' The Love of Freedom '...
In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.
...........Phillis Wheatley
' Eternity '...
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
...........Jonathan Edwards
' The Breath of Life '...
In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.
...............Michael Servetus
' The Fetus '...
For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man's house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.
...................John Calvin
' False Knowledge '...
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
...............George Bernard Shaw
' The Greatest Weapon '...
Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.
..............H. G. Wells
' The Monsters '...
The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
..............Edgar Allan Poe
' The Boundless Ocean '...
If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.
..................Antoine de Saint-Exupery
' Fearful People '...
Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities.
...........George Gerbner
' Positivism '...
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
.............Auguste Comte
' The American Republic '...
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
..............Alexis de Tocqueville
' Rules for Happiness '...
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
.........Immanuel Kant
' A Free Thinker '...
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
.............Aristotle
' Painting Pictures '...
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
................Leopold Stokowski
' The Aim of Music '...
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
.....................Johann Sebastian Bach
' Parables '...
We Mystics speak a language that envolves poetry.... the Apostles ask the Mystic Master,,, " Why do you speak in Parables ?"... The teacher answered,,, " I speak in parables for those that Know and for the others to think it just a good story............thomas
' To Administer Justice '...
What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.
..............Herbert Spencer
' Nature and Nurture '...
The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed. Nature is all that a man brings with himself into the world; nurture is every influence without that affects him after his birth.
.............Francis Galton
' From Beginner to Master '...
One becomes a beginner after 1000 days of training. One becomes a master after 10,000 days of practice.
............Mas Oyama
' The Meaning of Life '...
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
.................Joseph Campbell
' Those Teachers '...
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
...............Khalil Gibran
' The Modern World '...
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
..................Anthony Burgess
' Medical Science '...
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
.................Aldous Huxley
' The Path of Love '...
It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for "God is Charity" (1John 4:8)
............ Saint Albertus Magnus
' Art Achieves Beauty '...
An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.
.............Al-Farabi
' Trapped by Desires '...
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
...........Ibn Arabi
' Learning '...
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
.............Claude Bernard
' Life is the Question '...
Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.
..................Johnny Cash
' What is Happiness ? '...
People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.
.................Richard Gere
' Use Your Fear '...
Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.
..............Amelia Earhart
' What Is True '...
It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true.
..............Jiddu Krishnamurti
' Teachers '...
A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.
.............Rabindranath Tagore
' Tyrants '...
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.
..............Samuel Adams
' Nobody Like You '...
Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you.
..............Daniel Radcliffe
' Take Your Time '...
Take your time, think a lot,
Why, think of everything you've got.
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.
From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
I know I have to go.
..........Cat Stevens
' Blessings '...
May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.
......................Leonard Cohen
' Be Careful '...
Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
.............Carl Sandburg
' Still and Solitary '...
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
.................Franz Kafka
' True Nobility '...
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
..................Ernest Hemingway
' Love Yourself '...
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
..............Kristin Chenoweth
' The Struggles of Life '...
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
' The Majority of Humans '...
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
...........Arthur Schopenhauer
' The Enslaved '...
None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
..................Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
' 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
' Sometimes '...
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
............Friedrich Nietzsche
' We Are Asleep! '...
Impossible to believe as we stare at this screen before us..
We awoke this morning from the nothingness and into the illusion of materiality..
All of this time, we firmly believe that we are awake in reality..
We pass through this day wondering why we are here..
Perhaps, instead of crying at our unknowing,
We should laugh at our ignorance..
As all of the Mystic Masters have told you,
" The answer is within"..
Within what?..
The Heart and Mind..
This is why you are here..
The mind will lead you to the 'Door'
The heart will open the 'Door'..
As the Nazarene said;
" Knock and the Door shall be opened"..
The mind is the ego that desires to exist but still seeks freedom..
The Heart is Divine Consciousness that offers freedom to the mind..
The mind is troubled by this decision between annihilation of it's existence and
the freedom that is promised by this sacrifice of existence..
Reality is beyond the mind (ego),
To view Reality, the mind (ego) must dissolve into nothingness...
Courage is the name given to those that fear and yet still proceed..
Are you Courageous?..
- thomas
' Repentence '...
It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.
..........Giovanni Boccaccio
' A Meaningful Journey '...
I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.
.......................Dante Alighieri
' Enemies of Peace '...
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
...................Petrarch
' Two Hands '...
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
..................Billy Graham
' I Am Content '...
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
...............Henry Fielding
' A Rough Diamond '...
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished,
or the luster of it will never appear. ...............Daniel Defoe
' Lieing '...
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
...........Alexander Pope
' Apologies '...
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
...............Jonathan Swift
' Progress '...
Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.
................Vernon Howard
' Free Speech '...
Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
............George Orwell
' The Object of Religion '...
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
...........Thomas Hardy
' Present Grief '...
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
..............Aeschylus
' Nothing Nobler '...
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
...................Homer
' The Greatest Medicine '...
The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
...........Hippocrates
' An Original Thought '...
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings
............Diogenes
' The Mirror of Eternity '...
Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation.
............Saint Clare of Assisi
' Love Both '...
We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.
.............Saint Thomas Aquinas
' Actions and Words '...
Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.
..Saint Anthony of Padua
' Your Presence '...
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
............Nhat Hanh
' What '...
What is it that is most beautiful? - The Universe; for it is the work of God. What is most powerful? - Necessity; because it triumphs over all things. What is most difficult? - To know one's self. What is most easy? - To give advice. What method must we take to lead a good life? - To do nothing we would condemn in others. What is necessary to happiness? - A sound body and a contented mind.
..................Thales
' The Fools will Rule '...
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
....................Plato
' Happiness Within Self '...
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
.................Arthur Schopenhauer
' Backwards and Forwards '...
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
..............Soren Kierkegaard
' Excessive Thinking '...
The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.
.......Ajahn Amaro
' Punished by Anger '...
Sometimes it's better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger
.............Gautama the Buddha
' Nothing Goes Away '...
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
............Pema Chodron
' Happiness '...
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
.................Mahatma Gandhi
' The Price of Life '...
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
................Henry David Thoreau
' Pure Awareness '...
The Higher Self is the Divine Consciousness that You Are... It is the experience of Oneness with Source but still a separate mental entity... Only when All desires are Surrendered, especially the Ego Desire... are you finally Free within the Nothingness of Non-egoic consciousness called Pure Awareness.....................thomas
' Power '...
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
................Marcus Aurelius
' An Idea '...
You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea.
You can kill a man, but not an idea.
.................Benazir Bhutto
' Becoming Human '...
People have become educated, but have not become human.
..............Abdul Sattar Edhi
' Peaceful Forgiveness '...
I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion I have learned from Mohammed, the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha. This the legacy of change I have inherited from Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa. And this is the forgiveness that I have learned from my father and from my mother. This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.
...............Malala Yousafzai
' The Seeker of 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
' Cell Phones '...
One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".
..............Alan Turing
' Smart People '...
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
.................Stephen Hawking
' Are You a Leader ?'...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
......................John Quincy Adams
' Cosmic Time '...
Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.
...........Yasunari Kawabata
' Discovery is Instant '...
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.
.............Alexander Fleming
' Freedom of Speech '...
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
..................Benjamin Franklin
' Secrets of the Universe '...
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
.................Nikola Tesla
' Jesus Promised '...
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
................Gilbert K. Chesterton
' Death is Naught '...
That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
....................H. Rider Haggard
' Kindness '...
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
..............Mark Twain
' The Greatest Wealth '...
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
.....................Lucretius
' Possessions '...
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
........Pliny the Elder
' Heaven or Hell '...
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
............John Milton
' What is Love ?'...
Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.
..................Percy Bysshe Shelley
' The Purpose of Life '...
The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.
...................J. R. R. Tolkien
' Life is a Storm '...
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
.............Alexandre Dumas
' Education and Catastrophe '...
Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.
.......................H. G. Wells
' Rational Thinking '...
There seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.
......................Robert A. Heinlein
' The Quiet Mind '...
Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.
........................Kabir
' Life has no Security '...
Reality has no security and that is its beauty. Life has no security and that is its beauty. Because there is no security, there is adventure. Because the future is unknown, nobody knows what is going to happen the next moment. That's why there is challenge, growth, adventure. If you miss adventure, you miss all. If your life is not that of an adventure, of a search into the unknown, then you are living in vain.
..............Rajneesh
' Positive Thoughts '...
Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
.................Gautama the Buddha
' Only Two Days '...
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
...............Dalai Lama
' Boring '...
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
...................Michel de Montaigne
' Ask '...
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
.............Seneca the Younger
' Seek '...
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
..................Matsuo Basho
' Know Thyself '...
The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.
..............Erik Erikson
' Every Person '...
Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
...................Antoine de Saint-Exupery
' Love Your Enemy '...
And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
...............Khalil Gibran
' The Teacher '...
A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.
..............Rabindranath Tagore
' To Struggle '...
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
' The Crowd '...
Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to form a party, an interest group, a mass movement, but wanted to be what he was, the truth, which is related to the single individual. Therefore everyone who will genuinely serve the truth is by that very fact a martyr. To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get involved with the crowd.
............Soren Kierkegaard
' An Unfree World '...
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
......................Albert Camus
' The World '...
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
.................Franz Kafka
' Never Lost '...
Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.
...............Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
' The Trivial World '...
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
...................Hermann Hesse
' The Beloved '...
He who searches for his beloved is not afraid of the world.
.................Nizami Ganjavi
' Goodbyes '...
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
.................Rumi
' Anger '...
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
...........Ambrose Bierce
' The Renowned Exorcist '...
Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the state of affairs in the Vatican in the last 35 years is well aware that the prince of darkness has had and still has his surrogates in the court of St. Peter in Rome.
............Father Malachi Martin
' A Divine Being '...
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
..........Terence McKenna
' Real Learning '...
If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
.......................R. Buckminster Fuller
' Be You '...
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
..........Leo Buscaglia
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