27 2004-06-23T22:03:28-04:00 I am prepared to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Sir Winston Churchill 29 2004-07-18T00:20:24-04:00 You become a spiritual teacher the moment you meet someone in Stillness. Eckhart Tolle 30 2004-06-23T22:02:05-04:00 The world can only change from within. Eckhart Tolle 32 2004-06-23T22:09:43-04:00 We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us. It’s in everyone, and, as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Anonymous 33 2004-07-07T12:32:09-04:00 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us ... St. Paul-Romans 12:4-6 35 2004-07-12T16:12:04-04:00 How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius 36 2004-07-18T00:19:57-04:00 Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs. Anonymous 37 2004-06-23T22:24:27-04:00 Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia 38 2004-09-04T00:30:46-04:00 The girl with dark hair was coming towards him across the field. With what seemed a single movement she tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside. Her body was white and smooth, but it aroused no desire in him, indeed he barely looked at it. What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside. With all its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought. George Orwell-1984 39 2004-06-23T22:28:24-04:00 His disciples asked, 'When will you become revealed to us and when shall we see you?' Jesus answered, 'When you disrobe without being ashamed and take up your garments and place them under your feet like little children and tread on them, then will you see the son of the Living One, and you will not be afraid.' The Gnostic Gospel of St. Thomas 40 2004-06-23T22:29:59-04:00 It's kind of fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney 41 2004-06-23T22:32:13-04:00 'On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined!' is my motto, whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfine. Mark Twain 42 2004-08-08T10:38:56-04:00 Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Anonymous 43 2004-06-23T23:02:31-04:00 We must become the change we want to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi 44 2004-06-23T22:43:11-04:00 A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. Kahlil Gibran 45 2004-06-23T22:44:19-04:00 The one who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the one doing it. Chinese Proverb 46 2004-06-23T22:45:45-04:00 Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. Emily Post 47 2004-09-04T00:34:16-04:00 Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. Mahatma Gandhi 48 2004-06-23T22:49:12-04:00 Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. Anonymous 49 2004-06-23T22:50:03-04:00 Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. Joseph Conrad 50 2004-06-23T23:10:28-04:00 You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing Marie Carmichael Stopes 51 2004-06-23T23:10:45-04:00 Beauty isn’t in things, it’s in your soul. St. Theresa of Lisieux 52 2004-09-04T00:33:49-04:00 The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. Abigail Van Buren 53 2004-06-23T22:56:02-04:00 God, grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. St. Francis of Assisi 54 2004-06-23T22:57:20-04:00 Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein 55 2004-08-08T10:42:36-04:00 Because God created it, the human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve intact its splendor and its beauty. The human body is not in itself shameful. Immodesty is present only when nakedness plays a negative role with regard to the value of the person. Pope John Paul II 56 2004-06-23T23:00:06-04:00 The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. Albert Einstein 57 2004-06-23T23:01:34-04:00 How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. George Washington 58 2004-09-04T00:33:25-04:00 Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds. Hugh Elliott 59 2004-06-23T23:05:26-04:00 Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mahatma Gandhi 60 2004-06-23T23:06:38-04:00 There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e., the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being. Mahatma Gandhi 62 2004-06-23T23:14:54-04:00 It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly. Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy them – while they last. All those things, of course, will still pass away, cycles will come and go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with ease. Eckhart Tolle 71 2004-06-24T00:03:32-04:00 You don't have time to read. But you do have time to restrain your arrogance; you have time to rise above pleasure and pain; to be superior to love of fame; and not to be annoyed by foolish and ungrateful people, but even to care for them. Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (to self) 75 2004-07-08T13:35:17-04:00 Place faith and trust in the love of God, which is all forgiving, and understand that condemnation and fear of judgment stem from the ego. Like the sun, the love of God shines equally on all. David Hawkins 76 2004-07-08T13:34:53-04:00 Avoid negative depictions of God such as jealous, angry, destructive, partial, favouring, vengeful, insecure, vulnerable or contractual. Trust in the love, mercy, infinite wisdom and compassion of Divinity, which sees through all human error, limitation, and frailty. David Hawkins 63 2004-06-23T23:23:36-04:00 If we want to be loved, the way to get it is to love. It is not only the very best method, but it is the only method. To receive love we must love because what we give out must come back. If I love you, I feel wonderful. If you love me, you feel wonderful. It’s the one who loves who feels great. So wanting to be loved is getting into a direction that can never be satisfied. Happiness is when I am loving! The happy one is the one loving, the one giving. We can always maintain an attitude of love. Lester Levenson 66 2004-09-01T00:40:26-04:00 Loving is a way of relating to the world which is forgiving, nurturing and supportive. Love does not proceed from the mind; love emanates from the heart. It has the capacity to lift others and accomplish great feats because of its purity of motive. Reason deals only with particulars, whereas love deals with wholes. Love focuses on the goodness of life in all its expressions and augments that which is positive. It dissolves negativity by recontextualizing it rather than by attacking it. David Hawkins 72 2004-08-30T19:29:04-04:00 Constantly regard the universe as a single living being, having one substance and one soul; observe how all creation relates to the cosmic consciousness of this one living being. Observe too how everything moves with its impulse, working together to create all events, continuously spinning its delicate thread in the amazing complexity of its web. Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius 77 2004-07-08T13:34:36-04:00 Forego opinionation, the judgment of right versus wrong, the vanity of being ‘right’ and the trap of righteousness. Seek to understand rather than to condemn. Apply these principles to one’s view of oneself as well as of others. David Hawkins 78 2004-07-08T13:34:12-04:00 Choose to be easygoing, benign, forgiving, compassionate and unconditionally loving towards all life in all its expressions without exception, including oneself. Focus on unselfish service and the giving of love, consideration, and respect to all creatures. Avoid negativity and the desire for worldliness and its greed for pleasure and possessions. David Hawkins 79 2004-08-30T19:32:15-04:00 Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the Peace of God. Foundation for Inner Peace 80 2004-06-27T21:25:54-04:00 Observe the resistance within yourself. Observe the attachment to your pain. Be very alert. Observe the peculiar pleasure you derive from being unhappy. Observe the compulsion to talk or think about it. The resistance will cease if you make it conscious. Eckhart Tolle 81 2004-06-27T21:27:23-04:00 The ego believes that in your resistance lies your strength, whereas in truth resistance cuts you off from Being, the only place of true power. Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence and power. In surrender, you no longer need ego defenses and false masks. You become very simple, very real. Eckhart Tolle 82 2004-06-27T21:29:42-04:00 When you realize that neither your happiness nor your sense of self depends on the outcome, there is freedom from fear. You don’t seek permanency where it can’t be found: in the world of form, gain and loss, birth and death. You don’t demand that situations, conditions, places or people should make you happy, and then suffer when they don’t live up to your expectations. Everything is honoured, but nothing matters. Eckhart Tolle 83 2004-09-04T00:32:40-04:00 First you stop judging yourself, and then you stop judging your partner. The greatest catalyst for change in a relationship is complete acceptance of your partner as her or she is, without needing to judge or change them in any way. That immediately takes you beyond ego. All mind games and all addictive clinging are then over. Eckhart Tolle 84 2004-06-27T21:34:20-04:00 Relinquish all judgment. Judgment is either to confuse someone’s unconscious behaviour with who they are or to project your own unconsciousness onto another and mistake that for who they are. Eckhart Tolle 85 2004-06-27T21:38:09-04:00 Enlightened people are not special as persons. Without a false self to uphold, defend, and feed, they are more simple, more ordinary than the ordinary man or woman. Eckhart Tolle 86 2004-07-07T12:31:09-04:00 Can't we give ourselves one more chance? Why can't we give love that one more chance? Why can't we give love? Cause love's such an old fashioned word and love dares you to care for Anonymous 88 2004-07-07T12:30:51-04:00 My love said never question your will at all. In the end you've got to go. Look before you leap, and don't you hesitate at all. Sooner or later each conclusion will decide the lonely heart. It will excite. It will delight. It will give a better start. Don’t deceive your free will at all -- just receive it. Yes-Owner of a Lonely Heart 89 2004-09-04T23:38:11-04:00 Carrying closer, go gently. Holding doors will open every way. Time will heal your fear, balance the thoughts that release within you. After all, your soul will still surrender. After all, don't doubt your part. Be ready to be loved. Yes-To Be Over 91 2004-07-07T12:30:11-04:00 It's the beginning of a new love inside. You've got the way to make it all happen. Could be an ever opening flower. Anonymous 92 2004-07-02T09:20:00-04:00 Like water the sage must wait for the moment to arise and be right. Water never fights; it flows around without harm. Tao Te Ching 96 2004-08-15T10:56:12-04:00 People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centred. Forgive them anyway! If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Anonymous 97 2004-07-04T13:41:17-04:00 The terrain is everything, the bacteria nothing. Louis Pasteur (on his deathbed) 98 2004-07-15T23:18:43-04:00 That which stands in the way, IS the way. Anonymous 99 2004-07-04T17:19:22-04:00 Everything is honoured, but nothing matters. Eckhart Tolle 102 2004-08-17T22:51:33-04:00 I’ve been waiting for so long to come here now and sing this song. This is a song to all my friends. They take the challenge to their hearts: Challenging preconceived ideas, saying goodbye to long standing fears. Don’t crack up! Bend your brain! See both sides! Throw off your mental chains! Anonymous 140 2004-08-17T18:35:46-04:00 Never give up. Anonymous 141 2004-08-12T10:06:52-04:00 I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug. Anonymous 142 2004-07-22T21:22:51-04:00 Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God. Modern Hippocratic Oath 103 2004-09-01T23:28:10-04:00 Can anybody love anyone so much that they will never fear, never worry, never be sad? The answer is they cannot love this much, nobody can. This is why I don’t mind you doubting. And maybe love is letting people be just what they want to be. The door always must be left unlocked. To love when circumstance may lead someone away from you, and not to spend the time just doubting. Howard Jones-What Is Love? 105 2004-09-05T20:50:57-04:00 Future dreams we have to realize! A thousand skeptic hands won’t keep us from the things we plan unless we’re clinging to the things we prize. And do you feel scared? I do! But I won’t stop and falter. Treating today as though it was the last, the final show. Get to sixty and feel no regret. It may take a little time, a lonely path, an uphill climb. Success or failure will not alter it. Anonymous 107 2004-07-07T18:57:34-04:00 I am the entire human race compacted together. There is no ingredient of the race that I do not possess in either a small or large way. When it is small, as compared to the same ingredient in somebody else, there is still enough of it for all the purposes of examination. I have found no one who possesses a quality which I do not possess. The shades of difference between other people and me serve to make variety and prevent monotony, but that is all; broadly speaking, we are all alike. Mark Twain (Autobiography) 109 2004-07-08T13:29:24-04:00 Morning has broken, like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird. Anonymous 111 2004-08-13T10:40:42-04:00 Rainy day people always seem to know when it's time to call. Rainy day people always seem to know when you're feeling blue. Rainy day people don't talk, they just listen till they've heard it all. Rainy day people don't mind if you cry a tear or two. Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above. Rainy day people all know how it hangs on a piece of mind. Rainy day lovers don't hide love inside -- they just pass it on. Gordon Lightfoot-Rainy Day People 112 2004-08-09T21:00:24-04:00 It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. Oriah Mountain Dreamer 113 2004-07-11T17:35:59-04:00 In order for something to stick to you, YOU have to be sticky! Anonymous 114 2004-07-21T21:06:25-04:00 Past hurts cause all false perceptions of duality. Anonymous 115 2004-07-11T17:45:04-04:00 The glass is completely full. Anonymous 116 2004-08-21T00:50:17-04:00 Our 'class' or 'classiness' is determined by our good judgment, or the appropriate and beneficial use of our personal power. Our 'character' shows in how we respond when things 'go wrong' in our own and others' lives. Anonymous 117 2004-08-24T00:47:24-04:00 The manner of effecting a task is more important than the result of the task. The manner of speech is more important than the content of such speech. How things are done is more important than what is done. How one addresses others is more important than what one says. Traditional Punjabi Teachings 119 2004-07-15T18:27:18-04:00 Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want thinking they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. Margaret Young-The Artist's Way 120 2004-07-15T23:11:29-04:00 Opportunity only knocks on doors that it knows are already open to IT! Ziggy (Tom Wilson) 121 2004-07-15T23:01:31-04:00 A wallet lost in Sweden more than 40 years ago has been returned to its owner - with her cash still in it. Gulli Wihlborg was 18 when she dropped it while cycling in the town of Trelleborg in the summer of 1963. It arrived at her home of 25 years in the city of Malmo with a handwritten note, saying, "Dear Gulli, never give up hope. Here is the wallet you dropped on Ostersjogatan (a street) many years ago. Greetings from Trelleborg." Metro News (Toronto) 122 2004-07-22T21:31:59-04:00 Your fullest attention is one of the greatest gifts that you can ever give to another person. Anonymous 123 2004-07-17T22:34:55-04:00 You must learn that you cannot be loved by all people. You can be the finest apple in the world -- ripe, juicy, sweet, succulent and offer yourself to all. But you must remember that there are people who do not like apples. Anonymous 124 2004-08-17T23:14:35-04:00 If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Of if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view. Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly. Or yet if I fail to act in the manner of your design or action, let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you. David Keirsey & Marilyn Bates 125 2004-07-17T22:57:08-04:00 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 much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle 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 or bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing -- that is the friend who cares. Henri J.M. Nouwen-Out of Solitude 126 2004-07-17T23:04:29-04:00 Lord, make me an instrument of your health. Where there is sickness, let me bring cure; Anonymous 127 2004-07-17T23:13:39-04:00 A self-actualized person is accepting of oneself and others; spontaneous; other-centred and not self-centred; in need of privacy; independent; resistant to conformity; transcendant of the environment; identified with the human race as a whole; connected to spirituality. A self-actualized person has Anonymous 128 2004-07-25T23:31:39-04:00 Many people mistake enthusiasm for fanaticism. Fanaticism is an exclusive passion based upon one opinion; enthusiasm connects to the universal harmony; it is love of beauty, the elevation of the soul, the pleasure of devotion, all united in the same sentiment that has grandeur and calm. Madame de Stael 129 2004-07-18T00:37:26-04:00 The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without. Ralph Waldo Emerson 131 2004-07-18T00:42:56-04:00 We don't see things as they are... We see things as we are. Anais Nin 132 2004-07-18T00:47:28-04:00 Nobody can hurt me without my permission. Anonymous 133 2004-07-18T00:57:26-04:00 Accept whatever happens to you, woven into the pattern of your destiny, for what could better suit your needs? Teachings of Marcus Aurelius 136 2004-07-21T15:32:31-04:00 Hatred can never cease by hatred. Hatred can only cease by love. This is an eternal law. We are encouraged to practice sending metta to those with whom we are struggling. Metta is love without attachment, without a desire to possess. Anonymous 137 2004-07-24T11:35:42-04:00 May all beings be well, safe and peaceful. Anonymous 138 2004-07-21T15:39:38-04:00 Be Still and Know that I Am God. Psalms 46:10 139 2004-07-21T20:52:41-04:00 Everyone can take the time to smile and say "hello" or "good morning" to people who they pass by on the street. This remains true even if other people do not reciprocate this kind gesture. Anonymous 130 2004-07-18T00:40:14-04:00 The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you... There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Frederick Buechner 134 2004-07-20T10:08:52-04:00 The first evidence of the presence of God is an awakening curiosity in spiritual matters. That is the crack in the ego's dam. When the person begins to practice spiritual goals or pursue spiritual information, the Presence is already taking hold of one's life. If the dsire arises to surrender all obstalces to love and to God, then God is already present in the form of willingness. When one reaches devotion, there is already quite an advanced Presence dissolving the ego and illuminating the way. David Hawkins 135 2004-07-26T16:02:42-04:00 Humility is a constant awareness that we don't really know anything for certain; it is for the best if we remain open to various possible perspectives -- even paradigms -- on the Truth, while still walking confidently on our Path. With the gift of humility, we can freely change our approach to a situation or say "I guess I was wrong about that" without inner resistance, shame or self-drudgery. Anonymous 143 2004-07-22T21:24:02-04:00 I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick. Anonymous 144 2004-07-29T09:56:29-04:00 Making love is especially for when you truly and deeply care about someone so much that you can't possibly express it in words. Anonymous 145 2004-07-25T22:57:22-04:00 I know that I don’t know anything. That’s why I know more than you do. Socrates 146 2004-07-25T23:00:10-04:00 There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. The Matrix 147 2004-07-29T13:32:49-04:00 Imagine a cave in which prisoners are chained. All they can see are shadows thrown on a wall in front of them. All they know about life are these shadows. After a long time stuck in the cave, they would come to think that these shadows were the ultimate reality. If one of them were freed and allowed to emerge into the daylight, she would see things as they really are, and realize how limited her vision had been in the cave. Yet to the other cave dwellers she would seem to be the fool, not they. Plato's Cave Metaphor 148 2004-07-26T19:19:34-04:00 I don't mind what happens. Krishnamurti's Secret 149 2004-07-29T12:14:38-04:00 You see everything. You see every part. You see all my light and you love my dark. You dig everything of which I'm ashamed. There's not anything to which you can't relate, and you're still here. What I resist persists and speaks louder than I know. What I resist you love no matter how low or high I go. Alanis Morissette-Everything 150 2004-07-29T13:30:45-04:00 Less is more. Anonymous 151 2004-07-29T16:28:08-04:00 It is better to live one's life inspirationally rather than strategically. This means to gracefully wait for and then naturally flow into an opportunity that arises spontaneously, rather than seeking to capture or otherwise control this moment. Anonymous 152 2004-08-01T13:03:44-04:00 You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning. Margaret Thatcher 153 2004-08-12T12:07:20-04:00 Couples caught kissing on Moscow's underground rail system could be fined under new regulations being considered by city authorities to raise levels of public morality. The kissing ban could even extend to a husband embracing his wife, Stolichnaya Vechernyaya Gazeta said. Fines for breaking the rules would range from 300 to 500 rubles ($10 to $17). And if the kissing couples didn't have the money, the paper reported, police could hold them at the precinct house until somebody paid. Associated Press (Nov. 2003) 154 2004-08-02T01:48:05-04:00 Forget palm reading! A blind German psychic claims to be able to read people's futures by feeling their naked buttocks. Ulf Buck, 40, claims that people's backsides have lines like those on the palm of the hand. Buck, who lives in the northern village of Meldorf, says that even amateurs can make a broad-brush assessment of personality. "An apple-shaped, muscular bottom indicates a charismatic, dynamic and creative personality. A pear shape suggests someone very steadfast and down-to-earth." Reuters (2002) 155 2004-08-02T01:51:16-04:00 The Cologne-based GEZ television license fee agency apologized yesterday for sending angry letters demanding payment from an 8th century saint and threatening the saint with "legal action" and a fine. Father Karl Terhorst, who received the letters at the Roman Catholic Church in Ramsdorf, east of Cologne, informed the GEZ that St. Walburga was born in 710 in England and was made a saint in 880. Reuters (2003) 156 2004-08-04T16:27:34-04:00 Love means knowing 'the other' -- in its essence -- as your Self. Eckhart Tolle 157 2004-08-09T14:51:29-04:00 According to a number of spiritual and religious traditions, God is both loving and silent. If speaking was possible, God might say something like this: "I'm going to love you to bits. All parts of you. Everyone. Always. No matter what. And what's more, even if you don't want me to, you can't stop me from loving you!" God would then let out a hearty chuckle and enjoy a playful ear-to-ear grin. Anonymous 158 2004-08-06T11:56:01-04:00 Forgive them, for they know not what they do. Author of Luke (Luke 23:34) 159 2004-08-09T14:51:50-04:00 The right of each society to live in accordance with its normal cultural evolution is sacred. All life possesses the inalienable right to flourish on its own terms and in its own time and place. The universe is unfolding as it should. The Prime Directive 160 2004-08-09T18:56:54-04:00 Many societies' development of Self and right to self determination are unduly burdened by all but the most discriminate interaction with more technologically-advanced peoples – even peoples with the most altruistic motives. Indiscriminate interaction includes introducing greater knowledge, strength or technology to people who are incapable of using such resources wisely. The Prime Directive 163 2004-08-07T14:50:04-04:00 You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people to become interested in you. Dale Carnegie 164 2004-08-09T20:59:30-04:00 When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water. Anonymous 165 2004-08-11T21:57:13-04:00 Spiritual development features fluctuating energy cycles. Successes are often followed by apparent lows. These lows are really just part of the natural process through which further barriers are uncovered or clouds dissolved. Each low, if surrendered, fuels a greater high, and each high gives birth to a deeper challenge of even greater spiritual potential. The highs grow in naturally-occurring joyful intensity until we eventually find our way Home, but this time with full spiritual awareness. Anonymous 167 2004-08-08T10:45:08-04:00 In romantic or intimate relationships, demonstrations of selfless caring can be very sexy. Anonymous 168 2004-08-11T21:54:40-04:00 Humanity is a fascinating free will experiment in spiritual consciousness. Anonymous 170 2004-08-09T23:35:08-04:00 When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Helen Keller 171 2004-08-09T23:46:30-04:00 Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your word. Be careful of your words, for your words become your actions. Be careful of your actions, for your actions become your habits. Be careful of your habits, for your habits become your character. Be careful of your character, for your character becomes your destiny. Anonymous 172 2004-08-10T08:44:57-04:00 Please remember that this, too, shall pass. Anonymous 173 2004-08-10T08:45:48-04:00 It is said that an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! Abraham Lincoln 174 2004-08-10T11:50:07-04:00 In my hands I hold a candle whose flame is small to see. And if I give but one light to you my life is filled for me. But … in your hands you hold a torch for many eyes to see. So hold it high that they may light their candlewicks from thee. Faye 175 2004-08-10T12:00:24-04:00 Be impeccable with your word; Take nothing personally; Make no assumptions; Always do your best. Anonymous 176 2004-08-14T16:53:32-04:00 If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all okay, and not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful and useless in times like these. In the end, only kindness matters. I won't be made useless. I won't be idle with despair. I will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear. I am never broken -- we are never broken. We are God's eyes, God's mind, God's heart. We are God’s hands. Jewel-Hands 177 2004-08-12T15:11:11-04:00 How about me not blaming you for everything? How about me enjoying the moment for once? How about how good it feels to finally forgive you? How about grieving it all one at a time? The moment I let go of it was the moment I got more than I could handle. The moment I jumped off of it was the moment I touched down. How about unabashedly bawling your eyes out? How about not equating death with stopping? How about no longer being masochistic? How about remembering your divinity? Alanis Morissette-Thank U 178 2004-08-13T10:40:04-04:00 If you are blessed to receive an act of kindness, enjoy it fully. And then, by all means, pass it on! Anonymous 179 2004-08-12T14:54:24-04:00 In solitude we give passionate attention, to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us. Virginia Woolf 180 2004-08-12T16:40:47-04:00 If you need somebody, call my name. If you want someone, you can do the same. If you want to keep something precious, you got to lock it up and throw away the key. If you want to hold onto your possession, don't even think about me. You can't control an independent heart, can't tear the one you love apart. If you love somebody, if you love someone -- set them free. Sting-If You Love Somebody Set Them Free 181 2004-08-13T16:27:21-04:00 Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness. Eugene T. Gendlin 182 2004-08-15T15:47:23-04:00 When faced with a challenging life situation, here are four options: The first is to accept it fully, as if you had chosen it, and then see what happens. The second option: From a state of balance or presence, attempt to change it in a way that benefits all concerned. The third: Leave it, if possible or applicable. The fourth and last option is to suffer. So by all means pick one of the other three options! Teachings of Eckhart Tolle 183 2004-08-15T16:58:12-04:00 To be fully aware of how you are challenged by a life issue is to be engaged in the noble process of facing or confronting it, rather than avoiding it or unconsciously projecting it onto others. Anonymous 184 2004-08-16T09:24:25-04:00 That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Anonymous 185 2004-08-15T17:05:37-04:00 Simplify, simplify, simplify. Anonymous 186 2004-08-19T00:21:50-04:00 The highest aim of healing is the speedy, gentle and permanent restitution of health in the shortest, most reliable and safest manner, according to clearly intelligible reasons. Anonymous 187 2004-08-22T21:42:15-04:00 All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Thee do we serve and Thee do we beseech for help. Keep us on the right path, not the path of those who go astray. Anonymous 188 2004-08-26T00:21:44-04:00 Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression, including freedom: a) To hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas; b) Of thought, conscience and religion, including freedom to change religion or belief; c) Either alone or with others and in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance; d) Of peaceful assembly and association. No one may be compelled to belong to an association. UN Declaration of Human Rights 189 2004-08-24T00:45:30-04:00 Everyone has duties to the community, through which the free and full development of personality is made possible. Education shall be directed toward the full development of the human personality and the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all national, racial and religious groups for the maintenance of peace. UN Declaration of Human Rights 190 2004-08-19T14:57:06-04:00 All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and endowed with reason and conscience. Everyone is entitled to rights and freedoms without distinction of any kind such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Recognition of the inherent dignity and equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. UN Declaration of Human Rights 193 2004-08-21T10:53:16-04:00 Forgive all of them. Anonymous 194 2004-08-24T13:17:28-04:00 When you cannot see what is happening, do not stare harder. Relax and look gently with your inner eyes. Anonymous 195 2004-08-25T00:01:57-04:00 Live and let live! Traditional Spiritual Saying 196 2004-08-21T13:56:01-04:00 Be! Anonymous 197 2004-08-28T22:50:17-04:00 I have a friend who greets each day by throwing open the window and yelling "GOOD MORNING WORLD!!" It gets him some funny looks but it seems to get his day off to a great start. Anonymous 198 2004-08-24T23:59:35-04:00 If you don't MIND, it doesn't MATTER! Anonymous 199 2004-08-26T00:20:32-04:00 A man who was being chased by a tiger fell over a cliff but clung to a vine. Just then two mice began to gnaw through the vine as he hung in mid-air. He spotted a wild strawberry and, on impulse, put it in his mouth. DELICIOUS! Anonymous 191 2004-08-20T00:48:52-04:00 We don't need bombs and guns to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence, and we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world. There is so much suffering, so much hatred, so much misery, and we with our prayer are beginning at home. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do. Mother Teresa (Nobel Lecture) 192 2004-08-24T00:45:14-04:00 There are two routes to human physical union. One is through the body, appearance, pheremones, hormones. This is the animal instinct, yet still meets a basic human need. The other is angelic, refined, loving, and ultimately more rewarding, exciting and exquisite. It flows from Spirit, friendship, true love and genuine caring and concern for the needs of the other. Here, "imperfections" come to be seen as perfect expressions of one's unique divine form; Spirit rules over matter. Anonymous 200 2004-08-28T22:50:28-04:00 The majority of challenges in our relationships come about when we forget our goal; when we forget the lessons we have learned in the past; when we live in fear, which in effect creates the very thing we fear; and when we do things that we subconsciously know do not work. Iyanla Vanzant 201 2004-08-24T13:14:05-04:00 Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, rebels, trouble-makers, the round heads in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. Apple Computers Advertisement 202 2004-08-27T23:16:07-04:00 Walk straight ahead, no matter what. Traditional Spiritual Saying 203 2004-08-24T13:23:10-04:00 It's not worth arguing about. Anonymous 204 2004-08-25T09:16:31-04:00 Form dissolves. Spiritual Axiom 205 2004-09-02T23:19:23-04:00 You can succeed if others do not believe in you, but you cannot succeed if you do not believe in yourself. Dr. Sidney Newton Bremer 206 2004-08-31T12:38:39-04:00 The name ‘GODEO’ (pronounced Go-DAY-oh) literally means “of God” or “of the highest love, power, wisdom and awareness” and the related phrase, “Gloria in Excelsis Deo” is a dedication to this highest aim. Whereas GODEO’s purpose is to strengthen and unite the Holistic Community, the Holistic Community’s highest aim is to strengthen and unite Humanity. Spirit of GODEO (written by Alan Weir) 207 2004-09-05T13:54:28-04:00 When you're chewing your life's gristle, don't grumble -- give a whistle, and this'll help things turn out for the best. If life seems jolly rotten, there's something you've forgotten, and that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing. Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing! Always look on the bright side of life! Anonymous 208 2004-09-04T00:30:57-04:00 For every physical action there is an equal and opposite reaction. For every emotional force there is a greater and matching counterforce. Anonymous (Credit to Sir Isaac Newton) 209 2004-09-02T23:18:33-04:00 The fact that you exist means that you're made of God, and that's enough! Teachings of David Hawkins 210 2004-09-05T23:46:08-04:00 She never gave up on her greatest challenges, and that is her real victory. Anonymous 211 2004-09-05T23:46:52-04:00 Behold the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" -- which is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention." But the wise man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET." Mark Twain-Pudd'nHead Wilson 212 2004-09-06T00:27:05-04:00 Humor is the good-natured side of a truth, and must be one of the chief attributes of God. Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. Mark Twain 213 2004-09-06T00:25:59-04:00 Morality is painted only in seemingly crisp and clear black and white tones, whereas true ethics reveals many shades of grey in every human situation. Our actions do not exist in a vacuum. Therefore, we must focus our vision on the purpose or intent behind an action, and the complex, many-layered and inter-linked context from which that action arises, if we aim to accurately determine its true ethics and value. The key benefit of such inquiry? True forgiveness of self and others. Teachings of David Hawkins