Adversity
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"Difficulties are opportunities
to better things; they are stepping stones to greater experience. Perhaps
someday you will be thankful for some temporary failure in a particular direction.
When one door closes, another always opens." ~ Brian Adams
"There is no such thing as a
problem without a gift for you in its hands. We seek out problems because
we need their gifts." ~ Richard Bach
“It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your
treasure." ~ Joseph Campbell
"We'd never know how high we
are 'till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures
touch the sky." ~ Emily Dickinson
"Difficult times have helped me
to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in
every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no
importance whatsoever." ~ Isak Dinesen
"What is to give light must
endure burning." ~ Viktor Frankl
"Comfort and prosperity have
never enriched the world as much as adversity has." ~ Billy Graham
"Adversity is like a strong
wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so
that we see ourselves as we really are." ~ Arthur Golden
"Looking back we see with great
clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as
blessings." ~
"Every adversity, every
failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater
benefit." ~ Napoleon Hill
"When we long for life without
difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds
are made under pressure. ~ Peter Marshall
"Life's challenges are not
supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you
are." ~ Bernice Johnson Reagon
"One cannot get through life
without pain. What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents
to us." ~ Bernie. S. Siegel, M.D.
"Many a man curses the rain that
falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away
hunger." ~ St. Basil
"Let me not pray to be
sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg
for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it." ~
Rabindranath Tagore
"Obstacles come to instruct,
not obstruct." ~ Brian Tracy
"The difficulties of life are
intended to make us better, not bitter." ~ Unknown
"Do not fear the winds of
adversity. Remember: a kite rises against the wind rather than with
it." ~ Unknown
"We grow through
adversity. We need not seek it out; we can all look back at moments when
our lives were in utter chaos, desolation and despair. Growth comes when
we respond to adversity by stretching just an edge beyond our talent and
experience."~ Dr. Robert D. Wald
"To live is to choose. But to
choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want
to go and why you want to get there.” ~ Kofi Annan
“Every person, all the events of
your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose
to do with them is up to you. ~ Richard Bach
We can become bitter or better as a
result of our experiences." ~ Eric Butterworth
“Every human has four endowments-
self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These
give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to
change.” ~ Stephen R. Covey
“It is our choices that show what we
truly are, far more than our abilities.” ~ Joanne Kathleen Rowling
"Come to the edge.
No, we will fall.
Come to the edge.
No, we will fall.
They came to the edge.
He pushed them, and they flew." ~ Apollinaire
No, we will fall.
Come to the edge.
No, we will fall.
They came to the edge.
He pushed them, and they flew." ~ Apollinaire
“Faith is to believe what we do not
see, and the reward of faith is to see what we believe.” ~ St. Augustine
"Surrender control to the
supreme wisdom and authority of God and to the Divine in your soul. Step
into the void with courage. Learn to say, "I don't know."
That's not blind faith. It's pure faith that will allow God and
your spirit to lead you wherever your soul wants and needs to go." ~
Melody Beattie
"Faith is not something to
grasp. It is a state to grow into." ~
Gandhi
"Faith is taking the first step
even when you don't see the whole staircase."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"When you walk to the edge of
all the light you have
and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown,
you must believe that one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
or, you will be taught how to fly" ~ Patrick Overton
and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown,
you must believe that one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
or, you will be taught how to fly" ~ Patrick Overton
"Faith is like love: it
cannot be forced." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
"Faith is the bird that sings
when the dawn is still dark." ~ Rabindranath Tagore
"Faith is not belief without
proof, but trust without reservations." ~ Elton Trueblood
"Vision looks
upward and becomes faith." ~Stephen S. Wise
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of
life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial
into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a
meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision
for tomorrow.” ~ Melody Beattie
"There is a calmness to a life
lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy." ~ Ralph H. Blum
"If the only prayer you say in
your whole life is thank you, that would suffice." ~ Meister Eckhart
"To speak gratitude is
courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live
gratitude is to touch Heaven." ~ Johannes A. Gaertner
"Gratitude is when memory is
stored in the heart and not in the mind." ~ Lionel Hampton
"As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but
to live by them." ~ J.F. Kennedy
"If you concentrate on finding
whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will
suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul." ~ Rabbi Harold Kushner
"Gratitude is the memory of the
heart." ~ Massieu
"Gratitude is the intention to
count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever
possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances." ~
Timothy Miller
"Appreciation is the highest
form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the
light of your thankful thoughts." ~ Brother David Steindl-Rast
"Feeling gratitude and not
expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." ~ William
Arthur Ward
Grief & Loss
"As long as we can love each
other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really
going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still
there. You live on in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured
while you were here." ~ Mitch Albom
"Mourning is not
forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied
and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the
dust." ~ Margery Allingham
"Loss is nothing else but
change, and change is Nature's delight!" ~ Marcus Aurelius
"Everyone at some point will
suffer a loss - the loss of loved ones, good health, a job. It's your
desert experience - a time of feeling barren of options, even hope. The
important thing is not to allow yourself to be stranded in the desert." ~
Patrick Del Zoppo
"Grief is a journey, often perilous
and without clear direction, that must be taken. The experience of
grieving cannot be ordered or categorized, hurried or controlled, pushed aside
or ignored indefinitely. It is inevitable as breathing, as change, as
love. It may be postponed, but it will not be denied. ~ Molly Fumia
"When you are sorrowful look
again in your heart, and in truth you shall see that you are weeping for that
which has been your delight. ~ Kahlil Gibran
"Sorrow comes to all... Perfect
relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you
will ever feel better... and yet... you are sure to be happy again." ~
Abraham Lincoln
"When our spirit tells us it is
time to weep, we should weep. It is part of the ritual, if you will, of
putting sadness in perspective and gaining control of the situation. . . .
Grief has a purpose. Grieving does not mean you are weak It is the
first step toward regaining balance and strength. Grieving is part of the
tempering process. ~ Joseph M. Marshall III
"To find a safe journey through
grief to growth does not mean one should forget the past. It means that
on the journey we will need safe pathways so that remembrance, which may be
painful, is possible. ~ Donna O'Toole
"Every great loss demands that
we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The
pain we have not grieved over will always stand between us and life. When
we don't grieve, a part of us becomes caught in the past like Lot's wife who, because she looked back, was turned
into a pillar of salt. Grieving is not about forgetting. Grieving
allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a
sorting process. One by one you let go of the things that are gone and
you mourn for them. One by one you take
hold of the things that have become a part of who you are and build
again. ~ Rachel Naomi Remen
"Three things are fundamental
to an understanding of mourning. First, each loss launches us on an
inescapable course through grief. Second, each loss revives all past losses.
Third, each loss, if fully mourned, can be a vehicle for growth and
regeneration. ~ Vamik D. Volkan, MD
"To live happily is an inward power
of the soul." ~ Aristotle
"The art of being happy lies in
the power of extracting happiness from common things." ~ Henry Ward Beecher
"What is happiness and
unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really
only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day... and
that makes me happy." ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Earth laughs in flowers." ~ Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Happiness is a butterfly which,
when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly,
may alight on you." ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Happiness is not the
acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.” ~ Vernon
Howard
"It is not what we see and
touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we
think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for
ourselves." ~ Helen Keller
"You don't become happy by
pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means
something." ~ Harold S. Kushner
"Realize that true happiness
lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and
contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no
happiness in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share.
Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others
without getting a few drops on yourself." ~ Og Mandino
"Real happiness is so simple
that most people do not recognize it. They think it comes from doing
something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some great achievement,
when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most
unpretentious things in the world.” ~ Orison S. Marden
"Realize that if you want joy
in your soul, you will have to choose to bring it there." ~ Joseph
J. Mazzella
"Happiness is not a matter of
events; it depends upon the tides of the mind." ~ Alice Meynell
"One of the secrets of a happy
life is continuous small treats." ~ Iris Murdoc
"To be happy is easy enough if
we forgive ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving. No
self-centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make
anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting." ~Joseph Fort
Newton
"The ingredients of happiness
are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. First of all, happiness
must be shared. Selfishness is its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy
one’s self. It is quiet, seldom found for long in crowds, most easily won in
moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within, and rests most
securely on simple goodness and clear conscience." ~ William Ogden
"The foolish man seeks
happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." ~ James Oppenheim
"It is not easy to find
happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it
elsewhere." ~ Agnes Repplier
"The journey to happiness
involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and taking
responsibility for what we find there: all of it." ~ Richard Rohr
"Happiness is not in our
circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a
rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we
are." ~ John B. Sheerin
"Happiness is a warm
puppy." ~ Charles Schulz
"It is not the level of
prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the
way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power so that a
man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him." ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Joy is a net of love by which
you can catch souls." ~ Mother Teresa
"A truly happy person is one
who can enjoy the scenery on a detour." ~ Unknown
"Happiness cannot be traveled
to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of
living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." ~ Denis
Waitley
"Seek healing, a refilling of
energy and spirit, as soon as you see that you need it. You don't have to
push yourself to give, do, or perform when what your body, mind, soul and
emotions need is to heal. ~ Melody Beattie
“To embrace one's brokenness,
whatever it looks like, whatever has caused it, carries within it the
possibility that one might come to embrace one's healing." ~ Robert Benson
"When an emotional injury takes
place, the body begins a process as natural as the healing of a physical
wound. Let the process happen. Trust that nature will do the
healing. Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be
stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware. ~ Mel Colgrove
"The greatest healing therapy
is friendship and love." ~ Hubert Humphrey
"Eventually in the process of
your self-healing, you will find your own strength. Through the careful
hand-holding of your own spirit, through recognizing, honoring, and expressing
your feelings, by nurturing your body as the vessel that holds your spirit in
the web of life, you will discover that you have, without your consciously
knowing it, developed the inner sturdiness from which you can function on your
own behalf. This interior growth is a miracle of intimate compassion, a
seedling of loving yourself that will bloom, in time, into the capacity for
truly loving others." ~ Daphne Rose Kingma
“Healing… is an active and internal
process that includes investigating one’s attitudes, memories and beliefs with
the desire to release all negative patterns that prevent one’s full emotional
and spiritual recovery. This internal review inevitably leads one to
review one’s external circumstances in an effort to recreate one’s life in a
way that serves activation of will – the will to see and accept truths about
one’s life and how one has used one’s energies; and the will to begin to use
energy for the creation of love, self-esteem, and health. ~ Caroline Myss
"The human being is a
surprisingly resilient organism. We impel toward health,
not sickness. Your spirit, as surely as your body, will try to heal. The question you must ask yourself is not if you will heal, but how. Grief and pain have their own duration, and when they begin to pass, you must take care to guide the shape of the new being you are to become. So you should not fear tragedy and suffering. Like love, they make you more a part of the human family. From them can come your greatest creativity. They are the fire that burns you pure." ~ Kent Nerburn
not sickness. Your spirit, as surely as your body, will try to heal. The question you must ask yourself is not if you will heal, but how. Grief and pain have their own duration, and when they begin to pass, you must take care to guide the shape of the new being you are to become. So you should not fear tragedy and suffering. Like love, they make you more a part of the human family. From them can come your greatest creativity. They are the fire that burns you pure." ~ Kent Nerburn
“When you move toward that which is
most fulfilling and life-enhancing, healing follows regardless of what your
health is like in that moment.” ~ Christiane Northrup
"When we honestly ask ourselves
which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those
who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share
our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can
be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in
an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not
healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who
cares." ~ Henri Nouwen
"Healing may not be so much
about getting better as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of
the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are." ~ Rachel
Naomi Remen
"Never fear shadows. They
simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby." ~ Ruth E.
Renkel
"We do not think ourselves into
new ways of living; we live ourselves into new ways of thinking." ~
Richard Rohr
"The question you need to ask
yourself is not if you will heal, but how you will heal." ~ O. Carl
Simonton
"After a stormy period of mixed
feelings of prolonged sadness there comes a calm. After we become
convinced that we are at the very brink of eternal despair, or fear, or guilt,
or sadness, we are given a reprieve. We have a breathing space that
eventually leads to whole days that have personal value and offer us the
opportunity for affection. Then we recognize that no period of misery is
endless and unrelenting; it is instead, changeable. ~ Carol
Staudacher
“If we face our unpleasant feelings
with care, affection, and nonviolence,
we can transform them into a kind of energy that is healthy and has
the capacity to nourish us. By the work of mindful observation,
our unpleasant feelings can illuminate so much for us, offering us
insight and understanding into ourselves and society.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
we can transform them into a kind of energy that is healthy and has
the capacity to nourish us. By the work of mindful observation,
our unpleasant feelings can illuminate so much for us, offering us
insight and understanding into ourselves and society.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
“Recognizing and honouring our
feelings is the way we recognize and honour ourselves and the spirit of life
within us. But what does it mean to honour our feelings? To honour
our feelings is to give such regard to them that we are able to act consciously
and creatively in accordance with them to care for and protect ourselves and
the spirit of life at our centre.” ~ Unknown
"Mountains cannot be surmounted
except by winding paths." ~ Von Goethe
“Who we are never changes. Who
we think we are does.” ~ Mary Almanac
“Feet on ground
heart in hand
facing forward
be yourself.” ~ Jan Arden
heart in hand
facing forward
be yourself.” ~ Jan Arden
"Going home means getting comfortable
being who you are and who your soul really wants to be. There is no
strain with that. The strain and tension come when we're not being who
our soul wants to be and we're someplace where our soul doesn't feel at
home." ~ Melody Beattie
"To exist is to change, to
change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~ Henri
Bergson
"The easiest thing in the world
to be is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want
you to be. Don't let them put you in that position." ~ Leo
Buscaglia
"The privilege of a lifetime is
being who you are.” ~ Joseph Campbell
"Every human being is intended
to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other
can do." ~ William Channing
"Knowing others is
intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is
strength; mastering yourself is true power." ~ Tao Te Ching
"Acceptance is the universal
currency of real friendship... It does not warp or shape or wrench a
person to be anything other than what they are." ~ Joan Chittister
"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." ~ e.e. cummings
"Who you really are, your True
Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied
to the skies through which it moves. Your past is just that, the past, a
place within your psyche with no more reality to it than a picture of a castle
on a postcard is made from stone. You have a destination far beyond where
you find yourself standing today." ~ Guy Finley
"The individual has always had
to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own
man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and
sometimes frigthened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege
of owning yourself." ~ Arthur Gordon
"We will discover the nature of
our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other
peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
~ Shakti Gawain
"There is a vitality, a
life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into
action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression
is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other
medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. ~ Martha Graham
"... our concern must be to
live while we're alive -- to release our inner selves from the spiritual death
that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external
definitions of who and what we are." ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"It is not our differences that
divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those
differences. ~ Audre Lorde
"At the center of your being
you have the answer. You know who you are and you know what you
want." ~ Lao-tzu
"You were born an
original. Don't die a copy." ~ John Mason
"Find your true path.
It's so easy to become someone we don't want to be, without even realizing it's
happening. We are created by the choices we make every day. And if
we take action in order to please some authority figure, we'll suddenly wake up
down the road and say, 'This isn't me. I never wanted to be this
person.'"
~ Bernie Siegel, MD
~ Bernie Siegel, MD
“Nature never repeats herself, and
the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.” ~
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Each being is sacred – meaning that
each has an inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to
the value of another being.” ~ Starhawk
"Search your heart and see, the
way to do is to be." ~ Lao Tse
"Diversity is the one true
thing we all have in common. Celebrate it everyday." ~ Unknown
"Though no one can go back and
make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new
ending." ~ Carl Bard
"As human beings, our greatness
lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the
'atomic age' - as in being able to remake ourselves." ~ Gandhi
"Even in the bleakest times
there are gifts to be discovered." ~ Jann Mitchell
"Always have faith in
yourself. It is not easy to live life sometimes and face the world with a
smile when you're crying inside. It takes a lot of courage to reach down
inside yourself. Hold on to that strength that's still there and know
that tomorrow is a new day with new possibilities. If you can just hold
on long enough to see this through, you'll come out a new person - stronger,
with more understanding and with a new pride in yourself from knowing you made
it." ~ Kathy Obara
"Your present circumstances
don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you
start." ~ Nido Qubein
"Every new beginning comes from
some other beginning's end." ~ Seneca
"It’s never too late – in
fiction or in life – to revise." ~ Nancy Thayer
"Perhaps the rediscovery of our
humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in
legends of older civilizations, or in accounts of solitary mystics, or in tales
of science fiction writers - perhaps this will constitute the true revolution
of the future. The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one
of us." ~ Pierre ElliottTrudeau
"Dreams are renewable. No
matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within
us and new beauty waiting to be born." ~ Dale E. Turner
"Dreams come true; without that
possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." ~ John Hoyer Updike
“I am responsible. Although I
may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my
attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things
do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my
life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the
gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most
precious gift I have – life itself.” ~ Walter Anderson
"Between stimulus and response
there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our
response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." ~
Stephen Covey
"The best years of your life
are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not
blame them on your mother, the ecology or the president. You realize that
you control your own destiny." ~ Albert Ellis
"Everything can be taken away
from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's
attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." ~
Viktor Frankl
"Life is not the way it's supposed
to be. It's the way it is. The way you deal with it is what makes
the difference." ~ Virginia Satir
"If you start to think the
problem is 'out there', stop yourself. That thought is the
problem." ~ The Daily Guru
"Prayer begins where human
capacity ends." ~ Marian Anderson
“Humans may be fragile as reeds, but
they are thinking beings; in their consciousness they reflect the immensity of
the universe.” ~ Mihaly Czikszentmihaly
“Human beings are like dozens of ponds,
each reflecting the light from the same moon.” ~ Vernon Howard
“Every now and then take a good look
at something not made with hands – a mountain, a star, the turn of a
stream. There will come to you wisdom, and patience, and solace, and
above all the assurance that you are not alone in the world.” ~ Sidney
Lovett
"Spirituality is seeded,
germinates, spouts and blossoms in the mundane. It is to be found and nurtured
in the smallest of daily activities." ~ Thomas Moore
"Help us to be ever faithful
gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth,
and without light nothing flowers." ~ May Sarton
"The deepest expression of
spirituality is love." ~ Robert L. Simpson
"We are not human beings trying
to be spiritual. We are spiritual beings trying to be human." ~ Jacquelyn
Small
“I am a little pencil in the hand of
a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.” ~ Mother
Teresa
“We are like little fountains rising
up from the deep, underground river of God.”
~ Unknown
~ Unknown
"We're never so vulnerable as
when we trust someone -- but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we
find love or joy." ~ Walter Anderson
"At the root of our need to
control we find FEAR. It may be fear of the unknown. Fear of not
coping. Fear of loss. Or possibly even fear of looking
stupid. And as our efforts to control other people and events invariably
fail, our fear increases. Trust, on the other hand, is a quality of the
soul. While control is a tool of the mind, trust and faith are aspects of
the heart. When we trust in life enough to give up our need for control,
we can relax and open to the flow of energy in our lives. This brings
peace of mind." ~ The Daily Guru
"It belongs to the very
substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of
self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of
trust and affirmation." ~ Bernard Haring
"Unity isn't fought for and
won. It is realized one person at a time." ~ Alliance for a New
Humanity website
"The earth is but one country
and mankind its citizens." ~ Baha'ullah
"People are not
separated. They are individuated." ~ Barbara Ann Brennan
"A mystic sees beyond the
illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are
expressions of a single Whole. You can call this web God, the Tao, the Great
Spirit, the Infinite Mystery, Mother or Father, but it can be known only as
love." ~ Joan Borysenko
"Do not follow the ideas of
others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and
mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all
things." ~ Zen Master Dogen
"No man is an island, entire of
itself; every man is a piece of the continent." ~ John Donne
"We are part of the whole which
we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think
we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job
is to widen the circle of compassion so we feel connected to all people and all
situations." ~ Albert Einstein
"The only real hope
of people today... is a renewal of our certainty that we are rooted in Earth
and, at the same time, in the cosmos. This awareness endows us with the
capacity for self- trans-cendence. Transcendence as a hand reached out
close to us, to foreigners, to the human community, to all living creatures, to
nature, to the universe; transcendence as a deeply and joyously experienced
need to be in harmony even with what we ourselves are not, what we do not
understand, what seems distant from us in time and space, but with which we are
nevertheless mysteriously linked because, together with us, all this
constitutes a single world."
~ Vaclav Havel
~ Vaclav Havel
"Suppose you stand on a high
place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing
to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let
nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life. There is nothing
we can DO to gain psychic beauty. It already exists without our
effort. We need only be where we belong, that is, in self-union.
Then, beauty IS.”
~ Vernon Howard
~ Vernon Howard
"To love is to know that you
live in union with all other creatures in a world that is itself alive and
constantly becoming; in short, to live is to know that you exist in a world
whose highest harmony is love." ~ Daphne Rose Kingma
"At the heart of each of us,
whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, a
complex of wave forms and resonances which is absolutely individual and unique,
and yet which connects us to everyrthing in the universe."
~ George Leonard
~ George Leonard
"You can't tell when this will
happen. Usually we act as if we are autonomous, independent beings.
But occasionally - at a waterfall, on a walk, hugging someone we love - we
glimpse a trace of infinity. Something inside us remembers the oneness. ~
Daniel C. Matt
"The fundamental delusion of
humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are there. ~ Yasutani Roshi
"The clear bead at the centre
changes everything
There are no edges to my loving now
I've heard it said there's a window that opens from one mind to another
But if there's no wall, there's no need for fitting the window, or the latch. ~ Rumi
There are no edges to my loving now
I've heard it said there's a window that opens from one mind to another
But if there's no wall, there's no need for fitting the window, or the latch. ~ Rumi
"Each small task of everyday is
part of the total harmony of the universe."
~ St. Theresa of Lisieux
~ St. Theresa of Lisieux
"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
"If we have no peace it is
because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
~ Mother Teresa
~ Mother Teresa
"The beginning of wisdom is
found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may
come upon the truth." ~ Pierre Abelard
“He who learns must suffer. And even
in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in
our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of
God.” ~ Aeschylus
“Wisdom is nothing but a preparation
of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing
thoughts of unity at every moment of life." ~ Hermann Hesse
"Wisdom is the understanding of
enduring values and the living of those values."
~ J. Krishnamurti
~ J. Krishnamurti
"We don't receive wisdom; we
must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or
spare us. ~ Marcel Proust
"Kindness is more important
than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." ~
Theodore Isaac Rubin
"We should never be ashamed to
own we have been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that we are
wiser today than we were yesterday." ~ Jonathan Swift
"Until we stop ourselves or,
more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life's events
"behind us" and get on with our living. After we stop we see
that certain of life's issues will be with us for as long as we live. We
will pass through them again and again, each time with a new story, each time
with a greater understanding, until they become indistinguishable from our
blessings and our wisdom. It's the way life teaches us to live." ~
Rachel Naomi Remen
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