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We cannot live only for ourselves.
A thousand fibers connect us
with our fellow men;
and among those fibers,
ss sympathetic threads,
our actions run as causes,
and they come back to us as effects.
My religion is very simple.
My religion is kindness.
~The Dalai Lama
Act upon your present blessings...
Of which every man has many...
Not on your past misfortunes...
Of which all men have some."
~Charles Dickens
Living with integrity means:
Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others.
Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal
values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.
~ Barbara De Angelis
Our real self, the soul, is immortal. We may sleep for a little while in that change called death, but we can never be
destroyed. We exist, and that existence is eternal. This body has come, and it will vanish; but the soul essence within it
will never cease to exist. Nothing can terminate that eternal consciousness.
~ From "Autobiography of a Yogi," by Yogananda
Consider the difference between fact and truth. Facts are just circumstances in our lives, events happening around us.
The truth is much greater than that which we experience with our senses. The truth is that God is moving to us and through
us in every moment and when we open to that Presence and that Power, our experience of our circumstances begins to expand.
~Mary Manin Morrissey
The truth indeed has never been preached by the Buddha, seeing that one has to realize it within oneself.
-Lamkara Sutra
From "Buddha Speaks," edited by Anne Bancroft, 2000. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Boston,
www.shambhala.com.
What could you want
that forgiveness cannot give?
Do you want peace? Forgiveness offers it.
Do you want happiness, a quiet mind,
a certainty of purpose,
and a sense of worth and beauty
that transcends the world?
Do you want care and safety,
and the warmth of sure protection always?
Do you want a quietness that cannot be disturbed,
a gentleness that never can be hurt,
a deep, abiding comfort,
and a rest so perfect it can never be upset?
All this forgiveness offers you.
~~~A Course in Miracles
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if
they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to
them all the care, kindness, and understanding you
can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward.
Your life will never be the same again.
~Og Mandino
Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint...
Plant a pint and you reap a bushel...
Always the law works to give you back...
More than you give."
Anthony Norvell
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of
containing God's gift of Himself.
~Mother Teresa
Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.
-Tim McCarver
Build the dream with all your heart and before
you know it you find that the dream is in fact
building you.
~ Josh S. Hinds
"Be brave...
Even if you are not...
Pretend to be...
No one can tell the difference."
~ Unknown
A friend is one that knows you as you are...
Understands where you have been...
Accepts what you have become...
And still, gently allows you to grow.
~William Shakespeare
Treat peopole as if they were what they ought to be
and you help them become what they are capable
of being.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
~Annette Funicello
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought, and celebrate my success.
~Unknown
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is, is.
It is never different.
Its forms differ but its being remains the same.
To live in the forms is to live in illusions.
To see the being is to transcend the world.
Only seeing is needed.
What you are going to see is already there -
has been there since eternity... waiting and
waiting and waiting....
~Osho
For hundreds of years---perhaps since the beginning of Creation---a piece of the world has been waiting for your soul
to purify and repair it.
And your soul, from the time it was first emanated and conceived, waited above to descend to this world and carry out
that mission.
And your footsteps were guided to reach that place.
And you are there now.
-Rebbe Menachem Schneerson
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society,
will benefit from our peace.
-Thich Nhat Hanh, "Being Peace"
Life's like a dance. Put on your dancing shoes.
~Steve Winwood
All kids are gifted;
Some just open their packages earlier than others.
~Michael Carr
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives
are princesses who are only waiting
to see us once beautiful and brave.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act,
but a habit.
~ Aristotle
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant,
to enact gratitude is generous and noble,
but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
~ Johannes A. Gaertner
The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
~William Blake
Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of
the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.
-Sutta Nipata
From "365 Buddha: Daily Meditations," edited by Jeff Schmidt. Reprinted by arrangement with Tarcher/Putnam,
a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget
them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with
your old nonsense.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a certain amount of detachment to be able to
involve yourself and yet not personalize what you're
involved in. Some people project an expectation and look at
the result. They look at what shows up and decide that
something hasn't worked or been served, instead of realizing that it has been served.
So be patient and take God's course.
~John Morton
LIFE'S MIRROR
There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave,
There are souls that are pure and true;
Then give to the world the best you have,
And the best will come back to you.
Give love, and love to your life will flow,
A strength in your utmost need;
Have faith, and a score of hearts will show
Their faith in your word and deed.
Give truth, and your gift will be paid in kind,
And honor will honor meet;
And a smile that is sweet will surely find
A smile that is just as sweet.
For life is the mirror of king and slave,
Tis just what we are and do;
Then give to the world the best you have,
And the best will come back to you.
~ Madeline S. Bridges
From: Richard Brooks,
Helps To Happiness, 1907 (p. 47)
Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
~John Wesley
"That's what happens when you are angry with people.....
You make them a part of your lives."
Garrison Keillor
"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."
~Helen Keller
If you were busy being kind,
Before you knew it, you would find
You'd soon forget to think 'twas true
That someone was unkind to you.
If you were busy being glad,
And cheering people who are sad,
Although your heart might ache a bit,
You'd soon forget to notice it.
~R. Foreman
"The most important thing now is to reveal the
inner temple of the soul with right thinking and right activity."
~Willaru Huayta, Quechua Nation, Peru
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let everything you do be your expression of Spirit,
and everything you say be your Prayer.
~Anon.
"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can t help them, at least don t hurt them."
~The Dalai Lama
Obstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off the goal.
~Henry Ford
"Do not say, "I follow the one true path of the Spirit," but rather, "I have found the Spirit walking
on my path", for the Spirit walks on all paths."
~Kahlil Gibran
Each of us comes for a short visit; Not knowing why, yet sometimes, Seeming to a divine purpose.
~Albert Einstein
To a disciple who was forever complaining about others the Master said, "If it is peace you want, seek to change
yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth."
Anthony de Mello, SJ
MORSEL: The paradox of control is simple. The more we try to control life, the less control we have. --Joan Borysenko,
Ph.D.
"Do not ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because
what the world needs is people who have come alive."
~ Harold Whitman
To a shy disciple who wanted to become self-confident the Master said, "You look for certainty in the eyes of others
and you think that is self-confidence."
"Shall I give no weight to the opinion of others, then?"
"On the contrary. Weigh everything they say, but do not be controlled by it."
"How does one break the control?"
"How does one break a delusion?"
Anthony de Mello, SJ
MORSEL: The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -- Henri L. Bergson
The Master's expansive mood emboldened his disciples to say, "Tell us what you got from Enlightenment. Did you become
divine?"
"No."
"Did you become a saint?"
"No."
"Then what did you become?"
"Awake."
Anthony de Mello, SJ
MORSEL: Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book.
It expires with each passing generation. --Sid Taylor
Out of clutter, find Simplicity.
From discord, find Harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity
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