Quotes of Wisdom
"Make sure that you are not only looking for someone that can understand you, but also someone that can passionately love you and that you can love passionately in return. Someone where you can share an expression of your love in full understanding, and this is the spark of The Divine Creator that extends from Itself and is seen in the magnificent brilliance of your eyes. The eyes are the windows to the soul. If you want to know your love, find them by the look in their eyes."
---the Goddess Ishtar
“All time not spent on love is wasted."
~~~Tasso
" Men and parties, sects and schools are but the mere ephemera of the world's day. TRUTH, high-seated upon its rock of adamant, is alone eternal and supreme."
~~~Madame Helena P. Blavatsky
" We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want."
~~~Tao Te Ching
"Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you"
~~~Wayne Dyer
"Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and we will be in service, not only for our own happiness, but the world at large."
~~~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change."
~~~Robert F. Kennedy
"When suffering is on all sides and man hungers for the unmanifested mystery in all phenomenon, He seeks reflection of the Divine. God's higher truths are cloaked in his creation and the message is in the stars."
~~~Nostradamus
“It is no longer possible for us to live as pale and diminished versions of ourselves. For a new world in a new millennium, we need a new mind with expanded senses and a deepened Spirit.”
~~~Jean Houston
“What we have is not the solid, but the space between; not the matter, but the energy. The only thing that endures is Love. To obtain it we must totally Trust.”
~~~Joy Kachel , from “A Glimpse into the Void”
"The heart is the sacred hub of the universe. Go there and roam in that space."
~~~Sri Nityananda
"God must be greater than the greatest of human weaknesses and, indeed, the greatest of human skill. God must even transcend our most remarkable-to emulate nature in its absolute splendor. How can any man or woman sin against such greatness of mind? How can one little carbon unit on Earth-in the backwaters of the Milky Way, the boondocks-betray God almighty? That is impossible. The height of arrogance is the height of control of those who create God in their own image."
~~~Ramtha, speaking through J.Z. Knight (from the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?")
"Don't live in the circumstances of your life…live in the possibilities."
~~~Oprah
" An old paradigm never replaces itself. Old paradigms go out screaming and crying and hollering and yelling."
~~~ Stephen Simon (from Magical Blend interview)
"The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth."
~~~ Chinese proverb
"If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception."
~~~ Rumi
~~~Abraham Lincoln
"All Truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
"He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality."
~~~Anwar Sadat
~~~ Swami Vivekananda
"It is no longer possible for us to live as pale and diminished versions of ourselves. For a new world in a new millennium, we need a new mind with expanded senses and a deepened Spirit."
~~~ Jean Houston
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Just as there is a so-called art of waging war, so there is an art of waging peace."~~~Marianne Williamson
"Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of humanity."
~~~Albert Einstein
"There are
some people who live in a dream world,
and there are some who face reality;
and then there are those who turn one into the other."
~~~Douglaus Everett
"This
is love: to fly toward a secret sky,
to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
First to let go of life.
Finally, to take a step without feet."
~~~ Rumi
"It matters not Who you love, Where you love, Why you love, When you love, Or How you love. It matters only that you love."
~~~ John Lennon
"If there were no illusion, there would be no enlightenment."
~~~Buddhist saying
"Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck. Your profession is what you are put here on earth to do--with such passion and such intensity it becomes spiritual in calling."
~~~Vincent Van Gogh
"Stress means you're in conflict with this [present] moment."
~~~Eckhart Tolle
"Yes, he who wishes to touch the heart must seek his inspiration on high. Without this there will be naught but sounds and notes, a soulless body---Is this not true?"
~~~Ludwig van Beethoven
"Everybody loves to talk about calmness and peace, whether in a family, national, or international context, but without inner peace, how can we make real peace?"
~~~ The Dalai Lama
"We understand why children are afraid of darkness, but why are men afraid of light?"
~~~ Plato
"Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now."
~~~ Neale Donald Walsch
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."
~~~ Rumi
"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear."
~~~ William Jennings Bryan
"The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have."
~~~ John D. Rockefeller III
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."
~~~ Einstein
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security."
~~~Gail Sheehy
"All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world."
~~~Buddha
"God is a comic playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh".
~~~Voltaire 1694--1778
"To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal."
~~~ Mary Baker Eddy
~~~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's."
~~~William Blake
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life in an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
~~~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."
~~~Leonardo da Vinci