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Inspirational Quotes - Sept/Oct 2005 |
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“While spirituality can be discovered in solitude–– by retreating to a cell of some kind, by reading, by thinking, meditating, praying – it can be fulfilled only in community.” ––Earnest Kurtz & Katherine Ketcham
”In the concentration camps,... in this living laboratory and on this testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentials within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions, but not on conditions.” ––Viktor Frankl
Be really whole and all things will come to you.––Lao Tzu
The truth is, there really isn’t a big correlation between what we fear and what happens to us. ––Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
You are the observing presence behind the activity of the mind. Every thought comes with it the invitation to attach, engage, react, tell a story, and/or enter into drama. Just notice the hook in each thought and you can be free of the behavior that results from the hook. ––Mark Waller
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. ––Dr. David M. Burns
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
From ManKind Project’s site... www.mkp.org ”Knowing your father’s wound is crucial, for you have been wounded by his wound.” ––Don Jones, Wisdom For the Journey
God has no religion ––Gandhi
The Peace of the Wild Things by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
WIND SONG by C. David Hay
I am the wind of many names With boundless tales to tell. I grace the clouds of Heaven’s realm And fan the fires of Hell.
I am the breeze of ancient seas Before life crawled ashore; I watched the rise and fall of beast So many times before.
I am the primal wail of time That weathers men and stone. I’ve danced the sancity of space Where angel wings have flown.
I am the restless storm of change, The gentle breath of dawn; I’ve howled from time eternal And I’ll blow when you are gone.
I am the wind of war and peace That honors right nor wrong. I am the mystic voice of God–– Come listen to my song.
The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at death. -- Author unknown
Your soul has a place it wants you to travel. Listening then to the soul’s message it is of great importance. ––Myron Eshowsky
When we forgive, we set someone free, but not who we suspected: for the captive was always us. ––Margaret Ann Huffman
Teach us reverence for all creation, for we’re walking with roughshod boots over everything in sight–– calling it progress... We’ve not yet gotten the picture that all things work together for good, from worms that become butterfllies, plants that heal and streams that quench. Reconnect us to soil and sea from whence we came and will return; remind us how earthy we are! ––Margaret Ann Huffman
“The minute you are grateful for any problem, it dissolves like mist in the morning sun.” ––Anonymous
You can make anything out of anything. ––Jennifer Priolo & Robert Holden
“One of life’s most fulfilling moments occurs in that split second when the familiar is suddenly transformed into the dazzling aura of the profoundly new.” ––Edward B. Lindaman
We need to recognize pleasure as a necessity, not a luxury. ––Sark |