Monday Inspiration

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"The lesson that life reappears and constantly enforces is 'Look under foot'. You are always nearer to the divine and the true sources of your power than you think."

_____ John Burroughs

Weekend Inspiration

"There is only one world, the world pressing against you this minute."

_____ Storm Jameson

Friday Inspiration

"To see clearly is poetry, philosophy, and religion, all in one."

_____ John Ruskin

Thursday Inspiration

"You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving-kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible."

_____ Jack Kornfield

Wednesday Inspiration

"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

_____ Socrates

Tuesday Inspiration

"I claim to be no more the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if she or he would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith."

_____ Gandhi

Monday Inspiration

"Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear;

Trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity."

_____ Bhagavad Gita

Weekend Inspiration

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should see sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

_____ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Friday Inspiration

"Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace.... Peace will be the last word of history."

_____ John Paul II

Thursday Inspiration

"We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather around us, that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even a fiercer life because of our quiet."

_____ William Butler Yeats

Wednesday Inspiration

"To live here and now you must train yourself: In the seen there will be just the seen, in the heard just the heard, in the sensed just the sensed, in the thought just the thought. That is the end of sorrow."

_____ Buddha

Tuesday Inspiration

"Once we recognize that thoughts are empty,

The mind will no longer have the power to deceive us."

_____ Khyetse Rinpoche

Monday Inspiration

"To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times."

_____ Thomas Merton

Weekend Imspiration

"If your eyes are blinded with your worries,

You cannot see the beauty of the sunset."

_____ Krishnamurti

Friday Inspiration

"Doubt everything. Find your own light."

_____ Buddha

Thursday Inspiration

"Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot posses our children, lovers, family our friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes."

_____ Jack Kornfield

Wednesday Inspiration

"You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you."

_____ Paramahansa Yogananda

Tuesday Inspiration

"As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all that changes on this earth."

_____ Buddha

Monday Inspiration

"He who thinks to reach God by running away from the world, when and where does he expect to meet him?

We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment."

_____ Rabindranath Tagore

Weekend Inspiration

"The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those that think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination."

_____ Joseph Campbell

Friday Inspiration

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and words and deed.

Always at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."

_____ Gandhi

Thursday Inspiration

"The art of living...is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists of being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive."

_____ Alan Watts

Wednesday Inspiration

"If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.

If you want to see the brave, look to those who can forgive."

_____ Bhagavad Gita

Tuesday Inspiration

"We carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others."

_____ Albert Camus

Monday Inspiration

"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."

_____ Aristotle

Weekend Inspiration

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"There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth,

Unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool."

_____ The Dhammapada