' Who are You ? '...
Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.
................ Saint Hildegard of Bingen
' Seeking Truth '...
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
............Edith Stein
' Let Nothing Disturb You '...
Let nothing Disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, Though all things pass, God does not change. Patience wins all things. But he lacks nothing who possesses God; For God alone suffices.
............. Saint Teresa of Avila
' Our Job '...
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
...........Thomas Merton
' Ignorance '...
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
..................Galileo Galilei
' Preexisting Rights '...
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
................William J. Brennan
' Dissent '...
We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.
.......................Thurgood Marshall
' Taking Risks '...
Love is such a powerful force. It's there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in.
.......................Coretta Scott King
' Inspire Others '...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
...............John Quincy Adams
' Love '...
Love has to spring spontaneously from within And it is no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force. Love and coercion can never go together; But though love cannot be forced on anyone, It can be awakened in him through love itself. Love is essentially self communicative; Those who do not have it catch it from those who have it. True love is unconquerable and irresistible, And it goes on gathering power and spreading itself, Until eventually it transforms everyone whom it touches.
.................Meher Baba
' Seeing Source '...
If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away.
...............Neem Karoli Baba
' Chanting '...
Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It's an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it's a way of being present in the moment.
...............Krishna Das
' I Don't 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
' Be Yourself '...
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
' Many Words '...
Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.
.............Thales
' 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
' Declare your Jihad '...
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
' This Dimension '...
This wordly life is like a shadow. If you try to catch it, you will never be able to do so. If you turn your back towards it, it has no choice but to follow you.
.............Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
' The Secret of Life '...
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
...........James Taylor
' Do Right '...
You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.
..............Phil Ochs
' When the Sun Died '...
When the sun died, I went up to heaven and saw God and all the people who had died a long time ago. God told me to come back and tell my people they must be good and love one another, and not fight, or steal, or lie. He gave me this dance to give to my people.
..............Wovoka
' The First Peace '...
The first peace, which is the most important,
is that which comes within the souls of people
when they realize their relationship,
their oneness with the universe and all its powers,
and when they realize that at the center of the universe
dwells the Great Spirit,
and that this center is really everywhere,
it is within each of us.
..............Black Elk
' A Pagan '...
A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.
.......................Zitkala-Sa
' God Sleeps '...
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
...............Ibn Arabi
' Home '...
Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
............Naguib Mahfouz
' Love is Lost '...
Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
...................Khalil Gibran
' Shuting out Truth '...
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
.............Emile Zola
' Lying '...
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.
......................Fyodor Dostoevsky
' World Creation '...
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
..................Samuel Beckett
' Getting Rich '...
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
..............L. Ron Hubbard
' Questions '...
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
..............Richard P. Feynman
' Experts '...
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
...................Niels Bohr
' Weak People '...
Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.
...............Albert Einstein
' Freedom of Choice '...
There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.
.................David Hume
' Ignorance '...
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.
...............Averroes
' Listen to the Heart '...
Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul
.......................Abdul-Qadir Gilani
' Alone '...
Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.
..............Ibn Taymiyyah
' True Karate '...
True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice.
..............Gichin Funakoshi
' Understanding '...
When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
.............Bodhidharma
' Kindness '...
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
' Too Small ? '...
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
.................Dalai Lama
' Courage '...
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
....................Maya Angelou
' Silence is Essential '...
Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.
.................Nhat Hanh
' Searching for Happiness '...
All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.
........................U.G. Krishnamurti
' Simply Wait '...
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
' People are Beautiful '...
People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
.....................Anton Chekhov
' A Multitudes of Fools '...
You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.
.................Guy de Maupassant
' The Next Moment '...
You can plan for a hundred years. But you don't know what will happen the next moment.
..............Neem Karoli Baba
' Humility '...
Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.
........................A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
' A Waste of Time '...
Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you as darkness is from light. Truth is not found by observing rituals, undertaking pilgrimages or reading the scriptures. It is simply a waste of time.
.......................Anandmurti Gurumaa
' Fix Yourself '...
Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.
.........................Jaggi Vasudev
' Condemn No Man '...
Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgment, since every man must give an account of himself to God. Abhor every approach, in any kind or degree, to the spirit of persecution, if you cannot reason nor persuade a man into the truth, never attempt to force a man into it. If love will not compel him to come, leave him to God, the judge of all.
.....................John Wesley
' Only Light Can '...
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
...............Martin Luther King, Jr.
' Individual Freedom '...
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
......................Thomas Jefferson
' Frightened by Death '...
The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.
..............................Ram Dass
' Most of us Need '...
Most of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong. If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected the hearts of those around us, we'd reach out and join hands again and again. Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening. With each person we meet, we can learn to look behind the mask and see the one who longs to love and be loved.
.................Tara Brach
' Mindfulness '...
Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity.
......................Henepola Gunaratana
' What is your Teacher ? '...
Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
...............Ajahn Chah
' Insanity on Earth '...
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.
.................Voltaire
' Liberty '...
It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.
.................David Hume
' History Teaches Us '...
What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
......................Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
' Hearing the Truth '...
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
.....................Friedrich Nietzsche
' Divine Consciousness '...
In the field of the knowledge of the Soul,,,, It is understood by Mystics to exist as Light, Love, and Consciousness... It is a State of At-One-Ness,... or what we call Aloness... We are the Light and Consciousness and yet there is something within this Light that has more Wisdom than our Soul... All we have to do is question within Thought to hear Truth........................Thomas
' Alone within Mind '...
All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.
...................Anaxagoras
' Reality and Unreality '...
Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.
....................Protagoras
' Tasting the Truth '...
Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant
............................Socrates
' Acting '...
There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say.
.................James Cagney
' The Silence '...
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
...................Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
' Who Makes the Music ? '...
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
..............Johann Sebastian Bach
' Our Inner Fire '...
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
.................Albert Schweitzer
' 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 Anguish of Soul '...
Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.
.........................Kalidasa
' The Fish is Thirsty '...
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
' The Meaning of Life '...
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
' A Mind Stretched '...
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
.............Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
' Injustices '...
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
....................Voltaire
' 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
' Most Unhappiness '...
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.
...............William James
' 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
' Life is Short '...
You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously
...............Edgar Rice Burroughs
' The Cornerstone of Character '...
The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astire on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool-his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character.
.................Charles Alexander Eastman
' Two Dogs '...
Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.
...............Sitting Bull
' Love and Hate '...
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
..................Jonathan Swift
' The Eternal Present '...
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
...........James Joyce
' Society and Truth '...
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
..................George Orwell
' Believing Lies '...
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!
...........................Mark Twain
' Understanding Reality '...
God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
....................Robert Boyle
' Integrity '...
It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
.................Francis Bacon
' Truth '...
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
.................Giordano Bruno
' You cannot Teach anyone '...
You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
.....................Galileo Galilei
' Freedom and Slavery '...
When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.
.............Spartacus
' God Conceals '...
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life
.............Lucan
' Wisdom '...
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
' Belief '...
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
...............Euripides
' It is True '...
It is True,,, the moment that you sit under a tree in a forest and commit your body to die or know truth... No food or water is included within this path.. when, this happens,,, This Force of Love Energy knocks you to the ground.. Drops you into Darkness and then into Light.. This is the Buddhist method of bypassing Dimensions and levels of Consciousness... This is called Enlightenment............ thomas
' Medicine '...
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
.............Avicenna ................On Medicine". Essay by Avicenna (circa 1020), as quoted in "The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East" edited by Charles F. Horne (Volume VI "Medieval Arabia", pp. 90-91), sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1917.
' Two Great Schools '...
Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray
Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way.
We mortals are composed of two great schools
Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.
......................Al-Maʿarr
' Point of View '...
To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordance with the measure of justice we uphold. A common measure is only possible when we begin to understand and learn to appreciate each other's point of view and point of direction.
..............Ameen Rihani
' The Hour of Separation '...
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
...............Khalil Gibran
' This Time of Now '...
The Now is challenged by Sun and Moon.. but, within the Infinite of Consciousness,,, there is no Sun or Moon,,, there is only Light that does not burn the eyes,, as Sight has been replaced with Source Consciousness.. and Freedom is finally Felt............thomas
' Observe your 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
' Is the Soul Within ? '...
Do not make the mistake of thinking that the soul is inside you, because if the soul is inside you, you will be outside it.
...............Krishnananda Saraswati
' Finding Peace Within '...
If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.
.........................Sivananda
' 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
' Unhappiness '...
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.
.................William James
' Trust the Heart '...
In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
...........Sigmund Freud
' Where is Truth Found ?'...
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
...............Isaac Newton
' Fear '...
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
' Atheism '...
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
............Isaac Newton
' The Resonate Frequency '...
Alpha waves in the human brain are between 6 and 8 hertz. The wave frequency of the human cavity resonates between 6 and 8 hertz. All biological systems operate in the same frequency range. The human brain's alpha waves function in this range and the electrical resonance of the earth is between 6 and 8 hertz. Thus, our entire biological system - the brain and the earth itself - work on the same frequencies. If we can control that resonate system electronically, we can directly control the entire mental system of humankind.
.......................Nikola Tesla
' The Forces of Light '...
Forces of light on earth shall overcome the force of darkness. Complete spiritual enlightenment on earth will occur.
.........................Edgar Cayce
' Totalitarian Rule '...
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
...............Hannah Arendt
' Seeking Truth '...
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
.............Edith Stein
' The Value of Life '...
The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.
...................Therese of Lisieux
' A Precious Privilege '...
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
' One Day '...
One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.
.....................J. D. Salinger
' Destiny '...
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
.................William Jennings Bryan
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