Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun,
and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean,
we can't separate ourselves from one another.
We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.
"The young man knows the rules,
but the old man knows the exceptions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
All the faults of our mind � our selfishness, ignorance, anger, attachment, guilt, and other disturbing thoughts � are temporary, not permanent and everlasting. And since the cause of our suffering � our disturbing thoughts and obscurations � is temporary, our suffering is also temporary.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche, "Ultimate Healing"
Bhikkus, if beings knew, as I know, the result of giving and sharing, they would not eat without having given nor would they allow the stain of meanness to obsess them and take root in their minds. Even if it were their last morsel, their last mouthful, they would not enjoy eating without having shared it, if there were someone to share it with.
-Itivuttaka
I believe that he is the true warrior who
does not die killing but who has
mastered the mantra of living by dying.
-Mohandas Gandhi
"You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going 'cause you might not get there."
-Yogi Berra
"You are not here to fix anything, because nothing is broken, but everything is continually changing and expanding. Release your struggle, and seek joy and fun, and in doing so, you will align with the fantastic expanding rhythm of this Universe."
-Abraham-Hicks
"Feel that you have enough, and your sense of hunger will diminish."
-Barbara Ann Kipfer
I have learnt silence from the talkative,
toleration from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind; yet strange,
I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kahlil Gibran
"We don't have to question every occurrence to see how it fits into the Plan of life.
The Plan - the awareness, the insight, and the potential for personal growth - will reveal itself to us.
Perhaps the lesson is to learn to solve our problems without always knowing their significance.
Perhaps the lesson is to trust ourselves to live, and experience, life."
"To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted."
~George Kneller
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping
a present and not giving it."
--William Arthur Ward
"Each of us sends out positive or negative vibrations, often without being conscious that we are doing so. What if we made an effort to be consciously positive, to resonate messages of the highest good for others and ourselves? What if we made a deliberate attempt to keep our thoughts aligned with God's spiritual optimism, to refuse to be stuck in self-centered fear? Our
thoughts speak louder than our words. In order to change what we create, we
must change our thinking. We must mind our mind."
~Albert Clayton Gaulden
Indeed,
I am neither bound nor free.
An end to illusion!
It is all groundless.
For the whole of creation,
Though it rests in me,
Is without foundation.
-Ashtavakra Gita 2:18
From "The Heart of Awareness
"We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like."
-John Adams
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble.
Proverbs 4:18-19
The King James Version
"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
Mark Twain