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The heart is like a garden.
It can grow
compassion or fear,
resentment or love.
What seeds
will you plant there?
–– Buddhist Teacher
Creativity is allowing oneself
to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.
––Scott Adams
The Dilbert Principle
The art of living well
and the art of dying well are one. ––Epicurus
Everything that’s occuring
in our life,
every experience we have,
is the curriculum we need
in the moment.
If we are present with that,
we get exactly
what we need
to make quantum leaps
in our consicousenss.
––Jacob Liberman,
Light: Medicine of the Future
The greatest discovery
of my generation is
that human beings
can alter their lives
by altering their attitudes of mind.
––William James
"The only way
to discover the limits
of the possible
is to go beyond them
into the impossible."
––Arthur C. Clarke
Nothing splendid
has ever been achieved,
except by those who dared believe that something inside them
was superior to circumstances.
––Bruce Barton
"Don't feel sorry for yourself
if you have chosen
the wrong road––
turn around!"
––Edgar Cayce
"Act as if what you do
makes a difference. It does."
––William James
I make sense of the world by
borrowing what I can from people
to whom I listen. Life is a continuing course in Adult Education.
––Bill Moyers,
Healing and The Mind
Both denial & hope show us
where our attachments are.
––Terry Tempest Williams
Champions aren't made in gyms.
Champions are made
from something they have
deep inside them––
a desire, a dream, a vision.
––Muhammad Ali
MEDITATION IN DAILY LIFE by Robert Rabbin
The peace that we experience in meditation cannot be carried into our daily life. That peace is who we are, and therefore it cannot be carried anywhere. We can only carry something that we are not. The peace of meditation is already present wherever we are. The question is, Why don't we experience that?
The practice of meditation is not the source of the peace we feel; it reveals the peace that is already within us. The peace that is within us is revealed when we turn our attention inward. In meditation we withdraw our attention from the chaos of the world and we stop projecting the fantasies of our mind. Then, without the horns of the world and the drums of the mind to distract us, who we are emerges.
As we experience more of who we are, the peace of that Self-knowledge follows us everywhere. We can't escape it. Don't try to bring that peace anywhere. Just find out who you are.
Return to silence as often as you can. Without clinging to your ideas and plans, without resisting natural changes, let this silence begin to shape your life, and as it does you will experience the peace you want. This silence, this energy of meditation, will carry us. We can't carry it.
From The Sacred Hub ROBERT RABBIN "A Catalyst for Clarity"
E-mail: robrabbin@robrabbin.com
Website: http://www.robrabbin.com
On war and peace:
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally
treasonable to the American public."
––Theodore Roosevelt
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." ––Albert Einstein
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. You may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish truth. You may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate, nor establish love. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” ––Martin Luther King, Jr.
“It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.”
––U. S. Supreme Court
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