' Quotes from Sri Ramakrishna '...
“Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake. Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’. The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.”
“One can ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a staircase or a rope; so too, diverse are the ways of approaching God, and each religion in the world shows one of the ways. . . . A truely religious man should think that other religions are also so many paths leading to the Truth. One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions.”
“There are pearls in the deep sea, but you must hazard all perils to get them. If you fail to get at them by a single dive, do not conclude that the sea is without them. Dive again and again, and you are sure to be rewarded in the end. So also in the quest for the Lord, if your first attempt to see Him proves fruitless, do not lose heart. Persevere in the attempt, and you are sure to realise Him at last.”
“As a lamp does not burn without oil, so a man cannot live without God.”
“That which you think, you should speak. Let there be harmony between your thought and word. Otherwise, if you merely say that God is your all in all, while in your mind you have made the world your all in all, you cannot derive any benefit.”
“Knowledge leads to unity; ignorance to diversity.”
“When God is realised, the world never appears empty.
' Discipline '...
Discipline comes through self control. This means that you must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
..........................................Napoleon Hill
' Success '...
Success is not an accident. It is the result of your attitude and your attitude is a choice. Hence sucess is a matter of choice and not chance.
...................................Shiv Khera
' Positive Thinking '...
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions
.............................Norman Vincent Peale
' The Big Jigsaw Puzzle '...
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
..................................Deepak Chopra
' Emotions '...
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
...................Baruch Spinoza
' Rules for Happiness '...
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
............................Immanuel Kant
' Loving 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
' 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
' History '...
The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.
.............................Jean-Jacques Rousseau
' Opinions '...
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
...................................Baruch Spinoza
' To Be Perceived '...
To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
..................................George Berkeley
' A Precious Possession '...
The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.
........................John Locke
' Certain Knowledge '...
There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.
............................Jean le Rond d'Alembert
' Freedom '...
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
.....................................Voltaire
' The Mystery '...
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
..............................Fyodor Dostoevsky
' First Time '...
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
......................................T. S. Eliot
' Exploration '...
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
..................T. S. Eliot
' No Obstacles '...
The only boundaries we have are in form. There are no obstacles in thought.
...............................Wayne Dyer
' Heal Thyself '...
The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind
........................Caroline Myss
' Life is Sacred '...
Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.
............................Jean Houston
' Freedom of Choice '...
No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."
........................Deepak Chopra
' Observe your Thoughts '...
Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.
..........................Eckhart Tolle
' True Holiness '...
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
..............................Ivan Turgenev
' To love '...
To love very much is to love inadequately; we love-that is all. Love cannot be modified without being nullified. Love is a short word but it contains everything. Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe the air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us. Love is not a word; it is a wordless state indicated by four letters.
..................................Guy de Maupassant
' Civilization '...
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.
.........................Nicolas Gomez Davila
' Prisioners '...
"Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'"
..............................Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
' Science and Source '...
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.
........................Louis Pasteur
' Simplicity '...
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
..............................Isaac Newton
' The Answers '...
You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
........................Galileo Galilei
' A Bundle of Frequencies '...
We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
.....................................Albert Einstein
' A Sacred Pride '...
A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to) with the exertion of all our strength to attain the highest. Let us scorn what is of this earth, let us ignore what is of heaven, let us leave absolutely everything worldly behind us in order to hasten to the abode out of this world, in the proximity of the sublime deity. We do not need to think of stepping back. Of being satisfied with second rank, let us strive for dignity and glory. To attain the highest.
.....................................Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
' A Perfect Unity '...
All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.
.............................Giordano Bruno
' The Language of Mathematics '...
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
.................................Johannes Kepler
' The Sun '...
In the center of all rests the sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place that this wherefrom it can illuminate everything at the same time? As a matter of fact, not unhappily do some call it the lantern; others, the mind and still others, the pilot of the world. Trismegistus calls it a "visible God"; Sophocles' Electra, "that which gazes upon all things." And so the sun, as if resting on a kingly throne, governs the family of stars which wheel around.
......................................Nicolaus Copernicus
' Bravery '...
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
........................Omar N. Bradley
' To Blame Others '...
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.
.......................................Leo Tolstoy
' The Still Small Voice '...
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
............................William Dean Howells
' Sacredness in Tears '...
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
................................Washington Irving
' Becoming '...
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
....................Nathaniel Hawthorne
' Solitude '...
Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.
......................Margaret Fuller
' Desire '...
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
.............................Paulo Coelho
' 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
' Intellectual Daring '...
Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.
..................................Immanuel Kant
' Know Thyself '...
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
....................Soren Kierkegaard
' The Greatest Wealth '...
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
...............................Lucretius
' Death '...
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life
.............................Lucan
' 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
' Study and Preparation '...
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
.............................Horace
' Do they serve the People '...
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
' To Love '...
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
.....................Gottfried Leibniz
' Proof of Unity '...
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science which have been by slow degrees vouchsafed to man, and are still granted in these latter times by the Differential Calculus, now superseded by the Higher Algebra, all of which must have existed in that sublimely omniscient Mind from eternity.
.............................Mary Somerville
' A Necessary Passion '...
love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.
........................Emilie du Chatelet
' Commiting Injustices '...
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
...........................Voltaire
' Never too Late '...
It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
............................George Eliot
' The Greatest Accomplishment '...
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
...................Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Setting your Mind '...
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
....................Nathaniel Hawthorne
' The Opposite of Love '...
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
..........................Leo Buscaglia
' False Accusers '...
The best apology against false accusers is silence.
...................John Milton
' Doors '...
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
.......................William Blake
' The Best Portion '...
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
......................William Wordsworth
' Maxim for Life '...
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
..............................Wayne Dyer
' The Game of Life '...
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
......................Florence Scovel Shinn
' Thought Radiation '...
What you radiate outward in your thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and words, you attract into your life.
..........................Catherine Ponder
' Happening Within '...
Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.
...........................Eric Butterworth
' Question the Universe '...
And the faith that grows out of questioning is stronger than the faith born of blind acceptance. It can withstand the shocks of circumstance. Only he who questions the universe and questions it in utter honesty can grow in his comprehension of the truth.
............................James Dillet Freeman
' Drawn to Us '...
It is the law of Spirit that we must be that which we would draw to us. If we would draw to us love, we must be love, be loving and kind; if we would have peace and harmony in our environment, we must establish it within ourselves.
.....................Charles Fillmore
' For Power and Wisdom '...
To all who want to accomplish something I say, Go into the silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish.
........................Elizabeth Towne
' Preconceived Demands '...
We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens.
.........................Vernon Howard
' Self '...
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
...................... Gautama the Buddha
' War '...
Regardless of religion or race or ethnic background we are all human and we are all on this planet together. So what better reason do you need to not tolerate any form of violence against another human being?
.................................Tony Bennett
' Evading the Present '...
Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
..................Sammy Davis, Jr.
' An Open Door '...
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
.........................Alexander Graham Bell
' The Nazarene Speaks '...
Love is the only Reality, the only possible Reality.
............ Through John Smallman ......................
Humanity’s collective arousing into the actuality of your awakening is accelerating most beautifully, and great delight awaits you all very, very, soon. Ignore and totally discount the drama with which the various media are distracting you, you are all precisely where you are supposed to be, and doing or being precisely what pre-incarnationally you planned to do to mightily assist in the collective awakening process. All is flowing perfectly towards a most magnificent moment of fruition. The Love that you each are, your individual but united energy fields are inundating the energy fields of those who are starting to come to an awareness of their essential need to awaken, and also of those who remain deeply asleep. The time for sleeping is past, and your loving intentions are most effectively nudging and stirring all those who are still in a state of almost total amnesia about their true nature and their life’s purpose as humans in form. Without all of you most willingly undertaking the tasks you so courageously and lovingly chose to embark upon prior to your present incarnations, the progress towards awakening would have been far slower. Thank you all from the depth of my heart, the One Heart of Mother/Father/God, the Heart of All Creation.
There is just ONE infinite Heart, the Heart of Life, of Love, and of each differentiated and individuated being, inseparably United with The One, All That Is in eternal and infinite bliss. Who you each truly are is presently and very temporarily hidden from you solely because, just a moment ago – eons ago – you freely chose to construct and enter into an environment of form where your abilities were, by your own choice, severely limited. This choice was made in order to experience an unreal state – separation from Source – while you imagined yourselves to be autonomous beings, alone and abandoned in an environment where your very existence was constantly threatened, and where you would eventually cease to even be alive because your existence would be terminated by the death of your physical human forms. And yes, your human forms will cease to exist, but, when that happens, you can always choose to create a new one, or return Home and cease playing the game of independence and separation. You are always and eternally FREE to choose the limitations of form or the infinite possibilities that your natural non-physical being enjoys in every moment of its existence in the Presence of and at One with God.
Deep within everyone of you is the intense and infinitely powerful knowing that you are indeed always in the Presence of the One, because no other state is possible. But, in form as humans experiencing the limitations of that state, you have chosen to remain unaware of your true nature. Doing that is part of the adventure or ordeal of undergoing the unreal state of separation. So, yes you know that separation is unreal, has not and never could happen, nevertheless, you have constructed a seemingly extremely real environment of unreality, and within it you experience fear – actually TERROR – and the inevitable pain and suffering to which separation from your all loving Source would lead you.
The terror, of course, was of the idol you invented and called god or some other seemingly appropriate name, an unreal being modeled on the idea of an older, wiser, and far more powerful human type of being to whom you owed total allegiance, and who would judge, condemn, and punish you most viciously if you did not do his bidding and honor him totally. You then started wars to defend him from others who had envisaged a different god whom they honored and defended instead of yours. The madness of this unreal response to life is inconceivable, and yet you embraced it for eons. Now you are finally allowing yourselves to recognize the insanity of this way of living, as more and more of you become aware that there is only Love, and that all that is alive is enveloped in and embraced by this, the only Reality, without even the least possibility of a micro-moment of separation from It.
Those of you now choosing to set the intent to be only loving whatever arises in your lives – and the numbers of you doing this are growing exponentially every day – are finding yourselves increasingly at peace within yourselves as you disengage from the gossip, drama, corruption, and lack of ethical behaviors on which the news media attempt to get you to focus your undivided attention – all of it unreal! That endeavor used to work, but now, as all the media are telling the same story, and others are bringing forth the hidden information about this propaganda that has for a long time been used to control and subdue you, vast numbers of you have come to realize how those you have trusted for so long have been relentlessly misleading and misinforming you in order to control you and give themselves inordinate power over you.
You are now in the process of reclaiming your personal sovereignty, of refusing to bow down to authoritarian attempts to regulate your personal daily lives “for your own good and the good of society!” The deceit has been revealed, and unquestioning endorsement of authoritarian control of your individual freedom will never again succeed. You know that you were created as eternally free divine beings, and that that state has never and can never change. Total personal freedom is your divine right, given to you at the moment of your creation as differentiated aspects of the One with Whom you are united both now, and in every moment of your most glorious and eternal existence.
Love is the only Reality, the only possible Reality, and you are all, without any exceptions whatsoever – including of course those who have been misleading and deceiving you – enveloped most joyfully in that state. Truly you do know and recognize yourselves, without any possibility for doubt, as perpetually at One in the all-embracing Presence of Mother/Father/God.
Mother/Father/God, Source, Love IS Reality, is your eternal and unchanging Home. It is where you reside eternally in infinite and endless peace and joy. Many of you are beginning to encounter a sense of Reality, of your inseparable Oneness with God, more and more frequently as you regularly choose to spend quiet time alone with yourselves by just being. And as the roof-brain chatter subsides or even ceases for a few moments, you begin to feel different, somewhat serene in the quietness of that beingness, and a knowing comes to you that in truth you are never alone, that you really are One with Mother/Father/God. This knowing is why you feel serene, and you know that what you are experiencing is the reality of Love enveloping and embracing you. That knowing will remain with with you when you return to engage with your normal daily human lives, and you will find yourselves much more easily accepting and dealing with your human lives as they unfold for you in every moment.
Spending quiet time alone daily is an absolutely essential requirement for you, because during that time you have the full power of Mother/Father/God embracing and fortifying you as you again set the intent to be only loving whatever may arise for you during the day. You incarnated holding this purpose within you, and you are fulfilling it most beautifully. Do not judge yourselves negatively for the times when you forget to do this. You knew before you incarnated that this was bound to occur, and so you forgave yourselves in advance!
You are all most wonderful beings, perfect divine children of God, splendidly dealing with your lives in form just as you planned. Therefore I offer you the most hearty congratulations on your ongoing accomplishments as you assist so many – far more than you can possibly envision – on their path to awakening.
..............................................Your loving brother, Jesus.
' What is Love ? '...
Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own [will], is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
....................Saint Paul the Apostle
' The Soul '...
The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God.
............................. Saint Anthony of Padua
' The Good News '...
Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!
.......................... Saint Francis of Assisi
' Simple '...
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
......................Albert Einstein
' Being Equal '...
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
' The Same Inclinations '...
I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.
............................Nicolas Malebranche
' The Highest Activity '...
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
.........................Baruch Spinoza
' Science '...
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
..........................Immanuel Kant
' Happiness '...
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.
..........................Ralph Marston
' The Voice of Source '...
If you were listening to the hypnotic voice of your Source, you'd be constantly hearing the drum beating that says, 'You are loved, and you are worthy, and you are valued and life is supposed to be good for you. You are worthy, you are valued, you are loved and life is supposed to be good for you.'
..............................Esther Hicks
' The World '...
If you believe the noises of the world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost.
.........................Neale Donald Walsch
' Complaining '...
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.
........................Eckhart Tolle
' Peaceful and Joyful '...
Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.
..............................Jaggi Vasudev
' True Vision '...
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
....................................Bodhidharma
' No Mind '...
Meditation is a state of no-mind! You can not find meditation through the mind .. because mind will perpetuate itself! You can find meditation only by putting the mind aside, by being cool, indifferent, unidentified with the mind.
............................Rajneesh
' When Nothing Becomes Everything '...
When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.
...........................Meher Baba
' Being Realized '...
The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others are present, there is only One Being. This is precisely different from the childish but common religious notion that even when you are alone there is always Someone Else present, Who will look out for you if you do the right thing. True freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists. True freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are That One.
..............................Adi Da
' One with Truth '...
The force that is running inside you is the same force running the solar system... the moment you relax from the 'I' the 'other' will disappear... you become 'one' with the truth.
...................................Swami Nithyananda
' Seeing Source '...
Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.
........................Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
' Excessive Quantity '...
Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.
...................................Nicolaus Copernicus
' Perfection '...
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
..................Salvador Dali
' Pride '...
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
.........................Ezra Taft Benson
' Wealth '...
Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
..................................Andrew Carnegie
' The Subconscious Mind '...
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
...............................Earl Nightingale
' Change '...
If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.
......................Jim Rohn
' Abundance '...
Abundance is about looking at life and knowing that you have everything you need for complete happiness, and then being able to celebrate each and every moment on earth.
..............................Wayne Dyer
' The Smallest Minority '...
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
.............................Ayn Rand
' The Foundation '...
The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.
..............................Mencius
' Belief in Self '...
One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.
...................Laozi
' Suffering '...
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
.........................Friedrich Nietzsche
' Do What You Love '...
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
...................Wayne Dyer
' Most of Love '...
Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
......................Khalil Gibran
' Receive the Impossible '...
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
When you're down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible.
Where liberty dwells there is my country.
...............................Benjamin Franklin
' Evangelism '...
We don't teach from Books of the Bible because it gets in the way of evangelism. We don't offer different kinds of Bible studies because it gets in the way of evangelism. We don't teach doctrine because it gets in the way of evangelism. If you want to be fed God's word or have the Bible explained to you then you are a fat lazy Christian and you need to shut up and get to work or you need to leave this church because we ONLY do evangelism.
.........................Steven Furtick
' Real Love '...
Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often we feel that humility is a sign of weakness. This is not so. It is the sign of strength and security.
..............................Kathryn Kuhlman
' 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
' A Believer '...
I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips
..........................Muhammad Iqbal
' The Human Heart '...
Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides.
.................Bulleh Shah
' A Holy Person '...
What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others' suffering.
..............................Kabir
' Simplicity '...
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
....................Rabindranath Tagore
' It's Human '...
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
..........................Desiderius Erasmus
' Sweat Equity '...
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
............................Miguel de Cervantes
' Seeking Happiness '...
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
..........................Samuel Johnson
' Intention '...
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
..................John Burroughs
' The Price of Anything '...
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
.........................Henry David Thoreau
' War '...
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
....................Thomas Mann
' An Invincible Summer '...
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
................................Albert Camus
' Freedom of Speech '...
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
.................................Soren Kierkegaard
' The Truth '...
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.
......................Sivananda
' Truth '...
Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
..................................Swami Vivekananda
' Very Obvious '...
Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious.
......................Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
' Allah '...
When you’re going through something hard and you start wondering where Allah is, just remember, the Teacher is always quiet during a test.
........................................Nouman Ali Khan
' Your Vision '...
Life is one big road with lots of signs,
So when you riding through the ruts,
Don't you complicate your mind
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.
......................Bob Marley
' Buddhism '...
In General,,
'Not to do any evil; to cultivate good; to purify one's heart - this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.'
Although Buddhists value highly such virtues as loving kindness, humanity, patience and giving, perhaps they value wisdom and compassion most of all. The idea of ahimsa or harmlessness is very closely connected with compassion. The compassionate desire to cause no harm to all beings including animals, plants, and the world in general. In all things Buddhism places great stress on self-reliance and the Buddha himself told his followers not to believe without questioning, but to test it for themselves. Buddhism is also a very practical religion and aims at helping people to live their lives peacefully.
Buddhists also try to practice the Buddhist virtues actively in their everyday lives. The final goal of all Buddhist practice is to bring about that same awakening that the Buddha himself achieved through an active transformation of the heart and passions and the letting go of I............................from the Buddhist Society
' Two Weeks '...
If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.
................................John Mayer
' Open Hearts '...
To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.
..............................Leonard Cohen
' Creative People '...
I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
..........................Judy Collins
' Education and Experience '...
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
.....................Pete Seeger
' Ayurveda '...
Life (ayu) is the combination (samyoga) of body, senses, mind and reincarnating soul. Ayurveda is the most sacred science of life, beneficial to humans both in this world and the world beyond.
..............................Charaka
' Examination '...
Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
...........................Pythagoras
' Eureka,, Eureka '...
Eureka! Eureka!
Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery about water displacement to solve a problem about the purity of a gold crown.
.....................Archimedes
' The Perfect Unity '...
All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.
..........................Giordano Bruno
' The Laws of Nature '...
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
................................Galileo Galilei
' Learning '...
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
...........................Leonardo da Vinci
' Unnameable '...
Many names have been placed on ‘This.’ We have called it “life,” “God,” “spirit,” “Oneness,” “enlightenment,” “presence,” “non-duality,” “awareness,” “Brahman,”, the “Tao,” and a host of others. Yet none of the names are that which they describe. All words are concepts. They are memory. No matter what word you use to describe life, the word is not it.
It is easy to become blinded by spiritual teachings, including non-dual pointers. The ideas are repeated so much that they become conditioning. Then we look at the present moment through the learned ideas, rather than through bare naked presence.
Life is not an idea. Be very clear about that. See that every pointer in this book or anywhere else is merely conditioning. It is some idea put forth to point you to a seeing beyond ideas.
A teacher or book can only use concepts to point you away from reliance on your memorized concepts. Can a concept see? No. It can only point to the pure seeing available through bare naked presence. This seeing is a knowing that is deeper than conceptual knowledge. This knowing reveals directly that to which the words “God,” “Brahman,” “enlightenment” and all the other words are pointing. There is no separate “I” who knows or finds “enlightenment” or “God.” Those are concepts giving rise to illusory separation. There is only this unnamable knowing. No subject. No object. Just ‘This.’.....................................
Scott Kiloby, Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment
' Looking Up '...
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
..........................Ralph Waldo Emerson
' The Boiling Frog '...
You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.
......................Nikita Khrushchev
' To Serve Humanity '...
We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve
................ President Dwight D. Eisenhower
' The Turning Point '...
The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself.
............................Henri de Lubac
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