Spiritual quotes from sages, gurus, free thinkers, famous people, and fortune cookies.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Hurt
"Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future." ― Yehuda Berg
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Monday, September 17, 2012
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Inner Voice
"Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.” ~ Henry Winkler
A Candle
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” ― St. Francis of Assisi
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Usefulness
Ask a flower in the field: ‘Do you feel useful? After all, you do nothing but produce the same flowers over and over?’
And the flower will answer: ‘I am beautiful, and beauty is my reason for living.’
Ask the river: ‘Do you feel useful, given that all you do is to keep flowing in the same direction?’
Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God. Not a leaf from a tree falls, not a hair from your head, not even an insect dies because it was of no use. Everything has a reason to exist.
Even you, the person asking the question. ‘I’m useless’ is the answer you give yourself.
Soon that answer will poison you and you will die while still alive, even though you still walk, eat, sleep and try to have a little fun whenever possible.
Don’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference.
(except of "Manuscript found in Accra"to be published world wide late 2012 and during 2013)
And the flower will answer: ‘I am beautiful, and beauty is my reason for living.’
Ask the river: ‘Do you feel useful, given that all you do is to keep flowing in the same direction?’
And the river will answer: ‘I’m not trying to be useful, I’m trying to be a river.’
Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God. Not a leaf from a tree falls, not a hair from your head, not even an insect dies because it was of no use. Everything has a reason to exist.
Even you, the person asking the question. ‘I’m useless’ is the answer you give yourself.
Soon that answer will poison you and you will die while still alive, even though you still walk, eat, sleep and try to have a little fun whenever possible.
Don’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference.
(except of "Manuscript found in Accra"to be published world wide late 2012 and during 2013)
- Paul Coelho
Monday, September 10, 2012
Our Minds
"Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them." - Thomas Merton Institute for Contemplative Living
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Friday, September 7, 2012
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Your Soul
"Re-examine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul." ~ Walt Whitman
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Walk Forward
"My darling friends, we have all done major things which we look back on and cringe. Meditate and learn the lesson and then be kind to yourself. Remember, and this is something I have had to tell myself over and over, your did the best you could at the time with all you knew.
Walk forward with forgiveness for yourself and others. To get through this life and stay optimistic. It takes great faith and inner work. I am with you to hold your hand and heart as have all of you been there for me." - Elizabeth de Vries
Walk forward with forgiveness for yourself and others. To get through this life and stay optimistic. It takes great faith and inner work. I am with you to hold your hand and heart as have all of you been there for me." - Elizabeth de Vries
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