Life's Wisdom
"Do not go gently into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Dylan Thomas
"There isn't enough darkness in all the world
to snuff out the light of one little candle.">p>
Anonymous
"Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die today."
James Dean>p<
"Many are so busy dreaming of yesterday that they
cannot see the coming of the new dawn, the break
of a new day, the promise of a new age and a new life
for all mankind."
Baha'ullah
"There is no right way to evolve or pursue
your soul's path. It is up to you to choose
whatever is best for you."
Sanaya Roman
"Your work is to discover your world and then
with all your heart give yourself to it."
Buddha.
"Do not fear mistakes -- there are none."
Miles Davis
"A hero is a man who does what he can."
Romain Rolland
"Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your
inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
Robbie Gass
"The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time,
but in their significance to ourselves, they find their
own order ... the continuous thread of revelation."
Eudora Welty
"Every situation with which we are confronted,
whether it be in our body or in our outer affairs
- every situation - contains somewhere within it
the seed of our good."
Richard Jafolla
"Challenges make you discover things about yourself that
you never really knew. They're what make the instrument
stretch - what makes you go beyond the norm."
Cicely Tyson
"The future enters into us, in order to transform
itself in us, long before it happens."
Rainer Maria Rilke (Austrian Writer, 1875-1926)
"We are all one. To the extent that we see ourselves
separate is only an optical illusion of the consciousness."
Albert Einstein
"The less secure a man is, the more
likely he is to have extreme prejudices."
Clint Eastwood
"My imperfections and failures are as much
a blessing from God as my successes and
my talents, and I lay them both at His feet."
Gandhi
"When we are really honest with ourselves
we must admit our lives are all that really
belong to us. So it is how we use our lives
that determines the kind of (persons) we are.
"Cesar Chavez
"To live a creative life, we must
lose our fear of being wrong."
Joseph Chilton Pearce
"The most beautiful thing we can experience
is the mysterious."
Albert Einstein
"Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen?
Chance favors only the prepared mind."
Louis Pasteur
"We are the painters of own self-portraits.
Who we become will be determined by our
attitudes, our actions and what we learn."
Mary Ellen Drummond
"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself,
you had bloody well better find some way that is going
to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting
around wondering about yourself."
Katharine Hepburn
"If life does not give you all that you desire,
then you are not in your divine truth."
The Oracle
"You need to claim the events in your life
to make yourself yours."
Anne-Wilson Schaef
"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself
and know that everything in this life has a purpose."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far
more accurate than you are willing to believe."
Claudia Black
"The most potent muse of all is our own inner child."
Stephen Nachmanovitch
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify
your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."
Henry David Thoreau
"Look foward to this day, for yesterday is only
a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision. But
today well lived makes every yesterday a dream
of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of
hope. Look well, therefore, to this day."
Author Unknown
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein
"The number of teachers and guides that a soul
has depends upon what it seeks to accomplish
and its level of awareness. Souls that take upon
themselves projects of more magnitude bring
to themselves more assistance."
Gary Zukav
"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery
you miss by going too fast -- you also miss the sense
of where you are going and why."
Eddie Cantor
"The art of living deliberately is the art of examining
this vast storehouse of beliefs, dropping the out-moded
ones, consciously choosing those that serve your goals,
and carefully crafting new ones in greatest alignment
with your desires."
Richard Bishop
"If you have something positive you do where you
become so focused that you lose yourself in the
doing of it, then this is where your heart is. Be
thankful for the gift. Work with the gift and it will
work for you ... reaping you many rewards."
Channeled by Sylvia
"What we perceive as reality in the so-called outer
world is literally a reflection of, and therefore
secondary in importance to, the inner workings of
our own consciousness."
David Gardener
"Dare to ask, be willing to listen, and prepare to act.
For the vision of our future emerges as the world
of spirit awakens."
Dr. Russell DesMarais
"Trust that still, small voice that says,
'This might work and I'll try it.'"
Diane Mariechild
"Illusion holds power over you when you are not able to
remember that you are a powerful spirit that has taken
on the physical experience for the purpose of learning.
It has power over you when you are compelled by wants
and impulses and values of your personality. It holds
power over you when you fear and hate and sorrow
and fester in anger or strike out in rage. It has NO
power over you when you LOVE, when compassion opens your
heart to others, when your creativity flows unimpeded
joyously into the present moment. In other words, the
illusion had no power over a personality that is fully
aligned with the soul."
Gary Zukav
"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards:
they try to have more things, more money, in order to
do more of what they want so that they will be happier.
The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first
be who you really are, then, do what you need to do,
in order to have what you want."
Margaret Young
"Worry is like a rocking chair.
You can rock all day and get no where."
Author Unknown
"If you believe the noises of the world,
rather than the silences of your soul,
you will be lost."
Neale Donald Walsch
"Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness
to God's unlimited good for him. You should be
prosperous, well supplied and have abundance
of good because it is your divine heritage. Your
creator wants you that way."
Catherine Ponder
Those that think that wealth is the proper thing
for them cannot give up their revenues;
those that seek distinction cannot give up
the thought of fame;
those that cleave to power cannot give the
handle of it to others.
While they hold their grasp of those things,
they are afraid of losing them.
When they let them go, they are grieved and they
will not look at a single example, from which
they might perceive the folly of their restless
pursuits -- such men are under the doom of heaven.
Chuang Tzu
"Money will come when you are doing the right thing."
Mike Phillips
"Exempt no one from your love, or you will be hiding
a dark place in your mind where the divine is not
welcome. And thus you will exempt yourself from its
healing power, for by not offering total love, you
will not be healed completely."
A Course in Miracles
"People are so skillful in their ignorance!"
Yogananda
"Through difficult daily lessons you will sometimes see
clearly that bad habits nourish the tree of unending
material desires, while good habits nourish the tree
of spiritual aspirations."
Unknown
"For every habit we have, for every experience
we go through over and over, for every pattern
we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it."
Louise L. Hay
"If you are tired or pained in any part of the body
and you have not over-exercised it, then you will
know that some part of your thinking may not be
balanced."
Alice Steadman
"To judge another is to believe that we understand
the position of another soul. Who can really know
the consciousness of another soul?"
Eliott James
"It's not that we fear the place of darkness
but that we don't think we are worth the
effort to find the place of light."
Hugh Prather
We are at war between consciousness and nature,
between the desire for permanence and the fact
of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity
"What you can't psychologically handle won't let you be
... deal with it."
Unknown
"When left unhealed, the past will destroy our lives.
It buries our unique gifts, our creativity,
and our talents."
Debbie
He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet
remains patient, becomes a receptacle for
all of Nature's lessons.
Lao Tzu
"Trust allows you to give. Giving is abundant.
Trust allows the experience of bliss. Bliss is
awakefulness. Trust allows you to laugh. Laugh
at the richness, the beauty and the playfulness
of the universe. Apply consciousness to this
process and all roads will lead to home."
Gary Zukav
"Faith is a gift of spirit that allows the soul to
remain attached to its own unfolding. When faith is
soulful, it is always planted in the soil of wonder
and questioning."
Thomas Moore
"With courage you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is
the foundation of intergrity."
Keshavan Nair
"What is important is that one is capable of love.
It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted
of eternity."
Helen Hayes
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets
of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new Heaven to the human spirit."
Helen Keller
"Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching."
Author Unknown
"All that we desire, all that we can ever envision
or hope to attain is already provided for us; it is
already available and will ever be awaiting our
acceptance ....
Mary L. Kupferle
"There came a time when the risk to remain
tight in a bud was more painful than the risk
it took to blossom."
Anais Nin
"When we feel happy and peaceful, our happiness
and peace radiates around us, and others can enjoy
it as well. This is called 'the enjoyment of others
of our body of bliss'."
Buddha
"You do not choose the life you will experience
ahead of time. You may select the persons, places
and events - the conditions and circumstances, the
challenges, the opportunities and options - with which
to create experiences. What you create with these is
your business."
Neale Donald Walsch
"Be aware of images you create about
yourself when you speak to others,"
Sanaya Roman
"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when
our wings have trouble remembering how to fly."
Unknown
"Support your friends - even in their mistakes.
But be clear, however, that it is the friend and
not the mistake you are supporting."
Hugh Prather
"The perception of truth must be a growth from
within. It cannot be a graft."
Paramahansaji
"Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless
they have fresh meaning for every new social situation."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance,
you feel a loss of energy, loss of power,
a sense of spiritual deadness."
Shakti Gawain
"Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives
us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that
life will someday force us to make."
Yogananda
"Man is made or unmade by himself;
in the armory of thought he forges the
weapons by which he destroys himself.
He also fashions the tools with which
he builds for himself heavenly mansions
of joy and strength and peace."
James Allen
"There is a spirit and a need and a man at the
beginning of every great human advance. Every
one of these must be right for that particular
moment of history, or nothing happens."
Coretta Scott King
"How many times do we miss our blessings because
they are not packaged as we expected?"
Author Unknown
"If any area of your life is not working,
one of your beliefs in that area needs
to be changed."
Sanaya Roman
"Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that
occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating
upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind
to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it
becomes a dependable part of you."
Yogananda
"When you challenge an addiction, and choose to
become whole, you gain power and it loses power."
Gary Zukav
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact
of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction,
both are transformed."
C.G. Jung
"When another person makes you suffer, it is because
he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is
spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs
help. That's the message he is sending."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases by love -- this is the eternal law."
Pali Canon
"Many people excuse their own faults but judge other
persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly
examining our own."
Paramahansa Yogananda
"The best gifts parents can give their
children are roots and wings."
Chinese Proverb
"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"In the midst of anger, jealousy, self-pity,
a negative thought, or emotion, say: 'I love myself
in this moment, just as I am'."
Bartholomew
"If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess
exactly what we desire."
Simone Weil
"A kind man who makes good use of wealth
is rightly said to possess a great treasure;
but the miser who hoards up his riches
will have no profit."
Buddha
"Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds
the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this
light is nearest of all to us."
Meister Eckhart
"When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate."
< C. G. Jung
"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of your
life are made. Destiny is made known silently."
Agnes De Mille
"Eliminate something superfluous from your
life. Break a habit. Do something that makes
you feel insecure."
Piero Ferrucci
"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when
they are brought to our attention by external
opportunities."
William Bridges
"Take your life in your own hands
and what happens? A terrible thing:
No one to blame."
Erica Jong
"He who knows others is wise;
he who knows himself is enlightened."
Lao-tzu
"It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it."
Somerset Maugham
"The life which is not examined
is not worth living."
Plato
"Don't let the prophecies, ancient or modern,
trap you in a box of fear and futility. Change
the dance by becoming the light that you are,
the light that continues through and beyond the
box into the adventure of forever."
Ruth Ryden
"Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs
and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,
and personal weakness are caused by his illusions
about, and separation from, the natural world."
Benjamin Hoff
"Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of
the greatest sources of happiness in life."
Linus Pauling
"To have joy one must share it.
Happiness was born a twin."
Lord Byron
"Spirituality is seeded, germinates,
spouts and blossoms in the mundane.
It is to be found and nurtured in the
smallest of daily activities."
Thomas Moore
"Look and you will find it -- what is unsought
will go undetected."
Sophocles
"The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness,
investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease,
concentration, and letting go."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Life, death and rebirth bring each of us together
often. Two people can bond for lifetimes, but remember,
they are Souls. Two Souls are mirrors for each other.
They develop awareness one day beyond being just man
and woman, and when they realize this, they truly do
bond in mutual under-standing. But part of this
understanding is that Soul is alone on the journey
to God. When they part, it is in recognition
of this fact."
Eliott James
"Most people are bothered by those Scripture
passages which they cannot understand. But for
me, the passages in Scripture which trouble me
the most are those which I do understand."
Mark Twain
