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.