Love and marriage

Then said Almitra Speak to us of Love.
And he raised his head and looked upon the people,and there fell a stillness upon them
And with a great voice he said:
When Love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the North wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.
Even as he is for your growth so he is for your pruning
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns to you his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.
And these things shall love do unto you that you know the secrets of your heart,
And in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's Heart.
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of Love's threshing floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

For Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For Love is sufficient unto Love.

When you love you should not say " God is in my heart", but rather " I am in the heart of God."
And think not that you can direct the course of Love, for Love if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Love has no other desire than to fulfill itself,<
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody into the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;<
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

Then Almitra spoke again and said, And what of Marriage, Master?
And he answered saying:
You were born together and together you shall be for evermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness.
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love;
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same mmusic.
Give your hearts but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

Excerpts from The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

Live for yourself

If I can open a new corner in a man’s own heart to him I have not lived in vain. Life itself is the thing, not joy or pain or happiness or unhappiness. To hate is as good as to love - an enemy may be as good as a friend. Live for yourself - live your life. Then you are most truly the friend of man. - I am different every day - and when I am eighty, I shall still be experimenting and changing. Work that I have done no longer concerns me - it is past. I have too much on hand in life itself.



–Kahlil Gibran

Sand and foam

I am forever walking upon these shores,


Betwixt the sand and the foam,


The high tide will erase my foot-prints,


And the wind will blow away the foam.


But the sea and the shore will remain


Forever.


Once I filled my hand with mist.


Then I opened it and lo, the mist was a worm.


And I closed and opened my hand again, and behold there was a bird.


And again I closed and opened my hand, and in its hollow stood a man with a sad face, turned upward.


And again I closed my hand, and when I opened it there was naught but mist.


But I heard a song of exceeding sweetness.


It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life.


Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.


They say to me in their awakening, “You and the world you live in are but a grain of sand upon the infinite shore of an infinite sea.”


And in my dream I say to them, “I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.”


Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, “Who are you?”


–Kahlil Gibran

the free me

"Too young am I and too outraged to be my freer self."
Kahlil Gibran

R morals right?

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov

Ethics

Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.
Valdemar W. Setzer

for nobody's sake

I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.


Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Atlas Shrugged

The dead dreams stink!

When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquillity, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and to infect the whole atmosphere in which we live. What we hoped to avoid in the Fight -disappointment and defeat- become the sole legacy of our cowardice.


Paulo Coelho
The Pilgrimage

To build or to plant?

In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years over their tasks, but one day they will finish what they are doing. Then they will stop, hemmed in by their own walls. Life becomes meaningless once the building is finished. Those who plant suffer the storms and the seasons and rarely rest. Unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And by its constant demands on the gardner's attentions, it makes of the gardener's life a great adventure.


Paulo Coelho
Source: Brida

How perverse is that?

Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.


Paulo Coelho
The Zahir

Are we?

When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul.


Paulo Coelho
Source: The Zahir

perception

What other people think is more important than what we feel.


Paulo Coelho
The Zahir

stubborn-a virtue?

The brave are always stubborn


Paulo Coelho
The Fifth Mountain

Learn from the child

A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.


Paulo Coelho
The Fifth Mountain

Words or weapons

… of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible –and the most powerful –was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided… but the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.


Paulo Coelho
The Fifth Mountain

Mad but normal

Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.


Paulo Coelho
Like the Flowing River

Did u own what u lost?

It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.


Paulo Coelho

Why I want IT NOW?

There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.


Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist

love begets love

I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we're alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
Paulo Coelho quote

Mystery IS

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
Paulo Coelho

To wait or forget?!

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
Paulo Coelho

life challenges

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

What's the Difference?

Two roads diverged in the wood,and I-
I took the road less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Mission accomplished?

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive it isn't.
~ Richard Bach (Illusions)

Did God hv a choice?!

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

Albert Einstein

My choice is my power

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.


Liv Ullmann

Solitude is bliss

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Alice Koller

Was life a choice?

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

Henry Ward Beecher quotes

Attitude

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.
Charles R. Swindoll quotes

Its ur Choice!

Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Richard Bach

The life of a choice

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

Richard Bach

Choice

“When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels”

Choice

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Joanne Kathleen

Does God exist?

"Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear."
-- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787

who is truth's enemy?

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

William James

why poets shudn't lie!

All the poet can do today is warn.
That is why true Poets must be truthful.

Wilfred Owen

do not interpret the WORLD

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.


Umberto Eco

Fiction

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.


Stephen King

why say truth!!

Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.

Mark Twain

schools-what they confer and conceal

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

1908, notebook
Mark Twain

Truth vs Myth

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic

John F Kennedy

opinion to truth

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.


George Bernard Shaw

Truth a myth?

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

Brad Holland

Options

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional
Unknown

Violent World

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.


Marshall Rosenberg

Handle with Care!

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

James Russell Lowell

Suffering

Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person. ln those transparent moments we know other people's joys and sorrows, and we care about their concerns as if they were our own.

Fritz Williams

How seriously should we take LIFE?

I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know ... that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?

Ernest Becker

warm inside

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!


--Rudyard Kipling

supervise kids

"Leave your kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing*!"


Warren Buffett

Image of Present

"Those who build the present in the image of the past will miss out entirely on the challenges of the future."
Winston Churchill

soulmate

“A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.”
About courtship with Leslie Parrish
Richard Bach quotes (American Writer, author of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull', b.1936)

Ask to seek

“A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning -- and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries -- it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions. But in so doing it will become void of all positive content and, finding nothing which offers it resistance, will launch itself perforce into the emptiness of inner revere.”
Emile Durkheim quotes (French Sociologist; tudied anomie & social cohesion; wrote "The Division of Labor in Society" 1893, "Suicide" 1897 (also "Le Suicide"), 1858-1917)

Matter and emptiness

“Physicists have determined that even the most solid and heavy mass of matter we see is mostly empty space. But at the submicroscopic level, specks of matter scattered through a vast emptiness have such incredible density and weight, and are linked to one another by such powerful forces, that together they produce all the properties of concrete, cast iron and solid rock. In much the same way, specks of knowledge are scattered through a vast emptiness of ignorance, and everything depends upon how solid the individual specks of knowledge are, and on how powerfully linked and coordinated they are with one another.”
Thomas Sowell quotes (American Writer and Economist, b.1930

emptiness

Once I knew only darkness and stillness...my life was without past or future...but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”
Helen Keller quotes (American Author and Educator who was blind and deaf. 1880-1968)

parents and children

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let our bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Khalil Gibran

yes to life

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision,but making mistakes is part of life.What does the world want from me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say 'yes' to life?

Paulo Coelho
(Eleven Minutes)

Purpose in life

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle DedicatoryIrish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

pyar ko pyar hi rahne do koi naam na do

From Khamoshi sung by Lata M

ham ne dekhi hai in aankhon ki mahakti khushboo
haath se chuh ke ise rishto ka ilzaam na do
sirf ehsaas hai ye rooh se mahsoos karo
pyar ko pyar hi rahne do koi naam na do

pyar koi bol nahin, pyar awaz nahin
ek khaamoshi hai sunti hai kaha karti hai
na yeh bujhti hai na rukti hai na Thahri hai kahin
noor ki boond hai sadiyon se baha karti hai

sirf ehsaas hai ye rooh se mahsoos karo
pyar ko pyar hi rahne do koi naam na do

muskrahat si khili rahti hai aankhon me kahin
aur palkon pe ujaale se chuhpe rahate hain
honth kuch kahte nahin, kaanpate honthon pe magar
kitane khaamosh se afasaane ruke rahate hain

sirf ehsaas hai ye rooh se mahsoos karo
pyar ko pyar hi rahne do koi naam na do

Secret

100 quotes from "The Secret"
1. We all work with one infinite power
2. The Secret is the Law of Attraction (LOA)
3. Whatever is going on in your mind is what you are attracting
4. We are like magnets - like attract like. You become AND attract what you think
5. Every thought has a frequency. Thoughts send out a magnetic energy
6. People think about what they don't want and attract more of the same
7. Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation
8. You attract your dominant thoughts
9. Those who speak most of illness have illness, those who speak most of prosperity have it..etc..
10. It's not "wishful" thinking.
11. You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it
12. Choose your thoughts carefully .. you are a masterpiece of your life
13. It's OK that thoughts don't manifest into reality immediately (if we saw a picture of an elephant and it instantly appeared, that would be too soon)
14. EVERYTHING in your life you have attracted .. accept that fact .. it's true.
15. Your thoughts cause your feelings
16. We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings.
17. Thoughts that bring about good feelings mean you are on the right track. Thoughts that bring about bad feelings means you are not on the right track.
18. Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what is in the process of becoming
19. You get exactly what you are FEELING
20. Happy feelings will attract more happy circumstances
21. You can begin feeling whatever you want (even if it's not there).. the universe will correspond to the nature of your song
22. What you focus on with your thought and feeling is what you attract into your experience
23. What you think and what you feel and what actually manifests is ALWAYS a match - no exception
24. Shift your awareness
25. "You create your own universe as you go along" Winston Churchill
26. It's important to feel good ( ( ( (((good))) ) ) )
27. You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience
28. When you get the hang of this, before you know it you will KNOW you are the creator
29. Life can and should be phenomenal .. and it will be when you consciously apply the Law of Attraction
30. Universe will re-arrange itself accordingly
31. Start by using this sentence for all of your wants: "I'm so happy and grateful now that.... "
32. You don't need to know HOW the universe is going to rearrange itself
33. LOA is simply figuring out for yourself what will generate the positive feelings of having it NOW
34. You might get an inspired thought or idea to help you move towards what you want faster
35. The universe likes SPEED. Don't delay, don't second-guess, don't doubt..
36. When the opportunity or impulse is there .. ACT
37. You will attract everything you require - money, people, connections.. PAY ATTENTION to what's being set in front of you
38. You can start with nothing .. and out of nothing or no way - a WAY will be provided.
39. HOW LONG??? No rules on time .. the more aligned you are with positive feelings the quicker things happen
40. Size is nothing to the universe (unlimited abundance if that's what you wish) We make the rules on size and time
41. No rules according to the universe .. you provide the feelings of having it now and the universe will respond
42. Most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what they are observing (bills in the mail, being late, having bad luck...etc..)
43. You have to find a different approach to what is through a different vantage point
44. "All that we are is a result of what we have thought" - Buddha
45. What can you do right now to turn your life around?? Gratitude
46. Gratitude will bring more into our lives immediately
47. What we think about and THANK about is what we bring about
48. What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude.. focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for
49. Play the picture in your mind - focus on the end result
50. VISUALIZE!!! Rehearse your future
51. VISUALIZE!!! See it, feel it! This is where action begins
52. Feel the joy .. feel the happiness :o)
53. An affirmative thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative one
54. "What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists." Alexander Graham Bell
55. Our job is not to worry about the "How". The "How" will show up out of the commitment and belief in the "what"
56. The Hows are the domain of the universe. It always knows the quickest, fastest, most harmonious way between you and your dream
57. If you turn it over to the universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered .. this is where magic and miracles happen
58. Turn it over to the universe daily.. but it should never be a chore.
59. Feel exhilarated by the whole process .. high, happy, in tune
60. The only difference between people who are really living this way is they have habituated ways of being.
61. They remember to do it all the time
62. Create a Vision Board .. pictures of what you want to attract .. every day look at it and get into the feeling state of already having acquired these wants
63. "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." Albert Einstein
64. Decide what you want .. believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, believe it's possible for you
65. Close your eyes and visualize having what you already want - and the feeling of having it already.
66. Focus on being grateful for what you have already .. enjoy it!! Then release into the universe. The universe will manifest it.
67. "Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve" W. Clement Stone
68. Set a goal so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind.
69. When you have an inspired thought, you must trust it and act on it.
70. How can you become more prosperous?? INTEND IT!!
71. 'Checks are coming in the mail regularly'... or change your bank statement to whatever balance you want in there... and get behind the feeling of having it.
72. Life is meant to be abundant in ALL areas...
73. Go for the sense of inner joy and peace then all outside things appear
74. We are the creators of our universe
75. Relationships: Treat yourself the way you want to be treated by others .. love yourself and you will be loved
76. Healthy respect for yourself
77. For those you work with or interact with regularly .. get a notebook and write down positive aspects of each of those people.
78. Write down the things you like most about them (don't expect change from them). Law of attraction will not put you in the same space together if you frequencies don't match
79. When you realize your potential to feel good, you will ask no one to be different in order for you to feel good.
80. You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children....
81. You are the only one that creates your reality
82. No one else can think or feel for you .. its YOU .. ONLY YOU.
83. Health: thank the universe for your own healing. Laugh, stress free happiness will keep you healthy.
84. Immune system will heal itself
85. Parts of our bodies are replace every day, every week..etc... Within a few years we have a brand new body
86. See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the bod.
87. Remove stress from the body and the body regenerates itself. You can heal yourself
88. Learn to become still .. and take your attention away from what you don't want, and place your attention on what you wish to experience
89. When the voice and vision on the inside become more profound and clear than the opinions on the outside, then you have mastered your life
90. You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.
91. And allow the world as others choose to see it, exist as well
92. People think that if everyone knows the power of the LOA there won't be enough to go around .. This is a lie that's been ingrained in us and makes so many greedy.
93. The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around.
94. All of this abundance begins to shine through a mind that is aware of it's own infinite nature. There's enough for everyone. See it. Believe it. it will show up for you.
95. So let the variety of your reality thrill you as you choose all the things you want.. get behind the good feelings of all your wants.
96. Write your script. When you see things you don't want, don't think about them, write about them, talk about them, push against them, or join groups that focus on the don't wants... remove your attention from don't wants.. and place them on do wants
97. We are mass energy. Everything is energy. EVERYTHING.
98. Don't define yourself by your body .. it's the infinite being that's connected to everything in the universe.
99. One energy field. Our bodies have distracted us from our energy. We are the infinite field of unfolding possibilities. The creative force.
100. Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - NOW is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. – Henry Ward Beecher

Real love stories never have endings. -- Richard Bach

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King JR

“Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.”
Eric Hoffer

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
German Greer

Loneliness

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Mark Twain

“Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.”
Paul Tilich

Live with Purpose

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee ,and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic , glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups. Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life We live.Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us. ' God brews the coffee, not the cups.....Enjoy your coffee! 'The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.

'Live simply.Love generously.Care deeply. Speak kindly.Leave the rest to God.You are the miracle, my friend,Your life either shines a light - or casts a shadow.'The purpose of life is to live life with purpose' !!!

Whose hands?

Give a Seed to a Gardner and you get a Tree. Give a seed to a Potter and you get a Bonsai ~~Chinese Proverb

new idea

Sometimes a person's mind is stretched by a new idea and never does go back to its old shape. -
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Teacher

If he is indeed wise [the teacher] does not let you enter the house of his wisdom,but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. -- Kahlil Gibran

Teacher

To be a teacher is, above all, to let others learn.
Heidegger

Why write

I write for very much the same reason I read: to startle my mind, to churn my heart, to tingle my spine, to knock the blinders off my eyes and allow me to see beyond the pale. I write for the specific and unique ways that words can evoke emotions and images and thus give both pain and pleasure, wonder and confirmation about what it means to be alive.
Amy Tan, 1996

prejudices and opinions

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Environment

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)

Hold your ground

"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground." - Anon.

direction

"Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction." - M. Gandhi

Live

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it" - W. M. Lewis
"Chance favors

Air and Water

In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air. ~Changing Times magazine

survival of mankind

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. ~Albert Einstein

progress

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. ~John Clapham, A Concise Economic History of Britain, 1957

newspapers

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. ~James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982

fuel!

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! ~Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.

earth

Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find. ~Quoted in Time

Right and wrong

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. ~Peter Marshall

Emptiness

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. ~Benjamin Whichcote

The right value

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes

Open up

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. ~Benjamin Franklin

Show of Strength

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down,
the other is pulling up.”

Success

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to
get up and make them.
-Madame C. J. Walker

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what
you are going to do to get the things you want.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it
frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is
knowing how to get along with people.

The only thing to fear is fear itself.


Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has
reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome
-Booker T. Washington


I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

Earth

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.We do not inherit the earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.
American Indian proverb.

choose to be strong

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda

contribute to live

"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

beleive and it will be there

By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it. The nonexistant is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
- Nikos Kazantzakis

Take Risks

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
- Teddy Roosevelt

Be what u r

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 so that 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

career

Don't confuse having a career with having a life”
Hillary Clinton quotes (American Senator from New York since 2001 and First Lady (1993-2001), wife of Bill Clinton, 42nd US president. b.1947)

Career

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

Career

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan quotes (American NBA Basketball Player, widely considered to be the greatest player in the history of the game, b.1963)