Lindasuepatterson's Wisdom Page

Don't try to win over the haters. You're not the jackass whisperer.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

All the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate. This is why I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive--it has nothing to do with time. It happens on its own when a human being questions, wonders, inquires, listens, and looks without getting stuck in fear, pleasure, and pain. When self-concern is quiet, in abeyance, heaven and earth are open.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

‎"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Experience is a tough teacher because she gives the test first and the lesson after.

You will hardly find one, among the profounder sort of scientific minds, without a peculiar religious feeling of his own. His/her religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings, is an utterly insignificant reflection. Science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith.