I have chosen the way of forgiveness, because it alone undoes the lock
\nof time upon the wound. When there is no time, there is no wound. Let
\ngo of the past, and you will have no grievances. It is simple, is it
\nnot? Time makes the wound seem real. It makes death seem real. It makes
\nall the changes that happen in your life seem real. Yet none of these
\nare real.
– Paul Ferrini, Love Without Conditions<\/i><\/p>\n
To
\nlove is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love
\nanother: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the
\nultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is
\nbut preparation.
– Rainer Marie Rilke<\/p>\n
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
– Albert Einstein<\/p>\n
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
– George Bernard Shaw<\/p>\n
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
– Anne Frank<\/p>\n
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
– Albert Einstein<\/p>\n
Humanity
\nhas advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober,
\nresponsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious,
\nand immature.
– Tom Robbins<\/p>\n
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
– Lily Tomlin<\/p>\n
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
– Tom Robbins<\/p>\n
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
– Lin Yutang<\/p>\n
There
\nwas this Hindu who saw a scorpion floundering around in the water. He
\ndecided to save it by stretching out his finger, but the scorpion stung
\nhim. The man still tried to get the scorpion out of the water, but the
\nscorpion stung him again. A man nearby told him to stop trying to
\nsave the scorpion that kept stinging him. But the Hindu said: “It
\nis the nature of the scorpion to sting. It is my nature to love. Why
\nshould I give up my nature to love just because it is the nature of the
\nscorpion to sting?”
– author unknown<\/p>\n
No question is unheard,
\nand no question goes unanswered. \u201cAsk and you shall receive\u201d is the
\nrule, but you must learn how to ask and how to receive.
– Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul<\/i><\/p>\n
We
\nmake the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume
\nthat others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way
\nwe judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumptions
\nthat humans make. And this is why we have a fear of being ourselves
\naround others. Because we think everyone else will judge us, victimize
\nus, abuse us, and blame us as we do ourselves. So even before others
\nhave a chance to reject us, we have already rejected ourselves. That is
\nthe way the human mind works.
– Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements<\/i><\/p>\n
You
\nare in another sense already God. This is the ultimate truth. You
\nare made of God and are an indivisible part of God. As is
\neverything. The whole existence is God in motion. The sensitivity you
\nfeel is God. The awareness you have is God. Your love is God. The
\nveil of separation, your ego, is God. Even though this is the
\nultimate truth, it can become a trap if you believe it without
\nexperiential verification. Premature belief prevents authentic
\ndiscovery. Be absolutely rigorous about what you know from your
\nexperience and what is borrowed knowledge. We have enough parrots of
\nteachers and scriptures already. The solution is to remain an inner
\nscientist. Verify everything with your intelligence and experience.
\nYour soul does not have any clear memory of Source. In that sense, you
\nare lost in samsara groping towards the light. This is your experience
\nand is therefore the most real for you. Yet Source is in you animating
\nyour every move, thought and feeling. Life is paradoxical.<\/p>\n
The fast way to grow is to stick to your experience. This prevents
\nmost of the spiritual traps from catching you. At the same time, try to
\nunderstand the big picture and how you fit into it. You can understand
\nthat consciousness is all there is, and God is awareness of
\nconsciousness. This means you are a part of God with no memory of where
\nyou come from. Still, do not believe anything till you know. What you
\nalways know is the energy of the moment. This moment of life is who you
\nare right now. Become more sensitive to this miraculous moment of life
\nhappening in you. Allow the energy of Now to take you where it wants to
\ngo. Give more space to the silence between thoughts.
\n– Maitreya<\/p>\n
What we believe we also experience. What happens for many people when
\nthey begin to work with visualizations and realizing desires is that
\nthey are completly unaware of how their unconscious beliefs control the
\noutcome. For example, if you work on creating a healthy body but deep
\ndown don’t actually believe you can do it, your goal will be sabotaged
\nby that negative self-talk, and the work will not be successful. Our
\ninner conversations do have an effect on what we manifest in our lives.
– Sandra Ingerman, Medicine For the Earth<\/i><\/p>\n
We
\ncannot destroy an old belief system while we are maintaining and
\ndefending it. That’s no different than arm wrestling with
\nyourself. We discard the old by re-directing the energy
\nthat we are giving it.
– Carson’s Commentary<\/p>\n
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2) When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don’t let her brush your hair.
3) If your sister hits you, don’t hit her back. They always catch the second person.
4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.
5) You can’t trust dogs to watch your food.
6) Don’t sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.
7) Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time.
8) You can’t hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.
9) Don’t wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts.
10) The best place to be when you’re sad is Grandpa’s lap.<\/p>\n
GREAT TRUTHS THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED:<\/b><\/p>\n
2) Wrinkles don’t hurt.
3) Families are like fudge…mostly sweet, with a few nuts.
4) Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
5) Laughing is good exercise. It’s like jogging on the inside.
6) Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.<\/p>\n
GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT GROWING OLD<\/b><\/p>\n
2) Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.
3) When you fall down, you wonder what else you can do while you’re down there.
4) You’re getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.
5) It’s frustrating when you know all the answers but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.
6) Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
7) Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.<\/p>\n
THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE:<\/b><\/p>\n
2) You don’t believe in Santa Claus.
3) You are Santa Claus.
4) You look like Santa Claus.<\/p>\n
SUCCESS:<\/b><\/p>\n
At age 12 success is … having friends.
At age 16 success is … having a drivers license.
At age 35 success is … having money.
At age 50 success is … having money.
At age 70 success is … having a drivers license.
At age 75 success is … having friends.
At age 80 success is … not peeing in your pants.<\/p>\n