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General Quotes:
"Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you
dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary
rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness."
-- Marriane Williamson
"We either make ourselves miserable, or we
make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
-- Carlos Castaneda
"Doubt may be an uncomfortable condition, but
certainty is a ridiculous one."
-- Voltaire
"If you're not amazed by how naive you were yesterday, you're standing still.
If you're not terrified of the next step, your eyes are closed.
If you're standing still and your eyes are closed, you're only dreaming you're
awake.
A caged bird in a boundless sky."
--Jed McKenna
" Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength."
-- Frances de Sales
"Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds."
-- Einstein
"What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and
abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
"He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him
makes him stronger, he is superman."
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to
say it,"
-- Evelyn Beatrice Hall
"The real work of this life is to be passionate, be holy, be wild, be
irreverent, to laugh and cry until you awaken the sleeping spirits, until the
ground of you being cleaves and the universe comes flooding in."
-- Geneen Roth
"Be patient with all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the
questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a
foreign tongue… the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps
you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into
the answer."
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
"I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic
experience."
-- Shakti Gawain
"Human beings have a variety of intelligences, such as cognitive
intelligence, emotional intelligence, musical intelligence, kinesthetic
intelligence, and so on. Most people excel in one or two of those, but do
poorly in the others. This is not necessarily or even usually a bad thing;
part of Integral wisdom is finding where one excels and thus where one can
best offer the world one’s deepest gifts."
-- Ken Wilber (Source: AQAL Journal, pp. 8-9, Vol. 1, No. 1)
"We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the
love we're not extending in the present."
--Marianne Williamson
"Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent – all must be tasted."
-- Chinese Proverb
"Being right is a condition that exists when your reasons are more important
than aliveness for yourself."
--Virginia Sandlin
"I'd rather be loathed for who I am, than loved for who I am not."
-- Wayne Dyer
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
--Plato
"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."
-- Leo Buscaglia
"Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward
circumstances."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"The ultimate metaphysical secret, if we dare state it so simply, is
that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions,
products not of reality but of the way we map and edit reality. And while
it is fine to map out the territory, it is fatal to confuse the two."
-- Ken Wilber (Source: No Boundary : Eastern and Western Approaches to
Personal Growth, Page: 462)
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from
themselves."
-- James M. Barrie
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to
sleep after.
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the
death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of
transforming transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of
finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content;
the self is made toast."
-- Ken Wilber
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy,
practice compassion."
--The Dalai Lama
"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants
woman, the most dangerous plaything."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche.
"Just as the value of a house lies in its location, The value of a mind lies
in its depth, The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit, The
value of words lies in their reliability."
--Lao Tsu
"If you want to build a ship
don't herd people together to collect wood
and don't assign them tasks and work,
but rather teach them to long
for the endless immensity of the sea."
-- Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery
“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to
do with it ... Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you
could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as
soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and
with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have
one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult."
-- E. B. White |