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Famous Quotes & Sayings“ None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. ” “ Instead of losing sleep over whatever I have done wrong, let me get busy doing something right ” “ There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and thats not training them and keeping them. ” “ It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. ” “ A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts. ” “ Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ” “ There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. ” “ The wise don't strive to arrive. ” “ Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. ” “ If you’re having trouble with meditation, that means you’re not really doing it. The powerful thing about meditation is its radical simplicity—be still, be at ease, pay attention. That’s the beauty of it—meditation means doing absolutely nothing. And there are only two positions in relationship to that: you either do it or you don’t. But often human beings find this simplicity unbearable. It confronts us with ourselves at the deepest level, and most of us just can’t bear that degree of transparency. But that’s why it’s important to learn how to meditate. It is only in the exquisite simplicity of doing absolutely nothing that you begin to be able to see yourself in ways you ordinarily would never be able to do. If you really engage with this unbearable simplicity, it’s impossible to hide from yourself. ” “ Everything that comes to us, comes to pass or, more accurately, for us to pass on. Not just the money in our pocket, but wisdom, objects, ideas, even opportunities, all come to us, so that, at the right moment, we can pass them on. This is called flow. Being in the flow means being aware that the river of life is flowing to us at every moment. Being in the flow means accepting whatever comes and putting it to good use, before passing it on. Going with the flow means allowing whatever comes to move on freely, without holding on in any way. If we do not pass on, we are trying to block the flow, and that's when we feel pressure in our life. Pressure is always self-inflicted. Every time you feel 'under pressure' look at what you need to release and to pass on to someone else. Once you do you can ...relax...again. ” “ Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. ” “ I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldnt touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. ” “ I can only give my best to others when I am in touch with the best in myself. ” “ One should count each day a separate life. ” “ There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. ” “ The lotus is a symbol of purity. Its roots are in the mud, but the flower remains above dirty water. Live a lotus life. Be in the world, but unaffected by impurities. ” “ "No one is to blame" is an aspect of humility that enables everyone to move forward. ” “ The question is, what are you ready to do to overcome poverty? ” “ We have ancient habits to deal with, vast structures of power, indescribably complicated problems to solve. But unless we abdicate our humanity altogether and succumb to fear and impotence in the presence of the weapons we have ourselves created, it is as possible and as urgent to put an end to war and violence between nations as it is to put an end to poverty and racial injustice. ” “ Do not seek the truth. Only cease to cherish opinions. ” “ Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is ” “ To taste the sweetness of life you must have the power to forget the past. ” “ We each have the three energies we need to learn to manage - spirit, mind and body. All three need a good diet - body needs pure food (vegetarian), your mind needs positive ideas and images, and the spirit that you are needs time in silence and stillness to refresh and renew. These are our resources, and each one needs topping up, otherwise we run on empty and dis - ease comes to visit. But diet is just the beginning. Coming soon... exercise!. ” “ Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. ” “ If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. ” “ No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy. ” “ What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do. ” “ The future of humanity will move closer and closer toward the approach of Zen, because the meeting of the East and West is possible only through something like Zen, which is earthly and yet unearthly. ” “ The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows. ” “ To see things in the seed, that is genius. ” “ I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. ” “ You dont love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ” “ Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. ” “ One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. ” “ The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord. ” “ The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. ” “ Teaching others is best done with love, once the heart has understood, the mind opens. ” “ You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. ” “ We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls. ” “ I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer. ” “ The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer interested in having more knowledge; he wants to have more being. ” “ Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there. ” “ If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men. ” “ At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic. ” “ To remain cheerful, congratulate the self and congratulate others on their speciality. ” “ The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success. ” “ Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. ” “ One reason I dont drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. ” “ Some things in life are bad, they can really make you mad. But always look on the bright side of life ” “ It is allowed on all hands that there is no known connexion between the sensible qualities and the secret powers; and consequently, that the mind is not led to form such a conclusion concerning their constant and regular conjunction, by anything which it knows of their nature. ” “ Someone who has tolerance won't even say "I have to tolerate," because that implies they are feeling sorrow. Instead, they will say, "It's not a problem. There is something for me to learn in this." Whatever the situation, tolerance enables me to learn. Perhaps I need patience, or humility, or understanding. Tolerance allows me peace and my love to stay constant. That way I stay connected with the Source of all that is good, so that I can help both myself and others. Tolerance enables me to stay focused, so I can be connected with God, and the light that comes from that connection enables me to see what I need to do at every moment, and how to do it. Chaos may surround me, but if I have that light in front of me, I know where to go. If I experience that light in each step I take, then I can illuminate the way for others as well. ” “ To remain constantly happy and to distribute happiness is the greatest honour. ” “ As we mature spiritually there is less need to have our self-respect bolstered by praise and special attention. As our thought processes become more compassionate and less self obsessed, we feel increasingly satisfied with ourselves and our lives. We relate to people more easily and feel no need to draw attention to our successes or complain about our problems. ” “ Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy. ” “ Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening. ” “ Peace of mind comes not from wanting to change others, but by simply accepting them as they are. ” “ When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self. ” “ I am endlessly compelled by the notion that higher stages or levels of development do not preexist, that is, they are not “given” but are literally created by brave individuals who actually venture into new, uncharted territory, laying down “grooves” that others follow, which eventually become actual new structures or stages. The fact that the future, even at the most subtle metaphysical levels, literally does not yet exist challenges our most fundamental spiritual/religious notions in every possible way, but if we're ready for it, it can be the source of enormous inspiration and promise. I think potentially what's the most thrilling for the postmodern self is the discovery that we are literally creating the future, which means we are not separate from the creative principle or God-impulse itself—God is evolving as we evolve. And this moment itself, assuming that one is leaning into it with all of one's being, reaching for the future, is potentially the very edge of the possible. ” “ There is a voice within which occasionally gets our attention and tries to remind us of how good and beautiful we are. It calls us from a time long ago when we first arrived for our journey in and through time and space. Those first moments were filled with pure joy, pure play, pure adventure. Whenever you meet someone today with a pure, innocent and trusting heart let them remind you of yourself during those first early years. They invoke the purity of your own heart, and invite you to be innocent again. It also shows you one of the greatest keys to real relaxation. It is the truth that we are all pure in heart...forever. It is only what we accumulate and learn from the world around us that blocks and clogs our heart. All evil is learned and can be unlearned. All depression is the result of the illusion that we have lost something, when in truth, we cannot lose what is of true value to us, the eternal qualities of our own spirit, our own self. In a quiet moment today, listen for your hearts call. It will tell you everything is really fine, there is no need to struggle, and that you are beautiful just as you are...and you will be again! ” “ The power of absolute love is a raging fire of uncontainable majesty that consumes any and all who come too close to its flames. That fire burns wildly, aware only of itself. That is why the wholehearted and very conscious participation in the entire process of self purification is always such an integral part of spiritual evolution and transformation. Indeed, in most cases, the extraordinary leap that profound surrender always is will not occur free from the corrupting influence of ego unless our conscious participation in our own purification is intense and deeply committed. What is so miraculous, though, is the powerful recognition that that participation in the process of our own transformation is that raging fire of absolute love in action, moving in our own hearts and minds as the desire for Liberation itself. ” “ Buddha has chosen one of the really very potential words - shunyata. The English word, the English equivalent, "nothingness", is not such a beautiful word. Thats why I would like to make it "no-thingness" - because the nothing is not just nothing, it is all. It is vibrant with all possibilities. It is potential, absolute potential. It is unmanifest yet, but it contains all. In the beginning is nature, in the end is nature, so why in the middle do you make so much fuss? Why, in the middle, becoming so worried, so anxious, so ambitious - why create such despair? Nothingness to nothingness is the whole journey. ” “ Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination. ” “ The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ” “ The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success. ” “ Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more. ” “ There is no religion higher than the truth. ” “ Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end. ” “ Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ” “ You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ” “ A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesnt it is of no use. ” “ If we plant a positive, clean seed of thoughts and concentrate on it, we give it energy, like the sun gives to a seed in the earth. And as the seed in the earth awakens, stirs and begins to grow, the thoughts on which we concentrate awaken, stir and begin to grow. So let us sow positive thoughts. Each morning before we begin the journey of the day let us sit still, in silence, and sow the seed of peace. Peace is harmony and balance. Peace is - freedom from the burden of negativity and wastefulness. Let peace find its home within us. Peace is our original strength, our eternal tranquility of being. ” “ Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it. But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset, you are no longer feeling it; you have come back to your separate, enclosed entity of the ego. Now the mind is speaking. And this is one of the mysteries, that the mind can speak, and knows nothing; and the heart knows everything, and cannot speak. Perhaps to know too much makes it difficult to speak; the mind knows so little, it is possible for it to speak. ” “ Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. ” “ When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ” “ To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. ” “ It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ” “ Fill every thought with determination, every step with courage and every word with love. ” “ 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. ” “ Have a heart that is filled with everything precious - love, truth and peace. ” “ 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! ” “ Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. ” “ Zen asks you to come out of the head and go to the basic source.... It is not that Zen is not aware of the uses of energy in the head, but if all the energy is used in the head, you will never become aware of your eternity.... You will never know as an experience what it is to be one with the whole. When the energy is just at the center, pulsating, when it is not moving anywhere, neither in the head nor in the heart, but it is at the very source from where the heart takes it, the head takes it, pulsating at the very source--that is the very meaning of Zazen. Zazen means just sitting at the very source, not moving anywhere, a tremendous force arises, a transformation of energy into light and love, into greater life, into compassion, into creativity. It can take many forms. But first you have to learn how to be at the source. Then the source will decide where your potential is. You can relax at the source, and it will take you to your very potential. ” “ A constant guest is never welcome. ” “ You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. ” “ Silence has to be love-filled. Love actually inspires and moves all things towards their original freedom and happiness. ” “ To have everything is to possess nothing. ” “ If chance is defined as an event produced by random motion without any causal nexus, I would say that there is no such thing as chance. ” “ The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. ” “ Nothing can be created from nothing. ” “ A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. ” “ Is life an obstacle course? Sometimes it may feel like it. If you join the military you will be sent around an obstacle course of increasing degrees of difficulty. Why? To increase your strength and stamina and expand your creative capacity under strain. So it is on the course called 'life' - you can choose to perceive people, situations or events as obstacles, or you can choose to use these things to strengthen and expand your capacity to be creative and to find ways round, under, over. The choice lies in your perception. Obstacles are never ever 'out there', they are always in our own minds ” “ Spiritually, the enormous challenge for each and every one of us is to look directly into what it actually means to be the one who is going to consciously evolve for the sake of our collective salvation and transformation. From the absolute or nondual perspective that emerges in spiritual revelation, there is only ONE. There literally is no other; there is only one without a second. To truly understand conscious evolution, we have to grapple with the profound implications of that absolute fact. I believe we can only consciously evolve to the degree that we have actually realized at the deepest level of our being that we are that one without a second. Facing into the truth of nonduality—that the many is the one and that the one is ultimately who we always are—in an evolutionary context forces a confrontation with any relationship to the life process that is less than whole, complete, and fully committed. To consciously evolve is to surrender unconditionally to the truth that there is no other and at the same time to accept responsibility for what that means in an evolving universe—a cosmos that is slowly but surely becoming aware of itself through you and me. That one without a second is simultaneously awakening to itself as it develops, as it evolves, and it is that one, as you and me, alone, that can now begin to take responsibility for endeavoring to consciously create its own future. ” “ You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. ” “ Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one ” “ Your serenity is based on taking responsibility without taking blame, and letting go without giving up. ” “ Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. ” “ what you focus on constantly is what you feel. ” “ The ability to enjoy my own company is one of lifes most valuable gifts. ” “ Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away. Your virginity is eternal. You cannot lose it, there is no way to lose it. You can only forget about it or you can remember it. If you forget about it, you live in confusion. If you remember about it, all is clear. ” |
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