' Changing the World '...
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
................Leo Tolstoy
' Source and Science '...
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.
.............Louis Pasteur
' Failure '...
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
...................Thomas A. Edison
' When I Die '...
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
..................Will Rogers
' The One '...
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
....................Rabindranath Tagore
' The Individual '...
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
.................Rudyard Kipling
' The Most Dangerous Condition '...
The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
..................Arthur Conan Doyle
' 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
' Learning and Teaching '...
Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
...............Antoine de Saint-Exupery
' Power Over Others '...
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
.............Voltaire
' Men of Genius '...
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
...............Alfred Adler
' A New World ? '...
This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super-states that preceded it - it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.
..............Rod Serling
' Medical Professionals '...
If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired. But in its practice you will find it to be attended with peculiar privileges, second to none in intense interest and pure pleasures. It is our proud office to tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit, and our path, rightly followed, will be guided by unfettered truth and love unfeigned. In the pursuit of this noble and holy calling I wish you all God-speed.
.................Joseph Lister
' The Finest of Arts '...
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
...........Florence Nightingale
' Being Blind '...
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
............ Helen Keller
' Frenzy of Time '...
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.
.....................Thomas Merton
' The Effect of Life '...
The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
.................Zhuangzi
' The Golden Rule '...
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence
...................Mencius
' The Pursuit of Happiness '...
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
................Benjamin Franklin
' Choosing '...
We can choose to function at a lower level of awareness and simply exist, caring for our possessions, eating, drinking, sleeping and managing in the world as pawns of the elements, or we can soar to new and higher levels of awareness allowing ourselves to transcend our environment and literally create a world of our own - a world of real magic.
..................Wayne Dyer
' Finding Fault '...
If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!
...................Lewis Carroll
' Politics '...
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
.........George Orwell
' That Which I Cannot Do '...
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
...............Pablo Picasso
' " Let the Dead , bury the Dead " '...
A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.
..................G. I. Gurdjieff
' Seekers of Wealth '...
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
.............John Greenleaf Whittier
' The Guardian Angel '...
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
.................Lydia M. Child
' Greatness '...
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
.........Henry Ward Beecher
' One Moment '...
One moment can change a day, One day can change a life and One life can change the world
...........Gautama the Buddha
' Kindness '...
Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love.
..................Laozi
' The Hour of Separation '...
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
...........Khalil Gibran
' The Inner Learning Creature '...
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
.............Richard Bach
' Forgiveness is the Cure '...
Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.
...........Charles Fillmore
' Divine Operation '...
My mind is a centre of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always for expansion and fuller expression, and this means the production of something beyond what has gone before, something entirely new, not included in past experience, though proceeding out of it by an orderly sequence of growth. Therefore, since the Divine cannot change its inherent nature, it must operate in the same manner in me; consequently in my own special world, of which I am the centre , it will move forward to produce new conditions, always in advance of any that have gone before.
.................Thomas Troward
' Success '...
Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the man, not in his crutches. A great man will make opportunities, even out of the commonest and meanest situations. If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not learning, not culture alone, not helps and opportunities, but personal power and sterling integrity, make a man great.
................Orison Swett Marden
' Think Lovingly '...
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
............James Allen
' Man's Character '...
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
.........Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
' What does History Teach Us ? '...
What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
.............Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
' What Is Life '...
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
.............Jean-Paul Sartre
' Nature and Culture '...
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.
............U.G. Krishnamurti
'Sometimes '...
Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.
............Stephen Crane
' Years of Love '...
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
.............Edgar Allan Poe
' Your Sensibilities '...
Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.
.............Zeno of Citium
' Desire '...
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
............Epicurus
' Knowledge has Three Degrees '...
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
' Human Miseries '...
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
..........Blaise Pascal
' Opinions '...
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
...............Baruch Spinoza
' Speech and Silence '...
A fool is known by his
speech; and a wise man by
silence.
...............Pythagoras
' Truth is Obscure '...
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
.............Blaise Pascal
' Anger '...
When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.
..................Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
' Compassion '...
Remember that you don't have to like or admire someone to feel compassion for that person. All you have to do is wish for that person to be happy.
.......Thanissaro Bhikkhu
' What is your Teacher ? '...
Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
.................Ajahn Chah
' Stumbling over the Truth '...
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
.................Winston Churchill
' The Most Precious Gift '...
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
............Nhat Hanh
' Small and Large '...
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.
....................Anaxagoras
' All Truths are Easy '...
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
...........Galileo Galilei
' Your Mind '...
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
...........James Joyce
' Nothing Noble '...
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
..........Ernest Hemingway
' Falling Down '...
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.
..........Socrates
' Never Forget '...
Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you
........Virginia Woolf
' Ego Annihilation '...
Dear heart, where do you find
the courage to seek the Beloved
when you know He has annihilated
so many like you before?
I do not care, said my heart,
my only wish is to become
one with the Beloved.
- Rumi
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"Rumi - Whispers of the Beloved"
Selected and translated by
Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam Mafi
Thorsons, London 1999
' I Am Back '...
After spending a week in a hospital having a heart valve repaired, I have returned into this Dimension once again... welcome back to all the Seekers of Wisdom..............thomas
' 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
' In the Land of I Know '...
In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the realm of the ego. I say refuse citizenship. In the land of "I dont know," the inhabitants move without conflict and are naturally quiet, happy and peaceful. The wise stay here.
............Mooji
' A Simple Secret '...
There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You're Arguing with 'What Is' - Your demands keep you chained to the 'dream-state' of the conditioned mind. The desire to 'control'... is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.
........Adyashanti
' Complaining '...
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.
...........Eckhart Tolle
' For the Sake of Peace '...
In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
.............Chinua Achebe
' Gone for a week '...
I will be away from this computer for the next week...therefore, you should read Wisdom from the other eighteen thousand writings... when I come back, I will tell you of my experiences within life...............thomas
' Failure '...
A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.
..................Confucius
' 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
'From Within '...
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
.............Anna Freud
' Knowing Darkness '...
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
..............Carl Jung
' Forever '...
Alice: "How long is forever?"
White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."
.............Lewis Carroll
' The Lie '...
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
..............George Orwell
' The Saints are Everywhere '...
You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.
..........Kurt Vonnegut
' The Answer to Everything '...
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
..............Ray Bradbury
' How Freedom is Measured '...
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
.............Vernon Howard
' Humanity is Starving '...
Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food.
'''''''''''Paul Brunton
' Silence Is Truth '...
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
.............Ramana Maharshi
' Love Frees Your Mind '...
Even if a person hurts you, give him love. The worst punishment is to throw someone out of your heart... You should love everyone as God, and love each other. If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal.
............Neem Karoli Baba
' The Human Body '...
The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole, then it cannot cross the ocean, so the first duty is to fix the boat.
..............Baba Hari Dass
' Surrender All Desires '...
Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world - so make the acquaintanceship of God now.
.....Lahiri Mahasaya
' Nothing Changes '...
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 World of Noise '...
In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.
..............Thomas Merton
' Compassion '...
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
................Henri Nouwen
' Live your Life '...
Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.
..................Anthony de Mello
' Nothing Exists Except '...
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
................Democritus
' Physics '...
All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.
.....................Ernest Rutherford
' Nothing is to be Feared '...
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
...............Marie Curie
' The Most Beautiful cannot be Seen '...
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
..................Helen Keller
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