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Great Quotes

“Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9% of everything you do
is for yourself —
and there isn’t one.”

— Wei Wu Wei

“The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact we can see.

“And the more selfish we remain and self-centered, the more selfish our way of life is, the lonelier we feel and the more miserable. This is also a fact we can see.”

— Dalai Lama
http://www.savetibet.org/

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted, and behold, service was joy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“All life is One;
therefore, there cannot be God — and man,
nor a universe — and God.
A God not in the world is a false god,
and a world not in God is unreal.
All things return to One,
and One operates in all.”

— Nyoken Senzaki

“All know that the drop merges into the ocean
but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.”

— Kabir

“The best form of worship
is to worship God in every form.”

— Neem Karoli Baba

“In relationship lies all the work that needs to be done on the spiritual path: the confrontation with our holding, grief, fear, distrust, and judgment.

“In the deepest spiritual practices, one discovers that pure awareness and pure love are indistinguishable.”

— Steven Levine

“The present moment is where life can be found,
and if you don’t arrive there,
you miss your appointment with life.
You don’t have to run any more.
Breathing in, we say, ‘I have arrived.’
Breathing out, we say, ‘I am home.’
This is a very strong practice,
a very deep practice.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“When we enter the present moment deeply,
our regrets and sorrows disappear,
and we discover life with all its wonders.”

— source unknown

“Today well lived
makes every yesterday a dream of happiness,
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”

— Peace Pilgrim

“Normally, we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life, now, and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“Even if you live to be 100, it’s really a very short time. So why not spend it undergoing this process of evolution, of opening your mind and heart, connecting with your true nature — rather than getting better and better at fixing, grasping, freezing, closing down.”

— Pema Chodron

“The best way to predict the future
is to create it.”

— Peter F. Drucker

“In the balloon you are prisoners of the wind,
and you go only in the direction of the wind.
In life, people think they are prisoners of circumstance.
But in the balloon, as in life, you can change altitude,
and when you change altitude
you change direction.
You are not a prisoner anymore.”

— Bertrand Piccard
French psychiatrist
long-distance balloonist

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

— Marcel Proust

“My barn having burned to the ground,
I can now see the moon.”

— Zen haiku

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

— Albert Einstein

“We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas... As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our being.”

— Thomas Keating

“When that inevitable moment comes [of “touching the divine”], often in crisis, it can change our lives forever. We can no longer live our lives by accident. It breaks us open so that we watch our lives with excruciating care and we walk on the earth paying infinitely close attention to what is precious and what is true and what is right.”

— Wayne Muller

“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

— John Irving

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

— Helen Keller

“Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.”

— Anais Nin

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”

— Seneca
Stoic philosopher

“100% of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.”

— Wayne Gretzky

“Movement overcomes cold. Stillness overcomes heat.”

— Lao Tzu

“Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Non-cooperation with injustice is a sacred duty.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”

— Paulo Freire

“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”

— Benjamin Franklin
July 1776

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have 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

“Those who exchange essential liberty for temporary security shall have neither liberty nor security.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the Government and report the facts.”

— Will Rogers

“A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.”

— H. L. Mencken

“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the best lawyer.”

— Robert Frost

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

— Mark Twain

“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”

— Bertrand Russell

“In the age of natural science, since about the middle of the nineteenth century, the civilized activities of mankind are gradually sliding downward, not only into the lowest regions of nature, but even beneath nature. Technical science and industry become sub-nature.

“This makes it urgent for man to find in conscious experience a knowledge of the spirit, wherein he will rise as high above nature as in his sub-natural technical activities he sinks beneath her. He will thus create within him the inner strength not to go under.”

— Rudolf Steiner
http://www.elib.com/Steiner/Books/

“The spiritual life is the real life — all else is illusion and deception. Only those who are attached to God alone are truly free. Only those who live up to the highest light they have find their lives in harmony.

“Those who act on their highest motivations become a power for good. It is not important that others be noticeably affected. Results should never be sought or desired. Know that every right thing you do — every good thing you say — every positive thought you think — has good effect.”

— Peace Pilgrim
Steps Toward Inner Peace

“Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion
and whoever wants reality
ought to be detached.”

— Simone Weil

“The truth of a thing is the feel of it,
not the think of it.”

— Stanley Kubrick

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

— Albert Einstein

“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.”

— Alexandre Dumas

“Truth is a river that is always splitting up
into arms that reunite.
Islanded between the arms,
the inhabitants argue for a lifetime
as to which is the main river.”

— Cyril Connoly

“One must be leery of words because words turn into cages.”

— Viola Spolin

“Seek first to understand and then to be understood. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand: they listen with the intent to reply. They’re filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people’s lives.”

— Steven R. Covey
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

“Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind.”

— Buddha

“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.
It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there —
buried under the 50,000 thoughts
the average person thinks every day.”

— Deepak Chopra

“The thinking mind is always thinking about things — it’s always one thought from where the action is. It’s far out to realize that when you’re completely identified with your thinking mind, you’re totally isolated from everything else in the universe!”

— Ram Dass

“What’s the essence of meditation practice? We sit to awaken, and we awaken by coming into our body and our senses.”

— Jack Kornfield

“If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.”

— Albert Einstein

“This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.”

— Peace Pilgrim
Steps Toward Inner Peace

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it... Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

“...the refusal to accept love, the refusal to respond to it, that precisely is the meaning of Hell. Hell is not a place where God puts us; it’s a place where we put ourselves. The doors of Hell, insofar as they have locks, have locks on the inside.”

— Kallistos Ware

“Cultivate the feeling of expansion....
Your soul nature is omnipresent. Your home is eternity.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“The winds of grace are blowing all the time.
You have only to raise your sail.”

— Ramakrishna

“The pines spiring around me higher,
higher to the star-flowered sky,
are plainly full of God.
God in them. They in God...
Oh, the infinite abundance
and universality of Beauty!
Beauty is God.
What shall we say of God,
that we may not say of Beauty?”

— John Muir

“Alone I wander a thousand miles...
and I ask my way from the white clouds.”

— Maitreya Buddha

The Isa Upanishad (excerpts)

The Dhammapada (excerpts)

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