Robots of 21st Century

"....Folks, when you start looking at anyone as a color or a title, you not only rob them of their humanity, but your own as well. Moreover, it's the first step toward the consideration of harming someone - you don't think of them as a person, but a thing." ~ Zennie62, SFGate

learn, unlearn, and relearn

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." ~ Alvin Toffler

The fullness of life ...

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.” ~ Melodie Beatty
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"There are a dozen strangers inside every person you know."

The Tragedy of Life

“The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.” ~ Albert Einstein

"Old age is like...

... climbing a mountain. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your view becomes much more expansive." ~ Ingmar Bergman

A helping hand.

"Remember, if ever you need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm. As you get older, remember you have another hand: the first to help yourself, and second to help others." ~ Audrey Hepburn

Higher

"What blocks our ascent to the next higher level is the
assumption that we are already up there." ~ Vernon Howard

Gratitude

The ability to feel gratitude is a state of grace, it brings inner joy.

“Gratitude is extremely important. It is a recognition of acceptance of that which is desired and manifested.” ~ Sheila Gillette

The ending, the beginning ...

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. ~ T.S. Eliot

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn . . . A day will come when beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their hands amid the stars. ~ Herbert George Wells

Man's best friend....

Books

Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read." — John Wooden

As humanity awakens.....

“.... and as individuals make the shift from personality-body consciousness to soul consciousness, it becomes easier to connect with that sense of peace in daily life.” ~ Robert Schultz

Ralph Waldo Emerson....

"The soul's communication of truth is the highest event in nature...and this communication is an influx of the Divine Mind into our own mind...Every moment when the individual feels invaded by it is memorable."

Soul of Genius

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Win

"Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can." ~ Dr. Paul Tournier

Walking on the edge...

If you're not walking on the edge, you're taking up too much room!

Confusion

"Of the ten thousand errors and confusions which whirl about in a conditioned mind, not one of them exists in a conscious mind."

LOVE

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes habit.”
~ Peter Ustinov (1921-2004)

Attitude

"Most people find it difficult to see that it is their attitude that makes an event seem either good or bad. One corrective technique is to take some small annoyance and try to see it with a different view-point. Work sincerely to see the event or the person in a new way. Remember, this new and liberating way exists as a fact, whether you are aware of it or not. Your task is personal discovery of it."

Courage

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Your Inner Purpose is to Awaken

So the most important thing to realize is this: Your life has an inner purpose and an outer purpose. Inner purpose concerns Being and is primary. Outer purpose concerns doing and is secondary…. Inner and outer, however, are so intertwined that it is almost impossible to speak of one without referring to the other.

Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet – because it is the purpose of humanity. Your inner purpose is an essential part of the purpose of the whole, the universe and its emerging intelligence. Your outer purpose can change over time. It varies greatly from person to person. Finding and living in alignment with the inner purpose is the foundation for fulfilling your outer purpose. It is the basis for true success. Without that alignment, you can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering. ~ Eckhart Tolle

There is more to man than meets the eye....

We all have the faculty to discern spiritual qualities in the world. We can see honesty; we can see integrity; we can see beauty; we can see love; we can see goodness; we can see joy; we can see peace; we can see harmony; we can see intelligence; and so forth. None of these things has any form; none of these things can be imagined; none of these things is tangible, and yet they can be seen. What is the organ that sees these invisible things? Some people call it the soul, spirit, or consciousness. Man is a spiritual being endowed with spiritual faculties of perception. ~ Dr. Thomas Hora

Character

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." ~ Helen Keller

Gandhi

"The law of love will work, just as the law of gravitation will work, whether we accept it or not...." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

What Remains

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~ Albert Pike

Mistakes are the portals of discovery ~ James Joyce

Each day shapes our lives as running water shapes a stone...

Your daily life is your school, your temple, and your religion. ~ Kahlil Gibran

Perfect Order

“What you want also wants you.
If you seek the celestial, the celestial also seeks you.
There are no unanswered requests in the universe.”

~ Vernon Howard

Aloneness

"I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone." - Rainer Maria Rilke

Beautiful Spirit, Voice, a Purposeful Life

Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole 'IZ' (May 20, 1959 – June 26, 1997) was nicknamed "The Gentle Giant" by his admirers. He was described as always cheerful and positive, and he was best known for his love of the land and of the people of Hawaiʻi. Beloved by many, his body lay in state at the state capitol, the only nonpolitician ever to be so honored. Over 20,000 attended a memorial service and thousands were in the ocean as his ashes where scattered in the waters off of Makua Beach on the Waianae Coast of Oahu.

Iz: "Don't cry for me... go plant one tree..."

"Love each oddah. Malama. Take Care. Stop the dope, brah. It's only facade, brah. It's a thin curtain. It's only temporary. Us guys is forever. Our ancestors, our ancestors before that. ..."

'Somewhere Over The Rainbow'

"Happiness is....

an inside job" ~ Wally Famous Amos (whom I once met on a bleacher stand in Hawaii; he was sitting next to us and offered me and my son a few of his famous cookies, YUM : )

Divine Organizing Intelligence

"Look upon every experience you've ever had, and everyone who's ever played any role in your life, as having been sent to you for your benefit. In this universe, which was created by a divine organizing intelligence, there are simply no accidents." ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

Transcending Bipolar Disorder

"Just don't even talk about killing yourself. That's your mind off on it's own. The point about living with this "disease" is to recognize that impulses/feelings are not facts. Use your feelings and creativity to your advantage. When in doubt, use your brain, just think about things as logically as possible and make a decision without emotion involved. I am 42 years old, rather succesful, traveled everywhere, and have lived at least 3 lifetimes past the herd. (I have the best stories...) If given the choice between having the "disease" or not, I would choose to have it. However, it really sucks at 15. I truly know: no one diagnosed it back then... Best advice I can give (which may not work for you): figure out what you like to do, work hard, make it your career, and when in doubt, THINK. Having a bunch of ideas is easy; deploying or rejecting them requires discpline. Have fun doing it! (And do yoga- it really works.)"

"Thanks for the valuable account of your own experiences and related thoughts. I very much share your sense that a "bipolar" diagnosis "lacks the subtlety required to transcend that frame," and that the common need, for those having the diagnosis as well as everyone else, is "to take responsibility for oneself and one's moods," using whatever resources are available while recognizing that "moods will always change" and that that is, in and of itself, a positive feature of our lives rather than a negative one."

"Im a 44 yr old male, after being shown this article by a friend, I hungrily read every bit of it.I have been an artist my whole life, and a musician as well. I learned to play guitar by ear, and became very accomplished at it. Everything creative , I have excelled at, ever setting higher, almost unrealistic goals for myself, with the belief that I can do anything.I experience a prophetic high , which comes and goes seemingly without pattern. The spirit goeth where it listeth.This euphoria I have always found myself waiting for, like a drug. There have been many times when I was under its spell and hurriedly and feverishly wrote so that I wouldnt lose the creative thoughts.Unfortunately, these major ups are inevitably coupled with some terrible downs. States of depression and self loathing.In my youth I often thought of suicide to get relief, even attempted it once in my 20s.I believe these cycles have also influenced my voracious appetite for the spiritual, since I voraciously read everything from books on the greek mystery cults to alchemy.
Throughout my life, in times of depression, many people close to me have suggested medication.I would never take their advice, my belief being that I would then lose those periods of what I firmly believe are, truly, divine inspiration(laugh all u want, lol).There is an old saying,.."the moon has no light of its own".Our minds being the impotent moon,and the universal mind being the potent sun.I believe each creative is a conduit or vessel, according to varied capacity, receiving ambrosia from above.The ancient poets and prophets thought this,as well as some artists and poets do today.These periods of inspiration are the poets muse, ever spoken of.
Plato wrote of the archetypal realm of ideas, that hidden and divine source of all knowledge and wisdom.This very realm is the source and fountain from which creatives draw their water.I would have it no other way, and consider it a blessing to partake of that water, as so few are able to.The periods of depression may even be partly because of the great loss felt when that inspiration leaves us.
First we are almost immortal, able to take on anything,and next we are filled with a terrible emptiness. There are times when I look at artwork I have done and think, wow I cant believe I made that, and there are other times when I doubt I even am an artist, and think, "what made you ever think you were?".
I feel strongly that having been blessed/cursed with hypomania has allowed me to know things and do things that the average person cannot even grasp.I feel a kinship with all who have written here. Godbless"

A Morale Issue

"But you have also reminded all of us that it concerns more than material things; that what we face is above all a moral issue; that at stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country." ~ President Obama

The Sun

"Earth receives more energy from the sun in one hour than it uses in an entire year." ~ Dow

Let Go and Flow Through Life-Changing Moments

"Within us dwells a higher order of being capable of meeting life-changing moments in much the same way as do leaves on a tree greets a shift in the direction of the wind." ~ Guy Finley

Depression

"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."

"The number one reason for suicide is untreated depression, and depression is highly treatable." ~ Kevin Caruso

"Obviously wealth is not the end all it is made out to be! Poor choice to take one's life though, being that most of the World's people must be content just to have food on the table. There are always other choices one can make even in a mental crisis. Nobody escapes the perils of existence.
Happiness begins from knowing that you woke up again today. What a fantastic gift."

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Secret Advantage

Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. ~ Thomas Jefferson

You Cannot Control How People React to You

Try to move beyond your hurt feelings, realizing it isn't easy to do if someone else is inconsiderate. Nevertheless, it's important for you to realize that you cannot control how people react to you, even if you are tempted to manipulate their emotions by subtle things you say or don't say. Instead of wasting your energy on exerting your will, find a place within that can transform your fear into love by accepting others for who they are. ~ Rick Levine

Spiritual development is not a luxury but a necessity for survival...

To serve the world out of the dynamic union of wisdom and compassion would be to participate most effectively in the preservation of the planet. Masters of all the religious traditions on earth now understand that spiritual training is essential not solely for monks and nuns but for all people, whatever their faith or way of life. The nature of spiritual development is intensely practical, active, and effective. The danger we are all in together makes it essential now that we no longer think of spiritual development as a luxury but as a necessity for survival.

As a famous Tibetan teaching says: “When the world is filled with evil, all mishaps should be transformed into the path of enlightenment.” ~ Sogyal Rinpoche

Malicious Hypnotism, Einstein's Perspective

We are all very susceptible to hypnotism as long as we are materially minded. But if we are spiritually minded, the hypnotism has no effect on us. It is important to recall here a remark Albert Einstein once made: "Arrows of hate ('fiery darts') have been shot at me many times, but they never touched me because they came from a world with which I have nothing in common." What did he mean? Where was he dwelling that these arrows of hate couldn't reach him? He was dwelling above and beyond interaction thinking, in the land of spiritual consciousness.

An ancient Chinese proverb says: "A poisoned arrow can find no place to lodge itself in an enlightened man." ~ Thomas Hora, M.D.

Short Fuse?

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." ~ Robert Frost

Please explain human cruelty...

"It is characterized by two features. First, a cruel person gets a strange sort of exhilaration, a false sense of power, by hurting another. Secondly, he doesn't see how cruelty destroys his psychic self. If he saw cruelty as self-ruin, he would stop in horror. All evil, including cruelty, is unconscious. It is done in a hypnotic state of unawareness." ~ Vernon Howard

Annoyed by the shallow, often senseless behavior of others...

"Don't believe that they can do any better than they do. A child of five can't behave like a child of ten. The same with adults. No one can possible behave above his own level of understanding. Don't expect people to do any better than they are compelled to do at their present level. Your problem is in assuming that they should and could behave better. That is like thinking that a monkey should be as dignified as a deer. Understand this and annoyance disappears." ~ Vernon Howard

Unawareness Causes Grief

Never sacrifice your integrity in order to get something from him or her." ~ Vernon Howard

"Above all, cherish no opinions."

"In order to be able to participate in a dialogic process, we must be willing to abandon, or put aside, opinions. What are opinions? They are cherished ideas personalized ideas. As long as we cherish opinions we cannot participate in a dialogic process because we have an investment in affirming our opinions... the wise man has no opinions whatsoever about anything ... a wise man has a thirst for understanding. He does not claim personal knowledge. At the drop of a hat he is ready to alter his thoughts." ~ Thomas Hora, M.D.

Becoming Unstoppable

"To see that the places where we feel stuck in life are really secret passageways -- provided for us to gain insight into our own greater potential -- is to no longer perceive these hurdles as a hindrance to success in life. In fact, once we learn to welcome whatever challenges us, we stand at the threshold of a new order of our own being where never again will we feel ourselves the victim of anything!" ~ Guy Finley

Perception

Man's life begins only with the appearance of rational consciousness...

But if men who do not see life would only approach nearer to the phantoms which alarm them, and would examine them, they would perceive that for them also they are only phantoms and not realities. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Progress

The test of progress is not how much intellectual knowledge you have added, but how many mental illusions you have discarded. There are those who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom ~ Democritus

"Consciousness...

...is a unique faculty of man enabling him to be aware of himself in a transcendent manner. This is the divine element in us. To fully appreciate it is very important because until we have learned to appreciate the divine in us, we are undeveloped and we live below the level of our potentialities." ~ Thomas Hora, M.D.

Face Fearful Feelings

There is really no such thing as a shaky situation, so any time you start to trimble, don't look around you for the fault: Look inward. It's the inner ground you're standing on that isn't solid. Any weakness faced by looking in this new direction becomes the foundation of a new strength. Face those fearful feelings. Fearlessness follows. ~ Guy Finley

Fearless

"Only fearless people can be pleasant at all times." ~ Cosmic Command

An Einstein perspective...

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. I believe in the latter. " ~ Einstein

If in doubt, do less.

“Trust process,
Support process,
Get out of the way.
…. If in doubt, do less.” ~ Dick Price

The Most Important Voyage

"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous." ~ Thomas Merton

"Blessed are the cracked...

"... for they shall let in the light."~ Groucho Marx

Fearless Living

“Nothing that resists life can hope to learn from it.” ~ Guy Finley

Goodbyes

"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends." ~Richard Bach

An important truth to keep in mind....

"Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation" ~ Roberto Assagioli

Grounded

"Our spirituality is the ground of our being." ~ Paul Tillich

From The Dalai Lama...

"My religion is kindness."

Irreplaceable

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." ~ Coco Chanel

Right Environment

"At the moment, our minds are like a candle flame: unstable, flickering, constantly changing, fanned by the violent winds of our thoughts and emotions. The flame will burn steadily only when we can calm the air around it; so we can only begin to glimpse and rest in the nature of mind when we have stilled the turbulence of our thoughts and emotions. On the other hand, once we have found a stability in our meditation, noises and disturbances of every kind will have far less impact." ~ SOGYAL RINPOCHE

"Immovable Spot"

"A friend once shared wisdom with me…strive to have your 'immovable spot.' Wherever you find yourself, find comfort in yourself and your surroundings and make it your own." ~ Tina Babb

Nuture Yourself

"Remember that your aim is to recover your original and your untroubled nature." ~ Nuture Yourself

62 years old today : )

"A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip." ~Author Unknown

Family Dynamics

"Remembered that when it comes to family dynamics, I can be right or I can be happy, and being right is overrated." ~ Lisa Borgnes

Thoughts Rule The World

"Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Leap of Faith?

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success." - Henry David Thoreau

Karma

Karma means that whatever we do, with our bodies, speech, or minds, will have a corresponding result. Each action, even the smallest, is pregnant with its consequences. It is said by the masters that even a little poison can cause death, and even a tiny seed can become a huge tree. And as Buddha said: “Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.”

Although the results of our actions may not have matured yet, they will inevitably ripen, given the right conditions. Usually we forget what we do, and it is only long afterward that the results catch up with us. By then we are unable to connect them with their causes. “Imagine an eagle,” says Jikmé Lingpa.” It is flying, high in the sky. It casts no shadow. Nothing shows that it is there. Then suddenly it spies its prey, dives, and swoops to the ground. And as it drops, its menacing shadow appears.”

Albert Einstein stated:

"A human being is part of the whole we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical illlusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison, by widening our circle of compassion, to embrace all living beings and all of nature."

Buddha...

.... said attachment to ego-craving / desire / thirst leads to
suffering / dissatisfaction / mental agitation

The higher purpose to what comes

"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
~ Paulo Coelho

Intuition

"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." ~ Einstein

Plan B

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B. ~ James Yorke

In the pursuit of truth

"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led."
~Thomas Jefferson (1812)

Control Issues

"People don't control themselves, their own lives, and yet they want to control the world. As a matter of fact, there is a law involved in that. The less control an individual has over his own internal state, the more he will be compelled, forced, whipped along to try to control other people. Because this means that in this state of weakness, of immaturity, he's going to try to get rid of the pain of the fact by trying to prove that he does have power. And what he does is hurt, what he does is destroy, all unconscious, not seeing that his own lack of internal command of himself, of his life - spiritual command - not seeing that his own lack of that is what spurs him on and this is the cause of all the destruction in the world." ~ Howard Vernon

On The Path

It Doesn't Matter What's Behind You - It's What's Ahead!
~ Lionel Richie

Intelligence Test

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Insults

'let the insults of others (and our thoughts) be like writing with a stick in air / water' ~ Greg

Soul Sight

"To see what is true - that is our goal." ~ Secrets for Higher Success

Forgiveness

The most beautiful thing a man can do is to forgive wrong.

Never is hate diminished by hatred. It is only diminished by love -- this is an eternal law.

The noble-minded dedicate themselves to the promotion of peace and happiness of others -- even those who injure them.

Disturbances

“The resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.” ~ Rumi

Tribute to Educators

"Our task is to learn, to become God-like through knowledge. We know so little. . . . By knowledge we approach God, and then we can rest. Then we come back to teach and help others."

~ Brian Weiss, M.D. Educated as an academic, he received his undergratudate degree from Columbia University and his medical degree from Yale University Medical School of Medicine, where he was chief resident in psychiatry. Additionally, he was on the teaching faculties of several university medical schools and for eleven years served as chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sanai Medical Center.

An Education

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." ~ W. B. Yeats

Authentic Development

"....mistakes and failures are part of authentic development and the secret of starting fresh." ~ Tom Russell

Nature never duplicates a path...

Listen to the wisdom of men like Christ, then make your own footprints. That is precisely what every authentic teacher urges." ~Vernon Howard

The glider ride...

"Contemplation can be compared to flying a glider. The tow plane connects by cable to the glider, and lifts it to a good altitude. Then the glider pilot reaches down and pulls the connection, flying away to soar in the beautiful silence of the open sky." ~ Super Wisdom

Remember when when went on the glider ride together? XX

The secret to getting ahead...

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
~ Mark Twain

On being right...

"I'd rather be happy than right." ~ Unknown

Man's False Belief

"It is an ego-centered illusion that man has a separate identity, that he is something apart from the Cosmic Whole. It breeds pressure, resentment, treachery against others.

Man's false belief in a separate identity resembles an island which is apparently cut off from the mainland, though they are actually one and the same from beneath the surface." ~ The Power of Your Supermind

Man

"The slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself." ~ Henry David Thoreau

Responses

It is not the events of life but how we respond to them that defines the joy and success of our lives.

Learning and Error

The learning process “…occurs whenever errors are detected and corrected, or when a match between intentions and consequences is produced for the first time." - Chris Argyris

Nature

"Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander." Scientist Louise Agassiz

Society

"Seeing through society's stage performance does not change it, but it does keep you safe." ~ Cosmic Command

Invisible Government

"Nature's laws are the invisible government of the earth." ~ Alfred Montapert

Worry

"You really do not have to worry so much because it is all going to change ultimately. This knowledge helps us accept reality as it is."
~ Marianne Williamson

Thomas Jefferson said...

"Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both."

"It is very strange...

People think they can get rid of conflict by creating conflict." ~ Esoteric Mind Power

Different perspectives

"One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak." ~ Chesterton, G. K.

Living from the Field...

"Every minute of every day we are creating our world. Reality is not fixed, but fluid, or mutable, and so possibly open to our influence. "

At the end of your rope?

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. "~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

A teacher and a student

"Here is the formula for inner success:

Right teacher plus right student. A right teacher is one who really knows what he is talking about. A right student is one whose preliminary work enables him to recognize a right teacher as right. When they meet a healthy atmosphere develops, just as a match and a candle meet to create light."

~ 700 Inspiring Guides To A New Life

Receptivity

"Rain falls only once every several years in parts of the immense Sahara Desert in North Africa. Yet when rain finally falls, sleeping seeds in the earth awaken to create colorful scenery. The seeds had always contained their own self-power and self-confidence, and waited only for the time for creative expression of their inner naturalness. No matter how long we have been asleep to our natural confidence, receptivity to higher truths can awaken us."

~ 1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle

Learning

"Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will." ~
A Treasury of Trueness

The Throne

"Towards the throne they all strive: it is their madness - as if happiness sat on the throne." ~ Nietzsche

Enjoy the music...

“We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.” ~ Howard Vernon

The Bumble Bee

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.” ~ Mary Kay Ash

Illusion

"A cloud does not put out the sun.” ~ ACIM

Success

"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary." ~ Thomas Edison

Leaders...

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." ~ John Quincy Adams

"Every student....

deserves to be treated as a potential genius." -- Anton Ehrenzweing

To teach....

"To teach is to demonstrate." -- A Course in Miracles

The gift of grace...

"If you look closely enough, intent upon understanding those things that cause you great pain and consternation …you'll find great joy and illumination. And if you look closer still, you'll see all such things as proof of life's infinite grace." -- Mike Dooley, author

If you really want it....

“If peace if really what you want, then you will choose peace.” -- Eckhart Tolle

Humanity must evolve because it is our only chance of survival as a race...

"Humanity is under great pressure to evolve because it is our only chance of survival as a race. This will affect every aspect of your life and close relationships in particular. Never before have relationships been as problematic and conflict ridden as they are now. As you may continue to pursue the goal of salvation through a relationship, you will be disillusioned again and again. But if you accept that the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world. For those who hold to the old patterns, there will be increasing pain, violence, confusion, and madness. " -- Eckhart Tolle

Living from your real nature...

"Living from your real nature is the same as doing something worthwhile with your life."
-- Howard Vernon

Two Choices

“You have two choices: you can let the same power that keeps the planets revolving around the sun and makes embryos turn into babies -- you can let that force run your life -- or you can do it yourself, your choice.” -- Marianne Williamson

Emotional Turmoil

"We can mine goodness in all experiences when we learn to find the spiritual message within emotional turmoil." -- Judith Orloff, M.D.

Stillness...

"Sometimes in the constant effort to keep moving and achieving, we slow ourselves down, and in our efforts to stay focused, we become endlessly distracted. So today I'm determined to embrace a bit of stillness. Because of this, my post is going to be brief; in fact, you're almost at the end of it.

Today I wish all of you a moment in which absolutely nothing happens, when you can be still and hear nothing but the beautiful beat of your own heart. "
-- Lisa Borgnes Giramonti, A Bloombury Life

Tiny matters...

“What lies behind us and what lies before of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

How you respond...

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it”

Charles R. Swindoll (American Writer and Clergyman, b.1934)

Contentment

“Do not be afraid of having no excitement in your day."

-- Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge

Thoughts are powerful energy...

Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden", published in 1911:

"One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts -- just mere thoughts -- are as powerful as electric batteries -- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a bad thought get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body."

Seeking happiness...

"Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. " — Eckhart Tolle


"The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you." — Oprah

~

Decorating....

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
---Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Chemistry

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." --- Carl Jung

The highest frequency...

"The highest frequency in the universe is that of love. And so to hold that frequency for yourself as long as possible, whenever possible, is the secret."

"When we close out hearts, we block energies -- primarily the energy of love -- from healing us. For this reason, the emotional hardening of the heart leads to its physical hardening."

-- From Courageous Souls

Tragedy of the Commons...

The __________ problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

Garrett Hardin (* the original word was "population") - Tragedy of the Commons

Honor

"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be." - Socrates

On the need to be right....

"The desire to appear right must yield to the yearning to be right." -- Howard Vernon

Crisis

"Advancement to higher understanding is always preceded by a crisis of some kind. The greater the crisis the greater the opportunity for self-uplifting." -- Howard Vernon

A broader perspective on life

"The broader the perspective you have the easier life is because you see each event not as a huge crisis that may overwhelm you, but as a small blip on the screen of a full and rich life." --Nanci Danison, Esq., Near-Death Experiencer

Love is all that matters

"We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present."

Perception

‘We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right.”

Laughter

"Laughter is the closest distance between two people" --Victor Borge

Indispensable

"The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.” - Charles de Gaulle

Fairness

http://fairness4hiphop.blogspot.com/2007/04/thug-life-right-wing-news-and-iraq-war.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

Freedom from worry...

"There is no greater hapiness than freedom from worry, and there is no greater wealth than contentment."

Lao Tzu