absolute calm is not the law of the ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life. - Mahatma Gandhi
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. - Bertrand Russell
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. - Lord Halifax
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1759-1797; British feminist
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them. - Dean Rusk
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas Jefferson
Whenever I hear about a 'peacekeeping force, I wonder: If they're so interested in peace, why do they use force? - George Carlin
The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time. - W.J. Davison
Love, compassion, and tolerance are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it if you have love, compassion, and tolerance. - His Holiness the Dalai Lama, For the Love of God
We are fragments of something whose size and shape we do not know, but as fragments of it, we are essential to its wholeness. This means that you and I have an assignment, an opportunity, a call to the light. There are dark places where love is not yet felt and known and expressed in our world and it is our opportunity to bring the light into those places. It is in this way that we begin to discover and feel God's presence and we begin to find a deeper relationship with God. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Nothing great was ever accomplished by something happening to you. You have to happen to something. -
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. –
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Come, whoever you are! Wanderer, worshipper, Lover of Leaving. Come, this is not a caravan of despair. It doesn't matter if you've broken your vow a thousand times. Still and yet again, Come. – Rumi
Patience will achieve more than force. - Edmund Burke
Every human being is a mirror through which God longs to see himself. - Robert Svoboda quoted in Spiritual Divorce by Debbie Ford
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. - Mother Teresa
If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself. - A. Neilen
So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When we are in pain and difficulty, we say we want our lives to be different. But sometimes we do not want to have to be any different ourselves. We want to partner with God in a way that gets us what we want but we don't want to really make any shifts. When we limit our experience of God's power, what we truly want cannot come into our experience. Our heart's deepest longing can only be fulfilled if we allow God's love to continually mold us and shape us and bend us and cause us to let go of the outdated and grab hold of a whole new way of life. - Mary Manin Morrissey
No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval. -
We sometimes feel that what we do is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. - Mother Teresa
Problems are the learning rungs on the ladder of life. - Holly Smith
The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves. - Diane Ackerman in A Natural History of Love
Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength. - Source Unknown
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain
'You are accepted!'....accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now, perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do anything, perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything, do not perform anything, do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted. - Paul Tillich
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey. - Harold B. Melchart
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself. - Richard Whately
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God. - William Law
There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good man takes in doing good. – Tillotson
Honestly must be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second best policy. - George Carlin Grace give me the grace to care without neglecting my needs, the humility to assist without rescuing, the kindness to be clear without being cold, the mercy to be angry without rejecting, the prudence to disclose without disrespecting my privacy, the humor to admit human failings without experiencing shame, the compassion to give freely without giving myself away. ~~source unknown
to be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. - e.e. cummings
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. - Romain Gary
The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them, but to reveal their own. - Source Unknown
Keep your eye on the road and use your rear mirror only to avoid trouble. ~Daniel Meacham Every minus is half of a plus, waiting for a stroke of vertical awareness. - Alan Cohen
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. - James Harvey Robinson, American historian (1863-1936)
The solution to our physical problems of the environment, of hunger, poverty, and injustice will be resolved through experiencing ourselves as one.....cannot be resolved by linear, materialistic means alone. - Barbara Marx Hubbard in For the Love of God
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. - A.W. Pinero
Spirituality cannot be something a person toys with, a little compartment of their lives. It has to be at the core, in a way that affects every other part of their lives. - Stephen Covey
If you can start the day without caffeine or pep pills, If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles, If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it, If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you time, If you can overlook when people take things out on you when, through no fault of yours, something goes wrong, If you can take criticism and blame without resentment, If you can face the world without lies and deceit, If you can conquer tension without medical help, If you can relax without liquor, If you can sleep without the aid of drugs, Then..............You are probably a dog.
Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route. - Sister Elizabeth Kenny, Australian nurse (1886-1952)
If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything. ~ Allyson Jones
Kindness is the inability to remain at ease in the presence of another person who is ill at ease, the inability to remain comfortable in the presence of another who is uncomfortable, the inability to have peace of mind when one's neighbor is troubled. - Rabbi Samuel H. Holdenson
God enters by a private door into every individual. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. - Orison Swett Marden
Wise men don't need advise. Fools don't take it. - Benjamin Franklin
Someone who never makes mistakes is someone who never really lived. - Janel Pierre Privost
Never lose a holy curiosity. - Albert Einstein
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. - Thomas H. Huxley
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. – Shakespeare
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. -
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often. - Oliver Herford
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau
I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God. - Ram Dass
See first that the design is wise and just; that ascertained, pursue it resolutely. - William Shakespeare
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