... Buckminster Fuller
"Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still"
...T.S. Eliot, from Ash Wednesday
"Life is very short
And there's no time for fighting and fussing my friends."
...The Beatles
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love
.... Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Never let the weeds get higher
Than the garden"
...Tom Waits
"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn." ...Louis Adamic
"Have as your goal to do your best and to make a difference.
We are in the world to make a difference,
and everything we do changes the world."
"The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we are,
but in what direction we are moving."
"Once the mind has been stretched by a new idea,
it will never again return to its original size."
...Oliver Wendell Holmes
Born March 6, 1841 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr (d. 1935), Supreme Court justice
"I do not know what your destiny will be, but one thing I
know: the only ones among you who will be truly happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve."
....Albert Schweitzer
"The lot of the many is to have as a profession,
for the earning of their living and the satisfaction
of society's claim on them, a more or less soulless labor
in which they can give out little or nothing of their human qualities,
because in that labor they have to be
little better than human machines.
;Yet no one finds himself in the position of having no possible
opportunity of giving himself to others as a human being.
...No fate can prevent a man from giving to others this
direct human service side by side with his lifework.
If so much of such service remains unrealized,
it is because the opportunities are missed."
...Albert Schweitzer
Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography
"the world is not respectable: it is mortal,
tormented, confused, deluded forever;
but it is shot through with beauty,
with love, with glints of courage and laughter;
and in these, the Spirit blooms."
The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana
The more I attempted to "be me" the more "me's" I found there were.
I now see that "being me" means acknowledging all that I feel at the moment,
and then taking responsibility for my actions
by consciously choosing which level of my feelings
I am going to respond to.
... Hugh Prather
Notes to Myself : My Struggle to Become a Person
"The trick is what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong.
The amount of work is the same."
"Was it something I will see in the future" I asked?
There's no future!" he exclaimed cuttingly.
The future is only a way of talking.
For a sorcerer there is only the here and now."
...Carlos Castaneda from "Tales Of Power"
Dec.24,1925 -April 27,1998
Carlos Castaneda Books
"The worst prison would be a closed heart".
...Pope John Paul II
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
...Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown DVD
I think each one of us has a non-shirkable obligation
to figure out the world on our own as best we can.
The way we behave as a result of that investigation
is our real and practiced Religion.
"The key to the future is service.
Part of what made Kennedy great was the idea of the Peace Corps.
Part of Clinton's votes came from people who liked
the idea of repaying student loans with service.
As the world becomes more crowded,
each way of making money becomes precious and money is charged
for things that used to be given for free or for love.
Service becomes a revolutionary act."
...Stephen Gaskin
"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery.
You can't do any business from there."
...Colonel Sanders
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into
fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection:
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost
its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is lead forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
....Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize winner,Literature,1913
Gitanjali : A Collection of Indian Poems by the Nobel Laureate
"God admires us not for what we do but for how much love we put into what we do.
Together let us build a chain of love around the world."
"In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy,
a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love.
There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one."
"We cannot all do great things.But we can do small things with great love."
....Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa Books, VHS, DVD
"My message is the practice of compassion, love, and kindness.
Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact
that every human being is a member of humanity and
the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color, and creed.
Deep down there is no difference."
"We should try never to let our happy frame of mind be disturbed.
Whether we are suffering at present or have suffered in the past,
there is no reason to be unhappy. If we can remedy it, why be unhappy?
And if we cannot, what use is there in being depressed about it?
That just adds more unhappiness and does no good at all."
"By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern for their welfare,
we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source of all problems,
and enhance our sense of kindness which is a natural source of goodness."
"This is my simple religion.
There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;
the philosophy is kindness."
...His holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso
The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
The idea is that you have to WIN and be nonviolent
You've got to be nonviolent - and you've got to win with nonviolence. "
... Cesar Chavez
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't much care where -- " said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
" -- so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation.
"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."
...Alice in Wonderland
"Intellectuals try not to drown, while the whole purpose of love is drowning."
...Rumi
The Illuminated Rumi
As selfishness and complaint pervert cloud the mind,
so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
...Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927.
"Love is the answer, and you know that for sure."
...John Lennon
"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together!"
...Beatles, "I Am The Walrus"
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve.
You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love".
...Martin L. King, Jr.
The more I study the world,The more I am convinced of the
inability of Brute force to create anything durable.
...Napoleon Bonaparte
"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices"
... William James
"Breathe when you breathe,
Walk where you walk.
talk when you talk,
cry when you cry,
die when you die,
let go when you let go..."
...Allen Ginsberg
"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men;
along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes,
and they come back to us as effects."
... Herman Melville
Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics Hardcovers)
"The recognition of the life of every man as sacred is the first
and only basis of all ethics.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try
to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."
...Leo Tolstoy,
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
"A human being is part of the whole, called by us the 'universe',
a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself,
his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest
-a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to
our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
"With all my heart I believe the present system of sovereign nations
can lead only to war, barbarism, inhumanity, and
only through world law can we assure progress toward civilization."
" The ideals that lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage
to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth."
...Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Life is not the result of the evolution of matter.
Life is of another kind.
Matter alone can't produce life. I look to nature
and to the Spirit who is living in everything."
...Marc Deneyer Photographic Artist
"What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity."
...Oscar Wilde
The Oscar Wilde Collection
(The Importance of Being Earnest / The Picture of Dorian Gray
/ An Ideal Husband / Lady Windermere's Fan)
"To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make."
...Sigmund Freud
"I have learnt through bitter experience
the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger,
and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy,
even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a
power which can move the world."
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
"An Eye for an Eye makes the whole world blind."
...Mahatma Gandhi
Quotes by Gandhi
In this internal storm and outward tide
We hear a promise, hard to understand:
From the compulsion that all creatures binds,
Who overcomes himself, his freedom finds.
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Nothing is more revolting than the majority;
for it consists of few vigorous predecessors,
of knaves who accommodate themselves,
of weak people who assimilate themselves,
and the mass that toddles after them
without knowing the least what it wants.
...Goethe
Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity
of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation
itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that
self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.
... George Gurdjieff
