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Words Of Wisdom {Page Eight}
He who influences the thoughts of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity. ~Hypatia~
Unruly beings are as unlimited as space They cannot possibly all be overcome, But if I overcome thoughts of anger alone This will be equivalent to vanquishing all foes. ~Shantideva~
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ~Antisthenes~
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ~Buddha~
Connecting with energy is something humans have to be open to and talking about and expecting, otherwise the whole human race can go back to pretending that life is about power over others and exploiting the planet. If we go back to doing this, then we won't survive. ~James Redfield~
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. ~Gaston Bachelard~
Religion is not just some dry intellectual idea but rather your basic philosophy of life: you hear a teaching that makes sense to you, find through experience that it relates positively with your psychological makeup, get a real taste of it through practice, and adopt it as your spiritual path. That's the right way to enter the spiritual path. ~Lama Yeshe~
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. ~Walt Whitman~
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope. ~Thomas Carlyle~
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest. ~Confucius~
There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience. ~Lama Thubten Yeshe~
All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven in his own way. ~Epictetus~
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. ~Buddha~
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. ~Jose Ortega y Gasset~
You should make your observations yourself, You should not be the man of someone else, Not in the dependence on another should you live, Nor go about making a trade out of holiness. ~Udana Sutta~
I want to sing like the birds sing not worrying about who hears or what they think. ~Rumi~
You cannot step into the same river twice. ~Heraclitus~
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. ~William James~
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. ~Immanuel Kant~
Among the profuse precious things a man may acquire, None surpasses a nature free from envy toward all. ~Tirukkural~
Men are afraid to forget their minds, fearing to fall through the Void with nothing to stay their fall. They do not know that the Void is not really void, but the realm of the real Dharma. ~Huang Po~
The more compassionate you are, the more generous you can be. The more generous you are, the more loving-friendliness you cultivate to help the world. ~Thich Nhat Hanh~
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~
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. ~John Stuart Mill~
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. ~Friedrich Nietzsche~
When people speak badly of you, you should respond in this way: Keep a steady heart and don't reply with harsh words. Practice letting go of resentment and accepting that the other's hostility is the spur to your understanding. Be kind, adopt a generous standpoint, treat your enemy as a friend, and suffuse all your world with affectionate thoughts, far-reaching and widespread, limitless and free from hate. In this state you should try to remain. ~Dhammapada~
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell~
Those who know this truth, whose consciousness is unified, think always, "I am not the doer." While seeing or hearing, touching or smelling; eating, moving about, or sleeping; breathing or speaking, letting go or holding on, even opening or closing the eyes, they understand that these are only the movements of the senses among sense objects.
~Bhagavad Gita~
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ~Blaise Pascal~
And think not you can Direct the course of love, For love, If it finds you worthy, Directs your course. ~Gibran Kahlil Gibran ~
It is crucial for you to understand what meditation is. It is not some special posture, and it's not just a set of mental exercises. Meditation is the cultivation of mindfulness and the application of that mindfulness once cultivated. You do not have to sit to meditate. You can meditate while washing the dishes. You can meditate while washing the dishes. You can meditate in the shower, or roller skating, or typing letters. Meditation is awareness, and it must be applied to each and every activity of one's life. This isn't easy. ~Henepola Gunaratana~
Thinking Of what is beyond thinking Is still thinking. Whoever fulfills this fulfills his own nature And is indeed fulfilled. ~Ashtavakra Gita~
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. ~Marcus Fabius Quintilian~
Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well. ~Josh Billings~
For a person of unsoddened mind, unassaulted awareness, abandoning merit and evil, wakeful, there is no danger no fear. ~Dhammapada~
Sanity is madness put to good use. ~George Santayana~
It is not by the amount that giving is productive of reward but rather by the generous impulse behind it. Therefore even so little as a handful of rice flour given with a pure heart becomes something that will bring great reward.
~Vimana Vatthu~
Intention is the core of all conscious life. It is our intentions that create karma, our intentions that help others, our intentions that lead us away from the delusions of individuality toward the immutable verities of enlightened awareness. Conscious intention colors and moves everything.
~Master Hsing Yun~
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. ~John Andrew Holmes~
Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the life of the organism. It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about, and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritual energy that must be utilized in this process, for life and the sun are so intimately connected.
~Buddha~
If you have one true friend, you have more than your share. Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. ~Jacques Delille~
Without music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Nietzche~
Let me ever worship those compassionate guardians who unceasingly protect and point out the pathway leading to the Sacred Flame. ~Hermes~
Who we are today is the result of yesterday's choices, Who we will be
tomorrow is the result of today's decisions. ~Unknown~
Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not wisdom, Wisdom is not truth, Truth is not beauty, Beauty is not love, Love is not music, Music is the BEST... ~Frank Zappa"
If you can only rid yourselves of conceptual thought, you will have accomplished everything. ~Huang Po~
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein~
"You tell me to stand still, but I am not walking," he shouted, "whereas
you who are walking say you are still. How is it that you are standing still but I am not?"� The Buddha turned round. "My legs move but my mind is still," he said. "Your legs are still but your mind moves all the time in a fire of anger, hatred, and feverish desire. Therefore, I am still but you are not." ~Majjhima Nikaya~
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. ~Louis Armstrong~
The Master, is blessed. He understands the nature of the Self. His mind is no longer thirsty.� He is the same under all conditions, Whatever he sees or hears, Or smells or touches or tastes. ~Ashtavakra Gita~
Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit. ~Dhammapada~
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. ~Joan Baez~
Anything can happen to anyone at any time and you shouldn't just live through the days, or you lose them. You should do what you can to enjoy every moment. ~Sarah Brightman~
We should surrender our intention to selfishly seek merit and recognition for our merit, and instead simply plant merit and cultivate wisdom. ~Jae Woong Kim~
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original
dimensions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.~
Don't sacrifice your own welfare for that of another, no matter how great. Realizing your own true welfare, be intent on just that. ~Dhammapada~
Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.�
~Ray Charles~
Do not fear mistakes. There are none. ~Miles Davis~
There's no such thing as an original sin. ~Elvis Costello~
Disparaging words pain a man even when uttered in jest. Therefore, those who know human nature are courteous even to their enemies. ~Tirukkural~
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. ~Alexander Woollcott~
Spirit is living, and Life is Spirit, and Life and Spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two. ~Helena Petrovna Hahn Blavatsky~
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between
them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. ~Buddha~
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. ~Bob Dylan~
There is no fire like greed and no crime like hatred. There is no sorrow
like being bound to this world; there is no happiness like freedom. ~Dhammapada~
Truth is no theory, no speculative system of philosophy, no intellectual
insight. Truth is exact correspondence with reality. ~Paramhansa Yogananda~
Be true to yourself for you are the only one you really have to be true to. The rest is just part of someone elses universe. ~David Zeek~
I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. ~William Henley~
The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad. ~Thomas Dolby~
It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts. ~Ella Fitzgerald~
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb~
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. ~Buddha~
Enlightenment, for a wave in the ocean, is the moment the wave realises it is water. ~Thich Nhat Hanh~
There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone.
~Jerry Garcia~
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Buddha~
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking. ~Marvin Gaye~
Compassion is characterized as promoting the aspect of allaying suffering. Its function resides in not [enduring] others' suffering. It is manifested as non-cruelty. Its proximate cause is to see helplessness in those overwhelmed by suffering. It succeeds when it makes cruelty subside, and it fails when it produces sorrow. ~Buddhaghosa~
Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart.
~Dr. Hook~
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. ~George Bernard Shaw~
Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love. ~Nagarjuna~
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
~William James~
Some people feel patience is showing weakness or pessimism. But, actually, patience shows the strength and clarity of mind, which are based on wisdom and compassion. Without proper wisdom and compassion, one cannot practice patience."
~Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen Rinpoche~
Faith is like a lamp and wisdom makes the flame burn bright. Carry this lamp always and in good time the darkness will yield and you will abide in the Light. ~Dhammavadaka~
Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation � these are the great values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives. ~Jesse Herman Holmes~
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life. ~Henri
Frederic Amiel~
This world is really a long, long, dream.� The five senses delude you at every moment. Open your eyes. Learn to discriminate.� Understand His mysteries. Feel His presence everywhere, as well as His nearness. Believe me, He dwells in the chambers of your own heart. He is the silent witness of your mind. He is the holder of the string of your prana. He is the womb for this world and the Vedas. He is the prompter of thoughts. Search for Him inside your heart and obtain His grace. Then alone you have lived your life well. ~Swami Sivananda~
The infinite joy of touching Brahman is easily attained by those who are free from the burden of evil and established within themselves. They see the Self in every creature and all creation in the Self. With consciousness unified through meditation, they see everything with an equal eye. ~Bhagavad Gita~
Trust has nothing to do with moral courage. It occurs when we have nowhere else to turn, when we reach the end of our need to control. ~Rodney Smith~
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. ~Edgar Allan Poe~
If you want to know the past, to know what has caused you, look at yourself in the present, for that is the past's effect. If you want to know your future, then look at yourself in the present, for that is the cause of the future. ~Majjhima Nikaya~
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling~
Seek refuge in the attitude of detachment and you will amass the wealth of spiritual awareness. Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do.
~Bhagavad Gita~
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
Crush your sense of self-allure like an autumn lily in the hand. Nurture only the path to peace --Unbinding-- as taught by the One Well Gone. ~Dhammapada~
The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation. And meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life. ~Osho~
In becoming an enlightened being, this does not destroy the living being, or take it away, or lose it; nevertheless, it does mean having shed it. ~Dogen~
Our peace of mind increases in spite of suffering; we become braver and more enterprising; we understand more clearly the difference between what is everlasting and what is not; we learn how to distinguish between what is our duty and what is not. Our pride melts away and we become humble. Our worldly attachments diminish and, likewise, the evil within us diminishes from day to day. ~Mahatma Gandhi~
Today is the absolute day, the only day in the eternity of time. Everyday is fresh and new just as one's life is new everyday. ~Unknown~
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
~Isaac Asimov~
When your attention moves from searching, dreaming and chasing after life, into being here and now, you are fully present in the wholeness of your Being. ~Tyohar~
When you consider the choice between the inner bliss of meditation and the chaos of the outer world it seems hard to think there would ever be anything difficult in making the move toward the inner world of harmony. What makes the choice a choice at all is the dualistic belief system of the ego. The ego believes in and thrives on the constant jockeying for positions of the outer world. It thinks if it goes inside it will lose its place in line.
~Beth Johnson~
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