' Faith '...
Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.
........................................ Emmanuel Levinas
' To Be Myself '...
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
.................................. Martin Heidegger
' Experience '...
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
.............................. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
' Spiritual People '...
Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
................................... Dallas Willard
' Did I offer Peace Today ?'...
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love?' These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will be many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
...................................... Henri Nouwen
' A World of Noise '...
In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.
.................................. Thomas Merton
' Ugliness '...
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
............................. John Constable [painter]
' Miracles '...
The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.
....................................... William Blake
' The Best Portion '...
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
...................................... William Wordsworth
' The Object of Religion '...
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
........................................ Thomas Hardy
' The Winter of Despair '...
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
' Satan '...
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
......................................... Joseph Conrad
' The Divine Law '...
The moment you stop seeking pleasure in worldly things and become true master of yourself, you will experience the essential reality of the Self. Then you will no longer have to seek God. God himself will come to you. This is the Divine Law.
...................................... Asaram
' Peace and Joy '...
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
' Become a Lion '...
The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.
................................. Rajneesh
' Life '...
Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!
................................... Sathya Sai Baba
' 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
' Opinions '...
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
...................................... Baruch Spinoza
' Naked '...
Naked a man comes into the world and naked he leaves it, after all is said and done he leaves nothing except the good deeds he leaves behind.
....................................... Rashi
' Learned or Ignorant '...
We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.
.................................... Maimonides
' Ignorance '...
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.
......................................... Averroes
' Speech '...
A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.
...........................Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
' Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching '...
“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
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“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching
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“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
' Awakening '...
Upon the surrender of the Desire for separation called ego-attachment.... You, as the Consciousness of Light and Mind, has 'Realized ', that You have just 'Awakened' from a bad dream.. There is no such pain as Time.. Floating in Wisdom and Love, still asking the question, " Why do I exist ?".................... thomas
' What is Source '...
To Understand what Love is,, we enter the plane of ego... You only know light because of darkness.... This is a Prison Planet and only those that fully understand the methods that free Consciousness from this Hologram will be Liberated from this pain.................... thomas
' I will speak of Love '...
“I will speak of love
until you go mad
and join me
in my mad worship
of love.”
............................ Kamand Kojouri
' Listen,, O' drop '...
“Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret,
and in exchange gain the Ocean.
Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor,
and in the arms of the Sea be secure.
Who indeed should be so fortunate?
An Ocean wooing a drop!
In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once!
Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.”
.............................. Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
' The Happiness of the Ego '...
“The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.”
............................. Imam Al-Ghazali
' Three Things '...
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
........................ Reba McEntire
' You Feel Free '...
You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free
.......................... Tom Petty
' Only Now '...
These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.
.............................. Van Morrison
' Conversation '...
It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.
.......................... Pete Seeger
' Be Not Afraid '...
All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.
...................................... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
' Sanctuary '...
Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self....................... Gautama the Buddha
' The Deepest Problems '...
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
............................... Georg Simmel
' Contempt prior to Investigation '...
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
............................... Herbert Spencer
' Religious and Philosophic '...
For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy.
............................ Ludwig Feuerbach
' The Ignorant Man '...
The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought.
.................................... Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
' Rules for Happiness '...
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
................................... Immanuel Kant
' The Family Tree '...
Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.
..................................... Mark Twain
' A Great Poem '...
This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.
............................................ Walt Whitman
' Anger '...
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
................................ Ralph Waldo Emerson
' A Free Exploring Mind '...
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
.................................... John Steinbeck
' Tyrannies '...
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
............................. George Orwell
' No Guarantee of Truth '...
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
................................. W. Somerset Maugham
' Speak from the Heart '...
Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.
................................. Yasmin Mogahed
' Who You Are '...
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
................................... Dr. Seuss
' Happiness '...
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
.................................. Democritus
' The Soul of Another '...
It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
.................................. George MacDonald
' Your Time is Limited '...
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
' Serenity '...
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
.................................... Reinhold Niebuhr
' A Mark of Greatness '...
The true mark of greatness is not found in what a person does with their own life. It is found in helping others discover that, they too, can become great.
...................................... John Earl Shoaff
' Don't Wish '...
Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
................................ Jim Rohn
' Better Today '...
The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.
.............................. John C. Maxwell
' The Power of Belief '...
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
.......................................... David J. Schwartz
' Calmness of Mind '...
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
............................ James Allen
' Heart-centered Beliefs '...
When we form heart-centered beliefs within our bodies, in the language of physics we're creating the electrical and magnetic expression of them as waves of energy, which aren't confined to our hearts or limited by the physical barrier of our skin and bones. So clearly we're speaking to the world around us in each moment of every day through a language that has no words: the belief-waves of our hearts.
..................................... Gregg Braden
' Follow Truth '...
Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.
.......................................... Al-Shafi‘i
' 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
' Look to the Wise '...
When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself.
........................................... Ibn Hazm
' In Paradise '...
What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to provide me with seclusion. To send me into exile is to send me away in the Path of Allah. And to kill me is to make me a martyr.
........................................ Ibn Taymiyyah
' To Love Yourself '...
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
........................................ Kristin Chenoweth
' Learning '...
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy
........................... Alexandre Dumas
' Truth and False '...
The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.
...................................... James F. Cooper
' Two Faces '...
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
................................. Nathaniel Hawthorne
' Integrity '...
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
............................. C. S. Lewis
' The Greatest Adventure '...
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.
........................... J. R. R. Tolkien
' Universal Deceit '...
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
................................ George Orwell
' Change your Thoughts '...
Change your inner thoughts to the higher frequencies of love, harmony, kindness, peace, and joy, and you'll attract more of the same.
..................................... Wayne Dyer
' Love Heals '...
I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.
........................................ Bernie Siegel
' Meditation '...
We meditate to find, to recover, to come back to something of ourselves we once dimly and unknowingly had and have lost without knowing what it was or where or when we lost it.
................................. Lawrence LeShan
' Belief in Healing '...
The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
.................................. Norman Cousins
' It's Apathy '...
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
' Trust your Heart '...
You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings. ... You can't argue with the universe. It's not about that. It's more about relaxing and knowing that you can handle it and feeling empowered. Knowing you have the power to do whatever the hell you want to do. That's what it's about. It really is.
................................... Chaka Khan
' An Instrument of Peace '...
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
............................... Carlos Santana
' You Will Be Happiest '...
Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.
................................. Sri Chinmoy
' A Quiet Mind '...
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away
.................................... Sri Aurobindo
' The Highest Education '...
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
............................... Rabindranath Tagore
' I Laugh '...
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 Absence of Desire '...
The total absence of desire brings happiness. It also brings freedom and liberation, because whenever something is lacking there are both limits and dependency. Only when nothing at all is lacking is there the possibility of total freedom. Freedom brings happiness. And happiness is salvation.
.............................. Rajneesh
' Another War '...
The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.
................................ Tommy Lee Jones
' Life is not Fair '...
Life is not fair, it never was and it is now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap. The entitlement trap, of feeling like you're a victim. You are not.
.................................. Matthew McConaughey
' The Universe is Indifferent '...
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
' The Law of Life '...
It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone, you feel happy... If you are cruel, you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.
................................... Cary Grant
' Beauty '...
" There is no beauty without some strangeness"..
......................... Edgar Allan Poe
' Step Outside '...
Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.
..................................... H. G. Wells
' I shall use my Time '...
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
................................... Jack London
' The Newspaper '...
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
............................... Mark Twain
' Owning Yourself '...
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
............................... Rudyard Kipling
' Unfolding Perfectly '...
Everything is unfolding perfectly. And as you relax and find ease in your attitude of trust, knowing that Well-Being is your birth-right, amazing things will happen. Things the likes of which you have not seen before.
............................... Esther Hicks
' Suffering '...
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
............................... Eckhart Tolle
' Happiness '...
Happiness lies not in finding what is missing,
but in finding what is present.
.......................... Tara Brach
' Nothing goes Away '...
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
................................ Pema Chodron
' Living in the Present '...
If you can sit quietly after difficult news; if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm; if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic places without a twinge of jealousy; if you can happily eat whatever is put on your plate; you can fall asleep after a day of running around without a drink or a pill; if you can always find contentment just where you are: you are probably a dog.
.................................... Jack Kornfield
' Letting go of the Ego '...
If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
.............................. Ajahn Chah
' Truth is a Queen '...
Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.
................................ Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
' Learning '...
The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
...................................... Plato
' The Freedom of Humanity '...
The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.
.................................... Jean-Jacques Rousseau
' Know Thyself '...
The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
................................ Adam Smith
' History teaches Us '...
What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
..................................... Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
' Love is Time and Space '...
Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be extraordinary.
.......................... Julia Kristeva
' Time and Space '...
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
................................... Susan Sontag
' Someday '...
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
................................. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
' In Space-time '...
In space-time everything which for each of us constitutes the past, the present and the future is given en bloc...Each observer, as his time passes, discovers, so to speak, new slices of space-time which appear to him as successive aspects of the material world, though in reality the ensemble of events constituting space-time exist prior to his knowledge of them.
................................ Louis de Broglie
' The Nucleus of Atoms '...
When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all — except life. We shall have found the basis of everything — of the earth we walk on, of the air we breathe, of the sunshine, of our physical body itself, of everything in the world, however great or however small — except life.
..................................... Ernest Rutherford
' The Number of Minds '...
The total number of minds in the universe is one.
......................... Erwin Schrodinger
' Two Outcomes '...
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
........................................ Enrico Fermi
' Taught to Fly '...
When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
.................................. Edward Teller
' So many Suns '...
What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths.
........................... Christiaan Huygens
' Science is Incompetent '...
Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent it must have been created.
............................ James Clerk Maxwell
' 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
' Imagination '...
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
............................... Albert Einstein
' Humility '...
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
.......................... C. S. Lewis
' I can't go back '...
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
........................ Lewis Carroll
' Is Art Ugly '...
There's enough ugliness - you know, we got wars going on and people dying and sickness and everything. We don't need to have our art be ugly. But it is, in a lot of it. And these people justify this crap by saying, "Oh we're just representing what's out there, man". Basically, you're making it worse and number one, the artist's job is to elevate people and to lift people up and to give them a place to go, something to hold on to.
.......................................... Don McLean
' Gathering Daydreams '...
Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
.................................. Gordon Lightfoot
' Wars '...
I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.
............................. Woody Guthrie
' Death '...
You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right, now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself, you decide for yourself.
........................... Bob Dylan
' Beyond Money '...
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
.............................. Haruki Murakami
' Beauty '...
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
................................ Ruby Dee
' Two Histories '...
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
............................. Honore de Balzac
' 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
' Injustice to Others '...
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
................................... Henrik Ibsen
' From the Light '...
The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality.
........................... Annie Besant
' Don't be Afraid '...
Don't be afraid. Human birth is full of suffering and one has to endure everything patiently, taking the Name of God. None, not even God in human form can escape the sufferings of the body and mind.
..................................... Sarada Devi
' In this World but not of It '...
A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
..................................... Ramakrishna
' To Make Ourselves '...
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
............................... Swami Vivekananda
' Gratitude bestows Reverence '...
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
....................................... John Milton
' Put Love into Hugs '...
Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
............................... Percy Bysshe Shelley
' To Reason '...
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
.................................. Lord Byron
' Forget your Sadness '...
Forget your sadness, anger, grudges, and hatred. Let them
pass like smoke caught in the breeze. You should not deviate
from the path of righteousness; you should lead a life worthy
of a man. Don't be possessed by greed, luxury, or your ego.
You should accept sorrows, sadness and hatred as they are,
and consider them a chance for trial given to you by the
powers... a blessing given by nature. Have both your mind and
your time fully engaged in bud?, and have your mind deeply
set on bujutsu.
........................... Masaaki Hatsumi
' 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
' From Mortal to Buddha '...
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
.................. Bodhidharma
' Still the Mind '...
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
...................... Sri Aurobindo
' Hesitation '...
The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.
.......................... Ma Jaya
' Examine the Source '...
It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.
.............................. Neem Karoli Baba
' Replace Fear '...
By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.
.................................. Alan Watts
' Greed '...
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
............................ Erich Fromm
' World of Illusion '...
I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me.
................................. Criss Angel
' Reality is Perspective '...
Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.
............................. Criss Angel
' Conquering Fear '...
My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.
............................. Harry Houdini
' The Most Dangerous Condition '...
The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
....................................... Arthur Conan Doyle
' A Successful Man '...
The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
............................ Robert Louis Stevenson
' Face It '...
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
............................ Joseph Conrad
' What You Become '...
The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.
.................................. Heraclitus
' Know Thyself '...
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
.......................... Thales
' The Answers Within '...
You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
................................. Galileo Galilei
' The Universe '...
So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.
............................ Stephen Hawking
' No Extra Pieces '...
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
' We Are Shadows '...
The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.
............................. Adolfo Bioy Casares
' How Many Things '...
How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
........................... Jules Verne
' Every Person '...
Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
............................. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
' Love your Enemy '...
And God said, Love your enemy,and I obeyed Him and loved myself.
......................... Khalil Gibran
' Against Conscience '...
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
................................ Albert Einstein
' Real Magic '...
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
................................... Tom Petty
' Time '...
It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.
................................ George Harrison
' Enlightenment '...
Enlightenment is the journey back from the head to the heart.
........................... Ravi Shankar
' Music Lives '...
Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.
........................... Yehudi Menuhin
' Spiritual Poverty '...
It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
.............................. Paramahansa Yogananda
' Truth does not Change '...
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
.............................. Giordano Bruno
' The Infinite '...
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
............................... Plotinus
' Mistakes '...
Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
........................................ Pythagoras
' Love and Hate '...
There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things.
........................... Empedocles
' Nothing Exists '...
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
................................... Democritus
' Gravity '...
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
............................. Isaac Newton
' The men in Power '...
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
................................... Boris Pasternak
' Seize Happiness '...
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
.......................... Leo Tolstoy
' The Most Important Thing '...
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
........................... Charles Dickens
' Over the Cliff '...
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
............................ C. S. Lewis
' The Greatest Adventure '...
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.
............................ J. R. R. Tolkien
' Education '...
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
................... Albert Einstein
' Admiration '...
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
............................. John Steinbeck
' Before '...
Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
....................... Ernest Hemingway
' Here and Now '...
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
............................... Marcel Proust
' Drifting from Truth '...
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
.................................. George Orwell
' Same Effort '...
You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.
.......................... Ray Bradbury
' Living on Earth '...
Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .
......................... Clifford D. Simak
' Love and Hate '...
There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things.
..................................... Empedocles
' 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
' 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
' Your Destiny '...
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
..................... Aristotle
' Concepts '...
Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.
........................ Gregory of Nyssa
' Known by Actions '...
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
....................... Saint Basil
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