Twenty years from now you will be
more disappointed by the things
you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." (Mark
Twain)
Time is the most valuable thing one can spend.
- Theophrastus
Self-Connection
Here is a quote from Tich Naht Hahn that you can recite while you breathe, which will keep one's mind from "catapultating itself into the future, planning, rehearsing, and often imagining difficulties that haven't yet happened. " Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling the the present moment I know this is the only moment.
"No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up." Lily Tomlin
*all quotes from Crazy Wisdom, by Wes, Scoop Nisker
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
-William R. Inge, clergyman, scholar, and author (1860-1954)
Self Responsibility
"I bid him look into the lives of men as though into
a mirror, and from others to take an example of himself.
Terrence
"A man's worst enemy can't wish upon him what he
can think up
himself."
Yiddish Proverb
"Man's greatest misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid
or brake, to mask or block a thought or all thoughts, when he wants
to." Paul Toussaint Valery
-both quotes from a great new book I'm reading "Crazy
Wisdom" about the unorthodox teachings of visionaries.
Happiness is
when what you think, what you say,
and what you do are in harmony.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi
You must be
the change you wish to see in the world.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)
"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet
broke a chain or freed a human soul."
- Mark Twain
-God Himself, sir, does not
propose to judge a man
until his life is over. Why should you and I?
-Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
"How
wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single
moment before starting to improve the world?"
-Anne Frank, Holocaust diarist (1929-1945)
"Be who you are
and say what you feel,
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind."
- Dr. Seuss
This is the true joy in life…being used
for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one…being a force of nature
instead of a feverish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that
the world will not devote itself to making you happy….I am of the opinion
that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my
privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I
die. For the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own
sake.
Life is no brief candle to me. It’s a
sort of splendid torch which I’ve got to hold up for the moment and I want
to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations.
George Bernard Shaw
“A transparent
person has nothing left to hide b/c of his self-acceptance. Because his soul
is loved, he wholly reveals himself. He is just what he is, freed from
paranoid concealment.
It is living
your life with the spiritual radiance of the holy fool== who has dared to live
life as it presents itself and to unfold his or her personality with its heavy
yet creative dose of imperfection.”
slightly rephrased quote:
from Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul
"The influence of one
beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is
contagious and may revolution a whole town." Eleanor H. Porter
"Man fixes some wonderful erection of his own between himself and the
wild chaos, and gradually goes bleached and stifled under his parsol.
Then comes a poet, enemy of convention, and makes a slit in the
umbrella: and lo! the glimpse of chaos is a vision, a window to the
sun." D.H.Lawrence
Art:
"If the world were clear, art would not exist" Albert Camus
If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive
him lest there be two bad men.
~~St. Augustine~~
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
-Dalai Lama
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
--Abraham Lincoln
"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as
your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business."
-Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
Without inner peace, it is impossible to have world peace.
—Dalai Lama
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul.
Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth.
—Albert Einstein
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
Instead of loving what you think is peace,
love other men and women and love God above all else.
Instead of hating all the people you think are warmongers,
hate the appetites and disorders in your own soul which are the causes of war.
—Thomas Merton
At some ideas you stand perplexed, especially at the sight of human sins,
uncertain whether to combat it by force or by human love. Always decide,
"I will combat it with human love." If you make up your mind about that once and for all,
you can conquer the whole world. Loving humility is a terrible force;
it is the strongest of all things and there is nothing like it.
—Dostoyevsky
giving
"You cannot do a kindness to soon, b/c you
never know when it may be too late."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." Marcel
Proust
The
Flower Prayer - A Call to Activism
by Susan Bright, 10/11/02
Hold a flower in your mind,
feel it emerge from thick reality, wet and cold.
Open your soul to growth you can't see or understand.
Peace will come from existing reality, or not at all.
Be as intelligent as a flower.
Stick your face out of the crowd, point it at the sun.
Unfold the knit of wrath around you,
flower in full blooming glory.
Be a flower of the world, face pointed at the sun,
a small gesture of hope. Be a different invention.
Like a flower, learn to use energy that comes
from sun and wind, from water and soil.
Plant seeds of peace, plant solar invention.
Be as exhaustive as the wind.
Be a flower.
The flower has a way of being that sticks out of mud.
I can be that resilient. And so can you. We are clues.
If you flower, other people remember they can too.
Judgment
"What we think of as people's guilt is their
fear. All negativity derives from fear. When
someone is angry, they are afraid. When someone
is rude, they are afraid. When someone is
manipulative, they are afraid. When someone is
cruel, they are afraid. There is no fear that
love does not dissolve.
There is no negativity that forgiveness does not transform.
Darkness is merely the absence of light, and
fear is merely the absence of love. We can't
get rid of darkness by hitting it with a
baseball bat, because there is nothing to hit.
If we want to be rid of darkness, we must
turn on a light. Similarly, if we want to be rid
of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it
with love."
Affirmation:
I am willing to be a light.
- by Marianne Williamson, A Return To Love
Recovering
one’s fractured sense of self: -
If you don't already believe it yourself, another person cannot convince you you're okay. If they act as though you are, you will either not believe them, or
become so dependent on their reinforcement that you proceed through
your dependency to change THEIR mind. The only real problem is that you have forgotten who you are."
by Marianne Williamson --A Return To Love
"I am as
God created me." Affirmation by by Marianne Williamson --A Return To Love
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing
more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antonine
de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)
"The errors of a wise man make your rule, rather than the
perfections of a fool."
William Blake
"We are here and it is now. Further than that all
human knowledge is moonshine."
HL Mencken
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing
is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
-- Albert Einstein
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
“time is
the substance I am made of. Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the
river; it is a tiger that rips me apart, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that
consumes me, but I am the fire.” Jorge
Luis Borges
Spirituality
"We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only
when we set out to discover the secret of God that our difficulties
disappear." -- Mark Twain
"It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it
begins to have meaning."
-- P. D. Ouspensky
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which
matter least.
-- Goethe
Immediate political gain is not necessarily the goal of
the New Activist.
Rather, we place our faith in the power of truth over time, recognizing that positions supporting a freer, more compassionate human experience are literally backed by cosmic impulse.
In
the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., "The moral arc of the universe is
long, but it bends toward justice."
In truth everything and everyone
Is a shadow of the Beloved,
And our seeking is His seeking
And our words are His words...
We search for Him here and there,
while looking right at Him.
Sitting by His side, we ask:
"O Beloved, where is the Beloved?"
-Rumi, poet and mystic (1207-1273)
---"If you don't like what you're doing, you can
always
pick up your needle and move to another groove."
Timothy Leary
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man
until his life is over. Why should you and I?
-Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
“everything
that occurs is not only usable and workable, but is actually a path within
itself. We can use everything that happens to us as the means for waking up”
Pema Chodrun as quoted by Elizabeth Lesser in The Seekers Guide, pg 126
“A transparent person has
nothing left to hide b/c of his self-acceptance. Because his soul is loved, he
wholly reveals himself. He is just what he is, freed from paranoid
concealment.
It is living your life with the
spiritual radiance of the holy fool== who has dared to live life as it
presents itself and to unfold his or her personality with its heavy yet
creative dose of imperfection.”
"The influence of one beautiful, helpful, hopeful
character is
contagious and may revolution a whole town." Eleanor H. Porter
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of
everything;
they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
Give all to love, obey thy heart." Ralph Waldo
Emerson
“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to
the
garden."
Joni Mitchell
"Life is much
too important to be taken seriously."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Neither
a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together
go
to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Other
quotes:
www.brainyquote.com
Gandhi Quotes
More Gandhi
quotes:
http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/Gandhi.quotes.html
Gandhi, when
asked what he considered
these traits to be the most spiritually perilous to humanity, said.
Wealth
without Work
Pleasure without Conscience
Science without Humanity
Knowledge without Character
Politics without Principle
Commerce without Morality
Worship without Sacrifice
"When I despair, I remember that all through
history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and
murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always
fall -- think of it , ALWAYS."
Truth alone
will endure, all the rest will be swept away
before the tide of time.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
-Mahatma Gandhi "God has no
religion."
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Gandhi was once asked what he thought about western
civilization. His response was: "I think it would be a good idea."
An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Love is the subtlest force in the world.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
"Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of
mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised
by the ingenuity of man."
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment
and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand
times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear
of punishment.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Hatred ever kills, love never dies; such is the vast difference
between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all
time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality
for it increases hatred.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
"He bows to all and despises none."
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition
of our strength.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed
should call forth approbation, and a wicked deed disapprobation,
the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves
respect or pity as the case may be.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
"Live simply so that others may simply live."
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
then you win.
- Mahatma Ghandi
The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character,
not clothing.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy
enough to understand is rarely practiced, and that is why the
poison of hatred spreads in the world.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Nonviolence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Nonviolence
is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Nonviolence
springs from love, cowardice from hate. Nonviolence always suffers,
cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect nonviolence is the
highest bravery. Nonviolent conduct is never demoralizing, cowardice
always is.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products
of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
My effort should never be to undermine another's faith
but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love
has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for
a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail.
Think of it: always.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people,
if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow
down my head to him.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more
fruit the more you nurture it.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
True nonviolence should mean a complete freedom from ill will
and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be
judged by the way its animals are treated."
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
"The source of war lies in each of us, as does the source of peace. As we rid our own hearts of the spark of violence, we are fostering peace in the world. Ultimately, we come to realize that there is no world outside us. All external reality is mere reflection of consciousness, and thus, in order to change the world, we must change
our minds.
... As we heal ourselves of our own judgments and
subtle thoughts of conflict, we automatically affect the minds of those who perpetrate greater violence in the world."
Marianne
Williamson from: http://www.renaissanceunity.org/
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