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Remember that fear always lurks behind
perfectionism.
Confronting your fears
and allowing yourself the
right to be human
can,
paradoxically, make you
a far happier and more
productive person.
---Dr. David M. Burns
I slip back many times.
I fall.
I stand still.
I run against the edge of hidden obstacles.
I lose my temper.,
And then I find it again.
And I keep it better.
I trudge on.
I gain a little.
I feel encouraged.
I get more eager.
And I climb higher.
And begin to see widening horizons.---Helen Keller
"Imagination has
brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of
civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination
led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam
engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for
these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I
believe that dreams-- daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and
your brain machinery whizzing-- are likely to lead to the betterment of
the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or
woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization." -- L. Frank Baum
Your
silent Master Consciousness was born out of the infinite life force
creating and animating the Universe. You exist as a part of the
universe, therefore, it is the life force creating and animating you. It is
the power that beats your heart. Because
you are consciousness, whatever qualities there are of the life force,
you possess also.
---Grandmaster
Dr. Tae Yun Kim
The most exciting and
important journey one can make is the evolutionary quest of the Soul and
the evolutionary aspiration of the personality. When they meet, you
come Home. In that Dwelling Place, the life Purpose is revealed;
knowledge becomes Wisdom; and Love becomes a reality at last.
---Alan Oken
Love
me without fear
Trust me without questioning
Need me without demanding
Want me without restrictions
Accept me without change
Desire me without inhibitions
For a love so free...Will never fly away.
---Dick Sutphen
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than
this:
A human Creature born abnormally sensitive!
To
him/she a touch is a blow...
A
sound is a noise...a misfortune is a tragedy...a joy is an ecstasy...
a friend is a love....a lover is a god....and a
failure is a death.
Add
to this delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create,
create...
so that without the creation of music or poetry or
books or building...or
something of meaning, his very breathe is cut off from him.
He
must create,
must pour out creation.
By some strange, unknown, inward
urgency his is not really alive unless...
he
is creating.
---Pearl Buck
Scientists work
mainly by metaphor…the kinds of metaphors used to shape our thinking
are changing. What we are coming to understand is that the process of
reform is complex; it is messy; it is lively and it is an
adventure…we are beginning to see the structures, form and patterns in
the work of reform, recognizing that things must always be in flux. The
elements are always the same, but they keep rearranging themselves. So,
it is like a kaleidoscope; the world is a matter of patterns that
change, that partly repeat, but never quite repeat. It is important to
realize that the game you are in keeps changing, so that it is up to you
to figure out the current rules of the game…as it is now being played.
This means you can apply force to the maximum effect. You don’t waste
it...the idea is to observe, to act courageously, and to pick your timing
extremely well. ---- M. Mitchell Waldrop
In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul.
It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some
of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as
our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business
to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves. ---
Saul Bellow
I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study
the stars.--- Derek Walcott
Murphy's Laws:
If anything can go wrong, it will.
If anything can't go wrong, it still will.
Nothing is ever as simple as it seems.
Everything takes longer than you expect.
Whatever you set out to do, something else must be done first.
You can't do just one thing -- there are always consequences.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked
something.
Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
It's impossible to make anything fool proof, because fools are so
ingenious.
Always lie low -- you can't fall of the floor.
Never lose heart -- they might want to cut it out.
You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people
some of the time, and that's sufficient.--- Paul Dickson
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things
brought together. ---Vincent Van Goth
I would rather live in a world here my life is surrounded by mystery
than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. ---Henry
Emerson Fosdick
Thank your for this new day, its beauty and its light. Thank you for my
chance to begin again. Free me from the limitations of yesterday. Today
may I be reborn. May I become more fully a reflection of your radiance.
Give me strength and compassion and courage and wisdom. Show me the
light in others and myself. May I recognize the good that is available
everywhere. May I be this day, an instrument of love and healing. Lead
me into gentle pastures. Give me deep peace that I might serve my fellow
man as I would be served. ---Marianne Williamson
In life I hope to be remembered by my kindness, not popularity I hope to
bring a piece of joy to someone's day, not a rude comment. I hope to
dedicate my life to helping others, not to ignoring them And I hope to
make the world a better place, not to just exist. ---Heather
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal
qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or
belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary
of personality. Ö Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering
over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to
create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from
the roots that are within us. ---D. H. Lawrence
If you want something really important to be done you must not merely
satisfy the reason, you must also move the heart. ---Mahatma Gandhi
It is not luck, but labor, that makes men. Luck . . . is ever waiting
for something to run up; Labor, with keen eye and strong will, always
turns up something. Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring
him news of a legacy; Labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or
ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines; Labor
whistles. Luck relies on chance; Labor on character. Luck slips downward
to self-indulgence; labor strides upward, and aspires to independence.
---Samuel Smiles
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to
climb it, go through it, or work around it. ---Michael Jordan
Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of
possibilities. ---Terry Johnson
Let go of any guilt or shame, fear or apprehension. If you cannot turn
back, then don't look back. Instead, set your sights on the goal ahead
and the divine grace will guide your footsteps every moment of your
journey. ---Jack Boland
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve in this world. It is
the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. ---George
Sands
Oh, Great Spirit Whose voice I hear in the winds, And whose breath gives
life to all the world Hear Me! I am small and weak. I need your strength
and wisdom. Let me walk in Beauty, and make my eyes Ever hold the red
and purple sunset. Make my hands respect the things you have made, My
ears sharp to hear your voice. Make me wise so that I may understand The
things you might teach me. Let me learn the lessons you have hidden In
every leaf and rock. I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,
But to fight my greatest enemy, myself. Make me always ready to come to
you With clear hands and straight eyes, So when life fades, as the
fading sunset, My spirit may come to you without shame. ---Chief Yellow
Lark, Lakota
The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where
others see shadows and storm. --- O.S. Marden
"And what is as important as knowledge?" asked the mind.
"Caring," answered the heart. ---Flavia Weeden
Think good thoughts and they will quickly become actualized in our
outward life in the form of good conditions. ---James Allen
Enthusiasm bears the same relationship to a human being that steam does
to the locomotive. It is the vital moving force that impels action. The
greatest leaders of men are those who know how to inspire enthusiasm in
their followers. ---Napoleon Hill
Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there
is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. J. M. Barrie
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He
wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize
or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with
anything strange. ---Elias Canetti
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to
look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
---Plato
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grows
in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in
silence. Ö We need silence to be able to touch souls. ---Mother Teresa
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.---From
the Beatles!
The present moment is a powerful goddess.---Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and
creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding
of his capacities and talents. ---Eric Hoffer
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we are on
the earth plane; because life itself is but motion, and can never be
without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. ---Thomas
Hobbes
When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes
me remember my strength, which I forget at all, times. I educate myself
proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the
contradiction between my mind and nothingness. ---Isidore Ducasse
Great Minds and Generous Hearts lead with
compassion and assist in shaping the life experience to be at its
highest and best performance.
---Lyn Hammond-Gray, DDiv
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he
is only completely a man when he plays. ---Friedrich Von Schiller
We love in another's soul Whatever of ourselves We can deposit in it;
The greater the deposit, The greater the love. ---Irving Layton
Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an
hour. ---Ralph Iron
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know, the
only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought
and found how to serve. ---Albert Schweitzer
Whatever you can do, or dream you can . . . begin it. Boldness has
genius, power and magic in it." ---Johann Goethe
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe
in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find
happiness that you had thought could never be yours. ---Dale Carnegie
"Choose life! Only that and always! At whatever risk, to let life leak
out, to let it wear away by the mere passage of time, to withhold giving
and spending it . . . is to choose nothing." ---Sister Helen Kelly
"Don't worry about what the world wants from you, worry about what makes
you come more alive. Because what the world really needs are people who
are more alive." ---Lawrence Le Shan
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