' The Amish '...
Amish, Member of a conservative Christian group in North America known as the Old Order Amish Mennonite Church.. The Amish originated in 1693–97 as followers of the Mennonite elder Jakob Ammann (1644?–c. 1730) in Switzerland, Alsace, and Germany. He taught that lying was grounds for excommunication (which meant being shunned by all other Mennonites), that clothing should be uniform and beards untrimmed, and that the state church should be avoided.. Migration to North America and assimilation eliminated the Amish in Europe.. They settled in Pennsylvania in the 18th century. After 1850 they split into “Old Order” (traditional) and “New Order” (now the Mennonite churches). Old Order Amish now live in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas.. Adults are baptized and admitted to formal church membership at age 17 to 20.. Services are in Pennsylvania Dutch (a German dialect) and some English.. Though similar in theology to Mennonites, Amish wear modest, old-fashioned clothing and generally reject modern technology, including automobiles and telephones.............. from Britanica
' Truth is Heard in Silence '...
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
................... Sri Aurobindo
' Follow your Practice '...
Each step may seem to take forever, but no matter how uninspired you feel, continue to follow your practice schedule precisely and consistently.. This is how we can use our greatest enemy, habit, against itself.
........................ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
' The Present Moment '...
All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.
................ Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
'' The Vibrations of Creation '...
We are just entering what may be called, 'the field of vibrations', a field in which we may find more wonders than the mind can conceive of
................... Guglielmo Marconi
' Secrets of the Universe '...
If you want to find the secrets of the universe,, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.
..................... Nikola Tesla
' Led by the Holy Spirit '...
What is my task?,, First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ.. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself.. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.
........................ Aimee Semple McPherson
' The Strength of Humility '...
Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility.. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality.. Too often we feel that humility is a sign of weakness.. This is not so.. It is the sign of strength and security.
............................ Kathryn Kuhlman
' Bankruptcy '...
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
....................... Marcus Tullius Cicero
' There is the Task '...
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
' Touching the Heart '...
Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!
........................ Torquato Tasso
' The Father of Truth '...
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
......................... Francois Rabelais
' A Fine Voyage '...
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
..................... Joachim du Bellay
' To Quote Others '...
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
.................... Michel de Montaigne
' Practice what you Preach '...
Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.
................ Marcus Aurelius
' No Discrimination of Truth '...
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
.................... Umberto Eco
' Evil is Weakness '...
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
........................ Alain Badiou
' Three Steps to Paradise '...
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise.. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
..................... Friedrich Nietzsche
' True Intelligence '...
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
..................... John Calvin
' Agreement on Religion '...
How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion,, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.
.......................... Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
' Faith and Love '...
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love.. Faith brings the person to God,, love brings the person to people.
........................ Martin Luther
' Dissolve the Questioner '...
The question 'Who am I?', is not really meant to get an answer,, the question 'Who am I?', is meant to dissolve the questioner.
.........................Ramana Maharshi
' A Quiet Ego '...
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all,, but that these will be on the surface,, and you will feel your true being within,, separate from them,, observing but not carried away
............................ Sri Aurobindo
' 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
' Be Yourself '...
Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and finds one's Self-this is supreme happiness.. When it is found, nothing else remains to be found; the sense of want will not awaken anymore, and the heart's torment will be stilled forever.. Do not be satisfied with fragmentary happiness, which is invariably interrupted by shocks and blows of fate; but become complete, and having attained to perfection, be YOURSELF.
..................... Anandamayi M
' A Prisioner of the Ego '...
To know that you are a prisoner of your mind,, is the dawn of wisdom.
.......................... Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
' You have the Key '...
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn,, the door is there and the key is in your hand.. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
................................. Jiddu Krishnamurti
' Learning '...
Learning is not attained by chance,, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
......................... Abigail Adams
' Meister Eckhart '...
The best-attested German work of this middle part of his life is the Book of Divine Consolation, dedicated to the Queen of Hungary. The other two treatises were The Nobleman and On Detachment.. The teachings of the mature Eckhart describe four stages of the union between the soul and God: dissimilarity, similarity, identity, breakthrough. At the outset, God is all, the creature is nothing; at the ultimate stage, “the soul is above God.”.. The driving power of this process is detachment.
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1. Dissimilarity: “All creatures are pure nothingness.. I do not say they are small or petty: they are pure nothingness.”.. Whereas God inherently possesses being, creatures do not possess being but receive it derivatively.. Outside God, there is pure nothingness.. “The being (of things) is God.” ..The “noble man” moves among things in detachment, knowing that they are nothing in themselves and yet aware that they are full of God—their being.
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2. Similarity: Man thus detached from the singular (individual things) and attached to the universal (Being) discovers himself to be an image of God.. Divine resemblance, an assimilation, then emerges: the Son, image of the Father, engenders himself within the detached soul.. As an image, “thou must be in Him and for Him, and not in thee and for thee.”..
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3. Identity: Eckhart’s numerous statements on identity between God and the soul can be easily misunderstood.. He never has substantial identity in mind, but God’s operation and man’s becoming are considered as one.. God is no longer outside man, but he is perfectly interiorized.. Hence such statements: “The being and the nature of God are mine; Jesus enters the castle of the soul; the spark in the soul is beyond time and space; the soul’s light is uncreated and cannot be created, it takes possession of God with no mediation; the core of the soul and the core of God are one.”
' Words '...
Words are the only jewels I possess..
Words are the only clothes I wear..
Words are only the food that sustain my life..
Words are the only wealth I distribute among people.
................ Tukaram
' God is Within You '...
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
........................ Kabir
' Transmuting Pain '...
The most important lesson that man can learn from life,, is not that there is pain in this world,, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.
........................ Rabindranath Tagore
' How poor are We ? '...
Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory.. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things.. Then you will know how poor you are.
...................... Rudyard Kipling
' No More Whining '...
No whining, no complaining about anyone.. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons.
................... Iyanla Vanzant
' Questions '...
Question your thoughts...
Question your stories...
Question your assumptions...
Question your opinions...
Question your conclusions...
Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy...
The keys to freedom are in your hands...
Use them..
...................... Adyashanti
' Watching the Ego Mind '...
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
' Look within the Heart '...
Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired people have been trying to tell you by the tortuous method of using words.
........................ Paul Brunton
' Your True Nature '...
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit.. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
.......................... amana Maharshi
' The Same Source '...
It makes no difference whether you worship God, Jehovah, Allah, Mohammed, Buddha, Christ or Krishna ,, it is still and always one and the same God.
............................... Satyananda Saraswati
' We Are Light '...
There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief,, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering.
............................ Patanjali
' The Unity of Source '...
Outside is the joy of the drop.. Inside is the joy of the ocean.
...................... Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
' The Vision of Creation '...
If you can't see God in All,, you can't see God at all.
.................... Harbhajan Singh Yogi
' Truth is Eternal '...
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
....................... Georges Braque
' Saint Valentine '...
A common hagiography describes Saint Valentine as a priest of Rome or as the former Bishop of Terni, an important town of Umbria, in central Italy.. While under house arrest of Judge Asterius, and discussing his faith with him, Valentinus (the Latin version of his name) was discussing the validity of Jesus.. The judge put Valentinus to the test and brought to him the judge's adopted blind daughter.. If Valentinus succeeded in restoring the girl's sight, Asterius would do whatever he asked.. Valentinus, praying to God, laid his hands on her eyes and the child's vision was restored...
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Immediately humbled, the judge asked Valentinus what he should do.. Valentinus replied that all of the idols around the judge's house should be broken, and that the judge should fast for three days and then undergo the Christian sacrament of baptism.. The judge obeyed and, as a result of his fasting and prayer, freed all the Christian inmates under his authority.. The judge, his family, and his forty-four member household of adult family members and servants were baptised.................. Wikipedia
' Experience Contemplation '...
Thinking is all that we find within the human experience..
The hologram is filled with lies, therefore, remain the Observer..
If you do not explore the Life Experience,
You remain a slave..
Experience Freedom by Contemplation...
---------------- thomas
' Corruption '...
Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that, and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.
................................ Alexei Navalny
' Change '...
Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
...................... Elon Musk
' The Truth is a Puzzle '...
The truth may be puzzling.. It may take some work to grapple with.. It may be counterintuitive.. It may contradict deeply held prejudices.. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true.. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
.................. Carl Sagan
' A True Genius '...
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
........................... Jonathan Swift
' War is Hell '...
I am tired and sick of war.. Its glory is all moonshine.. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.. War is hell.
................ General William Tecumseh Sherman
' Your Reaction '...
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
' The Last Time '...
If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul.. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more.. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again.. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.
.................... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
' Artificial Stupidity '...
Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children.. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.
........................ Thomas Sowell
' Governing the World '...
It is impossible to govern the world without God.. It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits and humbly implore his protection and favor.
...................... President George Washington
' Snatching Gladness '...
Our planet
is poorly equipped
for delight..
One must snatch
gladness
from the days that are..
In this life
it's not difficult to die..
To make life,
is more difficult by far.
....................... Vladimir Mayakovsky
' Find what they Found '...
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.. Seek what they sought.
.................... Matsuo Basho
' Three Stages of Truth '...
All truth passes through three stages.. First, it is ridiculed.. Second, it is violently opposed.. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
.................... Arthur Schopenhauer
' Reincarnation '...
The living are just the dead on holiday
................... Maurice Maeterlinck
' The Incomprehensible Light '...
When love has carried us above all things into the Divine Dark, there we are transformed by the Eternal Word Who is the image of the Father; and as the air is penetrated by the sun, thus we receive in peace the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us, and penetrating us.
...................... John of Ruysbroeck
' The Fullness of Joy '...
The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything..
God is the ground, the substance,
the teaching, the teacher,
the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.
................... Julian of Norwich
' Transformed into Love '...
To love is to be transformed into what we love.. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
.................... Saint John of the Cross
' A Secret Conversation '...
I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques.. My only prayer practice is attention.. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy.
............................... Brother Lawrence
' Gravity '...
Gravity explains the motions of the planets,, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. ..................
' You are three Persons '...
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
' The Future '...
Why should you trouble yourself about the future?.. You do not even properly know about the present.. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
.................Ramana Maharshi
' The Divine Principle '...
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
' 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
' A Celebration of Ignorance '...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
...................... Carl Sagan
' Self-Education '...
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
........................ Isaac Asimov
' Action has Magic '...
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it.. Action has magic, power and grace.
...................... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
' Someone started Loving 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
' 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
' Laugh at Yourself '...
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
..................... Shirley MacLaine
' Be Truthful to Yourself '...
Be brave and clear.. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors.. Be true to yourself.
................Shirley Temple
' Love is Fire '...
Love is friendship that has caught fire.. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving.. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
.......................... Ann Landers
' Educate them in Love '...
Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.
................. Rudolf Steiner
' Learning by Experience '...
Do not tell them how to do it.. Show them how to do it and do not say a word.. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move.. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.
................. Maria Montessori
' The Time of Now '...
Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? It’s really all memory ... except for each passing moment.
................ Eric Kandel
' The Source of Love '...
It is a union with a Higher Good by love, that alone is endless perfection.. The only sufficient object for man must be something that adds to and perfects his nature, to which he must be united in love; somewhat higher than himself, yea, the highest of all, the Father of spirits.. That alone completes a spirit and blesses it, - to love Him, the spring of spirits.
................... Robert B. Leighton
' The First Principle '...
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
...................... Richard P. Feynman
' A Figment of Imagination '...
There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science.. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism.. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations.
....................... Leonard Susskind
' My Best Teachers '...
My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers,, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.
.......................... Brian Greene
' Two Directions of Karma '...
Karma moves in two directions.. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness.. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.
......................... Sakyong Mipham
' Controlling Karma '...
I don't know what religious people do.. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing.. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
......................... Marcia Wallace
' Political Ethics '...
Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles.. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.
.................. Dalai Lama
' A Good Listener '...
Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.
................. Wayne Dyer
' My Actions '...
My actions are my only true belongings.. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions.. My actions are the ground on which I stand.
..................... Nhat Hanh
' Life as Lessons '...
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
.................... Eckhart Tolle
' Revenge '...
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
.................. Confucius
' Love is the Balance '...
Love is the undisturbed balance that binds this universe together.
..................... Mahavatar Babaji
' Life is a Challenge '...
Life is a challenge, meet it!.. Life is a dream, realize it!.. Life is a game, play it!.. Life is love, enjoy it!
.................... Sathya Sai Baba
' Your Silence becomes Music '...
Touch your inner space, which is nothingness, as silent and empty as the sky; it is your inner sky.. Once you settle down in your inner sky, you have come home, and a great maturity arises in your actions, in your behavior.. Then whatever you do has grace in it.. Then whatever you do is a poetry in itself.. You live poetry; your walking becomes dancing, your silence becomes music.
.......................... Rajneesh
' Know Thyself '...
Intelligent people know others.. Enlightened people know themselves.
................ Laozi
' Freedom from Attachment '...
Love is the only freedom from attachment.. When you love everything,, you are attached to nothing.
...................... Mikhail Naimy
' The Real stays Real '...
The real things haven't changed.. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
...................... Laura Ingalls Wilder
' Feeling Defeated '...
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
................... Malcolm Forbes
' Finding Reality '...
In the First Awakening as Light, Love, and Wisdom,,, It is Returning Consciousness to the Abode of Divine Consciousness,, only Asking the Wisdom within the Light,, " Is This the Final Reality ?".... for the first time, there was no Answer from Higher Consciousnes... thus, the Search began, only to arrive in the Nothingness of Pure Awareness... having no name or identification... only, the Complete Freedom of Reality..........
' There's only Now '...
These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now.. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.
............................ Van Morrison
' Only Love '...
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio.. What is sacred?,, Of what is the spirit made?,, What is worth living for and what is worth dying for?,, The answer to each is the same.. Only love.
...................... Lord Byron
' The Importance of Practice '...
The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
.................... Plato
' Respect Youself '...
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself.. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
......................... Fyodor Dostoevsky
' A Friend in Disguise '...
If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends.. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.
........................... Ted Turner
' Power and Respect '...
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
.................... Bruce Lee
' The Bhagavad Gita '...
#1 “The Gita is not a book of commandments but a book of choices.”
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#2 “When your mind has overcome the confusion of duality, you will attain the state of holy indifference to things you hear and things you have heard.”
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#3 “Everything we do produces karma in the mind. In fact, it is in the mind rather than the world that karma’s seeds are planted.”
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#4 “Actions do not cling to me because I am not attached to their results. Those who understand this and practice it live in freedom.”
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#5 “When the mind constantly runs after the wandering senses, it drives away wisdom, like the wind blowing a ship off course.”
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#6 “All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts; it is made of our thoughts.”
' The Seeker '...
The thing we tell of can never be found by seeking,, yet only seekers find it.
.................. Bayazid Bastami
' The Sincere Sufi '...
The sincere Sufi feels poor when he has wealth, is humble when he has power, and is hidden when he has fame.
......................... Imam Abul Qasim
' Thirteen Enemies '...
Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering.. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.
....................... Al-Ghazali
' The Value of life '...
If you think killing people is a solution to a problem, I not only disagree with you but also I hate your perspective.
.................... Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
' The Passage of Time '...
One can only forget about time by making use of it.
.................. Charles Baudelaire
' Be Aware '...
Do not wait for life.. Do not long for it.. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
...................... Marcel Proust
' Being Honest '...
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
..................... William Faulkner
' The Media '...
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed.. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
.................. Mark Twain
' All else is Folly '...
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved!,, That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
.................... Leo Tolstoy
' Where is Happiness ? '...
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
...................... Arthur Schopenhauer
' I was in Darkness '...
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise.. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
.................... Friedrich Nietzsche
' 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
' The Eternal Life '...
The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.
........................ Ludwig Wittgenstein
' Be that Person '...
Never forget that you are one of a kind.. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place.. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world.. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about.. So be that one person.
............................ R. Buckminster Fuller
' My People '...
I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans.. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage.. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people.
........................... James A. Michener
' The Way to Success '...
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone.. This is the way to success.
......................... Swami Vivekananda
' Finding Happiness '...
The process of finding happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else.
.......................... Swami Parthasarathy
' Live in this Moment '...
Time is just an illusion.. What you need is to live this very moment.. That is all that matters.
.................... Elif Safak
' Beyond Description '...
What comes, will go.. What is found, will be lost again.. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.
............................Rumi
' If I Worship '...
O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.
............................... Rabia Basri
' Love is my Religion '...
I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.
......................... Ibn Arabi
' Does Truth Exist ? '...
Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth,, or he would not ask any question.
.................... Charles Sanders Peirce
' Alter your Reality '...
Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality.. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.
................... William James
' You Are Above '...
The more you struggle to live, the less you live.. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing.. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
......................... Baruch Spinoza
' Science '...
Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.
.................... Johannes Kepler
' Science meets Mysticism '...
After the conversations about Indian philosophy,, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.
............................. Werner Heisenberg
' Karma '...
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
...................... Wayne Dyer
' Master the Breath '...
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 New World '...
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations; your conscious expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a great, new and wonderful world.
.................... Patanjali
' Love and Lust '...
Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart.. Love liberates while lust binds.
................... Narayanananda Swami.
' The Heart is Innocent '...
The heart is a gate-less gate to divinity.. Move to the heart.. We are all hung up, stuck in the head - that is our problem.. The only problem is that we think too much.. There is only one solution - get down from the head to the heart.. All your problems will disappear. Problems are created by the head.. The heart is innocent.. The heart is a fountain of love.
........................ Vasant Lad
' Mental Peace '...
No one can please everyone.. Your mental peace is more important.. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace.. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.
................... Baba Hari Dass
' All Is Source '...
It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.
.................. Neem Karoli Baba
' You Are Perfected '...
When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path.. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.
...................... Meher Baba
' To Be Beautiful '...
To be beautiful means to be yourself..You don't need to be accepted by others.. You need to accept yourself.. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower.. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life.. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.
.................... Nhat Hanh
' Not Enough Presence '...
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.
..................... Eckhart Tolle
' My Life Turns '...
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
' Unhappy ? '...
Why are you unhappy?.. Because 99.9 percent, Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself - And there isn’t one.
................... Wei Wu Wei
' Seeking Happiness '...
The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings.
................ Ramesh S Balsekar
' I Changed '...
I was neurotic for years.. I was anxious and depressed and selfish.. Everyone kept telling me to change.. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried.. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change.. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive.. And suddenly I changed!
......................... Anthony de Mello
' A Walk with Divine Consciousness '...
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.. I do not see the road ahead of me.. I cannot know for certain where it will end.. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following Your Will does not mean that I am actually doing so.. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You.. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
........................... Thomas Merton
' Everyone is Alone '...
Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.
......................... Maurice Merleau-Ponty
' Life is an Interruption '...
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
......................... Jean-Paul Sartre
' Finding your Way '...
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
.................... Hermann Hesse
' Wealth '...
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel.. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
......................... Henrik Ibsen
' The Pain of Greed '...
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
........................ Erich Fromm
' The Source of Happiness '...
But I think happiness springs from another source,, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will, because it comes from love.
............................. Henryk Sienkiewicz
' The Nectar of Life '...
The nectar of life is sweet only when shared with others.
...................... Adam Mickiewicz
' The Power of Love '...
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.. Never underestimate the power of love.. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost.. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all.. Music is love in search of a word.. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.
.............................. Lord Byron
' The Best Things of Life '...
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.
........................ Algernon Charles Swinburne
' The Joys of Now '...
Be happy for this moment.. This moment is your life.
.................. Omar Khayyam
' The Equation '...
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence.. This is the equation.
....................... Averroes
' Abandon Desires '...
Abandon desire for this world, and God will love you.. Abandon desire for others’ goods, and people will love you.
...................... Ibn Majah
' The Pains of Attachment '...
If a heart becomes attached to anything other than Allah, Allah makes him dependent on what he is attached to.. And he will be betrayed by it.
.......................... Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
' The Poetry of Music '...
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest,, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
............................. Andres Segovia
' Understood by the Heart '...
The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.
............................ Gioachino Rossini
' Dancing for Joy '...
When I think of my God,, my heart dances within me for joy,, and then my music has to dance, too.
.......................... Joseph Haydn
' Music as a Means '...
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.
............................. Dmitri Shostakovich
' Without the Heart '...
Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.
...................... Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
' The Silence Within '...
The music is not in the notes,, but in the silence between.
..................... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
' Painter '...
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory.. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
.............................. Edgar Degas
' The Light Within '...
I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells.. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.
......................... Crazy Horse
' Wisdom and Peace '...
Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.
.............................. Geronimo
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