' Before you React '...
Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
..............Ernest Hemingway
' The Creation of the World '...
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
...........Samuel Beckett
' Music '...
Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
....................Felix Mendelssohn
' 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
' Happiness '...
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.
.................Paramahansa Yogananda
' The Human Body '...
The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.
......................Auguste Rodin
' The Greatest Danger '...
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
.................Michelangelo
' Your Profession '...
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
.......................Vincent Van Gogh
' A Single Intelect '...
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
...................Johannes Kepler
' A Baby '...
God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms.
....................Paul Scherrer
' Mathematics '...
Mathematics is the queen of sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and other natural sciences, but in all relations she is entitled to the first rank.
.............................Carl Friedrich Gauss
' The Greatness of Life '...
The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
...................Gottfried Leibniz
' Kindness '...
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.
..................Emanuel Swedenborg
' The Day of Death '...
My old friend that was a master dowser within the catskill mountains of new york once told me that he would never tell people of the time of their death... He said that it freaked them out too much... I often would think of asking him but I honored his decision... He had the ability to connect with Consciousness and find water and could tell you exactly where it was and how many feet to drill.. If you lost a ring or bracelet upon your property,,, he could tell you where it was ,,with the witching sticks.. There was magnetism within his hands.. I thought to myself that I would like to know when death is near as to train my mind for such event,, but, when you are actually close to this event,, your mind changes.. as sickness becomes a partner to your transition....,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, thomas
' A Wise Man '...
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
.........................Moliere
' Laughter '...
I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
.......................Francois Rabelais
' Governing Yourself '...
How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
..................Miguel de Cervantes
' 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
' True to Self '...
When one is true to oneself, when one is authentic, one becomes true to the evolutionary thrust for self-optimization that exists within oneself and within the universe. And that evolutionary thrust is a continuous unfolding process.
........................Yasuhiko Kimura
' Knowledge '...
Knowledge is cosmic. It does not evolve or unfold in man. Man unfolds to an awareness of it. He gradually discovers it.
...............Walter Russell
' Be Alone '...
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
..................Nikola Tesla
' Liberty '...
However weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.
......................Alexander Hamilton
' A Happy Mind '...
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
.........................Ovid
' The Spirit of Love '...
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
...................Henry Drummond
' Oneness '...
He who lives in the realization of his oneness with this Infinite Power becomes a magnet to attract to himself a continual supply of whatsoever things he desires. ... The one who is truly wise, and who uses the forces and powers with which they are endowed, to them the great universe always opens her treasure house.
.....................Ralph Waldo Trine
' Thought '...
The action of Mind (thought) plants that nucleus which, if allowed to grow undisturbed, will eventually attract to itself all the conditions necessary for its manifestation in outward visible form.
....................Thomas Troward
' A Dream '...
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
.................James Allen
' God '...
By 'God', I understand, a substance which is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else [...] that exists. All these attributes are such that, the more carefully I concentrate on them, the less possible it seems that they could have originated from me alone. So, from what has been said it must be concluded that God necessarily exists.
...................Rene Descartes
' Absurdities '...
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
..................Voltaire
' 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
' Happiness '...
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
................Honore de Balzac
' Faith '...
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
............Saint Augustine
' The Truth '...
The truth belongs to those who seek it, not to those who claim to own it.
........................Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
' The Commander '...
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
................Denis Diderot
' The Natural State '...
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
..............Jean-Jacques Rousseau
' The Soul '...
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
' Great Actions '...
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
......................Jules Verne
' I'm Never Bored '...
I think we go well together. I like being with you because I'm never bored. Even when we're not talking, even when we're not touching, even when we're not in the same room, I'm not bored. I'm never bored. I think it's because I have confidence in you, in your thoughts. Do you understand? I love everything I see in you, and everything I don't see. I know your faults, but as it turns out, I feel as though your faults go well with my qualities. We're not afraid of the same things. Even our inner demons go well together! You, you're worth more than you show.
...............Anna Gavalda
' A Soulmate '...
A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise.
..............Richard Bach
' Childhood Education '...
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.
...........................Maria Montessori
' The Power of State '...
I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.
....................William F. Buckley, Jr.
' 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
' Large numbers of you do still not believe in your own unchangeable perfection. by John Smallman '...
As your collective awakening process approaches completion an enormous amount of ‘stuff’ is bursting into the collective consciousness for acknowledgment, thanks, forgiveness, and release. It holds within it many generations worth of resentment, denial, and anger that has been deeply buried because it was too intensely painful to acknowledge either as it was happening or at any time afterwards, up until now. Now the whole human collective is allowing it into awareness, and with it comes much guilt and shame for past long forgotten words and actions.
It has to be dealt with NOW! Until it is complete your awakening remains on hold. There is only a very little bit more of the awakening process that needs to occur before it comes to its most amazing and magnificent completion. However, all the ‘stuff,’ which is not and cannot be in alignment with Love, has first to be one hundred percent released. A major part of the release is through forgiveness of everything that has collectively been buried and denied–namely not only the words and actions themselves, but also, of extreme importance, the collective shame and guilt arising from those words or actions, which have also been deeply buried and denied.
Guilt and shame are always completely out of alignment with Love, because they refer to something that is totally unreal in so far as nothing that is not of Love exists. But humanity, through generations of conditioning, has an intense belief in the validity of shame and guilt. This HAS to be released, along with all the judgment that has arisen from it.
Mother/Father/God loves you all infinitely because you are Her absolutely perfect children, just as you were created, and there is no way that you have ever departed from that state of perfection. Nonetheless, large numbers of you still do not believe in your own unchangeable perfection, and are at present unable to fully accept and love yourselves, having accepted an invalid and UNreal belief in your shame and guilt. Total and complete self-forgiveness and self-acceptance are essential, and if you will go deep within yourselves, open your hearts and invite Love to enter, It will, and in doing so It will show you clearly, without room for doubt of any kind, your perfect and utter ‘sinlessness!’ You will see and know yourselves as the perfect divine beings that you are, and always have been. What God creates is always and can only be PERFECT! Finally you will know Yourselves, and – inconceivable in your present self-chosen state of unreality – experience the most wonderful sense of Joy! Finally you will recognize yourselves as you truly are, free of every tiny aspect of shadow that has hidden Reality from you ever since you chose to enter the illusion.
The illusion/dream that you are experiencing is unreal and, intellectually, many of you know and accept this. Nevertheless, because your conscious awareness is mostly brain/emotion/body focused, you are generally unconscious – unconscious of your true nature at One with Source – and live guided by your egos far more frequently than by your intuition. This brings the unreality of the dream/illusion into sharp focus making your human lives seem very real. Some of you, some humans, occasionally spend time daily in prayer or contemplation, when you can spare the time from dealing with the daily events with which life is almost constantly presenting you. However, the ‘stuff’ now arising is very powerfully demanding your attention, and it is not something that your egos wish to attend to. This creates conflict within you, and your egos will do their best to distract you, causing you further fear, worries, and anxiety.
So now, more than ever before in your lives, you do need tospare the timeto go deep within, disregarding any feelings of shame or unworthiness that may arise, while having the patience to wait as your overly active minds quieten enough for you to be still and be at peace, or at least feel relatively calm, thus allowing Love to enter your hearts. Because you each have totally free wills unless you invite and allow Love to enter It cannot do so. When you do make a very positive commitment to invite Love in, It will powerfully assist you to recognize that you are and always have been perfect divine beings, freeing you from your invalid and misguided beliefs and thereby enthusiastically encouraging you to release your remaining attachments to shame, guilt, and unworthiness. Total self-acceptance will become established, as you forgive yourselves for all the errorsand unloving words or actions you have delivered during your human lives while believing that they really occurred. As you actually feel Love embracing you whole-heartedly and unconditionally – which is the One and only way in which It always expresses Itself, reveals Its Presence – It will most beautifully confirm for you that you truly are perfect divine beings.
Therefore, I would substantiate for you once more that you are all, without any exceptions, perfect divine beings having a momentary experience of separation in which there seems to be extreme pain and suffering for vast numbers of you. That state is Unreal, and you will awaken, because to do so is your destiny, returning you to your divine and sovereign state at One with Source in utter joy.
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' All Truths '...
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
.........................Galileo Galilei
' Out of Nothing '...
God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
.......................Martin Luther
' What is Happiness ? '...
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
.............Isaac Asimov
' Medical Science '...
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
................Aldous Huxley
' Silencing Opinion '...
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
......................John Stuart Mill
' It Is Impossible '...
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.
..................George Berkeley
' Another World '...
We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.
.....................Nicolas Malebranche
' To Love '...
To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
.....................Gottfried Leibniz
' Three States 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 Schopenhaue
' Heart and Intuition '...
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
..................Steve Jobs
' Silence '...
The thoughts of the mind press forward for power called ego... The ego-self is the Character within this Play... " Let the children play " said the Observer.. The words finally faded away with the Observation... Silence is the Music of Source... Therefore, Enjoy the strange Stillness that says, " I Trust You "...............thomas
' Today '...
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
................Harriet Beecher Stowe
' Government of the People '...
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.
..................James F. Cooper
' My Wish for You '...
This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.
..................Ralph Waldo Emerson
' The Beauty Within '...
It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.
......................Henry David Thoreau
' Seize the Moments '...
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
.............Leo Tolstoy
' 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
' God/Love/Source never punishes anyone! by John Smallman '...
Here in the spiritual or non-physical realms we are very much aware of your concerns and anxieties as chaos and confusion seem to be escalating on your beautiful planet Earth. DO make a point of starting your day by going deep within yourselves, to your holy inner sanctuaries, and then opening your hearts to Love, which resides there permanently, waiting patiently, ready and most willing to embrace and comfort you when you choose and remember to invite It in.
You are never unloved, or without Love. Such a state is impossible because Love is your true nature, as you do know deep within yourselves; and It is always with you, It is You. However, it often seems to you that you are without It, living unloved and abandoned in an inhospitable world. And yet you do know that this is not the case, that it only appears that way because of your choice to enter the illusion and play the game of separation, a game which, while you are playing it, seems VERY real, VERY serious, and VERY important. That was your intention when you collectively constructed it, and because you have the power and creative abilities of your dearly loving Father, bestowed upon you at the moment of your creation, you were indeed able to construct an unreal environment that appears to be amazingly real.
By establishing a daily routine of going deep within yourselves, at whatever time you are most comfortable with – because starting the day that way does not work for everyone – and opening yourselves and inviting Love to embrace you, you very effectively strengthen your deep inner knowing that the human life you are experiencing is unreal, as your sensitivity to feeling and being aware of the Reality of the Presence of Love grows. Love is always present because It Is All, everywhere, Now, eternally, without interruption, and It wants you to feel It and be aware of It, and welcome It into your hearts so that you feel and delight in Its loving and comforting embrace.
However, many of you feel unworthy of being in Its Presence, and have deeply ingrained beliefs that confirm this at a level below your level of conscious awareness. Therefore, it is essential that you remind yourselves daily that these damaging beliefs are faulty, are invalid. At first your egos will likely try to distract you by drawing your attention to the discomfort you feel when you tell yourselves that you are worthy of God’s Love, and by then suggesting that humans can only beunworthy by drawing your attention to the harm you are collectively and constantly causing one another and the planet. And, of course, that is a valid observation of what is occurring in the game/illusion in which you are experiencing separation. But that does not make it Real!
There is NO separation. You are all eternally One, living in perfect and uninterruptible harmony with Source, and you ARE utterly and completely worthy of being in Love’s Presence. Therefore dissolve those invalid beliefs by reminding yourselves whenever they arise that they are invalid, untrue, and then refusing to accept them. This may take a while because your beliefs tend to be very deeply ingrained. As they continue to arise make the point, again and again, of reminding yourselves – repetition is essential – that they are invalid, untrue, and lies, then disregard them and invite Love to embrace you, which, of course, Itwill.
Many of you are devoted to saints and holy people who you believe led almost flawless lives as they lovingly served God and others. Nevertheless, they too had strong beliefs about their inadequacy or unworthiness that often drove them to make totally uncalled for personal sacrifices because of the cultural and religious environments in which they grew up. Sin, shame, and unworthiness entangled in the harshness of the Protestant Work Ethic, made judgment a major aspect of life for many of them. Judging themselves negatively, observing and judging others negatively, and sometimes condemning those others, further encouraged them to lead austere lives following stringent, unloving, and painful disciplines in attempts to prove to God that they truly loved Him, would do anything for Him, and to demonstrate to others what they believed God required of every human.
However, God never ever wants any of His beloved children to make sacrifices to prove they love Him, to do that would indeed be insane! No one wants another whom they truly love to prove their love by making sacrifices. Nor does God. Love is utterly and totally accepting of all unconditionally because that is the nature of Love. God is Love, eternally loving His creations and all His sentient, conscious, and utterly loving children.
Love loves, period!
So those saints and holy ones were not pleasing God by treating themselves so unlovingly! And frequently, deep within themselves, denied and hidden from their awareness, lay an unacknowledged bitterness and resentment, because life appeared to be treating them so unfairly, while ‘sinners’ appeared to live freely enjoying life, suffering no punishment for their sinfulness.
God/Love/Source never punishes anyone! Punishment is unreal! How could the One Who is Love, and Who creates perfect beings, ever choose to punish any of them? Within the dream/illusory state of form it seems that great evil is doing horrific damage and causing unconscionable suffering to enormous numbers of people. But you must keep reminding yourselves that your lives in form are unreal! Yes, they can be extremely painful, and you can suffer enormously during them, but that experience that you are undergoing as a human in form is a free will choice that each of you made prior to incarnating to magnificently assist in humanity’s collective awakening process. There is no evil, there is no hell, they are just aspects of the unreality that you collectively established when you constructed an illusion in which to experience separation from your Source.Love is All, All That Is. Evil, sin, and hell are just unreal aspects of that unreality you constructed to experience separation, and when you awaken, because they are unreal, they will be gone
When you awaken, as very soon you will, you will find yourselves fully conscious and fully aware of your Real nature, and there will be nothing in the environment that is not in complete and eternal alignment with Love. How could any kind of unreal and non-existent state be present in Reality? You are One with Love in eternal Oneness or Co-existence, living in glorious harmony now and forever as One, there is nothing existing, no other state that is the slightest or smallest bit different anywhere else because there is nowhere else!
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' Many Paths '...
Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you will miss the whole truth of the matter. God, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent, cannot be confined to any one creed, for He says in the Quran, wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah. Everybody praises what he knows. His God is his own creature, and in praising it, he praises himself. Which he would not do if he were just, for his dislike is based on ignorance.
.......................Ibn Arabi
' Consciousness '...
The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.
....................P.D. Ouspensky
' Learning '...
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
...................Vernon Howard
' Important in Politics '...
There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.
......................Mark Hanna
' The Minority '...
Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
..................William Jennings Bryan
' 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
' Seize the Day '...
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
................Horace
' A Wise Man '...
At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus. And his conduct was good, and [he] was known to be virtuous. And many people from among the Jews and the other nations became his disciples. Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die. And those who had become his disciples did not abandon his discipleship.
..........Josephus the Historian
' Forces of Light '...
Forces of light on earth shall overcome the force of darkness. Complete spiritual enlightenment on earth will occur.
................Edgar Cayce
' Take it all Back '...
Take it all back. Life is boring, except for flowers, sunshine, your perfect legs. A glass of cold water when you are really thirsty. The way bodies fit together. Fresh and young and sweet. Coffee in the morning. These are just moments. I struggle with the in-betweens. I just want to never stop loving like there is nothing else to do, because what else is there to do?
...................Pablo Neruda
' Saved from Life '...
If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life
.....................Pablo Neruda
' The Punishment of Jealousy '...
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
............Lope de Vega
' Inner Stillness '...
In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
.................John of the Cross
' The Reward of Rality '...
You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
...................St. Catherine of Siena
' Happiness above Ourselves '...
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
...................Lydia M. Child
' None are Free '...
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.
.....................Euripides
' Politics '...
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
..................Pericles
' Relative Ignorance '...
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
' Presidents '...
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
..............James K. Polk
' Oppressors '...
Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.
...............James Madison
' 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
' Life so Brief '...
The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.
.....................Geoffrey Chaucer
' Enough Religion '...
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
......................Jonathan Swift
' Samadhi '...
The highest state of meditation is Samadhi, where there is no ego anymore, no doubts, no me, no you, no notion of time, no eating, no talking, no walking, no working and not doing anything at all, realizing that the Self is action-less.
.................Dharma Mittra
' We Are Love '...
Love is what we are; we don't get it from somebody, we can't give it to anybody, we can't fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.
...........................Krishna Das
' Healthcare '...
Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends.
.......................Andrew Weil
' The Light Within '...
There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are
.........................Deepak Chopra
' The Word '...
In the end, there's still the Word, everywhere... In Heaven and it's Angels, the Earth and Stars, even in the darkest part of the Human Soul It was there where it burned brightest. And for a moment, I was blinded.
....................Christopher Walken
' Schools '...
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
.........................Michel Foucault
' What is Life '...
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
....................Jean-Paul Sartre
' In the midst of Hate '...
My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, Albert Camus
' Wag the Dog '...
Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
.....................Val Kilmer
' Freedom is for the Honest '...
Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
...................L. Ron Hubbard
' Deceit '...
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
...............Walter Scott
' Loving a Woman '...
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 Mirror '...
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
........................William Makepeace Thackeray
' Have a Heart '...
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
.....................Charles Dickens
' All Languages '...
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
.........................Duke Ellington
' The Real Self '...
The Real Self is not the false self called Ego.... Therefore, The Real Self is Consciousness and Love ,,, beyond any Karma or feelings of regret... therefore,,, no forgiveness is needed... The secret of all this is to reach this level of Consciousness,,,, usually called Enlightenment...................thomas
' Intuition '...
There's a little thing on your shoulder called intuition and it whispers in your ear. Everyone has that, there is a voice telling you to do something. Most people ignore it - but you must listen to it. I do it every day, all day.
................Ridley Scott
' May the Force be with You '...
'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.
.........................Harrison Ford
' Inner Demons '...
We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph.
..............Yip Man
' No Finish Line '...
There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one.
..............Chuck Norris
' A Supreme Art '...
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
...................Albert Einstein
' Just Surrender '...
Just Surrender the Desire for Physical Manifestion of a Self called Ego... Return to Reality instead of the incarnations of manifestions of ego and Karma... Gautama and Yeshua spoke of this path,,, but,, most do not understand and remain slaves within Holograms and Dreams.............Thomas
' Now '...
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.
.....................Rajneesh
' Nothing to Regret '...
When you hear that my body has ceased to exist, please do not feel sad. Just look deeply and see that my life and work continue in so many friends, so many young people, in their own ways and through their work. I will continue in everyone and everything I have ever touched. I have nothing to fear and nothing to regret.
...............................Chan Khong
' The Condition for Happiness '...
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.
................Nhat Hanh
' Too Bad '...
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
........................George Burns
' Finding Happiness '...
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
....................Arthur Schopenhauer
' Natural Freedom '...
All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
.................John Locke
' New Experience '...
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
...................Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
' Why We Suffer '...
We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.
.......................Sakyong Mipham
' Losing Heart '...
The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings.
..........................Pema Chodron
' Look within the Room '...
If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
.....................Lorne Michaels
' Beginning of Life '...
I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
...................Steve Martin
' Supply the Light ' ...
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
...................Stanley Kubrick
' Meditation '...
Meditation is a way of slowing down so as to descend into the depths of yourself in the present moment, where God lies waiting to grant you a deep experience of your eternal oneness with God.
.......................James Finley
' What is Happening ? '...
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
.........................Thomas Merton
' Printing Money '...
Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.
................Peter Schiff
' Inflation '...
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.
.................Ayn Rand
' Who Controls You ? '...
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
.........................Voltaire
' A 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
' Music '...
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
...................Gottfried Leibniz
' Love Conquers Death '...
I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.
................Leo Buscaglia
' Our Thinking '...
The first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. If you think it is permanent then it's permanent. If you think you've reached your limits then you have. If you think you will never get well then you won't. You have to change your thinking. You need to see everything that's holding you back, every obstacle, every limitation as only temporary.
........................Joel Osteen
' Treasure Today '...
Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
.............Ray Bradbury
' Drifting from Truth '...
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
..................George Orwell
' The Age of Foolishness '...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
...................Charles Dickens
' Solitude '...
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
..................Thomas de Quincey
' Greed '...
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
.............Henry Fielding
' The Interest in Politics '...
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
' Virtue '...
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
......................Gottfried Leibniz
' The Reason for Laws '...
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
.....................John Locke
' Liberty or Security '...
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.
................Benjamin Franklin
' The Secrets of the Universe '...
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
......................Nikola Tesla
' Dive into the Woods '...
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.
..................Alexander Graham Bell
' Thoughts '...
Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
......................Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
' Something New '...
For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new.
..........................Alexander Fleming
' Where is Truth Found ? '...
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
.............Isaac Newton
' Yes and No '...
The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.
..........................Pythagoras
' Hatred '...
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
.................Harry Emerson Fosdick
' The Ultimate Retreat '...
Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.
........................Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
' Suffering '...
It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
.......................Pema Chodron
' 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
' Observe your Thoughts '...
Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.
.................Eckhart Tolle
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