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| We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. --Buddha |
| Albert Schweitzer |
| "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers or elders. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason, and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live to it." The Buddha, in the Kalama Sutra |
| Consciousness is the totality beyond space-time-- what may in essence be the real "I." We have come to know that consciousness and energy are one; that all of space-time is constructed by consciousness.... Therefore our full energies are devoted to the study of consciousness. There is no other task. Working toward a transformation in consciousness is the only game in town. ---Bob Toben |
| Reverence for Life I am life that wills to live in the midst of other life that wills to live. I must interpret the life about me as I interpret the life that is my own. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see, however strange it may be to mine. And not only other human life, but all kinds of life: life above mine, if there be such life; life below mine, as I know it to exist. Ethics in our western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relation of human to human. But that is a limited ethics. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. --Albert Schweitzer |
| To get a human body is a rare thing - make full use of it. There are eighty-four hundred-thousand kinds of lives, which a soul can garner. After that one gets a human body. Therefore, one should not waste this chance. Every second in human life is very valuable. If you don't value this, then you will have nothing in hand and you will weep in the end. Because you're human, God has given you power to think and decide what is good and bad. Therefore, you can do the best possible kind of action. You should never consider yourself weak or a fallen creature. Whatever may have happened up to now may be because you didn't know, but now be careful. After getting a human body, if you don't reach God, then you have sold a diamond at the price of spinach. --Guru Dev |
| That which you fear confronting the most should be what you confront first! That's the area of your life that is taking away most of your aliveness right now. The instant you push beyond the barrier, you'll notice that whatever you were afraid of vanished, evaporated.... When you're up against a barrier, clarity is right there on the other side. That's what comes next. The light at the end of the tunnel is there--you just have to open your eyes. When you confront a barrier, you'll realize it was a phantom. It was a product of your own imagination. It will disappear in a cloud of smoke, and you'll ask yourself, "Why was I afraid of that?" from Napkin Notes on the Art of Living |
| Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people that he was made United States Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, "....and speak all the good I know of everybody." Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain -- and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. "A great man should show his greatness," said Thomas Carlyle, "by the way he treats little men." Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism: and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness. "To know all is to forgive all." --Dale Carnegie |
| Just because the message may never be received does not mean it is not worth sending. --Segaki |
| A begging bowl once conquered dragons and a staff pacified tigers. The staff had six rings on top whose tinkling called people from their dreams. --Yoka Daishi |
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| Go Forth In Peace Be Still Within Yourself And know that the Trail Is Beautiful.. May the Winds Be Gentle Upon Your Face And your Direction Be Straight and True As the Flight of the Eagle. Walk in Beauty And Harmony with God And All People. -A Navajo Blessing |
| If we work marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble; but if we work upon immortal minds we are then engraving upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity. --Daniel Webster |
| That which thou lovest, O human, That, too, become though most: God, if thou lovest God, dust, if thou lovest dust. --Arabic |
| True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only. --Pindar |
| "The men and women who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize." --Author Unknown |
| To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. --Alphonse de Lamartine |
| Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. --Ludwig Van Beethoven |
The wise man looks into space, and does not regard the small as too little, nor the great as too big; for he knows that there is no limit to dimension. --Lao Tzu-- |
| I think over again my small adventures, My fears, Those small ones that seemed so big, For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing, To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world. --Old Inuit Song-- |
| THE BUILDERS I watched them tear a building down; A gang of men in a busy town. With a mighty heave and lusty yell, They swung a beam and a sidewall fell. I said to the foreman, "Are these men as skilled As the men you'd hire if you had to build?" He gave a laugh and said, "No, indeed! Just a common laborer is all I need. And I can wreck in a day or two What it took the builder a year to do." And I thought to myself as I went my way, "Just which of these roles have I tried to play? Am I a builder who works with care, Measuring life by the rule and square, Or am I a wrecker as I walk the town, Content with the labor of tearing down? --Author Unknown-- |
| Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. --Dalai Lama |
| Guru Dev |
| Just for today, do not worry. Just for today, do not anger. Honor your parents, teachers, and elders. Earn your living honestly. Show gratitude to everything. ---- Dr. Mikao Usui --- |
| The One Thing That Changes Everything |
| Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? --Cicero |
| How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names. --Alice Walker |
| A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. --Dorothy C. Fisher |
| The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy. --Reverend Sean Parker Dennison |
| It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. --Winston Churchill |
| Experience teaches only the teachable. --Aldous Huxley |
| A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied. -- Irish Proverb |
| I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. --Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird |
| If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. -- Epictetus |
| The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes. --Henry Kissinger |
| Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are." -- John Ruskin |
| Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life. --Henri Frederic Amiel |
| most great things, you must most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. [Benjamin Disraeli][Benjamin Disraeli] |
| Every thought of yours is a real thing -- a force. --Prentice Mulford |
| The predominant thought or the mental attitude is the magnet, and the law is that like attracts like, consequently, the mental attitude will invariably attract such conditions as correspond to its nature. --Charles Haanel |
| Inspiration is not garnered from litanies of what is flawed; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, recover, reimagine, and reconsider. Healing the wounds of the Earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party. It is not a liberal or conservative activity. It is a sacred act. By Paul Hawken |
| "For me to be active in the cause of the people and of the earth and just to be - is to be alive. There is no compartmentalization. It's all one thing. It's not like I just exist to go into a little room and write. People have that image of writers, that that's how we live, but it's not really accurate, not the kind of writing that I do. I know that what I write has a purpose, even if it's just for me, if I'm just trying to lead myself out of a kind of darkness. So it broadens everything, being active in the world. You see the world. It's like, you know, I'm learning to paint now, and what I realize, learning to paint, is that I'm learning to see. And activism is like that. When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it." Alice Walker |
| "Love is the only emotion that expands intelligence." Humberto Maturana |
| I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar |
| I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge — That myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts — That hope always triumphs over experience — That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. ~ Robert Fulghum ~ |
| Who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles ... To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle... ~ Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass |
| Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. --Stanley Walker |
| A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~ Washington Irving |
| Unto the furthest flood-brim look with me; Then reach on with thy thought till it be drown'd. Miles and miles distant though the last line be, And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond,— Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea. ~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti ~ |
| Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concentric layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society ... may unexpectedly come forth ... to enjoy its perfect summer life at last! ... such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn. ... Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. ~ Henry David Thoreau in Walden |
| Love works magic. It is the final purpose Of the world story, The Amen of the universe. ~ Novalis ~ |
| Though I have been trained as a soldier, and participated in many battles, there never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword. I look forward to an epoch when a court, recognized by all nations, will settle international differences. ~ Ulysses S. Grant |
| It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. ~ Boris Yeltsin |
| The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear. It is an immensely exciting experience to be born in the world, born in the universe, and look around you and realise that before you die you have the opportunity of understanding an immense amount about that world and about that universe and about life and about why we're here. We have the opportunity of understanding far, far more than any of our predecessors ever. That is such an exciting possibility, it would be such a shame to blow it and end your life not having understood what there is to understand. ~ Richard Dawkins |
| Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly — and Lo! The Bird is on the Wing. ~ Omar Khayyám ~ |
| Newer quotes are to the right and below. |
| Let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind. What these blessed men have given us we must guard and try to keep alive with all our strength if humanity is not to lose its dignity, the security of its existence, and its joy in living. ~ Albert Einstein |
| What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference. ~ Walter Hilton |
| They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" ~ Jack Kerouac |
| When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love. ~ Søren Kierkegaardlove. ~ Søren Kierkegaard |
| In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions. ~ P. D. Ouspensky |
| In life, we usually learn and change from the "Wow!" or "Ow!" experiences. Extreme pain or pleasure is a forceful motivator for change. Middle-of-the-road experiences only serve to support and maintain the status quo of what we believe or what we are already doing. --Kathleen Walske Gallier |
| Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea. ~ Carl von Clausewitz |
| Ken Keyes |
| "A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror." |
| "To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have." |
| "To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it." |
| "We've got to convince our egos and our minds that if we want to live happy lives, love is more important than anything else." |
| "You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it." |
| "Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart." |
| "How soon will you realize that the only thing you don't have is the direct experience that there's nothing you need that you don't have?" |
| "Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart." |
| "Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person." |
| Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea. [Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.] Antonio Machado y Ruíz (July 26, 1875 – February 22, 1939) |
| When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself Author unknown |
| As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him. Akhenaton |
| When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of. H. Jackson Brown Jr |
| Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten. Buddha |
| Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. Epictetus |
| Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. --Horace |
| If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now - when? --Hillel, Leo Rosten's Treasury of Jewish Quotations p. 459 (1972) |
| "A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did?' Don't do that.'" ~Douglas Adams |
| "Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows." Emerson |
| "The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it." --Lytton |
| Never try to teach a pig to sing. You waste your time and you annoy the pig. --1973 Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, and --1993 Dawn Steel, They Can Kill You But They Can't Eat You (ISBN 0671738321) |
| Never wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will like it. --Source unknown |
| "Show up & choose to be present, pay attention to what has heart and meaning, tell the truth without blame or judgment, and be open rather than attached to the outcome." — Angeles Arrien |
| "I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant." — H. L. Mencken |
| It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas in disguise. —Joseph Goebbels |
| “Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing” --- Edmund Burke |
| Be it resolved to: Give the world the best you have anyway. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness may make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest people with the smallest minds. Think big anyway. People favor underdogs but tend to follow top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help, but may attack you if you do help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get kicked in the teeth. GIVE THE WORLD THE BEST YOU HAVE ANYWAY! [The first time I found this quote it was attributed to Steve Edwards. Then I found it attributed to Mother Theresa, then Howard Ferguson (St. Edward Wrestling Coach), Karl Menniger, and then I found it was copyrighted by Kent M. Keith (1968 and 2001, 1999 - 2006). It appears that Dr. Kent M. Keith wrote it as part of a booklet for student leaders while he was an undergraduate student at Harvard. |
| There is one thing that is common to every individual, relationship, team, family, organization, nation, economy, and civilization throughout the world – one thing which if removed, will destroy the most powerful government, the most successful business, the most thriving economy, the most influential leadership, the greatest friendship, the strongest character, the deepest love. On the other hand, if developed and leveraged, that one thing has the potential to create unparalleled success and prosperity in every dimension of life. Yet, it is the least understood, most neglected, and most underestimated possibility of our time. That one thing is trust. Trust impacts us 24/7, 365 days a year. It undergirds and affects the quality of every relationship, every communication, every work project, every business venture, every effort in which we are engaged. It changes the quality of every present moment and alters the trajectory and outcome of every future moment of our lives – both personally and professionally. Contrary to what most people believe, trust is not some soft illusive uality that you either have or you don’t; rather, trust is a pragmatic, tangible, actionable asset that you can create—much faster than you probably think possible. While corporate scandals, terrorists threats, office politics , and broken relationships have created low trust on almost every front, I contend that the ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust is not only vital to our personal and interpersonal well-being; it is the key leadership competency of the new global economy. I am also convinced that in every situation, nothing is as fast as the speed of trust. And, contrary to popular belief, trust is something you can do something about. In fact, you can get good at creating it! --Stephen M. R. Covey, The Speed of Trust |
| We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters, triumphs, challenges, impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE! (Richard Bach) |
| Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. --(Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
| You Were Made For This by Clarissa Pinkola Estes My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people. You are right in your assessments. The lustre and hubris some have aspired to while endorsing acts so heinous against children, elders, everyday people, the poor, the unguarded, the helpless, is breathtaking. Yet, I urge you, ask you, gentle you, to please not spend your spirit dry by bewailing these difficult times. Especially do not lose hope. Most particularly because, the fact is that we were made for these times. Yes. For years, we have been learning, practicing, been in training for and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement. I grew up on the Great Lakes and recognize a seaworthy vessel when I see one. Regarding awakened souls, there have never been more able vessels in the waters than there are right now across the world. And they are fully provisioned and able to signal one another as never before in the history of humankind. Look out over the prow; there are millions of boats of righteous souls on the waters with you. Even though your veneers may shiver from every wave in this stormy roil, I assure you that the long timbers composing your prow and rudder come from a greater forest. That long-grained lumber is known to withstand storms, to hold together, to hold its own, and to advance, regardless. In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. There is a tendency, too, to fall into being weakened by dwelling on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails. We are needed, that is all we can know. And though we meet resistance, we more so will meet great souls who will hail us, love us and guide us, and we will know them when they appear. Didn't you say you were a believer? Didn't you say you pledged to listen to a voice greater? Didn't you ask for grace? Don't you remember that to be in grace means to submit to the voice greater? Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale. One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these—to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do. There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it. I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate. The reason is this: In my uttermost bones I know something, as do you. It is that there can be no despair when you remember why you came to Earth, who you serve, and who sent you here. The good words we say and the good deeds we do are not ours. They are the words and deeds of the One who brought us here. In that spirit, I hope you will write this on your wall: When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D Author of the best seller Women Who Run with the Wolves |
| Our Deepest Fear By Marianne Williamson Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness That most frightens us. We ask ourselves Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small Does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking So that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, As children do. We were born to make manifest The glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; It's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, Our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love. |
| Whatever we choose to focus our attention on will automatically multiply in our lives. If our attention is on our troubles or the injustice of the past, they will become our trials of the present also. If instead our minds are focused on the blessings we have received or the love of God, family and fellowman, these will grow stronger. --Frederick W. Babbel |
| We can dispel discord among those around us by becoming conduits [of] peace and love. ---Frederick W. Babbel |
| You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are! --Eckhart Tolle |
| A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. ~ Jorge Luis Borges |
| “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. --Albert Einstein |
| All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher (1788 - 1860) |
| Hermann Goering - The People Can Always Be Brought to the Bidding of the Leaders“ Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." - Hermann Goering (as told to Gustav Gilbert during the Nuremberg trials) Traducción al español: Hermann Goering - "La gente siempre puede ser sometida a las órdenes de los dirigentes "¿Por supuesto, la gente no quiere guerra. ¿Por qué un pobre vagabundo en una granja quiere arriesgar su vida en una guerra cuando lo mejor que puede salir de ella es volver a su granja en una sola pieza? Naturalmente, la gente común no quiere la guerra, ni en Rusia ni en Inglaterra ni en América, ni para el caso en Alemania. Eso se entiende. Sin embargo, después de todo, es que los dirigentes del país los que determinan la política y es siempre una simple cuestión de arrastrar a lo largo de las personas, si es una democracia o una dictadura fascista o un parlamento o una dictadura comunista. Con voz ... o sin voz, el pueblo siempre puede ser señalado a la licitación de los dirigentes. Eso es fácil. Todo lo que tienes que hacer es decirles que están siendo atacados y denunciar a los pacifistas por falta de patriotismo y exponer al país al peligro. Funciona de la misma manera en cualquier país. "- Hermann Goering (como le dijo a Gustav Gilbert durante los juicios de Nuremberg) |
| The Art of Peace To practice properly the Art of Peace, you must: Calm the spirit and return to the source, cleanse the body and spirit by removing all malice, selfishness and desire. Be ever grateful for the gifts received from the Universe, your family, Mother Nature, and your fellow human beings. --Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido |
| If you want to build a ship don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery |
| "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G. Wells (1866-1946) |
| "If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang. And there are much longer time scales still. - Carl Sagan, Well known Astrophysicist |
| "The light of God surrounds us. The love of God enfolds us. The power of God protects us. The presence of God watches over us. Wherever we are, God is, and all is well." --Author Unknown |
| The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. ~Albert Ellis |
| Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones. el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz. Among individuals, as among nations, the respect of the rights of others is peace. -- Benito Juarez |
| “Yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.” ---Sanskrit Proverb |
| « Cuando se estrenó la primera película de Superman, hice docenas de entrevistas para promocionarla. La pregunta más frecuente era: ¿Qué es un héroe? Mi respuesta era que un héroe es alguien que lleva a cabo una acción valerosa sin considerar las consecuencias. Ahora mi definición es completamente diferente. Pienso que un héroe es un individuo corriente que encuentra la fuerza para perseverar y resistir en contra de obstáculos insalvables. Ellos son los verdaderos héroes, y también las familias y amigos que han permanecido a su lado ». ---- Christopher Reeve |
| A Human Being Should be able to change a diaper, Plan an invasion, [Cook a veggie burger], Conn a ship, Design a building, Write a sonnet, Balance accounts, Build a wall, Set a bone, Comfort the dying, Take orders, Give orders, Cooperate, Act alone, Solve equations, Analyze a new problem, Pitch manure, Program a computer, Cook a tasty meal Fight efficiently, Die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein |
| "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." ---Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| “Happiness is directly proportional to acceptance and inversely proportional to expectation.” Quoted by Michael J Fox |
| “We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.” Paulo Coelho |
| The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place. Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi Devi) |
