"Until he extends his circle of compassion
to include all living things,
man will not himself find peace."
-Albert Schweitzer
"Some people think only intellect counts:
knowing how to solve problems,
knowing how to get by,
knowing how to identify
an advantage and seize it.
But the functions of intellect
are insufficient without courage, love,
friendship, compassion and empathy."
-Dean Koontz
"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul:
where there is compassion even the most
poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."
-Eric Hoffer
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DREAM QUOTES
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."
-Charles William Dement
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
-Robert H. Goddard
"Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare."
-H. F. Hedge
"My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected."
-Anna M. Uhlich
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."
-Henry David Thoreau
"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die."
-Edward Kennedy
"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."
-Anais Nin
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INDIAN PROVERBS
According to Dakota tribal wisdom, when astride a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. -Native American Proverb
Always assume your guest is tired, cold, and hungry, and act accordingly. -Native American Proverb
Every time you wake up ask yourself
What good things am I going to do today?
Remember that when the sun goes down at
sunset it will take a part of your life with it.
-Native American Proverb
Give me knowledge,
so I may have kindness for all.
-Native American Proverb
I seek strength, not to be greater
than my brother, but to fight
my greatest enemy..........myself.
-Native American Proverb
Tell me, and I'll forget.
Show me, and I may not remember.
Involve me, and I'll understand.
-Native American Proverb
Walk tall as the trees,
live strong as the mountains,
be gentle as the spring winds,
keep the warmth of the summer sun
in your heart, and the great spirit
will always be with you.
-Native American Proverb
It is less of a problem
to be poor than to be dishonest.
-Anishinabe Proverb
What the people believe is true.
- Anishinabe Proverb
Even your silence holds a sort of prayer.
-Apache Proverb
The moon is not shamed by the barking of dogs.
-Apache Proverb
Before eating, always take
a little time to thank the food.
-Arapaho Proverb
When we show our respect
for other living things,
they respond with respect for us.
-Arapaho Proverb
If we wonder often,
the gift of knowledge will come.
-Arapaho Proverb
Every bird loves to hear himself sing.
-Arapaho Proverb
Take only what you need
and leave the land as you found it.
-Arapaho Proverb
Life is not separate from death.
It only looks that way.
-Blackfoot Proverb
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
-Cherokee Proverb
When you were born,
you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
-Cherokee Proverb
Judge not by the eye but by the heart.
-Cheyenne Proverb
Do not judge your neighbor
until you walk two moons in his moccasins.
-Cheyenne Proverb
Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows are deep.
-Cheyenne Proverb
If a man is as wise as a serpent,
he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.
-Cheyenne Proverb
It is good to tell one's heart.
-Chippewa Proverb
All who have died are equal.
-Comanche Proverb
Treachery darkens the chain of friendship,
but truth makes it brighter than ever.
-Conestoga Proverb
Never sit while your seniors stand.
-Cree Proverb
Knowledge that is not used is abused.
-Cree Proverb
Man's law changes
with his understanding of man.
Only the laws of the spirit
remain always the same.
-Crow Proverb
The only things that need the
protection of men are the things of men,
not the things of the spirit.
-Crow Proverb
You already possess everything
necessary to become great.
-Crow Proverb
We will be known forever
by the tracks we leave.
-Dakota Proverb
The supreme law of the land
is the Great Spirit's law, not man's law.
-Hopi Proverb
Truth does not happen, it just is.
-Hopi Proverb
The rain falls upon the just and the unjust.
-Hopi Proverb
No answer is also an answer.
-Hopi Proverb
Never be afraid to cry.
It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.
-Hopi Proverb
Wisdom comes only
when you stop looking for it
and start living the life
the Creator intended for you.
-Hopi Proverb
A people without faith
in themselves cannot survive.
-Hopi Proverb
Work hard, keep the ceremonies,
live peaceably, and unite your hearts.
-Hopi Proverb
A brave man dies once . . a coward many times.
-Iowa Proverb
The greatest strength is gentleness.
-Iroquois Proverb
Walk lightly in the spring;
Mother Earth is pregnant.
-Kiowa Proverb
Do not speak of evil
for it creates curiosity
in the hearts of the young.
-Lakota Proverb
When a man moves away from nature
his heart becomes hard.
-Lakota Proverb
Pray to understand what man has forgotten.
-Lumbee Proverb
Seek wisdom, not knowledge.
Knowledge is of the past,
wisdom is of the future.
-Lumbee Proverb
The soul would have no rainbow
if the eyes had no tears.
-Minquass Proverb
If you see no reason for giving thanks,
the fault lies in yourself.
-Minquass Proverb
A good chief gives, he does not take. -Mohawk Proverb
I have been to the end of the earth, I have been to the end of the waters, I have been to the end of the sky, I have been to the end of the mountains, I have found none that are not my friends. -Navajo Proverb
Thoughts are like arrows: once released, they strike their mark. Guard them well or one day you may be your own victim. -Navajo Proverb
Talk to your children while they are eating; what you say will stay even after you are gone. -Nez Perce Proverb
He who is present at a wrongdoing and does not lift a hand to prevent it, is as guilty as the wrongdoers. -Omaha Proverb
Respect the gift and the giver. -Omaha Proverb
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. -Omaha Proverb
What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for. -Pawnee Proverb
Misfortunes do not flourish on one path, they grow everywhere. -Pawnee Proverb
Trouble no man about his religion.. respect him in his views and demand that he respect yours. -Pawnee Proverb
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor, for it is not he that you wrong but yourself. -Pima Proverb
Show respect for all men, but grovel to none. -Shawnee Proverb
It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace.. and live in peace. -Shenandoah Proverb
When a favor is shown to a white man, he feels it in his head and the tongue speaks out; when a kindness is shown to an Indian, he feels it in his heart and the heart has no tongue. -Shoshone Proverb
With all things and in all things, we are relatives. -Sioux Proverb
The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives. -Sioux Proverb
Man has responsibility, not power. -Tuscarora Proverb
They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind. -Tuscarora Proverb
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Walk beside me; that we may be as one. -Ute Prover
Silence has so much meaning. -Yurok Proverb
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Inspirational Quotes
"People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it." -Anthony De Mello "Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." -Chief Seattle "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." -Elizabeth K�bler-Ross "Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows. Try what you can do for others rather than what you can make them do for you, and you will know what it is to have friends." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "My spirit will never be broken or caught for the soul is a free flying thing like an eagle that needs neither comfort nor thought to rise up on glorious wings...." -John Denver "If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who's now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all." -Author Unknown
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe,'
a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings
as something separated from the rest�
a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Albert Einstein
Indecision promotes blocks, confusion and stress.
Make a decision and allow life to find movement through you.
Trust yourself.
The 3 C's of life are Courage, Capacity and Commitment.
It takes Courage and a commitment to make many of life's decisions, and capacity to follow them through.
The 3 C's of a successful relationship are Caring, Consideration and Communication.
Communication opens the door between us,
consideration allows us to pass through it
and our ability to care for each other unites us.
The mind recoils from the unknown, so we seek to make everything known, and, thus sage.
Imagination is the key to the unknown- positive, uplifting imagination.
Imagine a room of pitch dark and a room of bright light connected by a door.
When you open the door what happens?
Light floods into the dark room, illuminating it.
Live accordingly thinking thoughts of light.
F.E.A.R- False Evidence Appearing Real
Love responds- fear reacts.
Love connects- fear separates.
Love uplifts- fear deflates.
Love creates- fear destroys.
There is no such thing as a mistake- only experience.
There is no such thing as failure- only people's condemnation.
There is no such thing as success- only people's approval.
Let life live through you.
Consciousness is not contained in your body-
you are the consciousness that contains the body.
Consciousness draws to itself form through which to express.
Your mind cannot exist in the moment.
You cannot think your way into the moment, you can only think your way out of it.
This indicates that your mind/intellect cannot set you free.
Only your consciousness is aware of NOW.
True freedom is a state of consciousness.
We each live in our own universe, a universe of our making.
It is designed to support our beliefs and our focus.
Our thoughts are our focus, so observe your thoughts, focus on your blessings, and trust.
This is how you become a participant.
Practice seeing all life around you as an aspect of yourself.
In this way you shatter the illusion of separation.
r mind does now know the difference between what you do want and what you don't want;
it only knows what you focus on.
Many people focus on what they don't have,
what they are incapable of doing and their sicknesses.
If you focus on what you do have, it increases.
If you focus on what you don't have, you will have even less.
If you focus on your capabilities, they grow, if you focus on your health, it improves.
Your mind does not know the difference between a powerfully imagined reality and a physical happening reality.
Why? Because there is no difference.
Live these principles and you will be practicing reality.
Practice reality until you overcome the illusion.
It is only an illusion that you are not free, now!
You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it but it will be yours for the entire period this time around. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant or stupid. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error...experimentation. The failed experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately works. A lesson is repeated until learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson, Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned. There is no better than here. When your there has become a here, you will simply attain another there that will, again, look better than here. Others are merely mirrors of you. You can not love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours. The answers are inside you. The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is Look, Listen and Trust. You will forget all this.
"A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure." -Bible "Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed." -Marcus T. Cicero "A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway." -Jerome Cummings "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything." -Warren G. Harding "There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity." -Samuel Johnson "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." -Ana�s Nin "Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes." -Unknown "You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that." -Charlotte, "Charlotte's Web" (by E. B. White)