QUOTES LIST

 

2/21/05

 

1.

Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations. 2 He will not cry or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; 3 a bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice. 4 He will not grow faint or be crushed until he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his teaching. 5 Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it: 6 I am the LORD, I have called you in righteousness, I have taken you by the hand and kept you; I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations, 7 to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness. 8 I am the LORD, that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to idols. 9 See, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth, I tell you of them.

-- Isaiah 42:1-9

 

2.

Excessive thinking

Weakens the will.

The more you know,

The more your mind

Is confused.

A confused mind gives

Rise to vexation.

The weakened will obstructs the Tao.

- Shih Wang Ming (6th century)

 

3.

You do not need to do anything; you do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You do not even need to listen; just wait. You do not even need to wait; just become still, quiet and solitary and the world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

-- Franz Kafka

 

4.

To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

-- ee cummings

 

 

 

5.

"The spirit of liberty is the spirit of not being too sure you are right.

-- Learned Hand

 

6.

We are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside. But one day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. 

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

7.

The Arc Of The Moral Universe Is Long, But It Bends Toward Justice …. Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

-- Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964

 

8.

When I give food to the poor,

they call me a saint.

When I ask why the poor have no food,

they call me a communist.

--Brazilian Bishop Dom Helder Camara (1909 - 1999) / http://www.workplacespirituality.info/article1026.html

 

9.

Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature.

Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live.

Select a vocation that helps realize your ideal of compassion.

- Thich Nhat Hanh  / http://www.workplacespirituality.info/article1026.html

 

10.

We are obligated by faith to stand in judgment of capitalism and all economic orders, insisting always that they produce a society as nearly in accord with the biblical vision as possible. / There is no Christian economics.  But there is a Christian critique of all economics.

--from "Economics for Prophets" by Walter Owensby / http://www.workplacespirituality.info/article1026.html

 

11.

THE PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS

Lord, make me a channel of thy peace,

that where there is hatred, I may bring love;

that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;

that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;

that where there is error, I may bring truth;

that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;

that where there is despair, I may bring hope;

that where there are shadows, I may bring light;

that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.

Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted;

to understand, than to be understood;

to love, than to be loved.

For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.

http://www.aahistory.com/francis.html < meditate on St. Francis prayer with music

 

12.

SUCCESS

To laugh often and much

To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children

To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of

false friends

To appreciate beauty

To find the best in others

To leave the world a bit better,  whether by a healthy child,  a

garden patch or a redeemed social condition

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived

This is to have succeeded

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

13.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

-- Oscar Wilde

 

14.

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a

brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes

thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from

daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for

those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly

dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies

we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I

remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors

of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order

to give in the same measure as I have received and am still

receiving...

 

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves --

this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that

have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage

to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the

occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in

the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed

empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions,

outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

 

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has

always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct

contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly

a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my

friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the

face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a

need for solitude...

 

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an

individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself

have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from

my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The

cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to

understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers

attained through ceaseless struggle. I am quite aware that for any

organization to reach its goals, one man must do the thinking and

directing and generally bear the responsibility. But the led must

not be coerced, they must be able to choose their leader. In my

opinion, an autocratic system of coercion soon degenerates; force

attracts men of low morality... The really valuable thing in the

pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the

creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the

noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in

thought and dull in feeling.

 

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is

the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and

true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no

longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was

the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that

engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we

cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the

most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are

accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that

constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I

am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of

life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous

structure of existence -- as well as the humble attempt to

understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself

in nature.

– Albert Einstein

 

15.

Christianity has all too often meant withdrawal and the unwillingness to share the common suffering of humankind. But the world has rightly risen in protest against such piety... The care of another - even material, bodily care - is spiritual in essence. Bread for myself is a material question; bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

-- Jacques Maritain / http://dailydig.bruderhof.org/us/TodaysDig.htm

 

16.

What If

 

What if we grasped the moment that is now

(don't ask me when; don't ask me how)

and every person on the street

became the most important one to meet?

 

What if the Hindu fishermen

(the ones their Muslim neighbors sheltered in a mosque)

called on all Indians of whatever faith

to end sectarian strife?

 

What if the Tamil Tigers

(who lost so many children in the waves)

decided not to send any more

child soldiers to fight their Sri Lankan war?

 

What if in the USA

(tell me, why can't it happen today?)

the Christians put their weapons away

and disarmed their enemies with love?

 

What if the Laskar mujahedeen

(who killed Christians on the Malukus)

called on their brothers and sisters worldwide

to embrace nonviolence and peace?

 

Why can't it happen now

(while hands are helping and hearts are hurting)

that we remove all obstacles

to make this and much, much more possible?

 

Or will our hands and hearts and minds

(united now in a common humanity)

trade shovels, grief, and generosity

for guns and greed and animosity?

 

What if we grasped the moment that is now

(now we know when; now we know how)

and not put off what we can do today

for tomorrow, when all could be washed away?

-- Bill Wiser / found in January 11 DailyDig:

 

17.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our life. It does its work of shaping us.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

-- Ram Dass

 

18.

It is very difficult to see ourselves as others see us. We have to put a mirror in front of ourselves, not to see our physical shape, but to see our mental and emotional make-up. This mirror is called mindfulness. Sometimes the way other people react can create a mirror, but not a totally truthful one, because their own ego is involved. The main work has to be done by questioning oneself.

From 'Being Nobody, Going Nowhere' by Ayya Khema

 

19.

May I become at all times, both now and forever

A protector for those without protection

A guide for those have lost their way

A ship for those with oceans to cross

A bridge for those with rivers to cross

A sanctuary for those in danger

A lamp for those without light

A place of refuge for those who lack shelter

And a servant to all in need.

-- His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama November 6, 2000

 

20.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we subconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

-- Marianne Williamson in A RETURN TO LOVE

 

 

21.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

– Wayne Dyer / http://www.drwaynedyer.com/home/quotes.cfm

 

22.

Always be capable of feeling deep inside any injustice committed against anyone anywhere in the world.”

– Che Guevara / http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/newsh/items/moviereview/item_9212.html

 

23.

If you could get rid

of yourself just once,

The secret of secrets

Would open to you.

The face of the unknown,

Hidden beyond the universe

Would appear on the

Mirror of your perception.

~Rumi / http://www.allspirit.co.uk/sufism.html

 

24.

The Way is beyond language, for in it there is no yesterday, no tomorrow, no

today.

--Hsin Hsin Ming / http://www.allspirit.co.uk/hsinhsinming.html

 

25.

Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh / http://www.allspirit.co.uk/meditation.html

 

26.

If I had no sense of humor, I’d have long ago committed suicide.

-- Gandhi / http://www.apics-mdmi.org/GeneAnderson.htm

 

27.

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

-- Albert Einstein / http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html

 

28.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

-- Albert Einstein / http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html

 

 

 

29.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

-- Albert Einstein / http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html

 

30.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

-- Albert Einstein / http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html

 

31.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin / http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/pierre_teilhard_de_chardi.html

 

32.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/pierre_teilhard_de_chardi.html

 

33.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/pierre_teilhard_de_chardi.html

 

34.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/pierre_teilhard_de_chardi.html

 

35.

All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/pierre_teilhard_de_chardi.html

 

36.

Everything that is happening is supposed to be happening.

-- Wayne Dyer / http://www.drwaynedyer.com/home/quotes.cfm

 

 

37.

Believe it and you'll see it. Know it and you'll be it!

-- Wayne Dyer / http://www.drwaynedyer.com/home/quotes.cfm

 

 

38.

The people who get the most respect in this world are those who are the straightest, even though they often take the most abuse.

-- Wayne Dyer / http://www.drwaynedyer.com/home/quotes.cfm

 

39.

Through forgiveness the thinking of the world is reversed. The forgiven world becomes the gate of Heaven, because by its mercy we can at last forgive ourselves. Holding no one prisoner to guilt, we become free. Acknowledging Christ in all our brothers, we recognize His Presence in ourselves. Forgetting all our misperceptions, and with nothing from the past to hold us back, we can remember God.

-- A Course in Miracles / http://www.mediamessage.com/OURCHIVE/forgivenessquotes.htm

 

40.

You know you have forgiven someone when he or she has harmless passage through your mind.

-- Rev. Karyl Huntley / http://www.mediamessage.com/OURCHIVE/forgivenessquotes.htm

 

41.

Everything in the world has a hidden meaning. . . . Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics. When you see them you do not understand them. You think they are really men, animals, trees, stars. It is only years later that you understand.

-- Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957) / http://www.zaadz.com/quotes/authors/nikos_kazantzakis

 

42.

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

-- Franz Kafka / http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes.php3?author=Franz+Kafka

 

43.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

-- Aldous Huxley / http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/aldous_huxley.html

 

44.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

-- Aldous Huxley   / http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/aldous_huxley.html

 

45.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

-- Aldous Huxley   / http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/aldous_huxley.html

 

46.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

-- Aldous Huxley   / http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/aldous_huxley.html

 

47.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

-- Carl Gustav Jung / http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/carl_gustav_jung.html

 

48.

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

-- Carl Gustav Jung / http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/carl_gustav_jung.html

 

49.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

-- Harvey Cox / http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/harvey_cox.html

 

50.

The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer / http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dietrich_bonhoeffer.html

 

51.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

-- Thomas Merton / http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_merton.html

 

52.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

-- Thomas Merton / http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_merton.html

 

53.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

-- Thomas Merton / http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_merton.html

 

54.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

-- Thomas Merton / http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_merton.html

 

55.

We need a spiritual recovery program for those addicted to the separate self.

-- Kabir Helminski in The Knowing Heart / http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/newsh/items/blank/item_182.html

 

 

 

 

56.

As we grow older we have more and more people to remember, people who have died before us. It is very important to remember those who have loved us and those we have loved. Remembering them means letting their spirits inspire us in our daily lives.

--Henri J. M. Nouwen in Bread for the Journey / http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/newsh/items/soulbooster/item_5170.html

 

57.

An adult is a deteriorated child.

-- Max Wertheimer

 

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58.

Love is recklessness, not reason.

Reason seeks a profit.

Love comes on strong, consuming herself,

unabashed.

 

Yet in the midst of suffering

Love proceeds like a millstone,

hard-surfaced and straight-forward.

 

Having died to self-interest,

she risks everything and asks for nothing.

Love gambles away every gift God bestows.

-- RUMI, MATHNAWI, VI, 1967-70 / http://groups.yahoo.com/group/allspirit/message/6493

 

January 2005 list >

 

59.

Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.  After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. – Zen teaching

 

60.

When sitting, sit.  When walking, walk.

– Zen teaching

 

61.

Follow your bliss.

-- Joseph Campbell

 

62.

Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.  It gives all for all and has all in all, because it rests in the highest good, from whom all goodness originates and flows.  It doesn’t look to the gifts, but to the giver of all good things.  Love often knows no limits, but burns beyond every limit.  Love feels no burden, shrinks from no effort, aims beyond its strength, sees nothing as impossible, for it believes that all things are possible and allowable to it. Thus it is capable of everything, and it succeeds because it is confident of the result, while someone without love loses courage and gives up.

– Thomas A Kempis, THE IMITATION OF CHRIST (quoted by Peg Stearn for Bible Study on 1 John 4:16,18-21)

 

63.

The oldest wisdom in the world tells us we can consciously unite with the divine while in this body; for this man is really born. If he misses his destiny, Nature is not in a hurry; she will catch him up someday, and compel him to fulfill her secret purpose.

– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (president of India 1962-67) (quoted by C. Myss, SC, pg 1)

 

64.

Don’t complain. Don’t explain.

-- Wayne Dyer

 

65.

Archetypes are the architects of our lives

-- Caroline Myss (SC, pg. 7)

 

66.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.

– Margaret Mead (quoted in Springfield REPUBLICAN editorial Jan 8, 2005)

 

67.

The Mind, once enlightened, cannot again become dark.

– Thomas Paine in COMMON SENSE (quoted by Caroline Myss, SC, pg 106)

 

 

68.

Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and firmly confront you with your own blindness.

– John O’Donohue (quoted by Caroline Myss, SC, pg 41)

 

69.

If what is called “God” means in the language of experience the ultimate Source of Meaning, then those moments that quench the thirst of the heart are moments of prayer.  They are moments when we communicate with God, and that is, after all, the essence of prayer.

-- Brother David Steindl-Rast in GRATEFULNESS, THE HEART OF PRAYER (quoted by Peg Stearn for Bible Study on Luke 18:9-14 in 2004)

 

70.

If you do not know how to look back to where you came from, you will never reach your

destination.”

– Tagalog (Phillipines) saying quoted by Nizzi Santos Digan (BU STh ‘02) in fund raising letter 2004)

 

71.

Love One Another

-- Jesus

 

72.

Beatitudes

-- Jesus

 

73.

Great Commandment

-- Jesus

 

74.

Great Commission

-- Jesus

 

75.

Golden Rule

-- Jesus

 

76.

Love your enemy.

-- Jesus

 

77.

Your weakness is your strength

-- Paul (2 Corinthians 12)

 

78.

Romans 12:1-2

-- Paul

 

79.                                                                                           

Jeremiah 31:31-34 > The New Covenant

 

80.

Be still and know God.

– Psalm 46

 

81.

This is the day the Lord has made.  Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

-- Psalm 118?

 

82.

Sing a new song to the Lord.

-- Psalm 96:1a

 

83.

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty.  Heaven and earth are full of your glory.  Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.  Hosanna in the highest.

 

84.

You show me the path of life.  In your presence there is fullness of joy.

– Psalm16:11a

 

85.

The three paths of the Buddha: The long way of knowledge, the shorter way of faith and the shortest way of action.

-- Gautama Buddha / http://www.toddgreen.com/quotes.html#spirituality

 

86.

Belief in God is the fuel, love of God is the glow, and the realization of God is the flame of divine light.

-- Hazrat Inayat Khan / http://www.toddgreen.com/quotes.html#spirituality

 

87.

In the foundation of all covenants, action is placed foremost. This is the creative fire of the Spirit.

-- Nicholas Roerich / http://www.toddgreen.com/quotes.html#spirituality

 

88.

Knowledge means to know yourself, heart and soul. If you fail to understand yourself, then all of your reading has missed its call.

-- Yunus Emre / http://www.toddgreen.com/quotes.html#spirituality

 

89.

The spiritually deep man lives day and night in a calm interior silence, into which neither menacing worries nor the crash of colliding worlds can intrude.

-- Yogananda / http://www.toddgreen.com/quotes.html#spirituality

 

90.

As the rose blooms amidst thorns, so great souls shine out through opposition.

-- Hazrat Inayat Khan / http://www.toddgreen.com/quotes.html#spirituality

 

91.

You should always pray for discipline. One who has no self-control cannot receive grace.

-- Rumi / http://www.toddgreen.com/quotes.html#spirituality

 

92.

The struggle of life is largely a struggle to get organized, to gather together a certain coherence within ourselves.

-- Kabir Edmund Helminski / http://www.toddgreen.com/quotes.html#spirituality

 

93.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy, I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted, and behold, service was joy.

-- Tagore / http://www.toddgreen.com/quotes.html#spirituality

 

94.

Why should you "love thy neighbor as thyself"; because you are your neighbor; a mere illusion makes you believe that your neighbor is something different than yourself.

-- Idries Shah /  / http://www.toddgreen.com/quotes.html#spirituality

 

95.

He who knows himself in everything and everything in himself, will not injure himself by himself.

-- The Bhagavad Gita /  / http://www.toddgreen.com/quotes.html#spirituality

 

96.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

Rabindranath Tagore / http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/rabindranath_tagore.html

 

97.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

-- Rabindranath Tagore / http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/rabindranath_tagore.html

 

98.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

-- Rabindranath Tagore / http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/rabindranath_tagore.html

 

99.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

-- Albert Einstein / http://www.heartquotes.net/Einstein.html

 

100.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

-- Albert Einstein / http://www.heartquotes.net/Einstein.html

 

101.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

-- Albert Einstein / http://www.heartquotes.net/Einstein.html

 

102.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

-- Albert Einstein / http://www.heartquotes.net/Einstein.html

 

103.

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

-- Albert Einstein / http://www.heartquotes.net/Einstein.html

 

104.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

-- Albert Einstein / http://www.heartquotes.net/Einstein.html

 

105.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

-- Albert Einstein /  / http://www.heartquotes.net/Einstein.html

 

106.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

-- Albert Einstein / http://www.heartquotes.net/Einstein.html

 

107.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

-- Albert Camus / http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Albert_Camus

 

108.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

-- Albert Camus / http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Albert_Camus

 

109.

The most beautiful and most profound emotion one can experience is the sensation of the mystical...It is the source of all true science.

-- Albert Einstein. / http://www.lizbethslair.com/quotes.html

 

110.

If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams, and endeavor to live the life which you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

-- Henry David Thoreau / http://www.lizbethslair.com/quotes.html

 

111.

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

-- Carl Jung / http://www.lizbethslair.com/quotes.html

 

112.

Consciousness is the ability to release the old and embrace the new with the awareness that all things end at the appropriate time and that all things begin at the appropriate time.

-- Caroline Myss / http://www.lizbethslair.com/quotes.html

 

113.

There is nothing more odious than the majority. It consists of a few powerful men who lead the way; of accommodating rascals and submissive weaklings; and of a mass of men who trot after them without in the least knowing their own minds.

-- Goethe / http://www.lizbethslair.com/quotes.html

 

114.

"There is hope in men, not in society, not in systems, not in organized religious systems, but in you and in me"

-- J. Krishnamurti / http://www.lizbethslair.com/quotes.html

 

115.

He who knows others is learned.

He who knows himself is wise.

-- Lao Tsu, The Character of Tao (6th Century BC) / http://www.lizbethslair.com/quotes.html

 

116.

"If you cannot read this, please ask the flight attendant for assistance."

-- United Airlines Flight Safety Brochure / http://www.lizbethslair.com/quotes.html

 

117.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.

-- Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] / http://www.lizbethslair.com/quotes.html

 

118.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke / http://www.lizbethslair.com/quotes.html

 

119.

Even

after

all this time

the sun never says to the earth,

"You owe me."

 

Look

what happens

with a love like that.

It lights the

whole

sky.

-- Hafiz / http://www.morluv.com/hafiz_jolinda.htm

 

120.

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

-- Mae West / http://www.thequoteboard.com/categoryquotes.php?category=abundance&categoryid=399

 

121.

You can have anything you want in this life, as long as you help enough other people get what they want.

-- Zig Ziglar / http://www.thequoteboard.com/categoryquotes.php?category=abundance&categoryid=399

 

122.

Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find.

-- Dr. Wayne Dyer / http://www.houseofquotes.com/authors/Dr._Wayne_Dyer.htm

 

February 7, 2005

 

123.

Without a vision, the people perish OR When there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint.

– Proverbs 29:18 (NRSV version quoted by Jim Wallis GP, p 25)

 

124.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you...Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

– Jesus (John 14:27)

 

125.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice; but for those who love, time is eternity. 

– Henry Van Dyke (DLDB = DAYLIGHT, DAYBRIGHT – daily inspiration for 1/26)

 

126.

Shared joy is double joy.  Shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

-- Swedish proverb (DLDB for 1/31)

 

127.

Those who attempt to search into the majesty of God will be overwhelmed with its glory.

– Thomas A Kempis (DLDB for 2/5)

 

 

 

128.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

– Mignon McLaughlin (DLDB for 1/13)

 

129.

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

– Matthew Arnold (DLDB for 1/17)

 

130.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson (DLDB for 2/8)

 

131.

The Serenity Prayer:

God, give us grace to accept with serenity

the things that cannot be changed,

courage to change the things

which should be changed,

and the wisdom to distinguish

the one from the other.

Living one day at a time,

Enjoying one moment at a time,

Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,

Taking, as Jesus did,

This sinful world as it is,

Not as I would have it,

Trusting that You will make all things right,

If I surrender to Your will,

So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,

And supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen.

-- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) / http://www.pmpilgrim.blogspot.com/ (December 31, 2004)

 

132.

Too many religious people make faith their aim.  They think “the greatest of these” is faith and faith defined as all but infallible doctrine.  These are the dogmatic, divisive Christians, more concerned with freezing the doctrine than warming the heart.  If faith can be exclusive, love can only be inclusive.

-- William Sloane Coffin (CREDO, p 25)

 

133.

When the 5 senses are stilled, when the mind is stilled, when the intellect is stilled, that is called the highest state by the wise.

-- Katha Upanishad (quoted by Wayne Dyer YSS, p 89)

 

134.

I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, “it tastes sweet, does it not?” “You’ve caught me,” grief answered, “and you’ve ruined my business, how can I sell sorrow when you know it’s a blessing?”

-- Jalaluddin Rumi (quoted by Wayne Dyer WOTA, p 47)

 

135.

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.  It supposes dualism in nature and consciousness.  As soon as the man is one with God he will not beg.  He will then see prayer in all action.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (quoted by Wayne Dyer WOTA, p 46 )

 

136.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower / http://www.military-quotes.com/Eisenhower.htm

 

137.

Religion is the most dangerous energy source known to humankind.

-- Eugene H. Peterson (quoted by Jim Wallis GP, p. 137)

 

February 23, 2005 >

 

138.

A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.

-- Kelly (?) in DLDB

 

139.

Every journey begins with a single step.

-- ? in DLDB

 

140.

The force of love is greater than the love of force.

-- ? (First Cong. Church, Amherst bumper sticker)

 

141.

When you discover that you are limitless, your choices will begin to come from the limitless knowing within yourself.

-- Wayne Dyer, YSS, 15

 

142.

Freedom is the ability to leave the single room of awareness you were born in.  In that room you learned the limits of your life.  Outside of that room you learn that your life has unlimited possibilities.  You needn’t be one of the people Arthur Schopenhauer described when he wrote: “Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world..”

-- Wayne Dyer, YSS, 20

 

143.

Freedom will cost you the mask you have on, the mask that feels so comfortable and is so hard to shed off, not because it fits so well but because you have been wearing it for so long.

-- Florinda Donner quoted by Wayne Dyer YSS, 21

 

144.

Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.  And the best way to quit being concerned with yourself is to be concerned about others.

-- Florinda Donner quoted by Wayne Dyer YSS, 21

 

145.

One day, I discovered I didn’t need personal history, so, like drinking, I dropped it.

-- don Juan quoted by Carlos Casteneda in TALES OF POWER quoted by Wayne Dyer, YSS, 40-41

 

146.

Of all the enlightened beings I have met and have read about, the one similar quality they seem to possess is that they are not in any way tied to their past.  They are free because they don’t rely on the way things used to be to define their lives today.

-- Wayne Dyer, YSS, 41

 

147.

That which sees all this, and the nothing too, is the inner teacher.  He alone is, all else only appears to be.  He is your own self, your hope and assurance of freedom; find him and cling to him and you will be saved and safe.

-- Wayne Dyer, YSS, 49

 

148.

God is in the details.

 

149.

God has no religion.

-- Gandhi quoted by Wayne Dyer, YSS, 15

 

150.

…you are a partner with fate rather than its victim.

-- Wayne Dyer, YSS, 13

 

151.

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

-- Thoreau quoted by Wayne Muller, SABBATH, 200

 

152.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

-- Matthew 6:21

 

153.

I have sat on dozens of boards and commissions with many fine, compassionate, and generous people who are so tired, overwhelmed, and overworked that they have neither the time nor the capacity to listen to the deeper voices that speak to the essence of the problems before them.

-- Wayne Muller, SABBATH, 4

 

154.

There is more to life than merely increasing its speed.

-- Gandhi quoted by Wayne Muller, SABBATH, 17

 

155.

We are one. From the blind worm in the depths of the ocean to the endless arena of the Galaxy, only one person struggles and is imperiled: You. And within your small and earthen breast only one thing struggles and is imperiled: the universe.

-- Nikos Kazantzakis, THE SAVIORS OF GOD, 105

 

156.

Laying the foundations for one world is the most important task of our time. These foundations are not negotiated statements and agreements. These foundations are, rather, in the stockpiling of trust through dialogue and the creation of relationships that can sustain both agreements and disagreements. Moving forward... in dialogue with those other faiths we will create the foundational relationship of One World. Moving forward alone, we will not.

-- Diana Eck, Harvard Divinity School / http://www.octanecreative.com/liberal/religions.html

 

157.

It is my fervent hope that we Christians will not be forever stuck in our Christianity. Look for something new; for a life in God. Look for God's spirit in everyone you meet.

-- C. F. Blumhardt / http://dailydig.bruderhof.org/us/TodaysDig.htm

 

2/25/05 >

 

158.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either-but right through every human heart.

-- Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn

 

159.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower / http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dwight_D._Eisenhower

 

160.

I take for my sureties:

 

            The power of God to guide me,

            The might of God to uphold me,

            The wisdom of God to teach me,

            The eye of God to watch over me,

            The ear of God to hear me,

            The word of God to give me speech,

            The hand of God to protect me,

            The way of God to go before me,

            The shield of God to shelter me....

 

            Christ be with me, Christ before me,

            Christ behind me, Christ within me,

            Christ beneath me, Christ above me,

            Christ at my right, Christ at my left,

            Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,

            Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks to me,

            Christ in every eye that sees me,

            Christ in every ear that hears me.

 

-- St. Patrick / http://www.eskimo.com/~wayneld/patrick.html

 

161.

The Lord’s Prayer

 

162.

 

 

 

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