"Non Degener Addam" (I add without loss)
9/30/11
Thought for Today - Compassionate Soul
"A compassionate soul will travel great distances and scale high walls in order to understand another point of view." ~Thought for Today-UK
9/29/11
Maria Calvo - doorstep
"Do not let the shadows of your past darken the doorstep of your future. Forgive and Forget and TRUST in God." ~Maria Calvo
Daniella Kessler Quotes
"When you feel left out, there is comfort to be had in knowing that you are loved." ~Daniella Kessler
"Your power and light is within you, look inward towards yourself." ~Daniella Kessler
"Your power and light is within you, look inward towards yourself." ~Daniella Kessler
David Burns - You
"There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you" ~David Burns
W. Clement Stone Quotes
"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." ~W. Clement Stone
"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity." ~W. Clement Stone
"Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying." ~W. Clement Stone
"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance." ~Clement Stone
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." ~W. Clement Stone
"When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions." ~W. Clement Stone
"When you discover your mission...it will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it." ~W. Clement Stone
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Thought for Today - Determination
"Determination is an unbroken line, a backbone. Without determination life becomes scattered. Determination makes you sit up straight and love everything." ~Thought for Today-UK
Real Live Preacher - Integrity
"Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect." ~Real Live Preacher
9/28/11
DR. DAVID VISCOTT Quotes
"If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth." ~Dr. David Viscott, Pulitzer Prize Psychiatrist (1938-1996)
"If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed." ~David Viscott
"Indeed, to take on the burden of sentry, guarding another person's borders, is to interfere with that person's life lesson." ~Dr. David Viscott, Psychiatrist (Inspiration Line - Blessing the Obstacles).
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." ~David Viscott
"You cannot protect anyone from themselves; you cannot protect anyone from life. You cannot spare a loved one the confrontation with their own mortality, their own stupidity or their own emptiness.
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Marianne LaFrance - smile
"The smile is the most scientifically studied human facial expression." ~Marianne LaFrance, Yale psychology professor (Lip Service), O Magazine
Jennifer Margulis - as it seems
"What goes from ear to ear isn't as simple as it seems." ~Jennifer Margulis
Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure." ~Alfred North Whitehead
"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it." ~A.N. Whitehead
“If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer” ~Alfred North Whitehead
"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended." ~Alfred North Whitehead
"Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.” ~Alfred North Whitehead
"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up." ~Alfred Whitehead
“Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.” ~Alfred North Whitehead
“The pupil's mind is a growing organism...it is not a box to be ruthlessly packed with alien ideas.” ~Alfred North Whitehead
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Curtis Rufus Quintus - Habit
“Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]” ~Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus)
Woody Allen Quotes
"Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem." ~Woody Allen
"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens." ~Woody Allen
"If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe." ~Woody Allen
"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." ~Woody Allen
"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable." ~Woody Allen
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." ~Woody Allen
"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." ~Woody Allen
"The only way to be happy is to love to suffer." ~Woody Allen
"The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have." ~Woody Allen
"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." ~Woody Allen (1935-)
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Thomas L. Odem Jr - smile
“If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart. Then in living - I have made my mark.” ~Thomas L. Odem Jr
Jodi Picoult Quotes
"Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look." ~Jodi Picoult
"For every lady who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to." ~Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care
"If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over—only living with the mistakes you've made." ~Jodi Piccoult
"… if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them." ~Jodi Picoult
"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them." ~Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper.
“Love is not a because, it’s a no matter what.” ~Jodi Picoult (Second Glance)
"Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned." ~Jodi Picoult
"The act of reading is a partnership. the author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home." ~J. Picoult
"The shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl." ~Jodi Picoult
"There’s always going to be bad stuff out there. But here’s the amazing thing—light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can’t stick the dark into the light." ~Jodi Picoult
"The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second." ~Jodi Picoult
"You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact they're not." ~Jodi Picoult
"You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page." ~Jodi Picoult
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9/27/11
Thought for Today - Self-Confidence
"Self-confidence is to know your way around yourself so instinctively
that you always have a strength to draw on. Somewhere inside, from the
stillness, you always find something that can meet your need.
Self-confidence runs much deeper than nerves." ~Thought for Today-UK
KOFI ANNAN Quotes
"All is not well. Science tells us that if we do not take the right action now, climate change will bring havoc, even within our lifetime." ~Kofi Annan
"Education is peace-building by another name. Here's why." ~Kofi Annan
"Education is the most effective form of defense spending there is." ~Kofi Annan
"Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance." ~Kofi Annan
"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family." ~Kofi Annan
"Let us remember that every person who is infected, whatever the reason, is a fellow human being with human rights and human needs." ~Kofi Annan
"More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development." ~Kofi Annan
"There were governments that were not willing to make the concessions necessary, there were spoilers also in the group, let's be quite honest about that, ... I've tried to get them to understand that in our interconnected world, we need to look at issues in much broader terms rather than narrow national interests." ~Kofi Annan
"Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations." ~Kofi Annan
“We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race” ~Kofi Annan
"Without ending the oppression of women, we will never bring an end to extreme poverty." ~Kofi Annan
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"Without ending the oppression of women, we will never bring an end to extreme poverty." ~Kofi Annan
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Hafiz of Shiraz Quotes
Photo Credit: from A Texas Girl's Favorites, FB
"A day of silence can be a pilgrimage in itself." ~Hafiz
"A poet is someone who can pour light into a spoon, and then raise it to nourish your beautiful, parched holy mouth." ~Hafiz
"Awake, my dear. Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light and let it breathe." ~Hafiz Shirazi
"Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth 'You owe Me'. Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the Whole sky." ~Hafiz
"Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. ~Hafiz
"Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.” ~Hafiz
"Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. ~Hafiz
"Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.” ~Hafiz
"For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one. And bring some peace into your beautiful eyes." ~Hafiz
"Forgiveness is part of the treasure you need to craft your falcon wings and return to your true realm of Divine freedom." ~Hafiz
"I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew." ~Hafez
"I once asked a bird, "How is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness?" The bird responded, 'Love lifts me'." ~Hafiz
"I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being." ~Hafiz of Shiraz
"Love sometimes wants to do us a great favour: hold us upside down and shake all the nonesense out." ~Hafiz
"Love will surely bust you wide open into an unfettered, blooming new galaxy" ~Hafiz
"May the gratitude in my heart kiss all the universe." ~Hafiz
"I once asked a bird, "How is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness?" The bird responded, 'Love lifts me'." ~Hafiz
"I sometimes forget that I was created for joy. My mind is too busy. My heart is too heavy. Heavy for me to remember that I have been called to dance the sacred dance for life. I was created to smile, to love, to be lifted up, and lift others up. O sacred one, untangle my feet from all that ensnares. Free my soul. That we might dance. And that our dancing might be contagious." ~Hafiz
"I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being." ~Hafiz of Shiraz
"Love sometimes wants to do us a great favour: hold us upside down and shake all the nonesense out." ~Hafiz
"Love will surely bust you wide open into an unfettered, blooming new galaxy" ~Hafiz
"May the gratitude in my heart kiss all the universe." ~Hafiz
"One regret, dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough." ~Hafiz
"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” ~Hafiz
"The heart is the thousand-stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love." ~Hafiz
"The words you speak become the house you live in." ~Hafiz
"This place where you are right now God circled on a map for you." ~Hafiz
"We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!" ~Hafiz
"What we speak becomes the house we live in." ~Hafiz
"Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends." ~Hafiz
༺♥༻༺♥༻༺♥༻༺♥༻༺♥༻
VERSES:
"And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
'You owe me.'
Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the whole sky."
~Hafiz
⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰
"I know the voice of depression
Still calls to you.
I know those habits that can ruin your life
Still send their invitations.
But you are with the Friend now
And look so much stronger.
You can stay that way
And even bloom!"
~Hafiz
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
"One day the sun admitted,
I am just a shadow.
I wish I could show you
The Infinite Incandescence
That has cast my brilliant image!
I wish I could show you,
When you are lonely or in darkness,
The astonishing Light
Of your own Being"
-Hafiz
🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
"Run my dear,
from anything that
May not strengthen
Your budding wings.
Run like hell my dear,
From anyone likely
To put a sharp knife
Into the sacred, tender
Vision of your beautiful
Heart."
~Hafiz
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"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” ~Hafiz
"The heart is the thousand-stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love." ~Hafiz
"The words you speak become the house you live in." ~Hafiz
"This place where you are right now God circled on a map for you." ~Hafiz
"We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!" ~Hafiz
"What we speak becomes the house we live in." ~Hafiz
"Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends." ~Hafiz
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VERSES:
"And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
'You owe me.'
Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the whole sky."
~Hafiz
⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰
"I know the voice of depression
Still calls to you.
I know those habits that can ruin your life
Still send their invitations.
But you are with the Friend now
And look so much stronger.
You can stay that way
And even bloom!"
~Hafiz
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
"One day the sun admitted,
I am just a shadow.
I wish I could show you
The Infinite Incandescence
That has cast my brilliant image!
I wish I could show you,
When you are lonely or in darkness,
The astonishing Light
Of your own Being"
-Hafiz
🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
"Run my dear,
from anything that
May not strengthen
Your budding wings.
Run like hell my dear,
From anyone likely
To put a sharp knife
Into the sacred, tender
Vision of your beautiful
Heart."
~Hafiz
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Gemma Wiseman - Winter
"Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist."
~Gemma Wiseman
Sir Theodore Martin - elixir of life
"Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man." ~Sir Theodore Martin
Bob Newhart - be a child
"I think you should be a child for as long as you can. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun." ~Bob Newhart
Jim Fiebig - Age
"Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone." ~Jim Fiebig
Victor Papanek - design
"The only important thing about design is how it relates to people." ~Victor Papanek
Thomas Wolfe Quotes
“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.” ~Thomas Wolfe
"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity." ~Thomas Wolfe
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James A Belasco - measure to produce
"Evaluate what you want — because what gets measured, gets produced." ~James A
Belasco
9/25/11
Robert Dash - garden
NSW Government House Garden
January 2010
"My belief is that a garden when it is well done is your autobiography. It is the way you write upon the earth." ~Robert Dash from Nature Trail
Stephen Wright - mind
"When I’m not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded" ~Stephen Wright
Hubert de Givenchy Quotes
“It gives you a good feeling. Each year, you rediscover in a garden the magic of life. A flower arrives, and it is a miracle. The leaves fall in the autumn, and it looks fantastic. There is a tenderness about a garden, and you can't help but be sensitive to that.” ~Hubert de Givenchy
Thought for Today - Comparison with Others
"Comparing yourself with others will leave you vulnerable on three counts: you'll either feel inferior, superior or impressed. All three of these states are dangerous because they all disregard the underlying principle of our true connection with each other - mutual love and regard, based on independently generated self-esteem. To protect yourself from this vulnerability, make sure that your attention remains turned within, towards the spiritual experience of pure pride. Staying centred in your elevated self-respect will help you remain undisturbed by others around you. Keep asking yourself, "Who am I?" "How would my spiritual personality respond to this event or person?" this will help to centre you further, and allow you to enjoy the successful efforts of others." ~Thought for Today-UK
Helene Deutsch - truth
"After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth." ~Helene Deutsch
Heath Ledger Quote
"Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want." ~Heath Ledger
"Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married or own a house, as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks if you are happy." ~Heath Ledger
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Baba RAM DASS Quotes
"Acknowledge the feelings and allow them and see them as part of the human condition. They are like subtle thought forms. Emotions are really subtle thought forms. And they all arise in response to something. They are reactions that come. ...you can feel how reactive your emotions are to situations. ... So you cultivate a quietness in yourself that just watches these things coming and going and arising and passing away. And you learn not to act out your emotions, but just to appreciate and allow them. That’s part of the way in which you use them spiritually." ~Ram Dass
"Anything you do with attachment creates more desire, keeping you in the game and illusion longer. Once you see through that it all falls away." ~Ram Dass
"As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"Being love, rather than taking or giving love, is the only thing that provides stability." ~Ram Dass
"By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another." ~Ram Dass
"Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the cast calm ocean." ~Ram Dass
"Everything in your life, there is a vehicle for your transformation. Use it." ~Ram Dass
“Everything you’re doing in life is part of an extraordinarily beautiful divine dance. And in a way, it's only by embracing the ten-thousand horrible visions and the ten-thousand beautiful visions, that you go through the doorway of nature to go beyond nature while at the same time being fully in it.” ~Ram Dass
"Fear is the result of getting caught in the middle. Buddha says that it is the result of ignorance. And the ignorance is that when you start out as an infant with an undifferentiated awareness, and then you are taught who you are, that component, that structure which we call ego, is a very fragile structure. It seems tough, but it is actually a fragile structure. It is a structure that is created of mind, of learned neural patterns." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"Honor the light in all of us. The more I love God, the more I love the forms of God, which are all forms. In that loving awareness, you are not as vulnerable as you would be in the ego, where you think you are separate from others." ~Ram Dass
"How do we transform suffering into grace? How do we cultivate a process that allows grace to fill our lives? How do we turn anger into compassion – chaos into equanimity – separation into unity and oneness?" ~Ram Dass
"I am without form, without limit, beyond space, beyond time. I am in everything. Everything is me. I am the bliss of the universe." ~Ram Dass
"Fear is the result of getting caught in the middle. Buddha says that it is the result of ignorance. And the ignorance is that when you start out as an infant with an undifferentiated awareness, and then you are taught who you are, that component, that structure which we call ego, is a very fragile structure. It seems tough, but it is actually a fragile structure. It is a structure that is created of mind, of learned neural patterns." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"Honor the light in all of us. The more I love God, the more I love the forms of God, which are all forms. In that loving awareness, you are not as vulnerable as you would be in the ego, where you think you are separate from others." ~Ram Dass
"How do we transform suffering into grace? How do we cultivate a process that allows grace to fill our lives? How do we turn anger into compassion – chaos into equanimity – separation into unity and oneness?" ~Ram Dass
"I am without form, without limit, beyond space, beyond time. I am in everything. Everything is me. I am the bliss of the universe." ~Ram Dass
"I can do nothing for you but work on myself. You can do nothing for me but work on yourself." ~Ram Dass
"I experience quietness as an incredible condition. Within the quietness of mind you hear a kind of deeper process, a deeper wisdom." ~Ram Dass on Exploring the Power of Intuition
"I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.” ~Ram Dass
"If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for. We need to find ways to keep the vision alive, to acknowledge but not get caught in the dark side, to remember that even the worst aspects of suffering are only part of the whole picture." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"If you think you're free, there's no escape possible." ~Ram Dass
"If you want to awaken and get free, you can do it by dealing with the people around you without expecting that they will also want to get free. But if you’re lucky, you’ll get to be around people who also want to get free..." ~Ram Dass
"If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love." ~Ram Dass
"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine." ~Baba Ram Dass
"In the ascent and descent between planes of consciousness, there are two kinds of fears that people often face." ~Ram Dass, The Cost of Denying Suffering
"In the course of your journey it is likely that your day-to-day companions or friends may change. Some may fall away as your interest in the Spirit pulls you from the worldly interest which brought or kept you together, but new friends who share your current interests will appear. Of course, some of your existing relationships will move easily into this new domain and the relationship will become deeper and calmer… coming to exist in the eternal present." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"It is from the place in our heart cave where we watch the entire drama that is our lives. We watch the illusion with unbearable compassion." ~Ram Dass
"It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed." ~Ram Dass
"It's only forms that change, not essence." ~Ram Dass
"It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth." ~Ram Dass
"It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. You can't rip it away. The whole trip is an unfolding process." ~Ram Dass
"It is up to the most conscious person in the situation to break the chain of reactivity. We are all living in incredibly reactive webs. The art is to be in them, but not reactive to them." ~from Ram Dass
"Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together." ~Ram Dass
"Love is the emotional color of the soul. Unconditional love is the color of enlightenment, unfettered by personal barriers or distinctions, devoid of ego, yet reflecting the highest Self. It’s like sunlight unfiltered by clouds or the taste of water from the purest spring..." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"Meditation is a way of listening more deeply, so you hear from a deeper space, exactly how it is. Meditation will help you quiet your mind, enhance your ability to be insightful and understanding and give you a sense of inner peace." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"Meditation provides a deeper appreciation of the interrelatedness of all things and the part each person plays. The simple rules of this game are honesty with yourself about where you are in your life and learning to listen to hear how it is." ~Ram Dass
"Most of the time, we’re living in our minds, in our memories, plans, reflections, and judgments." ~Ram Dass
"Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession." ~Ram Dass
"One of the things that makes relationships so difficult is the way in which we protect ourselves from suffering — from our own and from each other’s. Because when you love someone you don’t want to lay your suffering on them and your fears. Also you are afraid if you open your heart too far their suffering will overwhelm you." ~Ram Dass
"One way to get free of attachment is to cultivate the witness consciousness, to become a neutral observer of your own life. The witness place inside you is simple awareness, the part of you that is aware of everything — just noticing, watching, not judging, just being present, being here now..." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying." ~Baba Ram Dass
"Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it." ~Ram Dass
"Real love is the one celebrating itself as the two." ~Ram Dass
"Saints are one in their work as divine channels. They link us up with the source from which all bliss flows: love. They bake the unbaked pots and make them fit to receive the divine bliss. They illuminate the path by removing all the darkness that holds us back. Their work does not end with the energizing or enlightening of some select few here and there. They also serve as the unflickering flame helping to light other candles." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"The devotional path isn’t necessarily a straight line to enlightenment. There’s a lot of back and forth, negotiations if you will, between the ego and the soul. You look around at all the aspects of suffering, and you watch your heart close in judgment." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody." ~Baba Ram Dass
"The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity." ~Ram Dass
"The next message you need is always right where you are." ~Ram Dass
"The older we get, the more we lose; this is the law of impermanence. We lose loved ones, cherished dreams, physical strength, work, and relationships. Often, it seems like loss upon loss. All these losses bring up enormous grief that we must be prepared to embrace completely, if we are to live with open hearts." ~Ram Dass
"The quieter you become, the more you can hear." ~Baba Ram Dass
"The root of the fear is the feeling of separateness that can exist here, within oneself. The root of the fear is within the model one has of oneself. That’s where fear starts. " - Ram Dass
"The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love." ~Ram Dass
"The way in which we deal with suffering has much to do with the way in which we are able to be of service to others. Of course, not all helping revolves around suffering. Much of what we offer may be in the nature of simple support or guidance: moving a friend’s new furniture, teaching a child to read. But it is the affliction of others that most directly awakens in us the desire to be of care and comfort..." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"The way to the truth is through acknowledging the fullness of where we find ourselves to be, which is through our humanity and our divinity." ~Ram Dass
"The witness is your awareness of your own thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Witnessing is like waking up in the morning and then looking in the mirror and noticing yourself — not judging or criticizing, just neutrally observing the quality of being awake." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"There are different strategies for coming into intimacy with The One that are appropriate for different people – different strokes for different folks." ~Ram Dass, The Horrible Beauty of Suffering
"... there are other kinds of emotions that are generated — emotions like anger, sadness, joy, that whole range of emotions. What one cultivates is spaciousness or an awareness that allows you to acknowledge the feelings, and it comes back to the word appreciating again." ~Ram Dass
"There is a tombstone in Ashby, Massachusetts that reads, “Remember friend, as you pass by, as you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so you must be. Prepare yourself to follow me.” ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"There’s horror and beauty in everything. I look at my hand, and it’s decaying. It’s beautiful and horrible at the same moment, and I just live with it. See the beauty and perfection of decay in the world around you and in yourself, and just allow it to be." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"I experience quietness as an incredible condition. Within the quietness of mind you hear a kind of deeper process, a deeper wisdom." ~Ram Dass on Exploring the Power of Intuition
"I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.” ~Ram Dass
"If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for. We need to find ways to keep the vision alive, to acknowledge but not get caught in the dark side, to remember that even the worst aspects of suffering are only part of the whole picture." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"If you think you’re enlightened, go spend a week with your family."
~Ram Dass
"If you think you're free, there's no escape possible." ~Ram Dass
"If you want to awaken and get free, you can do it by dealing with the people around you without expecting that they will also want to get free. But if you’re lucky, you’ll get to be around people who also want to get free..." ~Ram Dass
"If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love." ~Ram Dass
"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine." ~Baba Ram Dass
"In the ascent and descent between planes of consciousness, there are two kinds of fears that people often face." ~Ram Dass, The Cost of Denying Suffering
"In the course of your journey it is likely that your day-to-day companions or friends may change. Some may fall away as your interest in the Spirit pulls you from the worldly interest which brought or kept you together, but new friends who share your current interests will appear. Of course, some of your existing relationships will move easily into this new domain and the relationship will become deeper and calmer… coming to exist in the eternal present." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"It is from the place in our heart cave where we watch the entire drama that is our lives. We watch the illusion with unbearable compassion." ~Ram Dass
"It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed." ~Ram Dass
"It's only forms that change, not essence." ~Ram Dass
"It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth." ~Ram Dass
"It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. You can't rip it away. The whole trip is an unfolding process." ~Ram Dass
"It is up to the most conscious person in the situation to break the chain of reactivity. We are all living in incredibly reactive webs. The art is to be in them, but not reactive to them." ~from Ram Dass
"Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together." ~Ram Dass
"Love is the emotional color of the soul. Unconditional love is the color of enlightenment, unfettered by personal barriers or distinctions, devoid of ego, yet reflecting the highest Self. It’s like sunlight unfiltered by clouds or the taste of water from the purest spring..." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"Meditation is a way of listening more deeply, so you hear from a deeper space, exactly how it is. Meditation will help you quiet your mind, enhance your ability to be insightful and understanding and give you a sense of inner peace." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"Meditation provides a deeper appreciation of the interrelatedness of all things and the part each person plays. The simple rules of this game are honesty with yourself about where you are in your life and learning to listen to hear how it is." ~Ram Dass
"Most of the time, we’re living in our minds, in our memories, plans, reflections, and judgments." ~Ram Dass
"Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession." ~Ram Dass
"One of the things that makes relationships so difficult is the way in which we protect ourselves from suffering — from our own and from each other’s. Because when you love someone you don’t want to lay your suffering on them and your fears. Also you are afraid if you open your heart too far their suffering will overwhelm you." ~Ram Dass
"One way to get free of attachment is to cultivate the witness consciousness, to become a neutral observer of your own life. The witness place inside you is simple awareness, the part of you that is aware of everything — just noticing, watching, not judging, just being present, being here now..." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying." ~Baba Ram Dass
"Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it." ~Ram Dass
"Real love is the one celebrating itself as the two." ~Ram Dass
"Saints are one in their work as divine channels. They link us up with the source from which all bliss flows: love. They bake the unbaked pots and make them fit to receive the divine bliss. They illuminate the path by removing all the darkness that holds us back. Their work does not end with the energizing or enlightening of some select few here and there. They also serve as the unflickering flame helping to light other candles." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"The devotional path isn’t necessarily a straight line to enlightenment. There’s a lot of back and forth, negotiations if you will, between the ego and the soul. You look around at all the aspects of suffering, and you watch your heart close in judgment." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody." ~Baba Ram Dass
"The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity." ~Ram Dass
"The next message you need is always right where you are." ~Ram Dass
"The older we get, the more we lose; this is the law of impermanence. We lose loved ones, cherished dreams, physical strength, work, and relationships. Often, it seems like loss upon loss. All these losses bring up enormous grief that we must be prepared to embrace completely, if we are to live with open hearts." ~Ram Dass
"The quieter you become, the more you can hear." ~Baba Ram Dass
"The root of the fear is the feeling of separateness that can exist here, within oneself. The root of the fear is within the model one has of oneself. That’s where fear starts. " - Ram Dass
"The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love." ~Ram Dass
"The way in which we deal with suffering has much to do with the way in which we are able to be of service to others. Of course, not all helping revolves around suffering. Much of what we offer may be in the nature of simple support or guidance: moving a friend’s new furniture, teaching a child to read. But it is the affliction of others that most directly awakens in us the desire to be of care and comfort..." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"The way to the truth is through acknowledging the fullness of where we find ourselves to be, which is through our humanity and our divinity." ~Ram Dass
"The witness is your awareness of your own thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Witnessing is like waking up in the morning and then looking in the mirror and noticing yourself — not judging or criticizing, just neutrally observing the quality of being awake." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"There are different strategies for coming into intimacy with The One that are appropriate for different people – different strokes for different folks." ~Ram Dass, The Horrible Beauty of Suffering
"... there are other kinds of emotions that are generated — emotions like anger, sadness, joy, that whole range of emotions. What one cultivates is spaciousness or an awareness that allows you to acknowledge the feelings, and it comes back to the word appreciating again." ~Ram Dass
"There is a tombstone in Ashby, Massachusetts that reads, “Remember friend, as you pass by, as you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so you must be. Prepare yourself to follow me.” ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"There’s horror and beauty in everything. I look at my hand, and it’s decaying. It’s beautiful and horrible at the same moment, and I just live with it. See the beauty and perfection of decay in the world around you and in yourself, and just allow it to be." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
“Through an open heart one hears the universe.” ~Ram Dass
“Turn off your mind, float downstream. Embrace the ten-thousand horrible visions and the ten-thousand beautiful visions. Embrace life. Go through it. Embrace it all. Be one with it all.” ~Ram Dass
"We're all just walking each other home." ~Ram Dass
"We're fascinated by the words - but where we meet is in the silence behind them." ~Ram Dass
"We are sharing our various ways of viewing the universe, and the consciousness that we bring to it allows us to see all these different places, stages, methods, and practices that are represented in part by those of us who are here." ~Ram Dass
"What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution." ~Ram Dass
"When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us." ~Ram Dass
"When we see that service is not a one-way street, we find that those we are helping give us a continuous stream of clues to help us escape the prison of our self-image." ~Ram Dass, The Emergence of Compassion
"When you are no longer laying trips on anyone, not judging, or discriminating individual differences, you become the environment in which the optimum growth is available to all human beings you come into contact with." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"When you begin to awaken, you see how caught you have been in the prison of your mind about certain reality… and how caught everybody else seems to be." ~Ram Dass
"When you begin to realize the relationship of life and death, the old model of who you are starts to expand. As your old model dies something new happens. You begin to experience directly the living truth of dying and being reborn again in each moment." ~Ram Dass, The Edge of Awakening
"When you know how to listen, everybody is the guru." ~Ram Dass (1931-2019)
"When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next as naturally as breathing. Whatever arises, I embrace it with love in the moment. This is my practice of polishing the mirror to reflect love. In this moment there is just awareness and love. If someone asks me how to get into their heart, I give them this practice: I Am Loving Awareness." ~Ram Dass
"Without remaining open to change, we can not remain open to Life." ~Ram Dass
"Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act." ~Ram Dass
"You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into." ~Ram Dass
"You are creating a structure to be able to support the fullness of our humanity. And different people have different unique opportunities to play in that. ~Ram Dass, Trusting Your Intuition vs. Your Analytical Mind
"You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success–none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you and it will always be here." ~Baba Ram Dass
"Your ego has all these wants. Your soul has only one want. It wants to get to merge with the Lover. Merge with the One." ~Ram Dass
"Your problem is…you’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness." ~Ram Dass
"Your understanding of what the universe is all about changes as you proceed further along the path towards enlightenment. " ~Ram Dass
OTHERS
"In the clarity of a quiet mind, there is room for all that is actually happening and whatever else might also be possible. Though we may be mindful of myriad details, our attention never wavers from the specific situation or person in need. The intimacy of our attention becomes a heart-to-heart lifeline made firm and fast; no one need fall from the edge. The quiet appreciation of the total situation and its inherent possibilities steadily moves things toward resolution; we find ways to step back. In a spirit of compassion and reverence for life, these various skills flourish and combine appropriately." ~Ram Dass and Paul Gorman (How Can I Help?)
"We're all just walking each other home." ~Ram Dass
"We're fascinated by the words - but where we meet is in the silence behind them." ~Ram Dass
"We are sharing our various ways of viewing the universe, and the consciousness that we bring to it allows us to see all these different places, stages, methods, and practices that are represented in part by those of us who are here." ~Ram Dass
"What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution." ~Ram Dass
"When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us." ~Ram Dass
"When we see that service is not a one-way street, we find that those we are helping give us a continuous stream of clues to help us escape the prison of our self-image." ~Ram Dass, The Emergence of Compassion
"When you are no longer laying trips on anyone, not judging, or discriminating individual differences, you become the environment in which the optimum growth is available to all human beings you come into contact with." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"When you begin to awaken, you see how caught you have been in the prison of your mind about certain reality… and how caught everybody else seems to be." ~Ram Dass
"When you begin to realize the relationship of life and death, the old model of who you are starts to expand. As your old model dies something new happens. You begin to experience directly the living truth of dying and being reborn again in each moment." ~Ram Dass, The Edge of Awakening
"When you know how to listen, everybody is the guru." ~Ram Dass (1931-2019)
"When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next as naturally as breathing. Whatever arises, I embrace it with love in the moment. This is my practice of polishing the mirror to reflect love. In this moment there is just awareness and love. If someone asks me how to get into their heart, I give them this practice: I Am Loving Awareness." ~Ram Dass
"Without remaining open to change, we can not remain open to Life." ~Ram Dass
"Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act." ~Ram Dass
"You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into." ~Ram Dass
"You are creating a structure to be able to support the fullness of our humanity. And different people have different unique opportunities to play in that. ~Ram Dass, Trusting Your Intuition vs. Your Analytical Mind
"You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success–none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you and it will always be here." ~Baba Ram Dass
"Your ego has all these wants. Your soul has only one want. It wants to get to merge with the Lover. Merge with the One." ~Ram Dass
"Your problem is…you’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness." ~Ram Dass
"Your understanding of what the universe is all about changes as you proceed further along the path towards enlightenment. " ~Ram Dass
OTHERS
"In the clarity of a quiet mind, there is room for all that is actually happening and whatever else might also be possible. Though we may be mindful of myriad details, our attention never wavers from the specific situation or person in need. The intimacy of our attention becomes a heart-to-heart lifeline made firm and fast; no one need fall from the edge. The quiet appreciation of the total situation and its inherent possibilities steadily moves things toward resolution; we find ways to step back. In a spirit of compassion and reverence for life, these various skills flourish and combine appropriately." ~Ram Dass and Paul Gorman (How Can I Help?)
BIO
Richard Alpert
"Turn off your mind and flow downstream."
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David Frost Quotes
"Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee." - David Frost
Elliott Erwitt - Photography
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place." ~Elliott Erwitt
Blake Mycoskie - story
"If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters." ~Blake Mycoskie
Steve Prefontaine -Success
"Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started." ~Steve Prefontaine
Thought for Today - Relationships With Others
"A sensible person knows it is a waste of time and energy to get angry.
Effort will then have to be made to reconstruct that relationship. It is
much more useful to breathe deeply, pay attention to your attitude and
answer without rushing. In this way, improve and strengthen your
relationships with others. Create trust and your mistakes will be
forgiven." ~Thought for Today-UK
Lawrence Durrell Quotes
"The new creature we artists are hunting for will not "live" so much, as like time itself, "elapse." ~Lawrence Durrell
"The world we live in is fortunate in something too simple to be over-described as cosmic law - as easy to grasp as, say, an act of tenderness." ~Lawrence Durrell
"There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature." ~Lawrence Durrell
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"The world we live in is fortunate in something too simple to be over-described as cosmic law - as easy to grasp as, say, an act of tenderness." ~Lawrence Durrell
"There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature." ~Lawrence Durrell
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John Dryden Quotes
"All habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."
~John Dryden
“And heaven had wanted one immortal song.” ~John Dryden on Songs
"Beware the fury of a patient man." ~John Dryden
“But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.” ~John Dryden
"Dancing is the poetry of the foot." ~John Dryden
Present from Girlie
19 September 2011
19 September 2011
"He who would search for pearls must dive below". ~John Dryden
"Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts." ~John Dryden
"Pains of love be sweeter far than all others pleasures are." ~John Dryden
"The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one." ~John Dryden
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Positive Thoughts Quotes
"When you open your eyes in the morning, sit for a moment and appreciate the gift of a new day, create a peaceful thought and enjoy some moments of silence throughout the whole day." ~from Positive Thoughts
Karina Loureiro
"A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour." ~Positive Thoughts
"An authentic life is a life lived from your heart, speaking your truth, standing in your truth, living in your truth." ~Positive Thoughts
"As you make your way today, remember this feeling. This feeling that you have all you need to create what you desire already inside you. Knowing that you are on purpose. . . embracing each moment for its sweetness and beauty--even when it seems difficult. As you do this, you will attract what you most passionately desire." ~Positive Thoughts
"Allow yourself time to be lazy and unproductive. Rest isn't a luxury, it's a necessity." ~Positive Thoughts
"Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too." ~Positive Thoughts
"Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again." ~Positive Thoughts
"Choose friends who you are proud to know, people you admire, who love and respect you – people who make your day a little brighter simply by being in it." ~Positive Thoughts
"Either you own your situation or it will own you. Either you take responsibility for your life, or someone else will. Blame is a scapegoat – it’s an easy way out of taking accountability for your own outcome. It’s a lot easier to point the finger at someone or something else instead of looking within. Blame is not constructive; it does not help you or anyone else – nobody wins in the blame game. The amount of energy and stress it takes to place blame elsewhere takes away from your ability to move forward and find a real solution.
And remember, the road you are traveling may be the more challenging one, but don’t lose faith. Don’t listen to the doubters, don’t let setbacks keep you down, and most of all, don’t give up on yourself." ~Positive Thoughts
"Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind. What we sow is what we reap." ~Positive Thoughts
"The means create the ends - and the ends will be great if the means is LOVE." ~Positive Thoughts
"Unconditional love takes you beyond the illusions of space and time and helps you bring whomever you love into your presence . That doesn't mean the physical aspect of the person appears; rather, unconditional love flows between you and that person and connects your heart and soul with theirs." ~Positive Thoughts
How to Realize Unconditional Peace"God is silent but He watches you day and night. He listens to your prayers and He has something special for you. Just stay strong, focused, and hardworking and keep praying to God." ~Positive Thoughts
"The mind is always scheming. Looking for ways to make you happy; ways to make you feel good.
How you can avoid feeling the things you don't want to feel and how you can feel more
what you would like to feel.
There is nothing wrong with this, it is the nature of the mind.
But it is also how stress is created.
Because there is what is here in this moment and there is how you would like 'here' to be.
If you really look this manipulation is happening most of the time.
Even when you sit to meditate the mind is scheming.
The last thing the mind wants to do is to let go of its control and experience this moment.
But what happens if you let go of all the scheming and simply feel what is here.
Not just in meditation but in daily life.
If you find yourself in a situation where you are confronted with something you do not wish to feel.
Whether there is a feeling of loneliness, jealousy, fear, awkwardness, whatever feeling is there instead of letting the survival instinct kick in and control it, mask it, distract yourself from it, what if you simply allowed yourself to feel that feeling.
If you allowed yourself to be completely vulnerable to that feeling.
I am not talking about analyzing it or dramatizing it but simply to feel the sensation of that feeling.
To just allow it.
If you allow yourself to feel what you have been avoiding feeling suddenly you are immersed in this moment in a way you might never have been before.
You are so immersed in this moment, so open to what is here, that there is nothing to hold on to, nothing to know.
And although it may leave you feeling completely vulnerable to what is here, it also leaves you completely in peace.
If you are completely surrendered to your experience of this moment then you are at one with this moment.
You begin to recognize the underlying experience of deep fathomless peace that is here all the time.
And in this peace you can learn through practice to remain in it; to remain aligned with it.
All of the things that you used to avoid now become opportunities to move deeper into peace.
It is the practice of moving beyond the mind, beyond knowing into your natural state."
~Blessings~
"I wish you light in your darkest hours. When life seems to be confusing or empty, and when your path seems to be hidden in the shadows of pain, doubt, despair, or unrest, may you find the light inside of you that will help you to see things as they truly are, for every night comes to an end, every storm runs its course, and light and peace always return to us." ~Positive Thoughts
"If someone hurts you, betrays you or breaks your heart, forgive them, for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to whom you open your heart to. If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally; not only because they love you, but because they are teaching you to love, and they are opening your heart and eyes to things you would have never seen or felt without them." ~Positive Thoughts
"If you have an open, loving, positive attitude, anything burdensome in life can be lightened." ~Positive Thoughts
"It takes a lot of vigilance to be the guardian of your thoughts, words, and deeds; and you’re often at the mercy of years of conditioning that make you operate as if you’re on autopilot." ~Karina Loureiro
"Let people love you for who you are, and not for who they want you to be. Or let them walk away if they choose. They can’t harm you either way; it’s their understanding that is faulty, not yours." ~Positive Thoughts
"Limiting beliefs are like a cage locked tight with no opening in sight." ~Positive Thoughts
Taupo Lake, New Zealand
October 2009
October 2009
"Listen to the song inside you that wonderful resonance inside you that longs to be heard. And when you listen to its sweet call, you are present, you are loved, you are infinite, you are divine. Allow this magnificent feeling to wash over you to move through you as if you were on a beautiful sandy beach of your Dreams smelling the salt sea air, feeling the gentle trade winds move through your hair, feeling the soft sand at your feet, feeling grounded." ~Positive Thoughts
"Love someone who is honest. Honest with you, with others, and with themselves. You cannot love someone you do not trust. Find someone who willingly shares responsibility. You will be a team in every single sense. Find someone you cherish togetherness with. And someone who understands the importance of alone time. Someone who values your opinion. Someone with a willingness to learn. A person with an open mind. Find someone who makes it easy to feel grateful. For everything. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who loves to laugh. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Do not settle for second best. This sort of love is out there.
Believe it!" ~Positive Thoughts
"Love your man. Study him. Understand where he is in his emotional development and be a good role model for him. Men need the essence of the sacred feminine in their lives to evolve, whether they know it or not. But make sure you honor yourself in the process. Respecting yourself helps others respect you. It also teaches others to respect themselves." ~Positive Thoughts
"May the pain you have known and conflict you have experienced
Give you the strength to walk through life
Facing each new situation with courage and optimism." ~Positive Thoughts
"May you discover enough goodness in others to believe in a world of peace." ~Positive Thoughts
"May you see your future as one filled with promise and possibility. Learn to view everything as a worthwhile experience." ~Positive Thoughts
"Quit planning how you are going to use what you know, learn or possess. God's gifts just are; be grateful and their purpose will be clear." ~Positive Thoughts
"Remember a happy, peaceful time in your past. Rest there. Each moment has a richness that takes a lifetime to savor." ~Positive Thoughts
"Set your own pace. When someone is pushing you, it is okay to tell them they're pushing." ~Positive Thoughts
"Surround yourself with people who reflect the person you want to be." ~Positive Thoughts
"Take a moment to reflect. . . to embrace the real you, the True you that honors people and is creative, the True you that is sacred, as are your Dreams in life." ~Positive Thoughts
"Take nothing for granted: watch water flow, the corn grow, the leaves blow, your neighbors mow." ~Positive Thoughts
"The beauty you see around you, is your beauty." ~Positive Thoughts
"The means create the ends - and the ends will be great if the means is LOVE." ~Positive Thoughts
"To experience life is to experience truth. To see the truth makes a huge difference in your world; to become the truth is the real goal, because that is the real you." ~Positive Thoughts
"To seek happiness is not enough, we must have courage and strength to address our problems, face our pain, even when it feels like an unfair game. Then we can see clearly that much of life still remains magical and wondrous." ~Positive Thoughts
"Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Today is a blank canvas upon which you have the delightful opportunity to create. At this moment you are standing at the beginning of an impressive adventure, with the very real and present opportunity to shape the upcoming years into the happiest ones ever." ~Positive Thoughts
"True forgiveness is extremely cathartic - it will cleanse you and set you free. It is an incredible powerful process , one that will immediately shift you from a place of pain and anger to a higher vibrational frequency of love." ~Positive Thoughts
"True self-worth stems from within" ~Positive Thoughts
"When you think about using the power of your mind in daily life, remember that peace is the most important goal, because thoughts of peace open the heart to love, and then close the mind to fear." ~Positive Thoughts
"When you walk with someone, don't think about what you'll say next. Thoughts will spring up naturally if you let them." ~Positive Thoughts
Sunrise in Bohol
November 2011
November 2011
"With the beginning of each sunrise, think to yourself; 'Here's a brand-new day coming into my life. I can't wait to see how will get along! I wonder what's in store for us? What an adventure spending time with a day I've never met before!" ~PT
"Write a note of appreciation to your spouse or child and watch them light up inside." ~Positive Thoughts
"You can become a better reflection of life by changing the language you speak. You can change the way you deliver a message, the way you communicate with yourself and with other people." ~Positive Thoughts
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From Along the Path to Enlightenment
1. To become more conscious is the greatest gift anyone can give to the world; moreover, in a ripple effect, the gift comes back to its source.
2. Spiritual development is not an accomplishment but a way of life. It is an orientation that brings its own rewards, and what is important is the direction of one’s motives.
3. What can you actually do to be helpful to the world? Make a gift of your life and lift all mankind by being kind, considerate, forgiving, and compassionate at all times, in all places, and under all conditions, with everyone as well as yourself. That is the greatest gift anyone can give.
4. Out of all-inclusive, unconditional compassion comes the healing of all mankind.
5. In a universe where “like goes to like” and “birds of a feather fly together,” we attract to us that which we emanate.
6. Every act or decision we make that supports life supports all life, including our own. The ripples we create return to us.
7. One basic principle has the power to resolve the problems of the social marketplace: Support the solution instead of attacking the supposed causes.
8. In truth, we exist and survive, not because of the ego, but in spite of it.
9. To best serve the world, seek enlightenment and transcend illusions rather than contribute to them.
10. To transcend the world requires compassion and acceptance, the result of inner humility, by which the world is surrendered to God with increased peace of mind.
11. What the ego cannot lift with all its might is like a feather to the grace of God.
12. To win in life means to give up the obsession of “who’s at fault.” Graciousness is far more powerful than belligerence. It is better to succeed than to win.
13. By its nature, the pathway to God is not easy. It requires considerable courage, fortitude, willingness, and forbearance. It is strengthened by humility and a benign conscience.
14. An extremely valuable insight that is learned by all spiritually evolved persons in the course of their development is seeing one’s own personal consciousness as the decisive influence that determines all that occurs in one’s life.
15. Holding a goal in mind is inspirational and actually helpful to its accomplishment, because what is held in mind tends to actualize. However, it is a mistake to attack oneself with guilt for failing to achieve the ideal. Upon examination, it will be frequently discovered that it was not really the goal that was desired, but the satisfaction that was associated with it.
16. It’s pleasing to discover that it isn’t necessary to drive oneself forward; instead, one can simply allow oneself to move forward as blocks are removed. Thus, one becomes attracted by the future rather than propelled by the past.
Source: Positive Thoughts
Author: David R. Hawkins
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Quotes from Authors as Gleaned from Positive Thoughts:
"When we focus on abundance, our life feels abundant; when we focus on lack, our life feels lacking. It is purely a matter of focus." ~Susan Jeffers
Difficulties arise in the lives of us all. What is the most important is dealing with the hard times, coping with the changes, and getting through the other side where the sun is still shining, just for you.
It takes a strong person to deal with tough times and difficult choices. But you are a strong person.
It takes courage. But you possess the inner courage to see you through.
It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction you want tomorrow to go in.
Hang in there and take care to see that you don't lose sight of the one thing that is constant, beautiful, and true: everything will be fine- and it will turn out that way because of the special kind of person you are.
So beginning today and lasting a lifetime through- hang in there, and don't be afraid to feel like the morning sun is shinning just for you.
-Douglas Pagels
"It is not a difficult thing to change the pattern of your vibration, especially when you understand that you can do it a little bit at a time. Once you have an understanding of how vibrations work, how they affect your experience, and, most important, what your emotions are telling you about your vibrations, now you can make steady, fast progress toward the achievement of anything that you desire." ~The Vortex
"Keep in mind at all times that you are very capable of dealing with any complications that life has to offer. So do whatever you must feel whatever you must and keep in mind at all times that we all grow wise and become more sensitive and are able to enjoy life more after we go through hard times." ~Susan Polis Schutz
"Realize that what you feel you lack in one regard may be more than compensated for in another. What you feel you lack in the present may become one of your strengths in the future. See your future filled with promise and possibility.
Learn to view everything as a worthwhile experience." ~Sandra Hauss
"Start thinking of yourself as a magnificent, powerful, and courageous being. Then sit back and enjoy the gifts the universe showers on you. These new, fresh experiences will reflect your healthy, empowered vision of yourself." ~Lucinda Bassett
"Everything we think and feel is creating our future. If you're worried or in fear, then you're bringing more of that into your life throughout the day." ~Marci Shimoff
"What does it mean to live in truth? It means to live honestly at all levels. It’s not just about what you say; it’s about thoughts, actions, and the way you live. This involves authenticity—to live in alignment with who you know your true self to be. What you’ll receive is very empowering. You become free to live and explore the truth of who you really are as you move toward the future. You’re at liberty to change, develop, and go further in you own life within your own true spirit and mind." ~Denise Marek
"When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you." ~Positive Thoughts
"What will I give to the world today? What will I add to the experiences of the people with whom I have contact on this day? I can't say for sure just whom I'll deal with today, but I can decide right now whether I want my contribution to this day to be positive or negative, helpful or hurtful, constructive or destructive, uplifting or not.
Today, I want to contribute pleasantness whenever I meet someone, whether I know them or not. I don't have to wear a pasted-on smile in order to be pleasant, but I do have to avoid sarcasm or judgment. When people receive my pleasantness, it may be the first pleasantness of their day, so I'll try to be very pleasant.
I'd also like to contribute kindness to this new day. This means that I must use words that are kind and act in a kindly way, avoiding looks and actions and words that simply are not kind. Perhaps someone will appreciate this kindness and pass it on to someone else.
I'd also like to contribute encouragement. I'll have plenty of opportunities to do so. And if I am encouraging, it may just happen that someone else finds the strength and courage to continue something very important to them.
I'll try my best to contribute praise and avoid criticism. If the praise is sincere, I may just be able to make someone else feel better about him or herself.
I want to contribute peacefulness. If I can face all of my duties and problems with a quiet confidence, looking calmly for solutions rather than complaining about the way things are, I can act as a role model for peacefulness. In this way at least I won't be adding to the stressful input of those people who are around me.
It would be nice if I could also contribute some hope to this day, for someone, somewhere. It could be in the form of letting them know that I've been through what they have, and things worked out okay, or in the form of helping them to see the strengths they have that will help them to do what they need to do. Either way, the hope they get can be very valuable for them." ~Positive Thoughts
"Respect your body when it's asking for a break. Respect your mind when it's seeking rest. Honour yourself when you need a moment for yourself." ~Positive Thoughts
"There always is light for us to access." ~Positive Thoughts
"You see behind the masks and beneath the fears to the beauty within every heart." ~Positive Thoughts
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Words of Wisdom
It‘s not where we stand but in what direction we are moving.
Sometimes we find ourselves running in place, struggling to get ahead simply because we forget to address some of the simple truths that govern our potential to
make progress. So here’s a quick reminder:
The acquisition of knowledge doesn’t mean you’re growing. Growing happens when what you know changes how you live.
You can’t have good ideas unless you’re willing to generate a lot of bad ones.
Change is often resisted when it is needed the most.
Discipline is choosing what you want most over what you want right now.
People seldom do things to the best of their ability. They do things to the best of their willingness.
You can’t change other people; you can only offer guidance, and lead by example.
Right now, there’s a lot you don’t know. And if you never challenge your own beliefs, the list will never shrink.
If you’re talking to someone you don’t know well, you may be talking to someone who knows way more about the topic of conversation than you do.
The most common and harmful addiction in the world is the draw of comfort.
Growth begins at the end of your comfort zone.Stepping outside of your comfort zone will put things into perspective from an angle you can’t grasp now.
When you spend time worrying, you’re simply using your imagination to create things you don’t want. It’s usually only as good or bad as you think it is.
Most of what we see is only what we think about what we see.
Most of the bad things you worry about will never happen.
Most of the bad things that do happen will have never crossed your worried mind. Some circumstances are uncontrollable, but we can always decide how we react to those circumstances.
Those who complain the most, accomplish the least.
Whenever somebody discredits you, and tells you that you can’t do something, keep in mind that they are speaking from within the boundaries of their own limitations.
Every problem you have in your life right now is your responsibility, regardless of who initially caused it.
It’s not so much about finding opportunities as it is about creating them.
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Grace Mirabella - game
"The name of the game is taking care of yourself, because you're going to live long enough to wish you had." ~Grace Mirabella
Doug Bronson - three P's
"The three P's of success: Passion, Persistence, and Patience." ~Doug Bronson
Tim Duncan - good, better and best
"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best." ~Tim Duncan
Peter T Mcintyre - confidence
"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong." ~Peter T Mcintyre
St. Augustine of Hippo Quotes
"By faithfulness we are collected and bound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity." ~St. Augustine
"Doubt is the origin of wisdom." ~Augustine of Hippo
"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." ~Saint Augustine
"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are." ~St. Augustine of Hippo
"In order to discover the character of people we only have to observe what they love." ~St. Augustine
"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men angels." ~St. Augustine
"Love is the beauty of the soul." ~St. Augustine
"Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee:
Love, and do what thou wilt:
whether thou hold thy peace,
through love hold thy peace;
whether thou cry out,
through love cry out;
whether thou correct,
through love correct;
whether thou spare,
through love do thou spare:
let the root of love be within,
of this root can nothing spring
but what is good.
~Augustine of Hippo
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” ~St. Augustine
"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul." ~Saint Augustine
"The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself." ~Saint Augustine
"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." ~St. Augustine
"We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds — resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs." ~Saint Augustine
"When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly." ~Saint Augustine
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"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men angels." ~St. Augustine
"Love is the beauty of the soul." ~St. Augustine
"Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee:
Love, and do what thou wilt:
whether thou hold thy peace,
through love hold thy peace;
whether thou cry out,
through love cry out;
whether thou correct,
through love correct;
whether thou spare,
through love do thou spare:
let the root of love be within,
of this root can nothing spring
but what is good.
~Augustine of Hippo
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” ~St. Augustine
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"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering." ~St. Augustine, Early Christian Priest, Author
"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul." ~Saint Augustine
"The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself." ~Saint Augustine
"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." ~St. Augustine
"We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds — resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs." ~Saint Augustine
"When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly." ~Saint Augustine
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George Goethals - Faith
"Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice." ~George Goethals
David Assael Quotes
"Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore." ~David Assael
"Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others" ~David Assael.
"Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others" ~David Assael.
Thomas C. Haliburton Quotes
"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy - the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love." ~Thomas C Haliburton
"Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly" ~Thomas C. Haliburton
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BRUCE LEE Quotes
"A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at." ~Bruce Lee
"A wise man can always be found alone. A weak man can always be found in a crowd." ~Bruce Lee
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” ~Bruce Lee
"Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it." ~Bruce Lee
"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend." ~Bruce Lee
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” ~Bruce Lee
"Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it." ~Bruce Lee
"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend." ~Bruce Lee
"Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life. What you're not changing you're also choosing." ~Bruce Lee
"Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." ~Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000); here, Lee was reciting lines he wrote for his short lived role on the TV series Longstreet.
"Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one." ~Bruce Lee
"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless...like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash... Be water my friend." ~Bruce Lee
"I'm not in this world to live to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine." ~Bruce Lee
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks, but I do fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." ~Bruce Lee
"I think of myself as a human being, because under the sky we are but one family, it just so happens we look different." ~Bruce Lee
"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work ans into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." ~Bruce Lee
"If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today." ~Bruce Lee
"Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." ~Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000); here, Lee was reciting lines he wrote for his short lived role on the TV series Longstreet.
"Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one." ~Bruce Lee
"Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy and cast spells, that's why it's called spelling." ~Bruce Lee
"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless...like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash... Be water my friend." ~Bruce Lee
"I'm not in this world to live to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine." ~Bruce Lee
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks, but I do fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." ~Bruce Lee
"I think of myself as a human being, because under the sky we are but one family, it just so happens we look different." ~Bruce Lee
"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work ans into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." ~Bruce Lee
"If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today." ~Bruce Lee
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"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of." ~Bruce Lee
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done." ~Bruce Lee
"Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but Knowledge stays." ~Bruce Lee
"It's like a finger pointing to the moon... Don't concentrate on the finger, because you will miss all the heavenly glory..." ~Bruce Lee (Enter the Dragon)
"It's not the daily increase but the daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential." ~Bruce Lee
"Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a constant state of learning." ~Bruce Lee
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done." ~Bruce Lee
"Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but Knowledge stays." ~Bruce Lee
"It's like a finger pointing to the moon... Don't concentrate on the finger, because you will miss all the heavenly glory..." ~Bruce Lee (Enter the Dragon)
"It's not the daily increase but the daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential." ~Bruce Lee
"Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a constant state of learning." ~Bruce Lee
“Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.” ~Bruce Lee
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." ~Bruce Lee
"Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them." ~Bruce Lee
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind." ~Bruce Lee
"Running water never grows stale. So you just have to keep on flowing." ~Bruce Lee
"Simplicity is the last step of art." ~Bruce Lee
"Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope." ~Bruce Lee
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." ~Bruce Lee
"Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them." ~Bruce Lee
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind." ~Bruce Lee
"Running water never grows stale. So you just have to keep on flowing." ~Bruce Lee
"Simplicity is the last step of art." ~Bruce Lee
"Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope." ~Bruce Lee
"The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature takes its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment." ~Bruce Lee
"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be." ~Bruce Lee
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” ~Bruce Lee
"The way of the monkey is to play the fool. Laugh at their antics and they bite you from behind. Unmask their ego and you will discover a coward disguised as a monkey." ~Bruce Lee, The Silent Flute
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"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely,
await occasions, hurry never. In other words, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common."
~Bruce Lee, 20 October 1963 (Letter to his wife Linda via Shannon's FB (son)
"Two birds tied together make four wings that cannot fly." ~Bruce Lee
"When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow - you are not understanding yourself." ~Bruce Lee
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BIO
Lee Jun-fan, known professionally as Bruce Lee wasn’t your ordinary martial artist. An actor, director, and philosopher, he forever changed the way we see fighting on screen through his push for love and unity in whatever he did.
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"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be." ~Bruce Lee
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” ~Bruce Lee
"The way of the monkey is to play the fool. Laugh at their antics and they bite you from behind. Unmask their ego and you will discover a coward disguised as a monkey." ~Bruce Lee, The Silent Flute
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"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely,
await occasions, hurry never. In other words, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common."
~Bruce Lee, 20 October 1963 (Letter to his wife Linda via Shannon's FB (son)
"Two birds tied together make four wings that cannot fly." ~Bruce Lee
"When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow - you are not understanding yourself." ~Bruce Lee
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Lee Jun-fan, known professionally as Bruce Lee wasn’t your ordinary martial artist. An actor, director, and philosopher, he forever changed the way we see fighting on screen through his push for love and unity in whatever he did.
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Henry James Quotes
"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself." ~Henry James
“He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.” ~Henry James
"It seems probable that if we were never bewildered there would never be a story to tell about us; we should partake of the superior nature of the all-knowing immortals whose annals are dreadfully dull so long as flurried humans are not, for the positive relief of bored Olympians, mixed up with them." ~Henry James, from the preface to The Princess Casamassima from Everyman's Library
"It's time to start living the life you have imagined." ~Henry James
"Sorrow comes in great waves... but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain." ~Henry James
"Summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language" –Henry James
"The infirmity of art was the candour of affection, the grossness of pedigree the refinement of sympathy; the ugliest objects, in fact, as a general thing, were the bravest, the tenderest mementos, and, as such, figured in glass cases apart, worthy doubtless of the home, but not worthy of the temple — dedicated to the grimacing, not to the clear-faced, gods." ~Henry James, The Golden Bowl from Everyman's Library
"The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it—this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience." ~Henry James (1843-1916)
"The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.” ~Henry James
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." ~Henry James
"To live over other people's lives is nothing unless we live over their perceptions, live over their growth, the change, the varying intensity of the same - since it was by these things they themselves lived." ~Henry James
“We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.” ~Henry James, The Middle Years
"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women." ~from "Washington Square" (1881) by Henry James
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"It seems probable that if we were never bewildered there would never be a story to tell about us; we should partake of the superior nature of the all-knowing immortals whose annals are dreadfully dull so long as flurried humans are not, for the positive relief of bored Olympians, mixed up with them." ~Henry James, from the preface to The Princess Casamassima from Everyman's Library
"It's time to start living the life you have imagined." ~Henry James
"Sorrow comes in great waves... but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain." ~Henry James
"Summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language" –Henry James
"The infirmity of art was the candour of affection, the grossness of pedigree the refinement of sympathy; the ugliest objects, in fact, as a general thing, were the bravest, the tenderest mementos, and, as such, figured in glass cases apart, worthy doubtless of the home, but not worthy of the temple — dedicated to the grimacing, not to the clear-faced, gods." ~Henry James, The Golden Bowl from Everyman's Library
"The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it—this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience." ~Henry James (1843-1916)
"The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.” ~Henry James
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." ~Henry James
"To live over other people's lives is nothing unless we live over their perceptions, live over their growth, the change, the varying intensity of the same - since it was by these things they themselves lived." ~Henry James
“We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.” ~Henry James, The Middle Years
"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women." ~from "Washington Square" (1881) by Henry James
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Cheryl Richardson Quotes
"Human beings grow best with encouragement and love. Today, let every word you speak (to yourself and others) be filled with kindness " ~Cheryl Richardson
“If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war within yourself.” ~Cheryl Richardson
"If you want to improve your life immediately, clean out a closet." ~Cheryl Richardson
"Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences." ~Cheryl Richardson
"People start to heal the moment they feel heard." ~Cheryl Richardson
"The possibility for rich relationships exists all around you—you simply have to open your eyes, open your mouth and most importantly, open your heart." ~Cheryl Richardson
"Treat people with kindness, because behind every face is a story that could use a little more love." ~Cheryl Richardson
"When you’re brave enough to let go of anything you don’t absolutely love or need, what you have left is the space for stillness and possibility." ~Cheryl Richardson
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"If you want to improve your life immediately, clean out a closet." ~Cheryl Richardson
"Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences." ~Cheryl Richardson
"People start to heal the moment they feel heard." ~Cheryl Richardson
"The possibility for rich relationships exists all around you—you simply have to open your eyes, open your mouth and most importantly, open your heart." ~Cheryl Richardson
"Treat people with kindness, because behind every face is a story that could use a little more love." ~Cheryl Richardson
"When you’re brave enough to let go of anything you don’t absolutely love or need, what you have left is the space for stillness and possibility." ~Cheryl Richardson
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Djamellah Dancel Occena Quotes
"In life, you prove your worth through your actions, not your words." ~Djamellah Dancel Occena
"You can tell lies as much as you want, cover things as many as you can but you can never tell a lie and cover things in GOD's eyes" ~Djamellah Dancel Occena
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John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes
"No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear; But, grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here." ~John Greenleaf Whittier
"The windows of my soul I throw wide open to the sun.." ~John Greenleaf Whittier
"The windows of my soul I throw wide open to the sun.." ~John Greenleaf Whittier
Laurence Sterne Quotes
"A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything." ~Laurence Sterne
"An English man does not travel to see English men." ~Laurence Sterne
"I take a simple view of life. It is to keep your eyes open and get on with it." ~Laurence Sterne
"Injuries come only from the heart." ~Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
"So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy—and ... to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil." ~Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), British author, clergyman.
"There are a thousand unnoticed openings ... which let a penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain ... that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room, -or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him." ~Laurence Sterne
"To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners." ~Lawrence Sterne
"An English man does not travel to see English men." ~Laurence Sterne
"I take a simple view of life. It is to keep your eyes open and get on with it." ~Laurence Sterne
"Injuries come only from the heart." ~Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
"So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy—and ... to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil." ~Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), British author, clergyman.
"There are a thousand unnoticed openings ... which let a penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain ... that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room, -or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him." ~Laurence Sterne
"To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners." ~Lawrence Sterne
9/24/11
Rev Canon Karanja - a giver prospers
"One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly,
but comes to poverty. A generous man will prosper." ~Rev Canon Karanja
Thought for Today - A Real Diamond
"To spread the sparkle of your pure and elevated vibrations into the world is to be a real diamond." ~Thought for Today-UK
John Webster Quotes
"Glories like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But looked to near, have neither heat nor light." ~John Webster
“Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.” ~John Webster
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But looked to near, have neither heat nor light." ~John Webster
“Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.” ~John Webster
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DOROTHY PARKER Quotes
“Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.” ~Dorothy Parker
"Never throw mud; you can mise the target, but your hands will remain dirty." ~Dorothy Parker
"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment." ~Dorothy Parker
"They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm." ~Dorothy Parker
"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment." ~Dorothy Parker
"They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm." ~Dorothy Parker
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." ~Dorothy Parker
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