sayings
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~Neem Karoli Baba
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing
their own soul.
~Carl Gustav Jung
Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you
have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who
had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them
was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
~ Ching Ning Chu
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth
and love has always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and
for a time they can seem invincible, but in
the end they always fall. Think of it...always."
~Mahatma Gandhi
There's music in the sighing of a reed. There's music in the gushing of
a rill. There's music in all things, if men had ears: Their earth is
but an echo of the spheres.
~Lord Byron
Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or
anything else. If you let go a little you will have a little peace; if
you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely
you will have complete peace.
~Ajahn Chah
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.
That is why you must read,
that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and
dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is
life.
~J.Krishnamurti
Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We
three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is
deep and strong and strange.
~Kahlil Gibran
Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll
meet you there.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of
a leaf.
Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does
not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share
and serve.
My sun sets to rise again.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in
each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
~ Longfellow
I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the
self and have only clear being there.
~Rumi
Do not keep the alabaster box of your friendship sealed up until your
friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving,
cheering words while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts
can be thrilled and made happier. The kind of things you mean to say
when they are gone, say before they go.
~George W. Childs
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want
to be...whether they'll admit that or not.
~Earl Nightingale
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That
will be the beginning.
~Louis L'Amour
Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring. The Winter Garment of
Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly--and Lo! the Bird is on
the Wing.
~Omar Khayyám
Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands
himself from his own strain
presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest
flame.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be
to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
~T.S. Eliot
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult
of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for
which all other work is but preparation.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
~Stephen Levine
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong...
Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those
things and make them bloom?
~Thich Nhat Hanh
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and
another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to
which may be true.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
~Sir Thomas Browne
What is to give light must endure burning.
~Viktor Frankl
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
~Deepak Chopra
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which
does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
~Kahlil Gibran
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to
fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step
without feet.
~Rumi
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a
butterfly.
~Richard Bach
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
~Chinese Proverb
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.
~Marcus Aurelius
God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM."
~Exodus 3:14
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
~The 14th Dalai Lama
The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my
veins night and day in rhythmic measure. It is the same life that
shoots in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of
flowers."
~Rabindranath Tagore
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your
concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
~John Macnaughton
After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after
every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
~ Samuel Rutherford
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love
without giving.
~Richard Braunstein
Learn your lessons quickly and move on.
~Eileen Caddy
Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth. In the attitude of
silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light and what is elusive
and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a
long and arduous quest after Truth, and the soul requires inward
restfulness to attain its full height.
~Mohandas K Gandhi
Keep your faith in beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in
the Spring when it is gone.
~Roy R. Gibson
There are two ways of passing from this world - one in light and one in
darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back; but when one
passes in darkness, he returns.
~Bhagavad Gita
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the
latter enters, the former makes its exit.
~Alexandre Dumas
You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars;
you have a right to be
here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is
unfolding as it should.
~Max Ehrmann
Life is a promise; fulfill it.
~Mother Theresa
"I have done my best." That is about all the philosophy of living one
needs.
~Lin Yutang
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is
noblest; Second,
by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the
bitterest.
~Confucius
Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not
wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be
reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.
~Confucius
Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see
the beauty of their canyons.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"... here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the
root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called
life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and
this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I
carry it in my heart)..."
~ e. e. cummings
The Truth is your birthright: no one can take it from you.
~Svami Purna
Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
~Milton
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long
and so
regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which
open for us.
~Alexander Graham Bell
Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has
become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that
he has deteriorated or am I? ... It is well to take the blame
sometimes.
~Mahatma Gandhi
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful
servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the
gift.
~Albert Einstein
Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.
Rabindranath Tagore
First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this
order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to
your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.
~Confucius
"I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to
explore the depths where your life wells forth."
~Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet
"Do not consider painful what is good for you."
~Euripides
"Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own
counsel.
Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is
length of days."
~Ecclesiasticus
"Facing it, always facing it, that the way to get through. Face it."
~Joseph Conrad
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an
understanding of ourselves."
~Carl Jung
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at
night, and in between he does what he wants to do."
~Bob Dylan
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves,
and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the
reflection of ourselves we find in them.
~Thomas Merton
"The best way to cleanse the heart and prepare for the stilling of the
mind is to lead a normal, worldly life. Living in the midst of your
day-to-day duties, responsibilities, likes, dislikes, etc., will help
you.All these become the very means for the purification of your
heart."
~Meher Baba
When you understand one thing through and through, you understand
everything.
- Shunryu Suzuki