self improvement
by howiemac on 13 May 09 at 22:01
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self... Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Aldous Huxley - thank you John W at B K Ex-Change for supplying this.
Aldous Huxley - thank you John W at B K Ex-Change for supplying this.
control
by howiemac on 22 Jul 09 at 11:26
Learn from all, but be controlled by nothing except your own highest wisdom.
Swami Vivekenanda, Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action. Thank you rayoflight for supplying this
Swami Vivekenanda, Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action. Thank you rayoflight for supplying this
mistakes
by howiemac on 06 Sep 09 at 11:46
Don't place your mistakes on your head, their weight may crush you.
Place them under your feet, step on them, and view your horizons.
Place them under your feet, step on them, and view your horizons.
the power of love
by howiemac on 11 Nov 09 at 07:32
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Sri Chinmoy Ghose
justice
by alladin on 19 Mar 10 at 08:06
What is justice? Giving water to trees.
What is injustice? Giving water to thorns.
Justice consists in bestowing bounty in its proper place,
not on every root that will absorb water.
Rumi
What is injustice? Giving water to thorns.
Justice consists in bestowing bounty in its proper place,
not on every root that will absorb water.
Rumi
love
by alladin on 02 Apr 10 at 09:49
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
Rumi
but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
Rumi
purpose
by alladin on 02 Jun 10 at 12:01
We can’t float through life. We can’t be incidental or accidental. We must fix our gaze on a guiding star as soon as one comes upon the horizon, and once we have attached ourselves to that star we must keep our eyes on it and our hands on the plough.
Ossie Davis
Ossie Davis
influence
by alladin on 02 Jun 10 at 12:06
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.
Give lifting that person your best show, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down.
Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
Zig Ziglar
Give lifting that person your best show, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down.
Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
Zig Ziglar
attention
by alladin on 16 Jun 10 at 19:36
We cannot control the parade of negative thoughts marching through our minds.
But we can choose which ones we will give our attention to.
Picture your thoughts as people passing by the front of your home. Just because they're walking by, doesn't mean you have to invite them in.
Gladys Edmunds
But we can choose which ones we will give our attention to.
Picture your thoughts as people passing by the front of your home. Just because they're walking by, doesn't mean you have to invite them in.
Gladys Edmunds
obstacles
by alladin on 16 Jun 10 at 19:42
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
wisdom
by alladin on 23 Jun 10 at 22:27
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Hermann Hesse: 'Siddhartha'
Hermann Hesse: 'Siddhartha'
no
by alladin on 15 Jul 10 at 05:27
A “NO” uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a “YES” merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
saying no
by alladin on 15 Jul 10 at 05:29
When you say “no” to a person or a situation let it come not from reaction but from insight, from a clear realisation of what is right or not right for you at that moment. Let it be a nonreactive “no,” a high-quality “no,” a “no” that is free from negativity and so creates no further suffering.
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
forget the self
by howiemac on 16 Jul 10 at 07:27
"To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things" said Dogen. Only then can the listener and the see-er experience communion with the world, a contact that is of the nature of a sacrament.
from "Timeless Simplicity" by John Lane
from "Timeless Simplicity" by John Lane
devolution
by howiemac on 16 Jul 10 at 07:31
Mankind has not evolved, but "devolved", from "giants who once walked the earth, to a near animal state... vowed to cataclysmic annihilation, while an evolving elite gathers all of human experience for a resurrection in spirituality.
Schwaller - quoted by Colin Wilson in "From Atlantis to the Sphynx"
Schwaller - quoted by Colin Wilson in "From Atlantis to the Sphynx"
wise
by howiemac on 16 Jul 10 at 07:36
Yesterday I was clever,
So I wanted to change the whole world.
Today I am wise,
So I am changing myself.
Sanjiwan Kumar - thank you Spiritual bliss for supplying this
So I wanted to change the whole world.
Today I am wise,
So I am changing myself.
Sanjiwan Kumar - thank you Spiritual bliss for supplying this
two thieves
by alladin on 16 Jul 10 at 09:58
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
Fulton Oursler
Fulton Oursler