"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." Voltaire
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.” ~ August Wilson
A good leader will know how to encourage you to use your talents for the benefit of all.
"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness.
If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."
"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom." - James Allen
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow, don't walk behind me, I may not lead, walk beside me and be my friend." ~ Albert Camus
"An Angel doesn't have to be physical... to touch you. "If you seek an angel with an open heart, you shall always find one. A gathering of angels can enlighten the whole world "
"Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there." ~ Unknown
Love can unleash hurricanes of healing, release tidal waves of love, move whole mountains of hatred, melt icebergs of jealousy and evaporate oceans of pain.
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. ~~Ferdinand Foch
Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle. - C. Middlemas
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” Aristotle
"To deny sex is to deny life.To reject art is to impoverish yourself, rejecting pleasure and growth.To accept sex and art together is to add to oneself,to be positive instead of negative".
" You will find, as you look back upon your life,that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love "
Love is a mystery - and the reason why it is a mystery and should remain a mystery is that knowledge of it would give us mastery over it - would enable us to manipulate it -and love, truth, God, cannot be manipulated - hence the Prophet exclaimed: "My Lord increase my bewilderment in Thee."
Bitterness imprisons life;love releases it.
Bitterness paralyzes life;love empowers it.
Bitterness sours life;love sweetens it.
Bitterness sickens life;love heals it.
Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes." ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
“More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.” ~Harvey Milk
If we all do one random act of kindness daily we just might set the world in the right direction ~ Martin Knorfeld
What matters is not the length of the wand. But the magic in the stick!
Shared out equally there would be a couple of acres for every adult living in Britain. That would mean each family or group could have a reasonably-sized smallholding of 10 or 20 acres and learn once again to become self-sufficient." Sid Rawle
Alcohol diminishes consciousness... that's why so many people use it who are trying to deny theirs.
Whenever we need to make a very important decision, it is best to trust to impulse, to passion, because reason usually tries to remove us from our dream, saying that the time is not yet right. Reason is afraid of defeat, but intuition enjoys life and it's challenges' ~ Paulo Coelho
In the end there are three things that last: faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is love.
Your true nature is something never lost to you even in moments of delusion,nor is it gained at the moment of Enlightenment. It is the Nature of the Suchness.In it is neither delusion nor right understanding. It fills the Void everywhere and is intrinsically of the substance of the One Mind.- "The Zen Teachings of Huang Po,Teachings of the Buddha"
BELIEVE by Brian T.
I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing. I believe each person has far more intelligence than they have ever used. I believe each person is more creative than he or she has ever imagined. I believe the greatest achievements of your life lie ahead
Love Expects No Reward. Love Knows No Fear. Love Divine Gives, Does Not Demand. Love Thinks No Evil; Imputes No Motive. To Love Is To Share Your Life
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn! Happy Solstice and have a Midsummers Dream :-)))
"Passion is of crucial importance for those who engage in the most dangerous kind of politics: the politics of dissent. Such a passion has to be at the core of each and every person who makes the decision, declared or undeclared, to live in a world apart from the rest of their fellow citizens; a precarious world with its own unwritten rules and regulations, the world of dissidence." Max Weber
I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who’s ever lived: I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable.I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”
I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame that heals our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives. It is our connection to God and to each other. ~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for enlightenment prevents it. The 'perfect practice' is therefore not to search for enlightenment but to inquire into the motive for seeking itself. You obviously seek in order to avoid the present, and yet the present alone holds the answer: Your always already are enlightened Spirit, and therefore to seek Spirit is simply to deny Spirit." ~Ken Wilber
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything…And you’ll be at peace wherever you are.
~Bodhidharma
When Buddha spoke about suffering, he wasn't referring simply to superficial problems like illness and injury, but to the fact that the dissatisfied nature of the mind itself is suffering. No matter how much of something you get, it never satisfies your desire for better or more. This unceasing desire is suffering; its nature is emotional frustration. Lama Yeshe
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it. ~Whitney Griswold
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