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12/29/2006 World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.- The Dalai Lama 12/28/2006 There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than
for bread. 12/27/2006 I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this
game of life everything he's got. 12/26/2006 Giving is a joy if we do it in the right spirit. It all depends
on whether we think of it as "What can I spare? " or as "What can I
share? " 12/25/2006 Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the
love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all
hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the
spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God. 12/22/2006 At first life was a struggle for existence; now, for a standard
of living; next it will be for quality of thinking, the coming
earthly goal of human existence. 12/21/2006 Is courage--strength of character--desirable? Then must man be
reared in an environment which necessitates grappling with hardships
and reacting to disappointments. 12/20/2006 The Master's power is like this. 12/19/2006 Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish
they are after. 12/18/2006 Teach us to value most eternal things… 12/15/2006 Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely. 12/14/2006 To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of
mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe. 12/13/2006 Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the
hearts of those who are traveling the dark way with us. 12/12/2006 Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants
of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. 12/11/2006 When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. - Jiminy Cricket 12/08/2006 My dear father! When I remember him, it is always with his arms open wide to love and comfort me. - Isobel Field (The Life I've Lived) 12/07/2006 Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when
they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds
anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates
confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually
leads to success. 12/06/2006 I have just three things to teach: 12/05/2006 Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them
master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. 12/04/2006 Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. 12/01/2006 A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of
human life when he plants trees under which he knows full well he
will never sit. 11/30/2006 The further you distance yourself from your expectations, the
more exhilarating your life will become. 11/29/2006 Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather
than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining
why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to
get it. 11/28/2006 Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. 11/27/2006 Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling
of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no
wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the
satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, 'Joy
is not in things, it is in us.' 11/24/2006 If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should
first examine it and see whether it is not something that could
better be changed in ourselves. 11/23/2006 No one can give what he or she hasn’t received. So as we are
blessed, we bless the world, giving thanks for every living thing,
for otherwise we offer thanks for nothing. 11/22/2006 Always we hope someone else has the answer. Some other place will
be better, some other time it will all turn out. 11/21/2006 Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as
it happens. 11/20/2006 There is for each man, perfect self-expression. There is a place which he is to fill and no one else can fill, something which he is to do, which no one else can do; it is his destiny! - Florence Scovel Shinn 11/17/2006 Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and
they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. 11/16/2006 When you are inspired....dormant forces, faculties, and talents
become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by
far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. 11/15/2006 Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the
handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. 11/14/2006 Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those
which average eyes would see as fixed and still. 11/13/2006 As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance.
There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you
stand in the present moment, you are timeless. 11/10/2006 The problem lies not in the question, "What is the meaning of
life?" The problem is not finding Love as the answer. 11/09/2006 Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray
for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks. 11/08/2006 There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a
marker on the site. Grab your coat, and get your hat 11/06/2006 You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell
whether a man is wise by his questions. 11/03/2006 The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to
learn ... and change. 11/02/2006 Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body.
For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the
spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be
pointed out by your finger. 11/01/2006 Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true
happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through
fidelity to a worthy purpose. 10/31/2006 Because he believes in himself, he doesn't try to convince
others. 10/30/2006 Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic selfhood,
whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As
we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks
- we will also find our path of authentic service in the world. 10/27/2006 When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate
on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to
cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving
is a personal power-releasing factor. 10/26/2006 Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so
hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. 10/25/2006 None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding
except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
10/24/2006 Respect the Elders, Teach the Young, Cooperate
with the Family, 10/23/2006 Genius lies not in thinking of ideas, but in the ability to
execute the ideas. 10/20/2006 The wise person possesses humility. He knows that his small
island of knowledge is surrounded by a vast sea of the unknown. 10/19/2006 Your decisions are best made when they are made consciously, in
the moment, with intention, with consideration for the consequences,
with full knowledge of why you are making them, and how you are
making the decision. 10/18/2006 Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to
be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and
understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any
reward. Your life will never be the same again. 10/17/2006 Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the
ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. 10/16/2006 Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity;
they seem more afraid of life then of death. 10/13/2006 Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In
other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's
because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the
present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we
do right now. 10/12/2006 When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near. 10/11/2006 Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful
state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and
happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and
successful. 10/10/2006 Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one
experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an
attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind. 10/09/2006 To be a true democracy within yourself, to be unafraid to
consider any viewpoint that crosses your path, to be curious and
actively seek to understand, especially those contrary viewpoints to
what you may treasure; this is the constant stream of what is ever
new in God’s creation. 10/06/2006 The way to succeed is to double your error rate. 10/05/2006 I take a simple view of living. It is, keep your eyes open and get
on with it. 10/04/2006 Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and
unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge
when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day
merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to
fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to
accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No
more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave
space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow! 10/03/2006 Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the
success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult
task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy
in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain
something beautiful is ever lost. 10/02/2006 You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people.
Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others?
Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say
anything gloomy. 09/29/2006 Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you
need to project the end result. Think of the elation, the
satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the
desired goal into view. 09/28/2006 Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man
finds his identity by identifying. 09/27/2006 It is only when we know and understand that we have a limited
time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is
up that we begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the
only one we had. 09/26/2006 Nurture great thoughts for you cannot go higher
than your thoughts. 09/25/2006 You don't have to accept the invitation to get angry. Instead, practice
forgiveness, empathy and encouragement. 09/22/2006 The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all
the other ages you've been. 09/21/2006 Most people are other people, their thoughts are someone else's
opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. 09/20/2006 When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in
you, a joy. 09/19/2006 Whether one is Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian, how you live
your life is proof that you are or not fully His. We cannot condemn
or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what
way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul
to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody? 09/18/2006 The purpose of life is a life of purpose. 09/15/2006 The fool wonders, the wise man asks. 09/14/2006 In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the
expert's mind there are few. 09/13/2006 The root of not listening is knowing. 09/12/2006 God is truth. And it is the desire of God that his creatures
should understand him—come fully to know the truth. 09/11/2006 You cannot find the Supreme, neither can you go to a place where
he is not. 09/8/2006 The Supreme One is brilliant beyond description; he is the Light
of Lights. Every heart and every world is illuminated by this divine
light. 09/7/2006 The wise man is a noble soul who is friendly in the midst of his
enemies, tranquil among the turbulent, and generous among the
grasping.
When the faith of your religion has emancipated your heart, when
the mind, like a mountain, is settled and immovable, then shall the
peace of the soul flow tranquilly like a river of waters. 09/5/2006 Our doubts are traitors; and make us lose the good we oft might
win, by fearing to attempt. 09/4/2006 Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... Forgiveness saves the
expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. 09/1/2006 So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to
the town gossip. 08/31/2006 Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not
enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them.
So, spread your love everywhere you go. 08/30/2006 Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth;
truth being defined as that which exists. 08/29/2006 Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting
difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming
new wishes and seeing them gratified. 08/28/2006 Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting
gold. 08/24/2006 When the solution is simple, God is answering. 08/24/2006 Where there is great love, there are always
miracles. 08/23/2006 Wherever I am, God is. Where God is, there is nothing to fear. 08/22/2006 Seek first to understand, then to be understood. 08/21/2006 The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best
that you can become. 08/18/2006 What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we
are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the
moment realizes itself. - Anna Jameson 08/17/2006 I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes.
Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people
believe in little or nothing yet they give their lives to that
little or nothing. One life is all we have and we live it as we
believe in living it. And then it is gone. But to sacrifice what you
are and live without belief, that's more terrible than dying. 08/16/2006 Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you
have already. Of the things you have, select the best and then
reflect how eagerly they would have been sought if you did not have
them. 08/15/2006 Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the
seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information,
our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. 08/14/2006 By your own soul, learn to live 08/11/2006 Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind
don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. 08/10/2006 Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart
in it, take yourself out of it. 08/9/2006 Be what you are. This is the first step towards becoming better
than you are. 08/8/2006 Judge others by their questions rather than by their answers. 08/7/2006 Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on
harvesting Golden Delicious.
08/4/2006 Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will
find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. 08/3/2006 No human being exists who is not in need of spiritual
regeneration, growth, and change. 08/2/2006 Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by
submitting to it. 08/1/2006 If you will call your troubles experiences, and
remember that every experience develops some latent force within
you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your
circumstances may seem to be. 07/31/2006 Marriage, with its manifold relations, is best designed to draw
forth those precious impulses and those higher motives which are
indispensable to the development of a strong character. 07/28/2006 Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and
Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. 07/27/2006 Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural
consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. 07/26/2006 Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in
your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate
and value into your life. 07/25/2006 If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb
you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe
out that judgment now. 07/24/2006 When the pupil is ready the teacher will appear. 07/21/2006 Words do not become true because you affirm them…. 07/20/2006 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be
continually fearing you will make one. 07/19/2006 When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege
it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. 07/18/2006 God is subtle but he is not malicious. - Albert Einstein 07/17/2006 A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. 07/14/2006 There's no operation where you can have your anger cut out. But
if you work on yourself, as you get better, you'll be more capable
of seeing others as flawed human beings. That makes it easier to
forgive. 07/13/2006 When you blame others, you give up your power to change. 07/12/2006 Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and
no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible
happen. 07/11/2006 Hope is both the earliest and the most
indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life
is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is
wounded, trust impaired. 07/10/2006 I trust life not because I trust the world, but because I trust
the God who lives in my heart. 07/07/2006 What happens to a man is less significant than what happens
within him. 07/06/2006 All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that
the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors'. 07/05/2006 The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his
thought. 07/04/2006 Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children... 07/03/2006 Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do
are in harmony. 06/30/2006 We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish
ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are
now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly
follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our
present actions; so we have to know how to act. 06/29/2006 No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the
sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and
bless God for it. 06/28/2006 We look
forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of
Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. 06/27/2006 Let him that would move the world, first move himself. 06/26/2006 The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the
cause of it. 06/23/2006
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for
complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the
philosophy is kindness. 06/22/2006 Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too
slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that
she hath wings. 06/21/2006
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a
headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you
back the laughter and the lightness in your life. 06/20/2006 You can believe yourselves to be angry at others and tend to lay
blame onto others, when in truth, this is a covering up of the anger
you feel for yourself. 06/16/2006 It is never too late to become what you might have been. - George Elliot 06/15/2006
True religion is a meaningful way of living dynamically face to face
with the commonplace realities of everyday life. 06/14/2006 Let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet
finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly
blessings! 06/13/2006 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are
truly endless. 06/12/2006 The difference between what we do and what we are capable of
doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. 06/09/2006 Too often we visit the well of divine abundance with a teacup
instead of a bucket. 06/08/2006
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is
play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. 06/07/2006 This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the
last, to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate. 06/06/2006
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. 06/05/2006
That which we hold in consciousness will be made manifest for us,
therefore we should not hold the thought of anything that we do not want
to see appear. 06/02/2006
Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall
eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on.
Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the
birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and
yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than
they? 06/01/2006 Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and
weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is
its best preventive and remedy. 05/31/2006 We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning
to see an imperfect person perfectly. 05/30/2006 Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its
original dimensions. 05/29/2006 Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe. - Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
There are no little things, everything is big to God. 05/25/2006 No one goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of
others comes back into our own. 05/24/2006 The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of
persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which
fail. 05/23/2006 Insist on yourself; never imitate. 05/22/2006 The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have
something to live for. 05/19/2006 The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are
held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically,
they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new
evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. 05/18/2006 Yet the timelessness in you is aware of life's timelessness and
knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's
dream and that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling
within the bounds of that moment which scattered the stars into
space. 05/17/2006 The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist
sees the opportunity in every difficulty. 05/16/2006 Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what
is present. 05/15/2006 These things will destroy the human race: politics without
principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work,
learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship
without awareness. 05/12/2006 The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not
with big deposits in bank accounts, but with little deposits of
thoughtfulness and affection in the "love account." 05/11/2006 The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions--the little,
soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or
heartfelt compliment. 05/10/2006 How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. 05/09/2006 If you truly desire to overcome the habit of criticizing some
friend, the quickest and surest way of achieving such a change of
attitude is to establish the habit of praying for that person every
day of your life. 05/08/2006 Being sensitive and responsive to human need creates genuine and
lasting happiness, while such kindly attitudes safeguard the soul
from the destructive influences of anger, hate, and suspicion. 05/05/2006 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 having or 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. 05/04/2006 To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than
luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not
respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly,
talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and
sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely,
await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual,
unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be
my symphony. 05/03/2006 You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable
the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer
spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.
You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. 05/02/2006 We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual
beings on a human journey. 05/01/2006 My mother gave me a bumblebee pin when I started work. She said:
"Aerodynamically, bees shouldn't be able to fly. But they do.
Remember that." 04/28/2006 Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where
you renew your springs that never dry up. 04/27/2006 People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed,
revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. 04/26/2006 We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . .
spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew
itself and create order. 04/25/2006 Believers must increasingly learn how to step aside from the rush
of life--escape the harassments of material existence--while they
refresh the soul, inspire the mind, and renew the spirit by
worshipful communion. 04/24/2006 Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in
his own soul. 04/21/2006 Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation
of tomorrow, it loses today. 04/20/2006 Material possessions will rust away, wear away, or depreciate,
but your inner resources, character, must never depreciate. In
seeking success you must also seek fulfillment. Ask yourself not
only what you want to be, but who you want to be. 04/19/2006 Woman, however, has always been the moral standard-bearer and the
spiritual leader of mankind. The hand that rocks the cradle still
fraternizes with destiny. 04/18/2006 If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can
you expect other people to be entirely to your liking? 04/17/2006 Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. - George Eliot Happiness is a present attitude--not a future condition. 04/13/2006 I believe that imagination is stronger than
knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more
powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience --
laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death. 04/12/2006 The best and most beautiful things in the
world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the
heart. 04/11/2006 There is no power greater than right action in
the present moment. 04/10/2006 And how, you ask, are we to walk the spiritual
path? We answer: say little and love much; give all; judge no man;
aspire to all that is pure and good. 04/07/2006 If you think you're too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. - Betty Reese 04/06/2006 Be daring, be different, be impractical, be
anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative
vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace,
the slaves of the ordinary. 04/05/2006 The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. - Keanu Reeves 04/04/2006 The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome
of a temple of happiness. 04/03/2006 Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your
prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do
not last. The spring rains will come again. 3/31/2006
Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet and
attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and
persistently expects. 3/30/2006
Other people do not have to change for us to
experience peace of mind. 3/29/2006 If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on
a kind of track that has been there the whole while, waiting for
you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. 3/28/2006 Become ever mindful of how, why, and what you
think. 3/27/2006 This is a time of great transformation on our
planet. We all have a part to play, just by being willing to be our
true, magnificent selves. 3/24/2006 The measure of your human strength of
character is your ability to resist the holding of grudges and your
capacity to withstand brooding in the face of deep sorrow. 3/23/2006 Hope is a good thing--maybe the best thing,
and no good thing ever dies. 3/22/2006 Knowledge is a process of piling up facts;
wisdom lies in their simplification. 3/21/2006 The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end. - Claude M. Bristol 3/20/2006 Don't invent nervous conversations just to have something to say, and listen to the silence that follows. It will teach you valuable lessons. - Vernon Howard (www.anewlife.org) 3/17/2006
Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I
carry with me, for every man/woman is a mirror. We see only ourselves
reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a
reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter
parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your
world will change. 3/16/2006 Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as
those of a chick which has not broken its way through its shell
might form of the outside world. 3/15/2006 Be content with what you have; - Lao-tzu 3/14/2006 Be daring, be different, be impractical, be
anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative
vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace,
the slaves of the ordinary. 3/13/2006
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its
brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in
Providence is its best preventive and remedy. 3/10/2006 So many gods, so many creeds, 3/09/2006
We distinguish the excellent man/woman from the
common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands
on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. 3/08/2006 To attain and retain an inner peace with a
growing harmonious balance, it is needful that you be in a state of
constant forgiveness and compassion towards self and all others. 3/07/2006 The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is. - John Lancaster Spalding 3/06/2006
This world is only a bridge; you may pass over it,
but you should not think to build a dwelling place upon it. 3/03/2006 With courage you will dare to take risks, have
the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity. 3/02/2006
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one;
Helen Keller is the other. 3/01/2006 The more anger towards the past you carry in
your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. 2/28/2006 Living in the moment means letting go of the
past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life
consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift. 2/27/2006
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is
to succeed. 2/24/2006 Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the
only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right
now. Don't miss it. 2/23/2006 Banish the future. Live only for the hour and
its allotted work. Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the
difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set
earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be
sufficient for the day. 2/22/2006
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life
doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no
goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but
it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to
capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It
is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have
no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin. 2/21/2006
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity
meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is. 2/20/2006 Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin 2/17/2006
They who lack talent expect things to happen without
effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to
misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of
every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in
any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience
something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of
vigor. 2/16/2006 The love of the Father absolutely
individualizes each personality as a unique child of the Universal
Father, a child without duplicate in infinity, a will creature
irreplaceable in all eternity. 2/15/2006
One of the most amazing earmarks of religious living
is that dynamic and sublime peace, that peace which passes all human
understanding, that cosmic poise which betokens the absence of all doubt
and turmoil. 2/14/2006
The human race must become reconciled to a procession
of changes, adjustments, and readjustments. Mankind is on the march
toward a new and unrevealed planetary destiny. 2/13/2006
Choice of attention--to pay attention to this and
ignore that--is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.
In both choices man is responsible for his choice and must accept the
consequences. 2/10/2006
Let not anger and hate master you. Speak harshly of no one. 2/9/2006
It is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the
way the more worthwhile the journey. 2/8/2006 Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to
meet our expectations. 2/7/2006 Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. - Gen. George S. Patton 2/6/2006 The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity
to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain,
and hunger. 2/3/2006 Joy of life seems to arise from a sense of being where one
belongs. ... All the discontented people I know are trying
sedulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot
do. 2/2/2006 Whatever you believe with emotion becomes your reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions. - Brian Tracey 2/1/2006 If you are not right on the inside, it is useless to pray for
that which is on the outside. 1/31/2006 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its
own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he
contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous
structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend
a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. 1/30/2006 Male and female are, practically regarded, two distinct varieties
of the same species living in close and intimate association. Their
viewpoints and entire life reactions are essentially different; they
are wholly incapable of full and real comprehension of each other.
1/27/2006 As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but
beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. 1/26/2006 Do anything, but let it produce joy. 1/25/2006 A clear attentive mind has no meaning but that which sees is
truly seen. 1/24/2006 Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in
others belong to us as well. 1/23/2006 Allow yourself to pray. It is not enough to want
or to intend or to meditate. You must pray. You must talk. You must
ask. You must believe. This is partnership. 1/20/2006 Don’t think about the future. 1/19/2006 If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the
beauty of the sunset. 1/18/2006
I feel that no one can lead another to truth, because truth is infinite;
it is a pathless land, and no one can tell you how to find it. 1/17/2006 What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit
connection. 1/16/2006 A friend in the market is better than money in the chest. 1/13/2006 Be as a cup, and the universe flows into you. Be as an arrow, and
the universe retreats from you. 1/12/2006 Everyone has inside of him/her a piece of good news. The good
news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can
love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! 1/11/2006 Some self-confronting questions: 'Where do I want to be at any
given time? How am I going to get there? What do I have to do to get
myself from where I am to where I want to be? What's the first,
small step I can take to get moving? 1/10/2006 What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and
it becomes available only when a man/woman is in that state of mind
in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not
to quit until he finds it. 1/9/2006 A man/woman is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
1/6/2006 It is not about what position you attain in life, but how many
you have been able to serve on the way. 1/5/2006 Manifest plainness, 1/4/2006 We are miracles. Each of us is an absolute astonishment. So
whether you believe in miracles or not, we still are. 1/3/2006 Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart. 1/2/2006 Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked
why.
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