Symptoms of Inner Peace
A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than from fears based on past experiences.
An unmistaken ability to enjoy each moment.
A loss of interest in judging self.
A loss of interest in judging others.
A loss in interest in conflict.
A loss of interest in interpreting the action of others.
A loss of the ability to worry. (This symptom is very serious.)
Frequent overwhelming episodes of appreciation.
Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature.
Frequent attacks of smiling through the eyes of the Heart.
Increasing susceptibility to love extended by others and the uncomfortable urge to extend it.
An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than make them happen. If you have all or most of the above symptoms, please be advised that your condition of PEACE may be so far advanced as to not be treatable. - Author Unknown
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. - George Bernard Shaw
Shouting at a bud does not make a flower blossom more. - Christina Feldman quoted in T'ai Chi as a Path of Wisdom by Linda Myoki Lehrhaupt
Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime! - Bill Owen
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. - Glenn Clark
Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss Now and then I like to lift my eyes up from the details of daily life and remember the bigger picture, and take a breath of God, and feel and remember that ultimately, it's all okay. - Dan Millman
The most important question to ask on the job is not What am I getting? The most important question to ask on the job is What am I becoming? - Jim Rohn
All sins are attempts to fill voids. - Simone Weil, French philosopher (1909-1943)
Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin
Just turn toward God. That's all. Adjust your attention upward. Steer your heart's movement towards That which is Divine. That is enough. - Marsha Sinetar
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. - Sophia Loren
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. - Baltasar Gracian
We can go through our whole lives worrying about our future happiness, and totally miss where true peace lives-right here, right now. - Peter Russell
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. - Oliver Goldsmith
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will b of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. - Arthur Schopenhauer
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. - Laurence Sterne
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. - Mark Twain
The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.- Arnold Bennett, 1867-1931; British journalist, editor & novelist
It's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the doing-that's compassion in action. - Mother Teresa
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. - Howard W.
The Wise Woman's Stone: A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But, a few days later, he came back to return the stone to the wise woman. I've been thinking, he said. I know how valuable this stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Please give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me this stone. Sometimes it's not the wealth you have but what's inside you that others need. - Source Unknown
When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them. - Meredith L. Young-Sowers
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success; the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world. - Felix Emmanuel Schelling, American educator and scholar (1858-1945)
Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God: and so there's no room left for worry thoughts. – Howard Chandler Christy
The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class, there is far less competition. - Dwight Whitney Morrow, 1873-1931;
The eye by which I see God is the very same eye by which God sees me. - Meister Eckhart
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. - Charles Lamb
Into this mysterious universe we are born, with no apparent set of instructions, no maps or equations, no signs or guideposts, nothing but our equally unfathomable instincts, intuitions, and reasoning abilities to tell us where we came from, why we are here, and what we are supposed to do. What we do possess - perhaps it is the key to our survival as a species - is an almost unquenchable need to know. Philip S. Berg
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. -Harry James
If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen. - Loretta Gierzatlis
The way in which we go to the grocery store may tell us everything about the way in which we live a life. - Rachel Naomi Remen quoted in My Monastery Is a Minivan by Denise Roy
To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. - Helen Keller
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. – Plato
It may be that each individual consciousness is a brain cell in a universal mind. - Sir James Jeans
The whole of life lies in the verb seeing. – Teilhard de Chardin
Jesus was asked, When will the kingdom come? He replied, it will not come by waiting for it… rather, the kingdom of the father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it. – Gospel of Thomas, Gnostic Gospels
For those who are awake the cosmos is one. - Heraclitus
the idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic
just because the body is rotten-
that is all fantasy.
What is found now is found within.
If you find nothing now,
You will simply end up with an apartment in the city of death.
If you make love with the Divine now,
In the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire. – Kabir
To go against one's conscience is neither safe nor right. Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. - Martin Luther
There is a point of no return when we make a non-negotiable choice between fear and Love. When fear is screaming loud in our lives, we can ask, What would Love do here? We can say, I'm going to trust God more than my fear, I'm going to trust Source more than what is in the world. That's how the pattern of our lives is confronted, the pattern of limitation, of littleness, of looking to the ego as our guiding light instead of God. There's a point where we finally say, I choose Love. And then we open up to an experience of such Divine companionship and closeness, that God's promise, I will be with you, is not something we know about, it's something that we simply know. -Mary Manin Morrissey
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and errors, its successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. - Dag Hammarskjold
The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. - Marya Mannes
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. - T.S. Eliot
Christmas is a journey of the heart. As we move closer to the day we celebrate the birth of the Christ Child, we can choose to open our own hearts to the consciousness of Love that the Christ represents. We can decide to be born fresh and new again into a full realization of God's love for us, to surrender our lives completely to this love, to truly recognize who we are, a child of God. -Mary Manin Morrissey
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. -
What good is it for me if Mary gave birth to the Son of God 1400 years ago and I don't give birth to God's son in my person and my culture and my times? - Meister Eckhart quoted in Original Blessing by Matthew Fox
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox,1850-1919;
You don't have to do anything. Nowhere to go, nothing to do. Be peaceful with the way things are now, relax, let go. – Anonymous
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy is the unmistakable evidence of the presence of God. - Meister Eckhart
It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot
You and I cannot create ourselves. We cannot even wake ourselves up in the morning. It is the spirit of life that gives us the ability to experience what we call our life. We recognize the truth that there is no place where God is not. Today, give thanks for another day of loving. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. - William James
We cannot control every circumstance of our lives. Sometimes things happen that are difficult and challenging. But we do have a choice how we will respond. It's human to feel hurt at times, but we don't have to stay stuck. As we choose to open to love's presence, our circumstances always show us a gift hidden within the problem. God is always present and life is always good. - Mary Manin Morrissey
All beginnings require that you unlock new doors. The key is giving and doing. Give charity and do kindness. - Rebbe Nachman of Breslov in The Empty Chair
To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. - James Allen, 1855-1942;
How do we awaken to who we really are? What is the process by which we can embody the Christ consciousness that we are the light of the world? We remember that God is everywhere present. We apply that remembering and remind ourselves that no power is greater than God; no circumstance can steal our peace. And then we reveal that love by shining it into the lives of those around us. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Our breath is the bridge from our body to our mind. - Thich Nhat Hanh
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. - Robert Cushing
Thus, ultimately to try to escape a distress merely perpetuates that distress. What is so upsetting is not the distress itself, but our attachment to that distress. We identify with it, and that alone is the real difficulty. - Ken Wilber
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. - Elie Wiesel
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. - Sir Winston Churchill
Some see the glass as half-empty, some see the glass as half-full. I see the glass as too big. - George Carlin
Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us. - Seneca
When you must, you can. - Jewish Proverb
Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it. - Shakti Gawain
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. - Gilda Radner
When we really remember and realize the power of God's love in our lives, we can let go of our attachment to outcomes. This does not mean that we do not work our hardest for the highest and best outcome that we can see; it does mean that we do our best and leave the rest to God. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Be greedy that the end may be noble. Be lustful to live like God. Be angry at your own weakness. Be attached to the Divine Path. Be proud of God's grace. - Yogi Bhajan quoted in Meditation as Medicine by Dharma Singh Khalsa
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. -Martha Graham I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly becuase they helped define me. -Clare Boothe Luce When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -Helen Keller
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. - Benjamin Disraeli
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. - Robert Louis Stevenson
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end." - Jerry Seinfeld
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action; and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. You must keep that channel open. It is not for you to determine how good it is, or how valuable, or how it compares with other expressions. It is for you to keep it yours, clearly and directly. - Martha Graham
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune wihtout the words, and never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
No matter what we have done, God always offers us the chance to begin anew. Knowing that God grants us a new beginning, we, too, can look at our parents, our children, our partner or our friends, anyone with whom we've had some distance, and say, "Let's have a new beginning." Love is greater than any of our mistakes. - Mary Manin Morrissey
By whatsoever path you come to Me, I shall welcome you, for the paths men take from every side are Mine. - Lord Krishna
All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible. - Dr. Frank Richards
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We are more often frightened than hurt: Our troubles spring more often from fancy than reality. – Seneca
Don't go outside yourself, return into yourself, the dwelling place of truth is in the inner man. -
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. - Nathaniel Branden
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward
Connection with God - those "light bulb moments"- do not happen only in church. They are experienced in the everyday life we're living, in traffic and in the work we're doing and with the family of origin we have, and all of the many wonderful and challenging people in our lives as well, including ourselves. They are experienced when we ask, "What would Love do here?" and then listen for the answer. - Mary Manin Morrissey
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life. I was given all life, that I might enjoy all things. – Anonymous
If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving, and could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves. - Pablo Neruda
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. - Aldous Huxley
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. - Jean Anouilh
Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic. - Jean Sibelius
Most of us look at our ideals, say how far we are from them, and get depressed. But it is heroic simply to say, “Here are my ideals,” state them before the world, and then spend your life trying to live up to them. – Keshavan Nair, author of A Higher Standard of Leadership, Lessons from the Life of Gandhi
In and through community lies the salvation of the world. - M. Scott Peck
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice. –
Be bold enough always to believe that God is on your side and wholly yours, whatever you may think of yourself. - Abbe Henri de Tourville quoted in "Bread Upon the Waters" by Peter Reinhart
All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific. - Jane Wagner
The night will pass…
Then we have work to do…
Everything has to do with loving and not loving. – Rumi
If you want to change the action of individuals, you first have to be able to change their thoughts. – Aqueela Sherrills
I think that a true leader… is one who guides other people to find their own leadership skills. – Ocean Robbins
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. – John Dewey
When a baby is born, it demands constantly. Over the years, as it grows, it learns to shift from demanding to giving and receiving. In our relationships with other people, like babies, sometimes we think: You're supposed to make me happy. You're the one who needs to change. Give me, give me, give me. But life is about a different kind of orientation. We are meant to move from getting and acquiring and achieving - to serving. For this we came into the world, to bear witness to something much greater than what we can get. Once we discover our true purpose, we realize that the gift we receive is so much greater than what we tried to hoard for ourselves in the past. Then everything opens up, including our relationships. - Mary Manin Morrissey
My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity. - Astronaut Edgar Mitchell
One's deep intuition is an infallible guide to purpose and accomplishment. - Willis Harman
When nothing is sure, everything is possible. - Margaret Drabble
One filled with joy preaches without preaching. - Mother Teresa
In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Anonymous
Study nature as the countenance of God. – Kingsley
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Charlotte Bronte
True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller
However much thou art read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant. – Sa’di
The body is always in time; the spirit is always in timelessness. - Aldous Huxley
The essence of mind is empty, spacious and pure from the beginning, like the open, blue sky. - Dalai Lama
Service to others is the highest activity to which we can aspire. Since each individual is a unique expression of God, our offerings to the world will look different. Some of us may serve in ways that seem grand to the human eye, while others give their gifts in less visible ways. But each gift of love is God's expression in the world. Honor who God made you to be, a precious and irreplaceable child of God. Nurture your gifts so that you may be Love's presence in our world. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. - William Shakespeare
At times we are more or less aware of who we really are as daughters and sons of God, but our awareness doesn't change who we are. The journey is in the revealing of what's already true about us, in the unveiling of our essence. Our task is to unlayer beliefs of separation, smallness and unworthiness and come into the full expression of who God created us to be. -Mary Manin Morrissey
If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford
Freedom for all in matters of belief means that we not only tolerate but actually honor and respect and glean from all the many wondrous paths there are to the experience of the presence of God. The God of love shines forth in a splendid variety of colors and cultures. We clearly have a God who loves differences. Take a moment today to look through the eyes of Love at someone who is different from you. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions. - Alan Cohen
The only myth that's going to be worth thinking about in the immediate future is one talking about the planet-not this city, not these people, but the planet and everybody on it. - Joseph Campbell
The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Chinese proverb
There is no need to run outside for better seeing. Nor to peer from a window. Rather reside in the center of your being. The more you leave it, the less you learn. - Lao-Tze
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are... Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in my pillow, or stretch myself taught, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return. - Mary Jean Iron
Though we are God's sons and daughters, we do not realize it yet. - Meister Eckhart
When we find ourselves making habitual statements, such as, "I always have relationship problems," our creative intelligence says, "Yes. I will move exactly to the declaration of the God presence in you. As you declare `Let it be' then so it is." To lay claim to a new beginning, say, "Up until now." Those three words are a powerful, creative indicator for our subconscious minds that we are ready and willing to have a new experience, that we are open to a way of being that reflects the divine nature of who we are. - Mary Manin Morrissey
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. - Helen Keller
All deeper levels of spiritual growth happen in service, whether it's helping children or working at a soup kitchen or being a voice in our workplace. The readiness to really live in relationship with God requires reaching back to help others. Unless we're willing to be a place through which God's love expresses, our own experience of Love's presence is limited. Ask, "How would Love have me serve today?" - Mary Manin Morrissey
To know how to choose a path with heart is so learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it. - Jean Shinoda Bolen
I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet. - Ancient Persian saying
When the activities of life are infused with reverence, they come alive with meaning and purpose. - Gary Zukav
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. - Malcolm Forbes
Truth is written ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things, what’er you may believe.
There is an inmost center in us all,
Where truth abides in fullness; and around,
Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in,
This perfect, clear perception – which is truth.
A baffling and perverting carnal mesh
Binds it, and makes all error; and to know
Rather consists in opening out a way
When the imprisoned spendour may escape,
Than in effecting entry for a light
Supposed to be without. - Robert Browning, Paracelsus
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. – Vauvenargues
You do not make yourself love. You allow love to enter. - James Redfield
The nearest way to glory - a shortcut, as it were - is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. – Socrates
It's in human relationships that we get to see evidence of whether we're coming from fear or living in love. When fear speaks to us, it never says, "I'm going to wreck your relationship." It says, "I'm going to keep you safe. I'm going to make sure no one hurts you in any way." We want to be safe, to be protected. But love, the voice of faith, says, "Go ahead and take a risk. Open your heart. Take a step in love." Seize your opportunities this week to respond with love. To believe the best is a faith move. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. - Abraham Maslow
The purpose of setting goals is to inspire action, not predict it. - John H. Clark
"By having reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world." - Albert Schweitzer
True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only. - La Rochefoucauld
When the mind is pure, joy follows, like a shadow that never leaves. - The Buddha
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. - Helen Keller
When we have a transcendent experience of God, whether it is born of a despairing cry for help or from a single moment of sheer beauty, we sometimes enter into an evangelistic phase, and we think we should go tell other people what they need to do and be. But there's a difference between telling other people what they need and sharing our experience. Sharing our experience gives others a handle to the door of their own experience. Sharing what is happening in our lives becomes an open door to other people who want to walk through that doorway themselves. Let someone know today the difference that God's love has made in your life. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Listen for God's guidance. No one will meet exactly the same number of people this week that you will meet. Nobody will have access to exactly the same mix. The people on your path offer you a silver platter to be God's voice, God's hands, right here and right now. In each moment, Spirit gives us an opportunity to express God's love, and to receive it. You have an absolutely unique opportunity to make a difference in someone's life. Stop for a few moments, and listen. - Mary Manin Morrissey
Our first line of defense against unhappiness is refusing to believe that we are the victims of the bad intentions of others. The formula is: Do not blame the trigger. The world is full of triggers; in fact, life is designed like that, so that we will truly practice. We can be grateful for all these triggers, as without them we might never recognize our own unfortunate reactions. - Ayya Khema in "Visible Here and Now"
The highest wisdom is kindness. – Talmud
Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. - George Bernard Shaw
Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. - Mohandas Gandhi
None of us is given a lifetime. We're given one day at a time. We're given this day. Don't spend today worrying about whether the next one's going to come or where it's going to lead. The joy is in not missing a second of today, in the depth and the power of this very moment. - Mary Manin Morrissey
The greatest prayer is patience. - The Buddha
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them. - John J. McCloy
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau
Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together. - Mother Teresa
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be. – Socrates
For myself, I am an optimist-it does not seem to be much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill
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
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