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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    Every one of us has in him or her a continent of undiscovered character.
    Blessed are they who act the Columbus to their own souls.

    unattributed

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    Whenever I'm caught up with needless thoughts, I ask myself two questions. If I'm wanting something to happen, and it's not turning out the way I want, for example, I ask, "If I get what I think I'm wanting, will it really make me feel peaceful and happy?" The answer is usually "No." Then the second question is, "Even if I don't get it, can I still be at peace?"The answer is usually "Yes." -Peter Russell

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and thistles of depression, discontent, and anxiety in the garden of your mind. Luckily, the opposite is also true. Consistently planting positive, healthy, constructive thoughts will yield a crop of beautiful feelings, such as gratitude, love, and joy. -Sue Patton Thoele

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    We all have, without exception, a very deep longing to give—to give to the earth, to give to others, to give to the society, to work, to love, to care for this earth. That's true for every human being. And even the ones who don't find it, it's because it has been squashed or somehow suppressed in some brutal way in their life. But it's there to be discovered. We all long for that. -Jack Kornfield

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    Caring for one another, we sometimes glimpse an essential quality of our being. We may be sitting alone, lost in self-doubt or self-pity, when the phone rings with a call from a friend who's really depressed. Instinctively, we come out of ourselves, just to be there with her and say a few reassuring words. When we're done, and a little comfort's been shared, we put down the phone and feel a little more at home with ourselves. We're reminded of who we really are and what we have to offer one another. -Ram Dass and Paul Gorman

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    Kindness is the light that dissolves

    all walls between souls, families, and nations.

    - Paramahansa Yogananda

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    The world is my country,

    all mankind are my brethren,

    and to do good is my religion.

    - Thomas Paine

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace and development than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must work to promote unity based on our shared humanity. -Kofi Annan

    If humans are to survive, we will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between people and between cultures. We will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear. -Gene Roddenberry

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    Today is a unique and special day.

    It is unlike any other day you have ever experienced.

    If you assume that today is like every other day,

    you will never notice today's uniqueness.

    If you practice keen awareness, you will get

    to savor today's uniquely wonderful qualities.

    - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    There is so much beauty around us, if we will only take the time to notice it. You can make a conscious effort to look for the essence and therefore develop an appreciation for the beautiful things in life. Your days will seem a lot less harried, I promise you. . . . The wonderful thing about beauty is that we can store it in our minds to be played over and over again. -Luci Swindoll

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and the person who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then that person can be trusted. -Plato

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies. On the other hand, to teach one to try one's best to avoid the truth--even to press it when necessary toward the outer edge of the rainbow--for a reason of kindness, or of mercy, is far closer to the heart of truth than to repeat something accurately and mercilessly that will cruelly hurt the feelings of someone. -Emily Post

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    If we have no peace,

    it is because we have forgotten

    that we belong to each other.

    - Mother Teresa

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

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    The world does not stand or fall with discoveries or inventions, nor with the trample of armed hosts and the thunder of bombing planes. The world stands or falls with the laws of life which Heaven has written in the human conscience.
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    Pierre Van Paasen

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the things to fear, said the headmaster.

    - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi -

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    We share with all life the capacity for feeling, the experience of having a body, mind, and heart in continual interface with countless other bodies, minds, and hearts. Our capacity to feel deeply means we share with all life the possibility of experiencing delight, joy, trust, and intimacy, just as we share in the capacity to experience pain, sorrow, grief, and fear. Living within a physical body, we all share the experience of aging, frailty, illness, and death, just as we share the precious times of strength, health, safety, and vitality. Through our minds we share the capacity to experience confusion, agitation, and complexity, just as we share the possibilities of serenity, clarity, and balance. An understanding of this profound interconnectedness of all life is at the root of the compassionate heart dedicated to alleviating suffering without reservation or exception. -Christina Feldman

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    Joy is the realization of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world, and the world-soul with the supreme love.

    Rabindranath Tagore

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with great talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence, determination alone are omnipotent. -Calvin Coolidge

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    Only the wise person draws from life, and from every stage of it, its true savour, because only he or she feels the beauty, the dignity, and the value of life. The flowers of youth may fade, but the summer, the autumn, and even the winter of human existence, have their majestic grandeur, which the wise person recognizes and glorifies. -Amiel

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    As yesterday is history, and tomorrow may never come, I have resolved from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
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    Robert Louis Stevenson

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    To honor and respect means to think of the land and water and plants and animals who live here as having a right equal to our own to be here. We are not the supreme and all-knowing beings, living at the top of the pinnacle of evolution, but in fact we are members of the sacred hoop of life, along with the trees and rocks, the coyotes and the eagles and fish and toads, that each fulfills its purpose. They each perform their given task in the sacred hoop, and we have one, too. -Wolf Song

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2020

    The best portion of a good person's life,--
    Their little nameless, unremembered acts
    Of kindness and of love.

    William Wordsworth

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2020
    Blessed are they who have learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate. -William Arthur Ward
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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2020

    One of my fondest memories from childhood is of looking at a globe with my father. "What's the biggest country?" he'd ask me and my sister. We'd spin the globe around and guess. . . . The globe brought me a sense of wonder and adventure. I wanted to go to those other places and see how people did things differently. And, many years later, when I did visit other countries, I took my father's interest and fascination with me. When we plant the seeds of fascination and respect for other people, we are teaching tolerance and peace. -Charlotte Davis Kasl
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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2020

    When one begins to practice simplicity, the ego is deprived of the very strategy by which it sustains itself. Nothing will deflate the ego more effectively than to be recognized for what it is. It lives by pretension. It dies when the mask is torn away and the stark reality is exposed to the gaze of others. Simplicity also avails in braking the tyranny of things. Ostentation, artificiality, ornamentation, pretentious style, luxury--all require things. One requires few things to be one's self, one's age, and one's moral, intellectual, or spiritual stature. What one is does not depend on what one has.



    Albert E. Day

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2020

    Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
    - Robert Green Ingersoll

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2020

    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

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2020

    We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and women; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
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    Herman Melville

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2020

    That's what we're here for: to make the world new. We know what to do: seek justice, love mercy, walk humbly, treat every person as if he or she were yourself. These are not complicated instructions. It's much harder to decipher the instructions for putting together a tricycle than it is to understand these. -Nancy Mairs

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited July 2020

    Imagine how our lives might be if everyone had a bit more of the Wisdom that comes from seeing clearly. Suppose people everywhere, simultaneously, stopped what they were doing and paid attention for only as long as it took to recognize their shared humanity. Surely the heartbreak of the world's pain, visible to all, would convert everyone to kindness.What a gift that would be. -Sylvia Boorstein

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