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Hold a picture of yourself
long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be
drawn toward it. 7/19/2005 He who is in love is wise
and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the
object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind
those virtues which it possesses. There is no end to the
adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our
eyes open. 7/15/2005 There is a prospect
greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect
greater than the sky, and it is the human soul. To be blind is bad, but
worse is to have eyes and not see. Nothing contributes so
much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point
on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. The face is the mirror of
the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of
the heart. See that each hour's
feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then
your life will be also. The trouble with life isn't
that there is no answer, it's that there are so many
answers. 7/7/2005 You have to know how to
accept rejection and reject acceptance. 7/6/2005 All's well in the end, if
you've only the patience to wait. 7/5/2005 Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those
who dared believe that something inside them was superior to
circumstance. 7/4/2005 Freedom lies in being bold.- Robert Frost 7/1/2005 It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion. - Dalai Lama 6/30/2005If you cannot find peace
within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. 6/29/2005 There is no need to go to
India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that
deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or
even your bathtub. Peace is not a
relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought
about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence
of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come
only to peaceful people. I recommend you to take
care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of
themselves. A good listener is not
only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows
something. It is only by expressing
all that is inside that purer and purer streams come. A different world cannot
be built by indifferent people. Of God, the most
inescapable of all presences, the most real of all facts,
the most living of all truths, the most loving of all
friends, and the most divine of all values, we have the
right to be the most certain of all universe experiences.
6/20/2005 In real love you want the
other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other
person. 6/17/2005 Sympathy with joy
intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with
pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. 6/16/2005 To put away aimlessness
and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to
enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize
failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all
conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt
fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully. 6/15/2005 Politeness is to human
nature what warmth is to wax. 6/14/2005 Love is the condition in
which the happiness of another person is essential to your
own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or
assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy. 6/13/2005 The world is indeed full
of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still
there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is
now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. One day at a time- this is
enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is
gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has
not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful
that it will be worth remembering. 6/9/2005 Do not spoil what you have
by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you
now have was once among the things only hoped for. 6/8/2005 Remember that not to be
happy is not to be grateful. 6/7/2005 Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore. - Thomas Szasz 6/6/2005God loves each of us as if
there were only one of us. And the fruits of the
divine spirit which are yielded in the lives of spirit-born
and God-knowing mortals are: loving service, unselfish
devotion, courageous loyalty, sincere fairness, enlightened
honesty, undying hope, confiding trust, merciful ministry,
unfailing goodness, forgiving tolerance, and enduring peace.
The more anger towards the
past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for
loving in the present. A loving person lives in a
loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. 5/31/2005 A Native American
grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt.
He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my
heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The
other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson
asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The
grandfather answered, The one I feed. 5/30/2005 Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.- Abdul Baha 5/27/2005 Much of man's sorrow is
born of the disappointment of his ambitions and the wounding
of his pride. Faithfulness and sincerity
are the highest things. 5/25/2005 Religion is not a
technique for attaining a static and blissful peace of mind;
it is an impulse for organizing the soul for dynamic
service. 5/24/2005 Wake up to the fact that
God lives in everything in His omnipotence and omniscience,
and that he is intimately connected to your heart, mind and
soul. Deep listening is
miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone
receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely
interested listening, our spirits expand. 5/20/2005 Inside myself is a place
where I live all alone and that's where you renew your
springs that never dry up. 5/19/2005 Heaven will be inherited
by every man who has heaven in his soul. 5/18/2005 Only when your
consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in
can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that
moment has to offer. We lose many irreplaceable
hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will
be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our
life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts,
real affections and enduring undertakings. Consider the postage
stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to
one thing until it gets there. 5/13/2005 Civilization can never flourish, much less be established, until man has leisure to think, to plan, to imagine new and better ways of doing things.- The Urantia Papers 5/12/2005 To generous souls every
task is noble. 5/11/2005 Give whatever you are
doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. 5/10/2005 A competent and
self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. 5/9/2005 You are not a human being
in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual
being immersed in a human experience. Fear censors your further
growth. Low expectations limit future growth. Conformity
censors future growth. Any fear experienced is
because the mind is not present in the moment. 5/4/2005 The supreme paradox of all
thought is the attempt to discover something that thought
cannot think. 5/3/2005 Those who are free of
resentful thoughts surely find peace. 5/2/2005 Therefore, the antidote to self judgment (and judgment) of others, is sincere desire for service to another brother and sister. This is, along with worship and prayer, the effective cleanser of all motivation.- Teacher Daniel 4/29/2005 Creativity is the power to
think new, to imagine, to see a metaphor. All you need is an
open mind. 4/28/2005 Sweet mercy is nobility's
true badge. 4/27/2005 Successful living is
nothing more or less than the art of the mastery of
dependable techniques for solving common problems. The first
step in the solution of any problem is to locate the
difficulty, to isolate the problem, and frankly to recognize
its nature and gravity. The great mistake is that, when life
problems excite our profound fears, we refuse to recognize
them. Likewise, when the acknowledgment of our difficulties
entails the reduction of our long-cherished conceit, the
admission of envy, or the abandonment of deep-seated
prejudices, the average person prefers to cling to the old
illusions of safety and to the long-cherished false feelings
of security. Only a brave person is willing honestly to
admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical
mind discovers. 4/26/2005 Do just once what others
say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their
limitations again. 4/25/2005 Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it!- Margaret Thatcher 4/22/2005 When man fails to
discriminate the ends of his mortal striving, he finds
himself functioning on the animal level of existence. He has
failed to avail himself of the superior advantages of that
material acumen, moral discrimination, and spiritual insight
which are an integral part of his cosmic-mind endowment as a
personal being. 4/21/2005 We cannot appeal to the
conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep. Those who occupy their
minds with small matters, generally become incapable of
greatness. Faith is deliberate
confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not
understand at the time. God is not the mere
invention of man's idealism; he is the very source of all
such super-animal insights and values. 4/15/2005 I say to you: Love your
enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who
curse you, and pray for those who despitefully use you. And
whatsoever you believe that I would do to men, do you also
to them. 4/14/2005 Pessimism is an excuse for
not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. 4/13/2005 Expecting is the greatest
impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses
today. 4/12/2005 When you run into someone
who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is
uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict
upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel
within us. 4/11/2005 People seldom do what they
believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. 4/8/2005 I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.- Hackett, Buddy 4/7/2005 Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.- John Quincy Adams 4/6/2005 Uphold the best you know and do this in all areas of life so that you can learn to respect yourselves and your actions completely.- Teacher Ham 4/5/2005 God could not be everywhere, so He made mothers.- Jewish Proverb 4/4/2005 You will always have to
live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see
that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight,
honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion. 4/1/2005 Forgiveness is an inner
correction that lightens the heart. It is for our peace of
mind first. Being at peace, we will now have peace to give
to others, and this is the most permanent and valuable gift
we can possibly give. 3/31/2005 Decide to forgive: For
resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment
diminishes and devours the self. 3/30/2005 As long as you don't
forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space
in your mind. 3/29/2005 Jesus' only words, as they nailed him to the crossbeam, were, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." He could not have so mercifully and lovingly interceded for his executioners if such thoughts of affectionate devotion had not been the mainspring of all of his life of unselfish service.- The Urantia Papers 3/28/2005 Only a poet can discern poetry in the commonplace prose of routine existence.- The Urantia Papers 3/25/2005 There is only one you for
all time. Fearlessly be yourself. 3/24/2005 Anywhere there is joy to
spread, spread it. Anywhere there is love to be sown, sow
it. 3/23/2005 If you are distressed by
anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself,
but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to
revoke at any moment. 3/22/2005 Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 3/21/2005 God grant me the
serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the
courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom
to know...it's me! 3/18/2005 Love inspires, illuminates, designates and leads the way.
- Mary Baker Eddy
3/17/2005Never forget that life can
only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely
and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting
out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a
comrade, to win and lose many a battle. 3/16/2005 Keep your fears
to yourself, but share your inspiration with others. 3/15/2005 Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 3/14/2005 Use your imagination not to
scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. The will to originality is not
the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the
desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.
3/10/2005 Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.- R. A. Salvatore 3/9/2005 Face your deficiencies and
acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach
you patience, sweetness, insight. 3/8/2005 Simplicity, clarity,
singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power
and vividness and joy. 3/7/2005 Too often, all too often, you
mar your minds by insincerity and sear them with
unrighteousness; you subject them to animal fear and distort
them by useless anxiety. 3/4/2005 Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. - Robert Louis Stevenson 3/3/2005 "The way" of the universe is tolerance, it is patience, it is
forgiveness, it is forbearance. - Alfred A. Montapert 3/1/2005 Wherever there is a human
being, there is an opportunity for kindness. 2/28/2005 You have been thrown into this
world to find who you are. 2/25/2005 All the wonders you seek are
within yourself. Ultimately magic finds you, if
you let it. 2/23/2005 Be aware of wonder. Live a
balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and
sing and dance and play and work every day some. Stuff your eyes with wonder
... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world.
It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in
factories. 2/21/2005 The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.- John Muir 2/18/2005 To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all
areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think
healthy, wealthy, happy and successful thoughts twenty four
hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and
unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if
you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all. 2/17/2005 Always focus on a feeling of
kinship with everyone you meet, and you will develop the modesty
of spirit and nobility of mind that will engender a sensitive
awareness of the essence of others. The aim of life is to live,
and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely,
divinely aware. 2/15/2005 Think it more satisfactory to
live richly than die rich. Think of all the beauty still
left around you and be happy. 2/11/2005 Develop an attitude of
gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you,
knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving
something bigger and better than your current situation. 2/10/2005 Change yourself first, before
looking to change your opponent, and in the process, you might
find that your opponent has changed himself. 2/9/2005 It is not the goal but the way there that matters.
- Wilfred Thesiger
2/8/2005The distance is nothing; it's only
the first step that is difficult. 2/7/2005 In the moment is where God resides. In the moment is where peace abides. - Teacher Abraham 2/4/2005 Improvisation is the touchstone of
wit. 2/3/2005 The imagination equips us to
perceive reality when it is not fully materialized. 2/2/2005 When you choose to be pleasant and
positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most
cases, how you are going to be treated by them. 2/1/2005 Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that?
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must
believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be
attained. 1/31/2005 The elegance of honesty needs no
adornment. 1/28/2005 Get around the right people.
Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and
inspire you. 1/27/2005 Loyalty to petrified opinion never
yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. 1/26/2005 Do anything, but let it produce
joy. 1/25/2005 A clear attentive mind has no
meaning but that which sees is truly seen. 1/24/2005 God's doings are all purposeful, intelligent, wise, kind, and eternally considerate of the best good, not always of an individual being, an individual race, an individual planet, or even an individual universe; but they are for the welfare and best good of all concerned, from the lowest to the highest.- The Urantia Papers 1/21/2005 To honor the God-knowing leaders
of the past may indeed be worth while, but why, in so doing, should
you sacrifice the supreme experience of human existence: finding God
for yourselves and knowing him in your own souls? 1/20/2005 One of the great troubles with
modern life is that man thinks he is too busy to find time for
spiritual meditation and religious devotion. 1/19/2005 Some people find fault like there
is a reward for it. 1/18/2005 Reading is essential for those who
seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to
stand between us and the book that could change our lives. 1/17/2005 The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.- Emmet Fox 1/14/2005 The ignorant work for their own
profit; the wise work for the welfare of the world. 1/13/2005 Deal honestly and objectively with
yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the
hallmarks of great character. 1/12/2005 Seek first the kingdom of heaven,
then all things needful will be added unto you. Make the spiritual
your priority, everything else will follow of its own. 1/11/2005 You must be still in the midst of
activity, and be vibrantly alive in repose. 1/10/2005 Slow down and enjoy life. It's not
only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the
sense of where you are going and why. 1/7/2005 The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.- Dean Acheson 1/6/2005 Your attitude is an expression of
your values, beliefs and expectations. 1/5/2005 What you get by achieving your
goals is as important as what you become by achieving your goals. 1/4/2005 I have Immortal longings in me. 1/3/2005 I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling
that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed
is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to
others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the
energy of the universe to lead you. 1/1/2005 Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your
achieving them by one-thousand percent!
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