Nuggets Of Wisdom & Enlightenment

THY WILL (not mine) be done

• Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

• True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments.

• What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.

• The time is always right to do what is right.

• You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

• The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

• Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

• There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out. There's no such thing as a life in-between.

• God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

• I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil, a reflection of those seeds will grow into something greater.

• Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

• The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention...A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you'll be a success.
• Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.

• Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

• There is nothing permanent except change.

• Love is never self-seeking, and it cannot be self-bestowed. Divine love cannot be self-contained; it must be unselfishly bestowed.

• It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

• You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

• Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don't let your history interfere with your destiny. Learn from your past so that it can empower your present and propel you to greatness.

• Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

• Discovering that you're the one who holds the key to unlock the prison of your unhappiness is empowering. However, to free yourself, you have to recognize that you've been your own jailer. Set yourself free today.

• Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else's life. Don’t be trapped by dogma- which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

• The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

• I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

• If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble, but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.
• The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

• It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

• It's not what you do once in a while; it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.

• Truly, 'Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the mind of mortal man, the things which the Universal Father has prepared for those who survive the life in the flesh on the worlds of time and space'.

• The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

• Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

• The easiest thing in the world is to come up with an excuse not to do something. I found that the most important thing in life is to stop saying, I wish, and to start saying, I will.

• When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter.
  As you see him, you will see yourself.
  As you treat him, you will treat yourself.
  As you think of him, you will think of yourself.
  Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.

• Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

• It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

• I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

• Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

• At a deep molecular level science tells us we are made of the same stuff, we are all one, we are star selves.

• Don't ever give up. Don't ever give in. Don't ever stop trying. Don't ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off. But never, ever, ever give up.

• If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.

• No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the horizon of the spirit.

• I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

• Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

• Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons do not last. The spring rains will come. 

• I am, that, I AM
• TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
• Sacredness guide me now
• Sacred Love flow through me now
• This too shall pass
• Is that so
• Maybe
• Let go and Let God
• In-Joy-In Myself
• Love is the Will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's Spiritual Growth!
• You live your life from the first breath to the last breath.
• For many are called, but few are chosen.
• Only he who is smitten with the arrows of love, knows its power!
• Live in the Now.
• The supreme experience of human existence [is] finding God for yourselves and knowing him in your own souls.
• If you add to the TRUTH, you will subtract from it.
• All TRUTH passes through 3 stages: 1st: it is ridiculed. 2nd: it is violently opposed. 3rd: it is accepted as being self-evident!
• Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.
• Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
• The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, ‘If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.’ Now I say, ‘I will take care of me for you if you will take care of you for me.'
• Find someone who is willing to share the truth with you.
• BEFORE ENLIGHTENMENT: Chop wood; carry water!  AFTER ENLIGHTENMENT: Chop wood; carry water!
• You're where I want to BE!
  
  

  • When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

• It is high time that man had a religious experience so personal and so sublime that it could be realized and expressed only by 'feelings that lie too deep for words.
  
  

  • Now I come to tell you this: There is no such place as hell. Hell is a state of being. It is the experience of separation from God, an imagining that you are separate from your very self and cannot be reunited. Hell is forever trying to find yourself. What you have called heaven, too, is a state of being. It is the experience of Oneness, the ecstasy of reunification with All That Is. It is the knowing of the true self.
     

  
  

  • A mind preoccupied with planning pays homage to the idol of control. For one day, try living in connection without your day planner. See how it feels and if it works for you.

  
  

  • All are sons and daughters of God, good people all, Brothers and Sisters, since created by One Father. No rooted difference is there between them.

  
  

  • To help yourself, help others. Whatever good you do travels a circle and returns to you many times over- but remember, life isn't about what you get, it's about what you become.

  
  

  • When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

  
  

  • Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

  
  

  • What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

  
  

  • A man should never be ashamed to admit he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

  
  

  • A constructive, useful life, good works, and good relationships are as valid as writing poetry or inventing a machine. Anything that one does well and obtains satisfaction from is a good enough reason for living. To be a decent human being that people like and feel better for knowing is enough.

  • Do something today that your future self will thank you for.

  
  

  • Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

  
  

  • I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

  
  

  • The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

  
  

  • If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake them up.

  
  

  • Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

  
  

  • The bird, a nest; the spider, a web; man, friendship.

  
  

  • God isn’t “up there”. He exists in, around, above and through each one of us, and it’s up to us to seek the divine within. 

  
  

  • It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.

  
  

  • If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

  
  

  • Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

  
  

  • Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

  
  

  • It is tempting, during difficult times, to feel very much alone, as if you are taking this journey in solo form, with no one at your side, and no one on your side. Nothing could be further from the truth. You are an aspect of The Divine. God lives in you, through you. "I am with you always, even unto the end of time" are not just pretty words. They are truth.
     

  
  

  • The spirit which my Father and I shall send into the world is not only the Spirit of Truth but also the spirit of idealistic beauty.

  
  

  • You are the master of your life - you are the master of your mind - you have the power to change the way you think and feel. You have the power in you to achieve your goals, to become the person you want to be, and to live the life of your dreams.

  
  

  • In those moments when you feel shaky or uncertain, remember that you are building a brand-new foundation for your life and contributing to the revolutionary new template for a more loving humanity. Acknowledge yourself for this, stay present and in your heart, and BREATHE!

  
  

  • Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

  
  

  • If you are willing to become fellow servants with me in doing the Father's will, in the kingdom to come you shall sit with me in power, still doing the Father's will in future glory.

  
  

  • Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

  
  

  • All things are sacred in the lives of those who are spirit led; that is, subordinated to truth, ennobled by love, dominated by mercy, and restrained by fairness - justice.
     

  
  

  • God said: Here is your home, everyone’s home, in My heart. Behold, what you discover quite naturally is that everyone is you! You have invited yourself here! You are embodied here in My heart with everyone, and you see that everyone is One. There is no other. There is not even you and I. There is I. The time will come when all you can see, near or far, is I, God. I am what is named the Universe and you and All That Is. There can be no differentiation. Oneness is undifferentiated. This is an Ode to Oneness.
     

  
  

  • Service-more service, increased service, difficult service, adventurous service, and at last divine and perfect service-is the goal of time and the destination of space.

  
  

  • Peace comes within the souls of men when they realize their Oneness with the universe.
     

  
  

  • It requires courage to invade new levels of experience and to attempt the exploration of unknown realms of intellectual living.

  
  

  • He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows- he breathes but does not live.

  
  

  • Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life - in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.

  
  

  • Tell your truth as soon as you know it. Yet tell it gently, kindly, and with compassion for the hearer. Someone needs to hear the truth from you today... but that person also needs your deep compassion as you speak it. Seek to say what needs to be said with softness, and with a wide open heart. Remember, the truth can hurt...but it hurts a lot less if you care how it feels while saying it.
     

  
  

  • You should rejoice in the recognition of the ever-present possibility of immediate communion with the bestowal spirit of the Father so intimately associated with your inner soul and your spiritualizing self.

  
  
  

  • Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on silence?
    
    

    • Always be a first-rate version of yourself and not a second-rate version of someone else.

    
    

    • When you start each new day from this point forward, decide that you will apply the fresh eyes and new perspectives you have developed. The pace of your awakening has quickened - you are not the same from year to year or even day to day. Even in your dream time you are integrating new truths and enlarging your view of who you truly are.

    
    

    • You should rejoice in the recognition of the ever-present possibility of immediate communion with the bestowal spirit of the Father so intimately associated with your inner soul and your spiritualizing self.

    
    

    • There is a direct attractiveness of a spirit nature between spiritually minded persons of like tastes and longings. The term kindred spirits is not wholly a figure of speech."
    • Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

    
    

    • Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

    • The God-knowing soul rises in the universe like the cream appears on top of the milk.
    • Prayer is a part of the divine plan for making over that which is into that which ought to be.

    • The greatest power we have is the power of choice. It's an actual fact that if you've been moping in unhappiness, you can choose to be joyous instead and, by effort, lift yourself into joy. If you tend to be fearful, you can overcome that misery by choosing to have courage. Even in darkest grief you have a choice - The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.

    • Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

    • Love is born in the pleasure of looking at each other…it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.
    • The secret lies in how we handle today, not yesterday or tomorrow. Today… that special block of time holding the key that locks out yesterday's nightmares and unlocks tomorrow's dreams.
    • Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.

    • Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal.
    • As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
    • It would help you much if you would learn that true wisdom embraces discretion as well as courage.

    • In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
    • Unselfishness is the badge of human greatness.

    • Neither fire, nor moisture, nor wind can destroy the blessing of a good deed, and it will reform the world.  
    • The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.  Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.  They're in each other all along.
    • Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
    • Men who prefer optimistic illusions to reality can never become wise. Only those who face facts and adjust them to ideals can achieve wisdom."
    • We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

    • Forgivenss is the economy of the heart...forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirit.
    • To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
    • Spiritual growth is mutually stimulated by intimate association with other religionists.
    • Religious living is devoted living, and devoted living is creative living, original and spontaneous.
    • I am - just as you are - a unique, never-to-be-repeated event in this universe. Therefore, I have - just as you have - a unique, never-to-be-repeated role in this world.
    • Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has purpose.  There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

    
    
    
    

    ·  To remember is to understand.
    
    
    

    Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
    
    Happiness and joy take origin in the inner life.
    
    When you once start out to find God, that is the conclusive proof that God has already found you.
    
    A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
    
    The affectionate dedication of the human will to the doing of the Father's will is man's choicest gift to God; in fact, such a consecration of creature will constitutes man's only possible gift of true value to the Paradise Father.
    
    We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
    
    He is the greatest of warriors who overcomes and subdues himself.
    
    Remember that the reaping is in accordance with the sowing. Pray for tranquility of spirit and cultivate patience.
    
    Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
    
    If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.
    
    I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth I will apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
    
    You mortals are the sons of God, and only one thing is required to make such a truth factual in your personal experience, and that is your spirit-born faith.
    
    I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
    
    In every possible way - in everything short of your spiritual allegiance to the rulers of the universe - seek to live peaceably with all men. Be you always as wise as serpents but as harmless as doves.
    
    Human salvation is real; it is based on two realities which may be grasped by the creature's faith: the fact of the fatherhood of God and its correlated truth, the brotherhood of man.
    
    You can only do good if you feel good.
    
    The true believer does not grow weary in well-doing just because he is thwarted. Difficulty whets the ardor of the truth lover, while obstacles only challenge the exertions of the undaunted kingdom builder.
    
    A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
    
    Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
    
    Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
    
    What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
    
    Defeat is the true mirror in which you may honestly view your real self.
    
    When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love - then make that day count!
    
    The good nature of a loving Father could not possibly withhold the wise ministry of mercy to each member of every group of his universe children.
    
    Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
    
    You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you.
    
    Always remember that the Father knows what you need even before you ask him.
    
    Why wait for Heaven? It is here today.
    
    It is literally true: 'No man lives by himself.' Cosmic socialization constitutes the highest form of personality unification.
    
    No sincere prayer is denied an answer except when the superior viewpoint of the spiritual world has devised a better answer, an answer which meets the petition of the spirit of man as contrasted with the prayer of the mere mind of man.
    
    The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.
    
    We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.
    
    The true God is not afar off; he is a part of us; his spirit speaks from within us.
    
    Strong characters are not derived from not doing wrong but rather from actually doing right.
    
    Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
    
    What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.
     
    If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
    
    If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
    
    You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
    
    If you want to find happiness - find gratitude.
    
    You are what you give; not what you are given.
    
    Nothing of survival value is ever lost in all the wide universe.
    
    The truly religious individual seeks to identify the self with the universe and then to dedicate the activities of this unified self to the service of the universe family of fellow beings, human and superhuman.
    
    Anxiety must be abandoned. The disappointments hardest to bear are those which never come.
    
    The religious man who finds God in nature has already and first found this same personal God in his own soul.
    
    When we have peace in our hearts and minds, we draw peace into our lives.
    
    Worship is intended to anticipate the better life ahead and then to reflect these new spiritual significances back onto the life which now is. Prayer is spiritually sustaining, but worship is divinely creative.
    
    Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities—of not trying to make ourselves this or that, but of surrendering ourselves to the fullness of life—of letting life flow through us. 
    
    Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once and a while, or the light won't come in.
    
    Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
    
    When you awaken love and laughter in your life, your mind lets go of fear and anxiety, and your happy spirit becomes the healing balm that transforms every aspect of your human experience.
    
    Live loyally today - grow - and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole.
    
    You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside.
    
    Your actual achievement is not so important as the fact that the direction of your progress is Godward. What you are becoming day by day is of infinitely more importance than what you are today.
    
    Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
    
    A well developed sense of humour is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
    
    I have no fear; I am free from anxiety. I dwell in security, and my enemies cannot alarm me.
    
    Sunshine is delicious, rain in refreshing, wind braces us up and snow is exhilarating: there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
    
    Trust is the crucial test of will creatures. Trustworthiness is the true measure of self-mastery, character.
    
    It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.
    
    You should manifest the righteous ministry of loving service to believers and unbelievers alike.
    
    Relate yourself to every man as if you were in his place. Recompense injury with kindness.
    
    Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
    
    The believer's chief concern should not be the selfish desire for personal salvation but rather the unselfish urge to love and, therefore, serve one's fellows even as Jesus loved and served mortal men.
    
    Make sure that the truth abides in your lives, and that you daily grow in grace.

    
    

    ..Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

    
    
    Develop a childlike fascination with life and people.
    
    It is your thoughts, not your feelings, that lead you Godward. The divine nature may be perceived only with the eyes of the mind.     
    
    We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.
    
      I haven’t a clue how my story will end, but that’s all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that’s when you discover the stars.
     

    
    

    ·  Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.

    
    

    · Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

    
    

    · Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important that fear.

    
    

    · I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

    
    

    · How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

    
    

    ·  It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

    
    

    · Everything you don’t like in others is your unseen faults being reflected back onto you.

    
    

    ·  To be loved, be lovable.

    
    

    · If you have at least one person in your life willing to speak the truth to you, then consider yourself blessed.

    
    

    ·  I am because you are.

    
    

    ·  Spirit is like the wind, in that we can’t see it but can see its effects, which are profound.

    
    

    · Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, "I'm possible"!

    
    

    · Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

    
    

    · Life is a compromise of your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerve let you do.

    
    

    · The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

    
    

    · BE yourself. No one can ever tell you you’re doing it wrong.

    
    

    · The door of opportunity won’t open unless you do some pushing.

    
    

    · My advise to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate.

    
    

    · Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

    
    

    · Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty. It merely moves from their faces to their hearts.

    
    

    · They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

    
    

    · When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.

    
    

    · Every time I think I’m getting old, something else happens.

    
    

    · Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

    
    

    ·  Love TRUTH, but pardon error.

    
    

    · The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.

    
    

    · Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but moments.

    
    

    · Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

    
    

    · Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money.

    
    

    · It is not in everyone’s power to secure wealth, office or honours; but everyone may be good, generous and wise.

    
    

    · The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

    
    

    · There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

    
    

    ·  To see things in the seed, that is genius.

    
    

    ·  LOVE can’t be hid by hiding.

    
    

    · Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

    
    

    · Worrying about something that may never happen is like paying interest on money you may never borrow.

    
    

    · It is vital that people “count their blessings” to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

    
    

    · There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.

    
    

    · Don’t cross the stream to look for water.

    
    

    · WE LEARN BY DOING!

    
    

    · Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.

    
    

    · We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today.

    
    

    · When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

    
    

    · Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

    
    

    · It isn’t hard to be good from time to time. What’s tough is being good every day.

    
    

    · If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.

    
    

    · Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.

    
    

    ·  Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.

    
    

    · He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

    
    

    · You miss 100 percent of all the shots you never take.

    
    

    · There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes even if you lose, you win.

    
    

    · Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.

    
    

    · Hearing is one of the body’s five senses. But listening is an art.

    
    

    ·  Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

    
    

    ·  I am always doing things I can’t do; that’s how I get to do them.

    
    

    · I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning I say: “What is my exciting thing for today?” Then I do the day. Don’t ask me about tomorrow.

    
    

    ·  We only go around once. There’s really no time to be afraid. SO stop. Try something you’ve never tried. Teach it. Do it. Risk it.

    
    

    ·  A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

    
    

    ·  Everything has to be the way it is and could not possibly be any other way.

    
    

    · Change your thoughts, and you change your world.

    
    

    · Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.

    
    

    · Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

    
    

    ·  To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

    
    

    · Success is not a native of any nation neither is it related to any family, so you don’t have an excuse not to leave the imprint of impact of the sand of time before your time is over on this planet.

    
    

    · The best way to knock the chip off your neighbour’s shoulder is to pat him on the back.

    
    

    · A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

    
    

    · You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

    
    

    · Always remember: Joy is not merely incidental to your spiritual quest. IT IS VITAL.

    
    

    ·  It’s important the people should know what you stand for. It’s equally important that they know what you won’t stand for.

    
    

    ·  If one is without kindness, how can one be called a human being?

    
    

    · Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

    
    

    · Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

    
    

    · To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

    
    

    · Play the “Reverse Gossip” game. See how many nice things you say ‘behind someone’s back’.

    
    

    · Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

    
    

    ·  I’m looking forward to looking back on all this.

    
    

    · When the heart grieves over what is lost, the soul rejoices over what it has left.

    
    

    · When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.

    
    

    · Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

    
    

    · Too many people miss the silver lining because they expecting gold.

    
    

    · Treat everyone you meet as though they are the most important person you’ll meet that day.

    
    

    · If I can help one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

    
    

    · Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don’t talk back.

    
    

    · You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

    
    

    · No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

    
    

    · Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filed with glory.

    
    

    · Come out of the circle of time, and come into the CIRCLE OF LOVE.

    
    

    · People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun’s out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within.

    
    

    · We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass and the butterflies as the child is, who is not yet so much taller than they are.

    
    

    · The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

    
    

    · Those who believe they can do something are probably right – and so are those who believe they can’t.

    
    

    · Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

    
    

    · Learn to PAUSE...or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

    
    

    · The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

    
    

    ·  Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

    
    

    ·  I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

    
    

    · If you want to know your past – look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future – look into your present actions.

    
    

    · Whoever can see thorugh all fear will always be safe.

    
    

    · It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

    
    

    · Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.

    
    

    · Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly.

    
    

    · There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

    
    

    · We look forward to the time when the POWER OF LOVE replaces the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

    
    

    · Don’t cut your conscience to fit this year’s fashions.

    
    

    ·  GIVE and it will be given to you.

    
    

    ·  The secret of getting ahead is getting starting.

    
    

    ·  Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.

    
    

    ·  Do or do not. There is no try.

    
    

    ·  What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

    
    

    · Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

    
    

    ·   I AM happy and content because I think I AM.

    
    

    ·  To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

    
    

    ·  There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more poainful than the risk it took to blossom.

    
    

    ·  I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

    
    

    ·  Confidence is courage at ease.

    
    

    ·  We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.

    
    

    · The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarrelling?

    
    

    · There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.

    
    

    · It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.

    
    

    ·  Elbow grease is the best polish.

    
    

    · How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realise we have discovered a friend.

    
    

    ·  If given with love, a handful is enough.

    
    

    · If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

    
    

    · Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

    
    

    · KINDNESS has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

    
    

    · You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

    
    

    · Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

    
    

    · Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work.

    
    

    · What is a friend? A single soul shared by two people.

    
    

    · You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

    
    

    · By a single word of injury do all a man’s virtues lose their goodness.  The wound caused by fire heals in its time. The burn inflicted by an inflamed tongue never heals.

    
    

    · Whatever decision we think we making is actually being made for us, because the decision is the end result of a thought and we have no control over the arising of the thought.

    
    

    · Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

    
    

    · If you truly desire to overcome the habit of criticising some friend, the quickest and surest way of achieving such a change of attitude is to establish the habit of praying for that person every day of your life.

    
    

    · My child, you may read or discuss scripture as much as you like. But until you forget everything, you will never live in your heart.

    · You have no caste. No duties bind you. Formless and free, beyond the reach of the senses, the witness of all things. SO BE HAPPY!

    · If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.

    · Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we’re frantic, life will be frantic. If we’re peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes INNER PEACE.

    · Among a man’s many good possessions, a good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

    · Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.

    · Every good fortune, wives, friends, houses, lands, All these gifts and riches.... They are a dream, a juggling act, a traveling show! A few days and they are gone.

    · If you detach yourself from identification with the body and remain relaxed in and as Consciousness, you will, this very moment BE HAPPY, AT PEACE, FREE FROM BONDAGE.

    ·  Love your true Self, which is naturally happy and peaceful and bright! Awaken to your own nature and all delusion melts like a dream

    · Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don’t listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won’t tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them al;l of it has always been big stuff.

    · Can any lock keep love confined within, hen the loving heart’s tiny tears escape and confess it? The unloving belong only to themselves, but the loving belong to others to their very bones.

    · Free from desire, he neither praises the peaceful nor blames the wicked. The same joy and sorrow, he is always happy. He sees there is nothing to do.

    · He is awake, fulfilled, free from desire. He neither is nor is not. He looks busy, but he does nothing. Striving or still, he is never troubled. He does whatever comes his way and he is happy.

    · Consider: Wherever there is desire, there is he world. With resolute dispassion free yourself from desire and find happiness. Desire binds you, nothing else. Destroy it and you are free. Turn from the world. Fulfil yourself and find lasting happiness.

    · You are not your body. Your body is not you. You are not the doer. You are not the enjoyer. You are pure awareness, the witness of all things. You are without exception, FREE. Wherever you go, BE HAPPY!

    · By standing on his own a man finds happiness. By standing on his own a man finds freedom. By standing on his own he goes beyond the world. By standing on his own a man finds he finds the end of the way.

    · OM is the supreme symbol of the Lord. OM is the whole, OM affirms; OM signals the chanting of the hymns from the Vedas. The priest begins with OM; spiritual teachers and their students commence with OM. The student who is established in OM becomes united with the LORD OF LOVE.

     
    
    The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.
    
    We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
    
    A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
    
    Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
    
    PEACE. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
    
    There is but one form of prayer which is appropriate for all's God's children, and that is" "NEVERTHELESS, YOUR WILL BE DONE." 
    
    How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
    
    When you refuse your ego at least once a day, you make great things happen.
    
    Only in LOVE are unity and duality not in conflict.
    
    You cannot put spiritual joy under a microscope; you cannot weigh love in a balance; you cannot measure moral values; neither can you estimate the quality of spiritual worship.
    
    When you take logic out of the picture, the answers just come to you.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
    
    The TRUTH is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
    
    Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
    
    And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth, "You ower me". Look what happens with love loike that. It lights up the sky.
    
    There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
    
    
    
    Some people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.
    
    Fools try to prove why they are right. Wise men try to find why they are wrong.
    
    The future depends on what we do in the present.
    
    The best thing to give your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
    
    Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
    
    Yesterday is a cancelled cheque: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!
    
    May you always have Love to Share, Health to Spare, and Friends that Care.
    
    Don't worry if your work is hard and your rewards are few. Remember the might oak was once a nut like you.
    
    If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
    
    Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
    
    The young man know the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. 
    
    If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today!
    
    Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
    
    You are unique. Just like everyone else.
    
    Don't postpone joy.
    
    Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
    
    Children are natural mimics - they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.
    
    Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
    
    I am too blessed to be stressed!
    
    The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremebered acts of knidness and love.
    
    The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by somebody weaker than you. 
    
    For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
    
    Some pursue happiness, others create it.
    
    The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.
    
    The more a man know, the more he forgives.
    
    Yesterday in history, Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.
    
    God...loves every individual; he is no respecter of persons, and the universality of his love brings into being a relationship of the whole, the universal brotherhood.
    
    Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there!
    
    Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
    
    Mile By Mile it's a trial; yard by yard it's hard; but inch by inch it's a cinch.
    
    I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
    
    Things are time conditioned, but truth is timeless. The more truth you know, the more truth you are, the more of the past you can understand and of the future you can comprehend. 
    
    It is not so important to love all men today as it is that each day you learn to love one more human being.
    
    And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth,‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky.
    
    Devote your life to proving that love is the greatest thing in the world.
    
    I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.
  • Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
  • You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.
  • Without action, without decision, you remain in possibility, which is safe and beautiful but eventually enervating and boring.
  • No thing is new to God, and no cosmic event ever comes as a surprise; he inhabits the circle of eternity. He is without beginning or end of days. To God there is no past, present, or future; all time is present at any given moment. He is the great and only I AM.
  • Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
  • Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
  • All genuine spirit-born petitions are certain of an answer. Ask and you shall receive.
  • There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
  • God is the illuminator of the gloomy and the power of those who are faint.
  • Jesus simply would not accept explanations of worship and religious devotion which involved belief in the wrath of God or the anger of the Almighty.
  • Self is man's invincible foe, and self is manifested as man's four greatest passions: anger, pride, deceit, and greed. Man's greatest victory is the conquest of himself.
  • Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands- a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.
  • Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
  • Make not the mistake of estimating the soul's worth by the imperfections of the mind or by the appetites of the body.
  • Peace, like charity, begins at home.
  • I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
  • Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
  • People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.
  • Stay in touch with your Inner Child: Finger paint more; Finger point less.
  • Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
  • To become acquainted with one's brothers and sisters, to know their problems and to learn to love them, is the supreme experience of living.
  • One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.
  • Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
  • You are the master of your life, you are the master of your mind, you have the power to change the way you think and feel. You have the power in you to achieve your goals, to become the person you want to be, and to live the life of your dreams.
  • Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
  • There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
  • At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything else.
  • Belief is always limiting and binding; faith is expanding and releasing. Belief fixates, faith liberates.
  • Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of the fire. Happiness is something we are.
  • The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
  • There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out. There's no such thing as a life in-between.
  • If one man craves freedom - liberty - he must remember that all other men long for the same freedom.
  • There is in the mind of God a plan which embraces every creature of all his vast domains, and this plan is an eternal purpose of boundless opportunity, unlimited progress, and endless life. And the infinite treasures of such a matchless career are yours for the striving!
  • No relationship can thrive without the sense of spaciousness that comes with stillness. Meditate or spend silent time in nature together. When going for a walk or sitting in the car or at home, become comfortable with being in stillness together. Stillness cannot and need not be created. Just be receptive to the stillness that is already there, but is usually obscured by mental noise.
  • You must be respectable, if you will be respected.
  • The Father's love can become real to mortal man only by passing through that man's personality as he in turn bestows this love upon his fellows.
  • True eloquence consists of saying all that is needed and only what is needed.
  • Having started out on the way of life everlasting, having accepted the assignment and received your orders to advance...do not be troubled with doubts of failure or by perplexing confusion, do not falter and question your status and standing, for in every dark hour, at every crossroad in the forward struggle, the Spirit of Truth will always speak, saying, 'This is the way.'
  • Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.
  • Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
  • Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing in a solution paves the way to solution.
  • Everything already exists in our infinite Universe. All we need to do is to allow ourselves experience the beauty and riches of life, to let these Divine gifts in your existence, to open ourselves to the unlimited, unconditional love and all the blessings that it brings with it, to open the door and let the triumph and success into our habitat.
  • Peace in this life, survival in death, perfection in the next life, service in eternity--all these are achieved (in spirit) now when the creature personality consents--chooses--to subject the creature will to the Father's will.
  • Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
  • Remember, even if prayer does not change God, it very often effects great and lasting changes in the one who prays in faith and confident expectation.
  • Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
  • True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.
  • It is a marvelous and transforming experience to become the living channel of spiritual light to the mortal who sits in spiritual darkness.
  • Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

  
  

  • Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

  
  

  • You can never start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.
• And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
• Religious faith is available alike to the learned and the unlearned.
• Start a Gratitude Journal. It trains the brain to begin focusing on things you like about your life. Watch what happens to your life when you do!
• Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.
• You know we are so worried about our kids being good, not getting into trouble, not breaking the law, having scrapes with authorities and going against the rules. We are so worried about our kids being good that we often forget to invite them to be great.
• God is not the mere invention of man's idealism; he is the very source of all such superanimal insights and values.

• When you’re trying to motivate yourself, appreciate the fact that you’re even thinking about making a change. And as you move forward, allow yourself to be good enough.
• Be miserable - or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
• God is inherently kind, naturally compassionate, and everlastingly merciful. And never is it necessary that any influence be brought to bear upon the Father to call forth his loving-kindness.""God is our protector--he stands by the side of his creatures--and those who learn to know him become immortal."
• There lives within every human mind a divine spirit, the gift of the Father in heaven. This good spirit ever strives to lead us to God, to help us to find God and to know God.
• Never forget that the sincere prayer of faith is a mighty force for the promotion of personal happiness, individual self-control, social harmony, moral progress, and spiritual attainment.
• We are designed with a dreaming brain and a hopeful spirit; it is our nature to envision the life of our dreams. And while dreaming comes easy to us, we must never forget that it takes strength, dedication, and courageous action to bring that dream to life.
• If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. As soon as you honor the present moment, unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.
• If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
• Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
• May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night. May the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being. May you walk gently through the world and know it's beauty all the days of your life.
• Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
• Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen. 
  
  
  
  
• I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
• Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
• You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world and you will be something. “I cannot,” never accomplished anything; I will try,” has wrought wonders.
• Perhaps the secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.
• I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something. So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make new mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
• You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
• And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
• It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
• Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
• The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real estate, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love, and faith.
• May you always be blessed with walls for the wind. A roof for the rain. A warm cup of tea by the fire. Laughter to cheer you. Those you love near you. And all that your heart might desire.
• This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays!
• Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you.
• All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.
• If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
• Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
• The destiny of eternity is determined moment by moment by the achievements of the day by day living. The acts of today are the destiny of tomorrow.
• The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.
• Through our good thinking the wise Creator will enable us to do his will, thereby attaining the realization of all that is divinely perfect.
• You are not IN the Universe, you ARE the Universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the Universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.
• Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams.
• You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.
• I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are secure in our own soul.
• Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
• Read something positive every night and listen to something helpful every morning.
• Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
• It's impossible for me to lose because I won't quit!
• What we think determines what happens to us - so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
• Before we came into this world we co-created a divine plan for our life.
  Time to press on now toward our divine destiny knowing God’s wind is at our back.
• The best and the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.
• Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.
• In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
• Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.
• Let us see what love can do.
• Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
• Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
• Love is possibly the only thing in the universe that is at the same time its own cause, means and end.
• The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. 
• Let's start with what we can be thankful for, and get our mind into that vibration, and then watch the good that starts to come. Because one good thought leads to another good thought.
• Where we love is home. Home that the feet may leave, but not our hearts.
• Truth is coherent, beauty attractive, goodness stabilizing. And when these values of that which is real are co-ordinated in personality experience, the result is a high order of love conditioned by wisdom and qualified by loyalty.
• A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.
• Your journey has molded you for the greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.
• The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek.
• This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!
• The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form of character of the best, and will receive the best.
• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
• I Think Therefore I AM; I AM Therefoe I EAT!
• To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present.
• But truth can never become man's possession without the exercise of faith. This is true because man's thoughts, wisdom, ethics, and ideals will never rise higher than his faith, his sublime hope.
• Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
• Truth is coherent, beauty attractive, goodness stabilizing. And when these values of that which is real are co-ordinated in personality experience, the result is a high order of love conditioned by wisdom and qualified by loyalty.
• Make not the mistake of trying to pluck a mote out of your brother's eye when there is a beam in your own eye. Having first cast the beam out of your own eye, you can the better see to cast the mote out of your brother's eye.
• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
• Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.
• All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.
• Believe you can and you're halfway there.
• View change as the one constant in your life. Welcome it. Expect it. Anticipate it.
• The time is always right to do what is right.
• What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.
• If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
• I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
• There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
• Be willing, then, to take up your responsibilities and follow me. Do your good deeds in secret; when you give alms, let not the left hand know what the right hand does.
• Do the things you used to talk about doing but never did. Know when to let go and when to hold on tight. Stop rushing. Don't be intimidated to say it like it is. Stop apologizing all the time. Learn to say no, so your yes has some oomph. Spend time with the friends who lift you up, and cut loose the ones who bring you down. Stop giving your power away. Be more concerned with being interested than being interesting. Be old enough to appreciate your freedom, and young enough to enjoy it. Finally know who you are.
• Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
• Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
• Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.
• My life is my message. - Ghandi
• Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
• Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
• Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If you're friendly then everybody else seems to be friendly too.
• Make yourself proud.
• Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
• Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
• A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
• All things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.
• The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
• Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you!
• Falling down is part of life. Getting back up is living.
• People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
• Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
• Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
• Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you. Remember, life is an echo. It always gets back to you. So give goodness.
• Where there is darkness, let me bring light.
• Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.
• There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
• Each day when you wake up, say: What miracles would you have me perform today? Then just listen.
• Nobody will save you but you. You alone have to engage your own contemplative development. There is all sorts of help available, and all sorts of good agency to quicken this development, but nobody can do it for you. And if you do not engage this development, and on your deathbed you confess and scream out for help to God, nothing is going to happen. Spiritual development is not a matter of mere belief. It is a matter of actual, prolonged difficult growth, and merely professing belief is meaningless and without impact. It’s like smoking for 20 years, then saying, “Sorry, I quit.” That will not impress cancer. Reality, in other words, is not interested in your beliefs; it’s interested in your actions, what you actually do, your actual karma.
• When you are in touch with that dimension within yourself [the truth of who you are] – and being in touch with it is your natural state, not some miraculous achievement – all your actions and your relationships will reflect the oneness with all life that you sense deep within.
• There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
• No one has ever become poor by giving.
• Every minute of every hour of every day, life begins anew. That means everything can change in an instant. It also means you can have a new beginning whenever you want. Why put off for one day that decision you've been pondering...aren't you just putting life itself on hold?
• So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
• We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.
• Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
• What you acknowledge in your brother you are acknowledging in yourself, and what you share you strengthen.
• Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.
• The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends.
• Pain is inevitable; Suffering is optional.
• To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return you will receive untold peace and happiness.
• Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.
• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates Love.
• Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.
• The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
• A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
• The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
• Rule 1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule 2: It's all small stuff.
• Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong.
• Tears are the words the heart can't express.
• Silence is a great source of sttrength.
• Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
• The measure wherewith truth seekers are drawn to you represents the measure of your truth endowment, your righteousness.
• Do not argue with life, or with anyone in life. Life presents itself perfectly in every moment, and every person believes his or her point of view to be valid and 'right.' Arguing with any of this is pointless, and a terrific waste of energy. Simply create what you choose next.
• Mortal mind subservient to matter is destined to become increasingly material and consequently to suffer eventual personality extinction; mind yielded to spirit is destined to become increasingly spiritual and ultimately ...to attain survival and eternity of personality existence.
• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
• To all people, religious and non-believing, I make this appeal. Always embrace the common humanity that lies at the heart of us all. Always affirm the oneness of our human family…. Let not your differences from the views of others come in the way of the wish for their peace, happiness, and well-being.” ~ Dalai Lama
• Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.” ~ Margaret Cho
• Love cannot judge. As it is one itself, it looks on all as one. Its meaning lies in oneness.” ~ A Course In Miracles
• So often we dwell on the things that seem impossible rather than on the things that are possible. So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
• We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree—deeply rooted to withstand all life’s upheavals.
• There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to you right now.  Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs to change for you to see this...is your definition of 'Highest Good.'
• Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
• We often mistake the true purpose of forgiveness. We assume it is for those who we forgive, but the greatest benefactor is actually ourselves. Forgiveness does not justify another’s actions. It simply enables you to no longer be affected by them.
• The supreme experience of human existence [is] finding God for yourselves and knowing him in your own souls.
• No one can hurt me—that’s my job.
• Sanity doesn’t suffer, ever.
• If I think you’re my problem, I’m insane.
• Do not overlook the value of your spiritual heritage, the river of truth running down through the centuries, even to the barren times of a materialistic and secular age.
• We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here now with the power to shape your day and your future.
• You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.
• Reality is always kinder than the story we are believing about it.
• I’m very clear that the whole world loves me. I just don’t expect them to realize it yet.
• There are no physical problems—only mental ones.
• Reality is God, because it rules.
• When I am perfectly clear, what is, is what I want.
• Arguing with reality is like trying to teach a cat to bark—hopeless.
• How do I know that I don’t need what I want? I don’t have it.
• Forgiveness is realizing that what you thought happened didn’t.
• Everything happens for me, not to me.
• Gratitude is what we are without a story.   
• When you argue with reality, you lose—but only 100% of the time.
• If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."
• You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.   
• Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
• What looks at first like chaos is often a massive blessing in disguise. Disappointments are the Universe’s way of saying, “I’ve got something better in mind.”
• Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the stars, never buy a coffee table you can't put your feet on, never pass up a chance to jump on a trampoline, don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.
• Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.
• New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
• Listening better. Caring more. Being there. It’s not big changes, but the little ones in our daily lives that make all the difference. With little ways to love more, big things happen.
• Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
• Your only assurance of a personal God consists in your own insight as to your belief in, and experience with, things spiritual.
• Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
• Our words count. They have the power to lift someone up, or tear someone down. Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it true? Is it helpful? Is it necessary? Is it kind?
• Don’t look back. The old you still exists there. Look forward and you will see all that you are meant to become.
• In You, I live to love and love to live.
• Logic can never succeed in harmonizing the findings of science and the insights of religion unless both the scientific and the religious aspects of a personality are truth dominated, sincerely desirous of following the truth wherever it may lead regardless of the conclusions which it may reach.
• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
• Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
• When we change the way we think, we change our lives. What most people do not understand is how powerful our thinking is and how involved it is in our health.
• What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.
• I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love…it is the common fiber of life, the flame that heats our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives.
• It is the motivating thought, the spiritual content, that validates the mortal supplication. Words are valueless.
• As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
• In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.
• There is no never... just long periods of not yet.
• A friend is a gift you give yourself.
• Do not try to satisfy the curiosity or gratify all the latent adventure surging within the soul in one short life in the flesh.
• Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
• As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
• Spiritually, all men are equal. The kingdom of heaven is free from castes, classes, social levels, and economic groups. You are all brethren.
• Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
• Stop being who you were and become who you are.
• You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. 
• The real believer is only concerned about present separation from God.
• I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
• Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real.
• Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.
• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
• I can turn around and scream and get angry, but I turn around and I forget about it.
• A father's love need not pamper, and it does not condone evil, but it is always anticynical. Fatherly love has singleness of purpose, and it always looks for the best in man; that is the attitude of a true parent.
• [The] qualities of divinity are personally appropriated by universe creatures in the experience of living divinely, and to live divinely means actually to live the will of God.
• Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
• Doing an Injury puts you below your enemy; Revenging one makes you but even with him; Forgiving it sets you above him.
• If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
• If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.
• Courage is personal bravery in the face of fear. It is doing what needs to be done even when it is really hard or scary. Courage is going ahead even when you feel like giving up. Courage is needed when trying new things. It is admitting mistakes and then doing the right thing. Courage is the strength in your heart.
• To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
• Instead of asking, "What do I want from life?", a more powerful question is, "What does life want from me?
• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
• Integrity is living by your highest values. It is being honest and sincere. Integrity helps you to listen to your conscience, to do the right thing, and to tell the truth. You act with integrity when your words and actions match. Integrity gives you self-respect and a peaceful heart.
• A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.
• To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
• Making a decision usually means taking one of two roads. One is doing the right thing. To take the other road, you have to sit back and spin a story around the decision or action you are taking. If you find yourself thinking up an elaborate justification for what you are doing, you are not doing the right thing.
• Affirmations are like seed planted in soil. Poor soil, poor growth. Rich soil, abundant growth. The more you choose to think thoughts that make you feel good, the quicker the affirmations work.
• Sooner or later, God is destined to be comprehended as the reality of values, the substance of meanings, and the life of truth.
• Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
• Your intentions create the reality that you experience.  Until you become aware of this, it happens unconsciously..
• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
• Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.
• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
• You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.
• Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
• One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with only interests.
• To be known and loved is a transforming experience. It calls us from skepticism to belief, from caution to action, from despair to hope.
• Our attitude is the crayon that colors our world.
• Abraham Lincoln once said, “Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.” 
• Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?
• To strengthen the muscles of your heart, the best exercise is lifting someone else's spirit whenever you can.
• Reason is the proof of science, faith the proof of religion, logic the proof of philosophy, but revelation is validated only by human experience.
• What counts can’t always be counted; what can be counted doesn’t always count.
• It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work.  Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.
• Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
• If we were to make the conscious and frequent effort of treating others with consideration, the effects on us and on society as a whole would be amazing.
•  When something bad happens you have three choices. You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.
• If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.
  
• Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of attention.
• I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
• In personality, mind ever intervenes between spirit and matter; therefore is the universe illuminated by three kinds of light: material light, intellectual insight, and spirit luminosity.
• Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
• Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a Gift. That's why it is called the Present.
• When the pupil is ready, the teacher appears.
• To teach is to learn twice.
• A better student is what the teacher hopes to be.
• One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention.
• Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
• The more you care, the stronger you can be.
• What you resist persists.
• Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable.  Faith means believing the unbelievable.  And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.
• "As you feel grateful for what you have, you start having more things about which to feel that gratitude." ~Lazaris
• The Outside reflects the Inside
• Patience will achieve more than force.
• You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe , deserve your love and affection .” ~Buddha
• Your worth lies not in what you do, or in who you know, but in who you are…. and who you truly are is AMAZING!
• You are loved, guided and supported every step of your journey. Open to that Love.
• The universe is always on your side. The question is, are you?
• Let yourself be guided by the waters of your soul, be nurtured by its love, receive the sanctuary of home.
• Look well to this day. Yesterday is but 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. Look well therefore to this day.
• Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
• Take good care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
• Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good.
•  I live in a friendly universe that will support any thing or desire that is aligned with the universal Source of all.
• A smile has been identified as the “little curve that sets a lot of things straight".
• All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself—you have a destiny to be great. It’s coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.
• “Love is a better master than duty.”
• Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
• The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank accounts, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the “love account.” 
• The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.
• Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
• BE STILL AND KNOW!
• How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
• We lose ourselves in the things we love. We find ourselves there, too!
• I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
• There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
• A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in or the kind of car I drove, but the world may be different because I was important in the life of another human being.
• I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
• Just trust that everything is unfolding the way it is supposed to. Don't resist. Surrender to what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be. Great things are waiting for you around the corner.
• We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
• We can have it all, but not at the same time.
• Fear, envy, and conceit can be prevented only by intimate contact with other minds.
• As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about you. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of them.
• You are not disabled by the disabilities you have; you are able by the abilities you have.
• Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
• No One Can Outrun Their Destiny
• Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
• When you are present in this moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.
• As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

• Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
• To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad.
• Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. 
• Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.
• Some pursue happiness - others create it.
• Life is not living, but being in health.
• Every human being is the author of his own health or disease - Buddha
• The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. - Buddha
• Nothing is good nor bad but thinking makes it so.- Shakespeare
• You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. - Buddha
• He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.
• The heart has reasons that reason doesn't understand.
• Who am I without my addictions?
• The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
• At the centre of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
• Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
• The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I AM.
• How do you let go of attachments to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.
• You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.
• Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.
• You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
• Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.
• I WANT TO KNOW WHAT I WANT!
• Take pride in how far you've come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don't forget to enjoy the journey.
• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
• Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.
• It is never too late to be what you might have been.
• When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the quality of your life increases dramatically.
• The most powerful agent of change is a change of heart.
• Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.
• The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
• We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
• The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be; otherwise, you will be forced to relive the past again and again.
• When you are tempted to doubt the sureness of your bread, consider the ravens; they sow not neither reap, they have no storehouses or barns, and yet the Father provides food for every one of them that seeks it.
• The joy of being is the joy of being conscious.
• You cannot save people. You can only love them
• The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart.
• Acknowledging the good that is already in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
• Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.
• Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
• You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.
• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
• Knowledge is realising that the street is one way; WISDOM is looking both directions anyway.
• To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
• One of the keys to receiving everything is a willingness to let go of anything.
• Some walks you have to take alone.
• Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.
• The longest journey you will ever take is the 18 inches from your head to your heart.
• I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
• When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit “the formless“ shines through you into the world.
• Love gives all and requires nothing
• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
• Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
• Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
• Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.
• Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
• Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
• Faith leads to knowing God, not merely to a mystical feeling of the divine presence.
• I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
• Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
• Realize deeply that the present moment is all that you ever have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
• The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.
• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
• Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can't.
• No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment - Now.
• Our lives improve only when we take chances- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
• When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
• Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
• Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
• The happy and effective person is motivated, not by fear of wrongdoing, but by love of right doing.
• A sense of humour...is needed armour. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
• I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning.
• Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
• A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
• I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
• We are here to find that dimension within ourselves that is deeper than thought.
• There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
• Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.
• When weeds come up in your garden, it does no good to say, 'There are no weeds, there are no weeds, there are no weeds...' It doesn't help to pretend they're not there. It doesn't matter how much you focus on the beautiful plants that are growing. The weeds aren't going to disappear until you get on your hands and knees and pull them out. - In your own life, you can't just 'focus on the positive, focus on the positive, focus on the positive', and expect your problems to go away. If there are some weeds, you have to deal with them.
• Live simply so others may simply live.
• If you continually give, you will continually have.
• The key to transformation is to make friends with this moment. What form it takes doesn't matter. Say yes to it. Allow it. Be with it.
• The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
• Every one of us receives and passes on an inheritance. The inheritance may not be an accumulation of earthly possessions or acquired riches, but whether we realize it or not, our choices, words, actions, and values will impact someone and form the heritage we hand down.
• In reality, every human being defines religion in the terms of his own experiential interpretation of the divine impulses emanating from the God spirit that indwells him, and therefore must such an interpretation be unique and wholly different from the religious philosophy of all other human beings.
• I was recently told of an African tribe that does the most beautiful thing.
  When someone does something hurtful and wrong, they take the person to the center of town, and the entire tribe comes and surrounds him. For two days they’ll tell the man every good thing he has ever done.
  The tribe believes that every human being comes into the world as GOOD, each of us desiring safety, love, peace, happiness.
  But sometimes in the pursuit of those things people make mistakes. The community sees misdeeds as a cry for help.
  They band together for the sake of their fellow man to hold him up, to reconnect him with his true Nature, to remind him who he really is, until he fully remembers the truth from which he'd temporarily been disconnected: "I AM GOOD".
• 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.
• Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
• Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
• You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
• Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who’s there.
• One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention.
• You can't have a better tomorrow if you're thinking about yesterday.
• When you are present you can sense the spirit, the one consciousness in every creature and love it as yourself.
• If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
• Remember, you are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.
• You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don't have a life. You are life.
• I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
• Never give up. Never ever give up. Why? Because just when you are about to give up is when things are about to turn around in a grand way. Hold on. Great things are waiting for you around the corner.
• Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
• Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
• Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
• Break the old pattern of present moment denial and present moment resistance. Make it your practice to withdraw attention from past and future whenever they are not needed.
• If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
• When a human being chooses eternal survival, he is cocreating destiny...
• Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.
• Pray for the welfare of your families, friends, and fellows, but especially pray for those who curse you, and make loving petitions for those who persecute you.
• Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
• There's one sad truth in life I've found while journeying east and west. The only folks we really wound are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know. We please the fleeting guest. And deal full many a thoughtless blow to those who love us best.
• Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. 
• We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
• Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
• Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
• Patience is quiet hope and trust that things will turn out right. You wait without complaining. You are tolerant and accepting of difficulties and mistakes. You picture the end in the beginning and persevere to meet your goals. Patience is a commitment to the future.
• This story offers a key to the meaning of spirituality: Two little fish were huddled together, afraid to move. A large fish swam by them, confident and strong. The big fish shouted out, "Why don't you swim out and enjoy the beautiful ocean?" The two little fish looked at each other and asked, "What ocean?" They were in it, but they were unaware.
• As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.
• Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
• The first mission of this spirit is, of course, to foster and personalize truth, for it is the comprehension of truth that constitutes the highest form of human liberty.
• For every excuse I had, you gave me alternatives until I was left with nothing but possibilities.
• Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
• Mantra for Life - REPEAT: Do the next right thing. Pause. Breathe. Pray.
• Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed. The mind and body work together. Your body needs to be a good support system for the mind and spirit. If you take good care of it, your body can take you wherever you want to go, with the power and strength and energy and vitality you will need to get there.
• Laughter is the most healthful exertion.
• You can only do good if you feel good.
• Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing your attention on your inner energy field. Become aware of the stillness.
• Every impulse of every electron, thought, or spirit is an acting unit in the whole universe.
• You have to give it away to keep it.
• And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
• The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
• Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what I am doing? If there isn't, then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.
• After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
• To say we are made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use us as fertilizer.
• Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
• The Supreme is your universe home, and when you find him, it will be like returning home. He is your experiential parent...
• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
• It is literally true that God is all and in all. But even that is not all of God.
• Avoid praying much for yourself; pray more for the spiritual progress of your brethren. Avoid materialistic praying; pray in the spirit and for the abundance of the gifts of the spirit.
• Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.
• Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
• You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
• There is nothing permanent except change.
• The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
• He who limps is still walking.
• Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts.
• Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.
• Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested. And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect, nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK.
• Whet the appetites of your associates for truth; give advice only when it is asked for.
• Truth is what stands the test of experience.
• Greatness lies not so much in possessing strength as in making a wise and divine use of such strength.
• To love is to recognize yourself in another.
• As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
• Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
• Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart.
• It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see...
• Ruthless competition based on narrow-minded self-interest is ultimately destructive of even those things which it seeks to maintain.
• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
• With one kind gesture you can change a life. One person at a time you can change the world.
• If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
• I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
• I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
• Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
• Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
• Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.
• Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
• To God there is no past, present, or future; all time is present at any given moment. He is the great and only I AM.
• True religion is designed to lessen the strain of existence; it releases faith and courage for daily living and unselfish serving. Faith promotes spiritual vitality and righteous fruitfulness.
• I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
• When a great truth seeker and a great truth giver meet, the result is a great and liberating enlightenment born of the experience of new truth.
• Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.
• For it is in giving that we receive.
• Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
• God is the first truth and the last fact; therefore does all truth take origin in him, while all facts exist relative to him. God is absolute truth.
• He never fears who knows the blissful security of the Supreme, for the Supreme says to those who serve him, 'Fear not, for I Am with you.'
• Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
• Humility - the spirit of selflessness
  Integrity - the spirit of honour
  Honesty - the spirit of candour
  Dignity - the spirit of respect
  Chivalry - the spirit of consideration
  Loyalty - the spirit of commitment.
• Imagination - the spirit of creativity
  Discipline - the spirit of responsibility
  Diligence - the spirit of endeavour
  Preparation - the spirit of foresight
  Determination - the spirit of optimism.
• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
• Faith is daring to put your dream to the test. It is better to try to do something and fail than to try to do nothing and succeed.
• Rather than admit a mistake, nations have gone to war, families have separated, and good people have sacrificed everything dear to them. Admitting that you were wrong is just another way of saying that you are wiser today than yesterday.
• Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you.
• To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy.
• It's not what you do once in a while; it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
• Give up waiting as a state of mind.
• The interconnectedness of all things: Buddhists have always known it, and physicists now confirm it. Nothing that happens is an isolated event. The more we label something, the more we isolate it. The wholeness of life becomes fragmented through our thinking.
• If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what’s left is who you are – the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined. Give up defining yourself – to yourself and others. You won’t die. You will come to life.
• Energy is thing, mind is meaning, spirit is value.
• No act of kindness is too small. The gift of kindness may start as a small ripple that over time can turn into a tidal wave affecting the lives of many.