' Read a Little '...
“Throw everything out of your mind. Read a little, sleep. The world will still be here when you wake up, and there'll still be everything left to do.”
........................... James Baldwin
' Truth '...
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. ................Saint Augustine
' Someone Loved Me '...
When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.
..................................... William Shakespeare
' The Manifestation of the Absolute '...
A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.
................................ Martin Heidegger
' Thoughts '...
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny ... it is the light that guides your way.
....................................... Heraclitus
' Recognition of Wisdom '...
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
........................... Xenophanes
' The Source of Creation '...
The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.
................................. Anaximander
' Conquering the World '...
Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
....................... Zeno of Citium
' Cultivate Truth and Justice '...
There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
.................... Emperor Marcus Aurelius
' The Color of your Thoughts '...
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
.................................... Marcus Aurelius
' Creation is Endless '...
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
.............................. Samuel Beckett
' My Destination '...
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
.............................. Marcel Proust
' A Cowardly Escape '...
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
............................ Thomas Mann
' Be True to Self '...
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.
............................... Hermann Hesse
' True Happiness '...
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
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' Being Truthful '...
American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.
......................................... Edward R. Murrow
' My Philosophy '...
My philosophy is:...
"What people say about me, is none of my business.
I am who I am and do what I do.
I expect nothing and accept everything.
And that makes life easier.--
We live in a world where funerals are more important than the deceased, marriage is more important than LOVE, looks are more important than the SOUL.
We live in a packaging culture that despises content."
....................... Sir Anthony Hopkins
' The Soldier Prays '...
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
.................... General Douglas MacArthur
' The Measure of a Man '...
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.
.......................... Reverand Martin Luther King, Jr.
' Negative or Positive Thoughts '...
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
............................... Willie Nelson
' Total Security '...
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
...................... President Dwight D. Eisenhower
' A Happy Marriage '...
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
......................... Ruth Graham
' A Wonderful Play '...
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
...................................... Shirley MacLaine
' The Fountain of Youth '...
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
............................ Pearl S. Buck
' Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon '...
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (born April 13, 1648, Montargis, France—died June 9, 1717, Blois) was a French Roman Catholic mystic and writer, a central figure in the theological debates of 17th-century France through her advocacy of Quietism, an extreme passivity and indifference of the soul, even to eternal salvation, wherein she believed that one became an agent of God.
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At age 15 she married Jacques Guyon, lord du Chesnoy, and began to raise a family, but, at the death of her husband in 1676, she turned completely toward the mystical experiences she had long felt. Led through a long cycle of personal religious developments by Barnabite Friar François Lacombe, she left her children and began travels with Lacombe to Geneva, Turin, and Grenoble (1681–86). In these cities she began to write on the suppression of individual desire and self-awareness. She also began to offer informal spiritual instruction to visitors in her home. Moreover, she claimed personal apostolic authority, an assertion that frequently aroused the suspicions of local bishops, forcing her to move on. During this period she published the most important of her many writings, Moyen court et très facile de faire oraison (1685; “Short and Very Easy Method of Prayer”), and began to write her autobiography and an extensive biblical commentary.
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In 1687 Madame Guyon moved to Paris. There her teachings faced even stronger criticism after the issuance by Pope Innocent XI of Coelestis pastor, a bull rejecting as heretical the Quietism associated with the Spanish priest Miguel de Molinos. Guyon’s detractors claimed that her writings exhibited several of the positions condemned in this bull; however, she denied any familiarity with Molinos’ teachings. Meanwhile, Lacombe was imprisoned. Guyon was arrested in 1688 but was released after a few months at the intervention of Madame de Maintenon, second wife of King Louis XIV. Maintenon also secured a teaching position for her at Saint-Cyr, a prestigious school for young noblewomen. There she began to teach her methods of silent contemplative prayer and of passive acceptance of God’s initiative in one’s moral transformation, which was in stark contrast to the traditional emphasis on the active cultivation of piety and morals.
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About the same time, Guyon attracted her greatest disciple, the influential writer (and later archbishop) Franƈois de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon (1651–1715). Fénelon, having found in her teachings the answers to some of his own spiritual dilemmas, became her regular correspondent. In 1693, however, Guyon lost both her position at Saint-Cyr and the favour of Maintenon after some of her students claimed that they had acquired exalted spiritual states and declared a preference for their own moral judgment, shaped by God in prayer, over obedience to conventional rules. By 1694 Fénelon’s writings, coloured by Quietism, had generated a great alarm. In the midst of complicated political and religious maneuvers, a conference met at Issy the following year, at which Fénelon defended Guyon’s teachings. Her leading critic at Issy was the prominent bishop of Meaux, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, who preferred a more intellectual approach to theology. Bossuet also emphasized the monastic ideal of enduring hardship en route to spiritual perfection over the noncloistered, universally available mysticism that Guyon championed. Whereas Guyon’s characterization of the highest spiritual states emphasized the annihilation of the individual’s will in an act of sustained submission to the will of God, Bossuet argued that such exalted states as Guyon had taught were only rarely achievable, and he doubted that Guyon herself had experienced them. The Articles of Issy (1695) that resulted from the conference did not formally condemn Guyon’s views but rather expressed a conservative position on mystical theology that Bossuet took to be incompatible with her published writings.
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Seeking to distance herself from Guyon’s teachings, Maintenon lobbied the king to issue a warrant for Guyon’s arrest. Guyon was accordingly arrested and imprisoned again in December 1695 on the authority of the king. She remained confined in various prisons, including the Bastille, until 1703. The final part of her autobiography (which was discovered in an archive in the 1980s and published for the first time in 1992) describes her ordeals during this period, which included verbal and physical abuse, poor living conditions, denial of the sacraments, and attempted poisonings. Fénelon continued to defend her against Bossuet’s attacks but was himself officially condemned by the Roman Catholic Church in 1699.
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After she was released from prison, Guyon lived and wrote quietly at Blois. She began to correspond with an international following of like-minded mystics, especially in England, Scotland, the Netherlands, and Germany. Although she continued to correspond with Catholics, many of whom were friends and supporters (including Fénelon, with whom she communicated in secret), she also gained a following among Protestants. Her biblical commentary influenced German Pietism, and her mystical writings were widely translated and anthologized by other Protestant groups, particularly the Society of Friends (Quakers). Her writings were originally published from 1712 to 1720 (45 vol., reprinted 1767–90)......................................................... from Britannica
' Education '...
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
............................... Bertrand Russell
' Truth '...
Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.
..................................... Charles Sanders Peirce
' The Greatest Revolution '...
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
...................................... William James
' Freedom '...
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
.......................................... Sigmund Freud
' Perfection '...
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
............................ Salvador Dali
' Follow your Path '...
Follow your path, and let the people talk.
................................. Dante Alighieri
' Politicians '...
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
........................... William Shakespeare
' Human '...
When you say Human,, you really mean the false belief that You are Separate from the Consciousness that Creates the Atomic Illusion of Solidity... We call this false belief... Ego................................thomas
' The Divine Creator '...
Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.
........................................ Stanislav Grof
' Authentic Spirituality '...
Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone.
.................................... Ken Wilber
' Non-Duality '...
You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.
................................. Eckhart Tolle
' You Exist '...
When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist
............................. Friedrich Schiller
' One who Knows '...
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.
.................................. Hermann Hesse
' The Dragons in our Lives '...
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
................................... Rainer Maria Rilke
' My Lover and the Sky '...
My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky
........................................ Nizar Qabbani
' Changing Opinion '...
The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.
............................... Immanuel Kant
' Continue '...
“I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
....................... Jalalu'l-din Rumi
' The Undisturbed Balance '...
Love is the undisturbed balance that binds this universe together.
............................... Mahavatar Babaji
' Observation of Mind '...
Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking.
................................ Rama Swami
' The Highest Yoga '...
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.
.................................... Sivananda
' Surrender to Reality '...
Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.
........................................... Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
' A Calm Mind '...
When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.
............................. Paramahansa Yogananda
' Be Sincere in Thought '...
Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.
.............................. Sri Chinmoy
' There is only Eternity '...
There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.
............................................. Frederick Lenz
' A Real Seeker After Truth '...
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
................................... Rene Descartes
' What is Life ? '...
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
................................. Jean-Paul Sartre
' Acknowledge Death '...
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
.................................... Martin Heidegger
' Seeking Truth '...
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
............................... Edith Stein
' We Become What We Love '...
We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God's compassionate love for others.
.................................. Saint Clare of Assisi
' Divine Grace '...
If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.
............................... Saint Rose of Lima
' Jean-Paul Sartre................ French philosopher and author
Sartre took over the phenomenological method, which proposes careful, unprejudiced description of the phenomena of conscious experience, from the German philosopher Edmund Husserl and used it with great skill in three successive publications: L’Imagination (1936; Imagination: A Psychological Critique), Esquisse d’une théorie des émotions (1939; Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions), and L’Imaginaire: Psychologie phénoménologique de l’imagination (1940; The Psychology of Imagination).................. But it was above all in L’Être et le néant (1943; Being and Nothingness) that Sartre revealed himself as a philosopher of remarkable originality and depth............ Sartre places human consciousness, or no-thingness (néant), in opposition to being, or thingness (être)......... Consciousness is not-matter and by the same token escapes all determinism................... The message, with all the implications it contains, is a hopeful one; yet the incessant reminder that human endeavour is and remains useless makes the book tragic as well........................ from Britanica
' The mind is Trained '...
The mind is trained from a very young age to think that life moves from one worry to the other or from one pain to another, never from one joy to another. If you feel there is something wrong with what you are seeing, then you should look back in at yourself because what you see outside is only a reflection of what is inside you.
................................... Swami Nithyananda
' True Self-Analysis '...
Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.
................................... Paramahansa Yogananda
' The Quality of Life '...
The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our minds.
........................ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
' The Greatest Healing Energy '...
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
...................................... Sai Baba
' Three Identities '...
You are not one person, but three: The one you think you are; The one others think you are; The one you really are.
........................... Sathya Sai Baba
' When the Ego Dies '...
All troubles come to an end when the ego dies
....................... Ramakrishna
' Never say NO '...
Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.
............................ Swami Vivekananda
' Knowledge and Wisdom '...
Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.
............................... W. Timothy Garvey
' Conflicted '...
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
.................................... Upton Sinclair
' Humor '...
If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.
................................. Amber Valletta
The Source of Knowledge '...
The only source of knowledge is experience.
............................... Albert Einstein
' A New Nation '...
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.
................................... President James Madison
' Kindness '...
There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.
........................................ Gloria Vanderbilt
' Silence '...
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
................................... Leopold Stokowski
' My Own World '...
Whatever way you put it, I am here only because my world is here. When I took my first breath, my world was born with me. When I die, my world dies with me. In other words, I wasn't born into a world that was already here before me, nor do I live simply as one individual among millions of other individuals, nor do I leave everything behind to live on after me. People live thinking of themselves as members of a group or society. However, this isn't really true. Actually, I bring my own world into existence, live it out, and take it with me when I die.
.................................................... Kosho Uchiyama
' The Ultimate Truth '...
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
........................................... Dogen
' Nobody is Normal '...
Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!
............................................ Taisen Deshimaru
' Separation '...
Separation is the absence of Love, and Love is the absence of separation.
.................................. Ramesh S Balsekar
' Love is Always Present '...
The love that you search for everywhere is already present within you. It may be evoked by any number of people or events. But finally, you must realize you are this love. The source of all love is within you.
.......................................... Gangaji
' The Highest Understanding '...
The one who follows the thought is also a thought! The one who follows the thought IS in thought. When you know that both are thoughts, you are home. You are not at home, you ARE home. Then allow thoughts to arise and allow them to be followed. You remain as That unmoved and unconcerned Being. This is the highest understanding.
.......................................... H. W. L. Poonja
' Lost '...
Having never left the house you are looking for the way home
...................................... Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
' In the Morning '...
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
............................................... Marcus Aurelius
' Love is a Fire '...
Love cannot be seeded into someone. It is a fire that is difficult to kindle but once it takes on, it is equally difficult to extinguish.
............................................. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
' The Subject of Poetry '...
The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.
.......................... Faiz Ahmad Faiz
' Nations '...
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
.................................... Muhammad Iqbal
' Seeking Truth '...
When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.
............................................. Rumi
' Consciousness watching the Ego '...
When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it.
................................................ Eckhart Tolle
' Reactions from the Ego '...
No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.
............................................ Vernon Howard
' Unhappy '...
Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make others happy.
........................................ Charlie Chaplin
' Happiness or Suffering ?'...
“Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind. It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching.”
......................................... Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
' The Way '...
“The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.”
........................... Gautama the Buddha
' Smile '...
“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.”
............................................. Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace
' Worthy of Honor '...
What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?
.......................................... Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
' Intellectual Daring '...
Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.
............................................ Immanuel Kant
' Stupid Laws '...
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
................................... Edmund Burke
' Americans are Good '...
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
............................................... Alexis de Tocqueville
' Replacing Fear '...
By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.
................................................ Alan Watts
' Here and Now '...
Yesterday, you were thinking about today, because then it was tomorrow; now it is today and you are thinking about tomorrow, and when the tomorrow comes, it will become today- because anything that exists, exists here and now, it cannot exist otherwise.
...................................... Rajneesh
' NOW '...
No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment... Now.
......................................... Eckhart Tolle
' When I Look Inside '...
When I look inside and see that I'm nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I'm everything, that's love. And between these two, my life turns.
........................................... Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
' Correcting Oneself '...
Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
.................................. Ramana Maharshi
' Reality '...
"Reality is not composed of discrete, separate parts, but is instead a continuous and interconnected vibratory field. What we perceive as solid and static is actually our brain's interpretation of these vibrational patterns. Consciousness might not just passively perceive the world but actively interact with these vibrations, influencing or co-creating reality."............................................... Dr Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, Cambridge University,
' Listen to the Silences '...
Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
............................. Samuel Beckett
' Mystical Language '...
Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.
...................... Nathalie Sarraute
' New Vision '...
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
............................... Marcel Proust
' The Mystery of Existence '...
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
........................................... Fyodor Dostoevsky
' Two Types of People '...
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
................................. Friedrich Nietzsche
' Natural Freedom '...
All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
........................................ John Locke
' Public Safety '...
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
..................... President Thomas Jefferson
' The Best Example '...
All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
.............................. Saint Teresa of Avila
' Men in Power '...
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
................................... Boris Pasternak
' Peace in Nature '...
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
.................................... Lord Byron
' The Game of War '...
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
.............................. Walter Scott
' Religions '...
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
..................................... Jonathan Swift
' Good and Bad Times '...
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
................................... George Bernard Shaw
' Speak from the Heart '...
People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.
.......................................... Marianne Williamson
' The Illusion of Life '...
I see this life to be like an illusion and a dream, and I cultivate compassion for sentient beings who do not realize this.
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To me, life is like an illusion, a dream that we are all living in. It is a temporary state of existence, a fleeting moment in the grand scheme of things.
And yet, many of us get so caught up in the material world, in our desires and attachments, that we forget to see the bigger picture. We become consumed by our own personal struggles and forget to look beyond ourselves..............................................
But for those who are able to see through the illusion, to realize the impermanence and transience of life, there is a sense of freedom and clarity that comes with it. ..................................
This is where compassion comes in. It is the recognition that we’re all in this dream together, and that many sentient beings are still asleep, unaware of the truth. And so, we cultivate compassion for them, knowing that they too will one day awaken and see the world for what it truly is..................................
It is through this compassion that we can spread love and understanding, and help others on their journey towards enlightenment.
Life may be like an illusion, but the love & compassion we show towards others is very real, and has the power to make a lasting impact on the world around us..................................
Therefore, let us continue to cultivate love & compassion for all sentient beings....................Isabel Arsenault..........
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' Find Someone who makes you Smile '...
If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find.
................................... Franz Kafka
' Do No Wrong '...
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.
.................................... James Joyce
' The Noble People '...
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
................................. Saul Bellow
' Know Oneself '...
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .
.................................... Flannery O'Connor
' Never Fear Honesty '...
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
.............................. William Faulkner
' The Best People '...
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
.................................... Ernest Hemingway
' Practice Arts '...
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.
................................. Kurt Vonnegut
' Losing the ego '...
I remember the first time I had this astonishing experience. I was fond of disappearing from London whenever the weather allowed and wandering alongside the river Thames in its more picturesque country parts. If the day was sunny I would stretch my feet out, lie down in the grass, pull out notebook and pen from my pocket--knowing that thoughts would eventually arise that would have for me an instructive or even revelatory nature, apart from those ordinary ones which were merely expressive.
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One day, while I was waiting for these thoughts to arise, I lost the feeling that I was there at all. I seemed to dissolve and vanish from that place, but not from consciousness. Something was there, a presence, certainly not me, but I was fully aware of it. It seemed to be something of the highest importance, the only thing that mattered.
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After a few minutes I came back, discovered myself in time and space again; but a great peace had touched me and a very benevolent feeling was still with me. I looked at the trees, the shrubs, the flowers, and the grass and felt a tremendous sympathy with them and then and then when I thought of other persons a tremendous benevolence towards them.
.......................................... Paul Brunton
' Ideas '...
For if you are caught up in ideas, then you will be caught up in the
self... And even if you are caught up in ideas about nothingness, you
will still be caught up in the self... That's why we should not get
attached to the belief that things either exist or do not exist... This
is the hidden meaning when I say that my teachings are a raft to be
abandoned when you see true being.
......................Gautama the Buddha.... Diamond Sutra
' Help Yourself '...
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
.............................. Aeschylus
' Hell '...
Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.
.................................... Virgil
' Friendship '...
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
.................................. Plutarch
' Giving '...
Those who give,, hoping to be rewarded with honor, are not giving, they are bargaining.
.................................. Philo
' Ignorance and Fear '...
Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.
............................. Ameen Rihani
' Love your Enemy '...
And God said, Love your enemy, and I obeyed Him and loved myself.
............................... Khalil Gibran
' Great Teaching '...
You teach best what you most need to learn.
....................... Richard Bach
' Intellectual Courage '...
Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.
........................................ Immanuel Kant
' The Highest Activity '...
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
................................... Baruch Spinoza
' Three Degrees of Knowledge '...
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
.................................. Plotinus
' Liars '...
You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.
................................... Aristippus
' Anger '...
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
............................. Epictetus
' Live Now '...
Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.
..................................... Marsilio Ficino
' Integrity '...
It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
........................................ Francis Bacon
' Consciousness '...
Before the world was, consciousness was......
In consciousness it comes into being, in consciousness it lasts and into pure consciousness it dissolves....
At the root of everything, is the feeling 'I am'...
The state of mind:
'there is a world' is secondary, for to be, I do not need the world, the world needs me.
................................... Nisargadatta Maharaj
' The Present Moment '...
My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.
................................... Rumi (The Masnavi – Book I, Story I, 1258 – 1273)
' A Dream '...
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
................................ Edgar Allan Poe
' Diapers '...
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
................................. Mark Twain
' Sincere Respect '...
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
................................ Bryant H. McGill
' Devotion '...
People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.
................................. Luciano Pavarotti
' The Givers '...
I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.
............................. Maria Callas
' Inspiration '...
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
................................... Giacomo Puccini
' When I Sing '...
When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white - I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.
............................................ Marian Anderson
' Two Miracles '...
Only two miracles are worth seeing: The miracle of loving And The miracle of forgiving.
......................................... Sri Chinmoy
' The Pathway to Enlightenment '...
The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.
................................. Frederick Lenz
' Freedom of Speech '...
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.
................................... George Orwell
' Source '...
There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
........................................ Nathaniel Hawthorne
' Remain Yourself '...
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
.................................. Ralph Waldo Emerson
' This is my Symphony '...
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.
....................................... William Ellery Channing
' Intelligent People '...
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
..................................... Bryant H. McGill
' Relax from the Ego '...
The force that is running inside you is the same force running the solar system... the moment you relax from the 'I' the 'other' will disappear... you become 'one' with the truth.
...................................... Swami Nithyananda
' The Rebirth of Civilization '...
If we believe in the rebirth of our civilization... then clearly this renaissance must begin in the chambers of our own hearts... We cannot wait for society to change, or for our institutions to be renewed. We, as individuals, must assume responsibility for our own personal transformation.
..................................... Georg Feuerstein
' Don't Depend on Death '...
Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once! Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it.
.............................................. Paramahansa Yogananda
' Become Yourself '...
When you know that you are eternal you can play your true role in time. When you know you are divine you can become completely human. When you know you are one with God you are free to become absolutely yourself.
................................... Mother Meera
' Quiet the Mind '...
Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.
................................. Ma Jaya
' Everything is Source '...
It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.
................................ Neem Karoli Baba
' Incarnations of Source '...
You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.
................................... Swami Vivekananda
' Tough Times '...
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
............................. Robert H. Schuller
' Trust '...
When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust!
.................................... John C. Maxwell
' For Things to Change '...
For things to change, YOU have to change. For things to get better, YOU have to get better. For things to improve, YOU have to improve. When YOU grow, EVERYTHING in your life grows with you.
...................................... Jim Rohn
' The Strangest Secret '...
The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about.
.......................... Earl Nightingale
' True Happiness '...
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
.................................. Og Mandino
' Government '...
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
.................................... President George Washington
' Darkness '...
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
..................................... Martin Luther King, Jr.
' The Happiest People '...
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
............................... Booker T. Washington
' A Brahmana '...
While residing at the Veluvana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (408) of this book, with reference to Thera Vaccha, who was also known as Thera Pilindavaccha, due to his offensive ways.
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Thera Pilindavaceha had a very offensive way of addressing people: he would often say, "Come here, you wretch", or "Go there, you wretch" and such other things. Other bhikkhus reported about him to the Buddha.
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The Buddha sent for him, and spoke to him on the matter. Then, on reflection the Buddha found that for the past five hundred existences, the thera had been born only in the families of the brahmins, who regarded themselves as being superior to other people.
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So the Buddha said to the bhikkhus, "Bhikkhus! Thera Vaccha addresses others as 'wretch' only by force of habit acquired in the course of his five hundred existences as a brahmin, and not out of malice. He has no intention of hurting others, for an arahat does not harm others."
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Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:
Verse 408: Him I call a brahmana, who speaks gentle, instructive and true words, and who does not offend anyone by speech."
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---Gautama the Buddha
Dhammapada, verse 408
' The Present Moment '...
The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment
.............................. Gautama the Buddha
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