WISDOM QUOTES
"Even after many years of psychoanalysis, after teaching psychology, working
as a therapist, after taking drugs for many years, being in India, being a yogi,
having a guru, meditating for 18 or 19 years now-as far as I can see I haven't
gotten rid of one neurosis. Not one. The only thing that has changed is that
while before these neuroses were huge monsters that possessed me, now they're
like little shmoos that I invite over for tea. I say, "Oh, sexual perversity!
Haven't seen you in weeks!" They're sort of my style now. When your neuroses
become your style, you've got it made. Everybody has a personality composed of
neurotic patterns. I've given up thinking I've got to go through the eye of the
needle and become psychologically sound. I'm always going to be a mess! At
bottom, it's uninteresting and unimportant. That's part of the shift that occurs
with spiritual practice. As things become less important, they become more
available to change."
Ram Dass
Thomas Alva Edison:
Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like
work.
Thomas Jefferson:
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of
it.
Kalidasa:
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
Thich Nhat Hanh:
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think
the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on
earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a
blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our
own two eyes. All is a miracle.
Henry Miller:
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it
becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
When I am dead, cry for me a little. Think of me sometimes, but not too much. It
is not good for you or your wife or your husband or your children to allow your
thoughts to dwell too long on the dead. Think of me now and again as I was in
life, at some moment which is pleasant to recall, but not for long. Leave me in
peace as I shall leave you, too, in peace. While you live, let your thoughts be
with the living.
Ishi - Yahi of California - (1862- 1916)
"Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth
is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. "This
we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things
are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of
life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to
himself. "One thing we know: our god is also your god. The earth is precious to
him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
Chief Seattle
"... all things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man ... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports."
-Chief Seattle, Dwamish - 1786-1866
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
By: Carl Jung
"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful
job of thinking."
By: John Kenneth Galbraith
"I pray and I sing and sometimes my prayer is my
singing." -Bobby McFerrin
"Don't waste your time learning the tricks of the trade. Instead
learn the trade."
By: James Charlton and Jackson Brown Jr.
"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to
live forever."
By: Mahatma Gandhi
"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone."
By: Gladys Berthe Stern
Let me walk in beauty
let my spirit see the dynamic spirit of life
in all that exists with no prejudice or malice
toward any creation.
May I begin to remember who I am in the natural order
of things as I stand in my own shallow pool of time
May I come to know what time it is in my life
and in all life.
Great Spirit of Love,
connect my heart to my head
Make me wise that I may understand the things
you have taught all people, in every heart
close or far from my own,
Make me courageous when the cold winds of life fall
upon me.
Give me strength and endurance for everything that is
harsh
everything that hurts
everything that makes me squint and wince.
I seek strength not to be greater or lesser
than my brother or sister
but to remove the tough and slimy obstacles to
equality
that have made their home inside myself.
Prepare me to move through life ready to take what
comes.
Comfort me and caress me when I am tired and cold.
Unfold me
the way your gentle breezes unfold the leaves on
trees....
Fran Peavy, A Shallow Pool of Time
Lessons Of Life
>
> Every situation is a lesson to be learned. From the
most mundane
>chores to the most complex projects, life is always ready to teach you
>something. Life is ready to teach when you are willing to learn. And
the
>more you learn from what life offers, the better life becomes.
>
> The lessons are usually not all that obvious. Yet
they are there if
>you will think to take a look. The lessons are there in every moment,
in
>every dilemma, in every frustration and every joy. They are there in
every
>sadness, every victory, every discomfort and every pleasure.
>
> Each lesson you learn paves the way for a new and
even more valuable
>one. Each lesson you ignore keeps coming back, again and again.
>
> One way or another, life will teach you its lessons.
> When you're a willing student, those lessons are
pure gold.
>
> -Ralph Marston-
Earth teach me stillness
as the grasses are stilled with light.
Earth teach me suffering
as old stones suffer with memory.
Earth teach me caring
as parents who secure their young.
Earth teach me courage
as the tree which stands all alone.
Earth teach me limitation
as the ant which crawls on the ground.
Earth teach me freedom
as the eagle which soars in the sky.
Earth teach me resignation
as the leaves which die in the fall.
Earth teach me regeneration
as the seed which rises in the spring.
Earth teach me to forget myself
as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me to remember kindness
as dry fields weep with rain.
-from the Ute Indians
"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."
By: Dwight D. Eisenhower
"When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner peace and happiness."
" What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in
pursuit of the child."
George Bernard Shaw
To feel loved, to belong, to have a place and to hear one's dignity and worth
often affirmed -- these are to the soul what food is to the body. -- Anne
Ortlund, Speaker and writer
Freedom, to me, is imagination, the power of imagination to create what we want
and be who we want to be. -- Lizzie West, Musician
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners
are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts. -- Sylvester
Stallone, Actor
When the wind blows
that is my medicine
When it rains
that is my medicine
When it hails
that is my medicine
When it becomes clear after a storm
that is my medicine
-anonymous
"Excellence can be attained if you Care more than others think is wise,
Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is
practical, and Expect more than others think is possible."
By: Unknown author
"I believe that, what has appeared to me to be a dead end was really
me standing in the way."
By: Bob Perks
"There is only on thing more painful than learning from experience
and that is not learning from experience."
By: Archibald McLeish
"Everytime you smile at someone it is an action of love, a gift to
that person, a beautiful thing."
By: Mother Teresa
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't
being said."
By: Peter F. Drucker
"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."
By: Dale Carnegie
Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me.
-Sigmund Freud
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
-Bernard Baruch
"Passion doesn't remove obstacles but it does ignite our courage to overcome
them or at least maneuver around them. It takes courage to look past the
roadblocks as well as break down self- imposed boundaries."
~ Marion Luna Brem ~
"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
J.M. Barrie
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
SenecaT
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficult."
– Sir Winston Churchill
You are not here to fix anything, because nothing is broken, but everything
is continually changing and expanding. Release your struggle, and seek joy and
fun, and in doing so, you will align with the fantastic expanding rhythm of this
Universe.
-Abraham-Hicks