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

Zeezee Plant

"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

Friday Inspiration

Red Pythos Plant

"If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering follows him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart.

If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow."

_____ The Dhammapada

Thursday Inspiration

"The deepest waters make the least noise."

_____ Guatemalan proverb

Wednesday Inspiration

"Misfortune and experience are lost upon mankind when they produce neither reflection nor reformation."

_____ Thomas Paine

Weekend Inspiration

"Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf."

_____ Native American Indian proverb

Friday Inspiration

"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on."

_____ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Thursday Inspiration

"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."

_____ Buddha

Wednesday Inspiration

"The mind remains wide, so my place is naturally remote."

_____ Tao Yuan Ming

Tuesday Inspiration

"Nothing is more simple than greatness;

Indeed, to be simple is to be great."

_____ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday Inspiration

"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."

_____ Robert Louis Stevenson

Weekend Inspiration

"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I am looking for the truth', and so it goes away. Puzzling."

_____ Robert M. Pirsig

Friday Inspiration

"My mind is my own church."

_____ Thomas Paine

Thursday Inspiration

"From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear.

Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry."

_____ Sutra of Forty-two Chapters

Wednesday Inspiration

"Many lifetimes of misunderstanding come from distrust, hindrance, and screens of confusion that we create in a scenario of isolation."

_____ Hongzhi Zhengjue

Tuesday Inspiration

"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones.

It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral."

_____ John Burroughs

Weekend Inspiration

Sago Palm

"Vow to achieve the perfect understanding that the illusory body is like dew and lightning."

_____ Hsu Yun

Friday Inspiration

"There seems no plan because it is all plan;

There seems no center because it is all center."

_____ C. S. Lewis

Thursday Inspiration

"You should draw inwardly and search for the ground upon which you stand; thereby you will find out what truth is."

_____ Yun-men Wen-yen

Wednesday Inspiration

"For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or devine."

_____ Thich Thien-An

Tuesday Inspiration

"Careful! Even moonlit dewdrops,

If you're lured to watch,

Are a wall before the truth."

_____ Sogyo

Monday Inspiration

"My hours are peaceful centuries."

_____ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weekend Inspiration

"When we are not bored with here and longing to be there, when the life of things is breathed in and breathed out with every breath we take, when we live with the past of our world and into the unborn future without desiring to undo what is done, or avoid what must be, then we live in a timeless life now, a placeless life here."

_____ R. H. Blyth

Friday Inspiration

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."

_____ Lao-tzu

Thursday Inspiration

"Relaxation and concentration go hand in hand. But too much concentration defeats itself. If you are truly relaxed, and allow the body and the unconscious to do there share, instead of working the conscious mind overtime, concentration can become effortless effort."

_____ Joe Hyams

Wednesday's Inspiration

"Life is not meaningful......unless it is serving an end beyond itself;
unless it is of value to someone else."
_____ Abraham Joshua Heschel