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If you don't know where you are going, any road will lead you there.

Unknown


Why should we use our creative power...? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and accumulation of objects and money.

Brenda Ueland


The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

Anatole France


I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank


Happiness and sorrow are the fruit of my own actions.

Innerspace


I'm astounded by people who want to know the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Woody Allen


To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca


As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent." "By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates


Silence has to be love-filled. Love actually inspires and moves all things towards their original freedom and happiness.

Innerspace


It is impossible, therefore, that any arguments from experience can prove this resemblance of the past to the future; since all these arguments are founded on the supposition of that resemblance. Let the course of things be allowed hitherto ever so regular; that alone, without some new argument or inference, proves not that, for the future, it will continue so.

David Hume


The heart is like a flower - unless it is open it cannot release its fragrance into the world. The fragrance of the heart is made up of the qualities and virtues of our spirit. Most of us have learned how to keep our heart closed in a world that would trample all over us if we let it. Being open hearted today seems to require tremendous courage. It is a courage which comes only when we realise that no one can hurt us, no matter what they say or do. They may hurt our body, but if we have realised we are spirit, nothing outside can touch us, if we so decide. Little by little, practice opening your heart to those you think have hurt you. Realise it wasnt them that hurt you, it was yourself. And it taught you not to trust and you closed your heart. A closed heart is in need of opening. And when you do, you will have begun to heal yourself.

Osho


Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea -- and there is no experiment up to now that has found any center in the brain which corresponds to awareness. The whole work of meditation is to make you aware of all that is "mind" and disidentify yourself from it. That very separation is the greatest revolution that can happen to man. Now you can do and act on only that which makes you more joyous, fulfills you, gives you contentment, makes your life a work of art, a beauty. But this is possible only if the master in you is awake. Right now the master is fast asleep. And the mind, the servant, is playing the role of master. And the servant is created by the outside world, it follows the outside world and its laws. Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created. There is no blissfulness more precious than freedom, than being a master of your own destiny.

Osho


Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The Dhammapada


Human beings can do whatever they set their minds to. With pure values we can move mountains.

Innerspace


Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Paulo Coelho


Have you ever noticed that resistance leads to persistence. And behind all resistance is self-created fear. The only way to relax and stay relaxed is acceptance. You don't have to agree, or follow, or condone, but acceptance means you begin any interaction with a serenity which invites others to engage with you. And out of engagement comes the satisfaction of creative expression and an enriching relationship. That's relaxation in action!

Innerspace


You get more joy out of the giving to others, and should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt


Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

George Eliot


A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

Unknown


Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Tahar Ben Jelloun


Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama


If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Seneca


One may conquer a thousand men a thousand times in battle but he who conquers the self is the greatest conqueror.

Innerspace


Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties.

George Berkeley


Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Salvador Dali


I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Confucius


All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

George Santayana


It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

Wernher von Braun


Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo Da Vinci


Gentleness, love, humility and forgiveness are the greatest powers in the world.

Innerspace


Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh


When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

Thich Nhat Hanh


Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare


What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

Ralph Marston


Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.

Osho


The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.

Indian Proverb


Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

J.Kleykamp


Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Norman Vincent Peale


Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

Francois Voltaire


O marvel! a garden among the flames... My heart has become capable of all forms. It is a meadow for gazelles and a monastery for Christian monks, A temple for idols and the pilgrim's Ka'aba, The Tables of the Law and the book of the Koran. I profess the religion of Love, and whatever direction Its steed may take, Love is my religion and my faith.

Ibn al-Arabi


In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle


We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Nelson Mandela


Do everything you ask of those you command.

General George S. Patton


A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that.

B. A. Billingsly


Only when you are standing on the foundation of your values are you able to maintain your truth.

Innerspace


Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln


Let food be your medicine and medicine your food. Whosoever gives these things no consideration and is ignorant of them, how can he understand the diseases of man.

Hippocrates


The Kingdom (of Heaven) is inside you and it is outside you

Jesus


What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Goethe


Treat others the way you want to be treated.

J.Kleykamp


One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Unknown


No matter where you go, there you are.

Unknown


Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Kahlil Gibran


Manage Emotions When the energy of our consciousness is out of our control - the mind is agitated. We are being emotional. The solution is to detach from the inner storms, stand back and observe the hurricane pass. Detached observation withdraws the energy which your emotions require to sustain themselves. When you watch your own anger, it dies. If you don't detach from it, and observe it ...it will be your master. Today is the day to practice positive, detached observation, and each emotion-filled moment is the opportunity. This is 'real' work. The work of one who is a master of their own consciousness. Are you a master or a slave?

Innerspace


We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.

Xavier Becerra


To create the future we desire we need a spiritual language; we must speak from the heart and in the language of the soul - a language of trust, faith and higher values, of inner growth, love and listening.

Innerspace


The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

George Bernard Shaw


Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Joyce Brothers


He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.

Spanish Proverb


Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin


You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind. So, what are you waiting for?

Innerspace


Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Deepak Chopra


Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

David Frost


Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

George Bernard Shaw


A master in Zen is not simply a teacher. In all the religions there are only teachers. They teach you about subjects which you dont know, and they ask you to believe because there is no way to bring those experiences into objective reality. Neither has the teacher known them - he has believed them; he transfers his belief to somebody else. Zen is not a believers world. It is not for the faithful ones; it is for those daring souls who can drop all belief, unbelief, doubt, reason, mind, and simply enter into their pure existence without boundaries. But it brings a tremendous transformation. Hence, let me say that while others are involved in philosophies, Zen is involved in metamorphosis, in a transformation. It is authentic alchemy: it changes you from base metal into gold. But its language has to be understood, not with your reasoning and intellectual mind but with your loving heart. Or even just listening, not bothering whether it is true or not. And a moment comes suddenly that you see it, which has been eluding you your whole life. Suddenly, what Gautam Buddha called "eighty-four thousand doors" open.

Osho


Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Annie Sullivan


Enjoy doing nothing without falling asleep - meditation

J.Kleykamp


What does your Master teach? ' asked a visitor. ' Nothing, ' said the disciple. ' Then why does he give discourses? ' ' He only points the way — he teaches nothing. ' The visitor couldnt make sense out of this, so the disciple made it clearer: ' If the Master were to teach, we would make beliefs out of his teachings. the Master is not concerned with what we believe — only with what we see.

Anthony de Mello


Two watermelons can't be held in one hand.

Afghan proverb


It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

Carlos Castaneda


Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Richard Bach


If I allow my mind to carry burdens, I will experience heaviness and become tired easily.

Innerspace


The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married and the married wish to be dead.

Ann Landers


You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Jim Rohn


To be peaceful is to be free from expectations and to want nothing from anyone.

Innerspace


Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

Ralph Marston


Have you ever noticed that resistance leads to persistence. And behind all resistance is self-created fear. The only way to relax and stay relaxed is acceptance. You don't have to agree, or follow, or condone, but acceptance means you begin any interaction with a serenity which invites others to engage with you. And out of engagement comes the satisfaction of creative expression and an enriching relationship. That's relaxation in action!

Innerspace


An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha


Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Kahlil Gibran


The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

Seneca


Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine


Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu


Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard


Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt


It is easy to create new things, change places or do something different. To keep that sense of newness that creates enthusiasm is more difficult. The secret of newness in life is not to do new things constantly, but to see everything you do with new eyes, new insights and a new perspective.

Innerspace


I come to realize that mind is no other than mountains and rivers and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and stars.

Dogen


Faith is the surest guide in the darkest days.

Innerspace


Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Lloyd Alexander


Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles


A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Socrates


To see a person's specialities rather than their weaknesses is an act of co-operation.

Innerspace


Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.

Bill Gates


Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein


Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Robert Quillen


The child can become conscious only if in his past life he has meditated enough, has created enough meditative energy to fight with the darkness that death brings. One simply is lost in an oblivion and then suddenly finds a new womb and forgets completely about the old body. There is a discontinuity. This darkness, this unconsciousness creates the discontinuity. The East has been working hard to penetrate these barriers. And ten thousand years' work has not been in vain. Everybody can penetrate to the past life, or many past lives. But for that you have to go deeper into your meditation, for two reasons: unless you go deeper, you cannot find the door to another life; secondly, you have to be deeper in meditation because if you find the door of another life, a flood of events will come into the mind. It is hard enough even to carry one life....

Osho


Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Laurence Sterne


Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.

Osho


A childs life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

Chinese proverb