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Fun is the lubrication of life. -Sally O'Brien
Experience is a tough teacher because she gives the test first and the lesson after.
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Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears, 'You’re very new at this. You may be mistaken. You’ve been wrong before.'
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Freethought Festival 2012
Contribution #6763
Everything you need is already within you. The beauty of life is that your DESTINY lies always in your hands. The time has come for you to STEP UP and BE GREAT.
Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence ,Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!!”
Folks, it’s time to evolve. That’s why we’re troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything’s failing? It’s because, um – they’re no longer relevant. We’re supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right? There’s another 90 percent of our brains that we have to illuminate.
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Children are our futures and hopes.
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Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.
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Sometimes Grace comes in the form of a punch in the face.
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Personal experience.
Contribution #6595
Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.
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The thought-provoking, anonymously-written note was circulating quickly in cyberspace. It read: Dear Optimist, Pessimist and Realist, While you were arguing about the glass of water, I drank it! Sincerely, The Opportunist. I could not resist posting my own particular brand of humor in response: Dear Opportunist, The Optimist hoped you would, the Pessimist knew you would, and the Realist was the one who drank the first half.
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The author's personal musings.
Contribution #6578
You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all. The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart. To the degree that you didn't understand in the past how to stop protecting your soft spot, how to stop armoring your heart, you're given this gift of teachings in the form of your life, to give you everything you need to open further.
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Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
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Letters to a Young Poet
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Contribution #6532
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
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What you pay attention to grows. If your attention is attracted to negative situations and emotions, then they will grow in your awareness.
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creating health
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Contribution #6425
I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-wool possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.From there, something shifts for me. I can see that we're all actually co-creating our future moment to moment - which feels like endless possibility.
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Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.
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Quiet Moments with Padre Pio
by Patricia Treece (Editor)
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Contribution #6363
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. Henry Miller
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"If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action."
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What we give our attention to – stays with us What we let go of – will let go of us
Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
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From document:(Quotes I live my life by);Journal entry:(7:47 PM 1/22/2011)
Contribution #6263
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
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From document:(Quotes I live my life by);Journal entry:(6:27 PM 1/18/2011)
Contribution #6262
What you believe in is what you become.
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From document:(Quotes I live my life by);Journal entry:(7:38 PM 1/11/2011)
Contribution #6255
One may take a journey of any distance at any time, if he simply chooses to ride a train of thought.
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The author's personal musings.
Contribution #6174
Style is time's fool. Form is time's student.
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We are a people who never made singing or dancing an unrespected way of knowing. All of the five-fingered ways of knowing remained open to us.
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Pat McCabe - 12th Language of Spirit Conference
Contribution #6143
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
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www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/44061.Thornton_Wilder
Thornton Wilder
Viewed on September 21, 2011
Contribution #6127
I'm a simple observer a traveler through life. My goal is to look, to hear, to explore, to learn, to express, to share, to appreciate all, if possible as a nonjudgmental and a tolerant soul.
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From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.
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"No matter where I travel in this world, the greatest unexplored territory continues to be my very own mind, heart and spirit. I’m excitedly staking a claim with each new discovery I make along the journey!"
Failure serves us both to learn from our mistakes, & relate to the misguided, so that they may follow the path we have found in our voyages.
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My own words
Contribution #6004
The greatest motivator for change is found in the middle ground between the things we love and the things we hate.
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Before you tell someone to stop trying to make you someone you`re not, you have to find out who you are.
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My own words
Contribution #5973
Once the human mind is stretched by a new idea it may never regain its original shape.
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Contribution #5962
The world never changes, just the tools we use to traverse it.
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My own words
Contribution #5940
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
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Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.
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Legacy of Wisdom Conference, April 17, 2011
Contribution #5914
"Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment."
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"There is an almost sensual longing for communion with others who have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality almost impossible to describe."
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"A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know."
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"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."
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"The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for enlightenment prevents it. The 'perfect practice' is therefore not to search for enlightenment but to inquire into the motive for seeking itself. You obviously seek in order to avoid the present, and yet the present alone holds the answer: to seek forever is to miss the point forever. You always already are enlightened Spirit, and therefore to seek Spirit is simply to deny Spirit."
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"Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow."
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“There is a teasing irony: we spend our lives evading our own redemption. And this is naturally so because something in us knows that to be fully human we must experience pain and loss. Therefore, we are at ceaseless effort to elude this high cost, whatever the cost, until at last it overtakes us. And then in spite of ourselves we do realize our humanity. We are put in worthier possession of our souls. Then we look back and know that even our grief contained our blessing.”
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“I tell you, one must have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star.”
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“…evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.”
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“To deny oneself growth is personal abuse.”
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“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”
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“Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.”
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“A human being must be born twice. Once from his mother and again from his own body and existence. The body is like an egg and the essence of man must become a bird in that egg through the warmth of love, and then he must go beyond his body and fly in the eternal world of the soul.”
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“Everything is laid out for you. Your path is straight ahead of you. Sometimes its invisible but it’s there. You may not know where it’s going. But you have to follow that path. It’s the path to the Creator. It’s the only path there is.”
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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live a life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws will be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
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“We have in fact entered upon the final phase…, the darkest period of this dark age, the state of dissolution from which there is to be no emerging except through a cataclysm, since it is no longer a mere revival which is required, but a complete renovation.”
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“We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos- the right moment- for a ‘metamorphosis of the gods’, of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing.”
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“Synchronicities, epiphanies, peak, and mystical experiences are all cases in which creativity breaks through the barriers of the self and allows awareness to flood through the whole domain of consciousness. It is the human mind operating, for a moment, in its true order and moving through orders of increasing subtlety, reaching past the source of mind and matter into creativity itself.”
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“We may suspect a slow and continual change of axis from causality to synchronicity.”
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“What appears to be the established order of present-day civilization is actually only the inert but spectacular momentum of a high velocity vehicle whose engine has already stopped functioning.”
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“Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have turned a corner on the movie set of reality and have discovered the boards propping up the two-dimensional monuments of human history. The movement of humanism has reached its limit, and now at that limit it is breaking apart into the opposites of mechanism and mysticism and moving along the circumference of a vast new sphere of posthuman thought.”
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“The only way to get rid of anima is to bore her. In this case she manifests herself as absence, as loss of soul in the dead mechanical language of theorists who are bent on defining and categorizing what cannot be treated in this way.”
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“We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects…All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.”
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“I could feel the golden chain of adepts reaching back into the distant Hellenistic past, the Hermetic Opus, a project vaster than empires and centuries; nothing less than the redemption of fallen humanity through the re spiritualization of matter…We are closing distance with the most profound event a planetary ecology can encounter: the emergence of life from the dark chrysalis of matter…the simultaneous coexistence of an alien dimension all around us…If the world beyond the doorway can be given consensual validation of the sort extended to the electron or the black hole- in other words, if the world beyond the doorway is found to be a necessary part of scientifically mature thinking about the world- then our own circumscribed historical struggle will be subject to whole new worlds of possibility.”
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“Because we suggest a model of time whose mathematics dictate a built-in spiral structure, events keep gathering themselves into tighter and tighter spirals that inevitably lead to a final time. Like the center of a black hole, the final time is a necessary singularity, a domain or an event in which the ordinary laws of physics do not function…passing out of one set of laws that are conditioning existence and into another radically different set of laws. The universe is seen as a series of compartmentalized eras or epochs whose laws are quite different from one another, with transitions from one epoch to another occurring with unexpected suddenness.”
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“We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.”
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“The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in order to be equal to the superhuman powers which the fallen angels have played into his hands. But he can make no progress until he becomes very much better acquainted with his own nature.”
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“Our institutions, our epistemologies are bankrupt and exhausted; we must start anew and hope that with the help of shamanically inspired personalities, we can cultivate this ancient mystery once again. The Logos can be unleashed, and the voice that spoke to Plato and Parmenides and Heraclitus can speak again in the minds of modern people. When it does, the alienation will be ended because we will have become the alien. This is the promise that is held out; it may seem to some a nightmare vision, but all historical changes of immense magnitude have a charged emotional quality. They propel people into a completely new world.”
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“We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place here and now. It has already started. It is manifesting itself in international relations; in the breakdown of the social structures of Western civilization; in political, ethnic, and religious groupings; as well as within the psyches of individuals- the momentous event of the coming of the self into conscious realization.”
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“God enters through the wound.”
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“The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?”
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“The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite.”
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“The ‘coming of the Self’ is immanent; and the process of collective ‘individuation’ is living itself out in human history. One way or another, the world is going to be made a single whole entity. But it will be unified either in mutual mass destruction or by means of mutual human consciousness. If a sufficient number of individuals can have the experience of the coming of the Self as an individual, inner experience, we may just possibly be spared the worst features of its external manifestation.”
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“The ‘coming of the Self’ is an apocalypse for the ego, the ‘you’ that wants to hang along for the ride. It may be that the only way to survive the Apocalypse is to undergo it, first, within your own being.”
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“But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself, returning to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a life that is would-be sentient, to be more than sentient, to be again divinely self-conscious, free, infinite, immortal.”
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“The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the laws of nature have actually evolved along with nature itself, and perhaps they are still evolving. Or perhaps they are not laws at all, but more like habits.”
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“As everyone knows, there is no intelligence in coercion or forcing another into action or realization. And if the name of the galactic game is superior, intelligent harmonization, it must be played so that the local intelligence is taught or shown how it works in such a manner that it comes to its own conclusions. In other words, the galactic code of honor is to manifest and demonstrate harmony by whatever means possible.”
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“A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at least to detach it from the background of universal delusion, is triumphing almost everywhere.”
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“If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse…If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.”
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“The unconscious process moves spiral-wise around a center, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the center grow more and more distinct.”
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“If it works, it’s obsolete.”
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“If it works, it’s obsolete.”
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“If it works, it’s obsolete.”
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“You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.”
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What you fear, approach. What you deny, say. What you control, release. With fear, denial, and control aside, you can see things in your own unique and authentic way.
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A Quiet Place: Essays on Life and Family
Page 81
Published by Mothering Publications
, Santa Fe, NM USA
, 2005
http://www.mothering.com/
Contribution #5479
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
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“The practice of discernment is part of higher consciousness. Discernment is not just a step up from judgment. In life’s curriculum, it is the opposite of judgment. Through judgment a man reveals what he needs to confront and learn. Through discernment, one reveals what he has mastered.”
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“There are mysteries that men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.”
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“A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.”
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“Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.”
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“Good character is not created in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.”
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“The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of life-long learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.”
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“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”
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“The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don’t start with cops. And if you are going to reform intellect you don’t start with psychiatrists. If you don’t like our present social system or intellectual system the best thing you can do with either cops or psychiatrists is stay out of their way. You leave them ‘till last.”
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“Change alone is perpetual, eternal, immortal.”
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“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”
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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
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“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments- there are consequences.”
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“In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that’s why you’re not a fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.”
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“Only in growth, reform, change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”
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“Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society…may unexpectedly come forth…to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!...Such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn…Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”
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“In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.”
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I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
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My best friend is the one that brings out the best in me.
"Times are far between, and few I bet, when we can look upon our lives without regret. Of all the things I have done, you think I'm proud of everyone without exception? 'Till you make your peace with yesterday, you'll never build a future. I swear by what I say. Whatever penance you do, decide what it's worth to you and then respect it. However long it will take to weather your mistakes, why not accept it?"
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Few and Far Between
Contribution #4843
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.
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No man has the right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them, It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them.
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You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then – to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you.
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The Once and Future King
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Contribution #4792
Do not search for God. He is not lost, you will not find him. But rather, search for yourself. For where you find yourself, there you will find God.
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Personal revelation
Contribution #4791
Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.
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Gravity and Grace
Contribution #4782
Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth--that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?
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"I've learnt in life that you will never soar like an eagle if you insist on surrounding yourself with chickens"
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"I've learnt in life that Victory is closest in our darkest hour. That if we stretch that little further, you will break through into the light of day."
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You cannot care about people's problems more than they do themselves. If you do, then you become the rescuer and they remain the victim.
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"Intentions are not destinations. What people promise to do and what they end up doing may be two different things. The best predictors of character are not the words of the moment, but the actions of the past."
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"I've learnt in life that some people are examples and others are warnings, and I can learn from them both."
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The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religions.
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Successful people are prepared to fail more, and they are more persistent than others.
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"Feed your dream and eventually your dream will feed you"
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You can get sympathy or you can get better but you can’t get both. You can be in your comfort zone or you can have growth, but you can’t have both. You can be interested or you can be sold-out-committed, but you can’t entertain both. You can have excuses or have results, but you can’t do both. Choose the path that develops your visceral fortitude.
Whatever it is, if it doesn’t make you happy, walk away, give it away to someone else who wants it. Let it be their next dream; let it flee from you. Then you have room to grow, to allow magnificent things to fill the vacuum of those seemingly empty places. When you hold onto yesterday, when you hold onto dead and dying adventures, you have no room in your box for greatness.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
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All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Contribution #4648
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
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Our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place.
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Source type: Book
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
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Contribution #4610
You may define me at my funeral; I refuse to be placed in a box before I die!
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
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No source entered for Contribution #4597
Lose weight instantly by dropping the facade. It's too heavy a burden to bear.
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The author's personal musings.
Contribution #4573
Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
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Seeking God without honestly seeking truth makes no sense. How can you find something you're not looking for?
"I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person."
If sex evolved so that your children are not condemned to be just like you, intelligence evolved so that you are not condemned to be just like yourself.
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“Friendship is not something that you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, then you really haven’t learned anything.”
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Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
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Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead.
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Tomorrow's God
http://
Contribution #4354
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated.
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The path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
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No source entered for Contribution #4286
Sometimes you win the battle by simply choosing not to fight it.
The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe.
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Wordsmith
Ed Krebs, photographer (b. 1951)
"
A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on August 13, 2010
Contribution #4264
"The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being." -Rumi
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http://
Contribution #4254
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring,
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
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Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.
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No source entered for Contribution #4198
The burned hand teaches best.
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect, and beginning the work of being youself.
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Insight without action is useless.
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heard it said on a television show
http://unsure
Contribution #4139
Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the "atomic age" -- as in being able to remake ourselves.
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Where you stumble, there your treasure lies.
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Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
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Our choicest plans
have fallen through,
our airiest castles
tumbled over,
because of lines
we neatly drew
and later neatly
stumbled over.
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Wordsmith
Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
"
A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on May 19, 2010
Contribution #4042
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Wordsmith
Immanuel Kant, philosopher (1724-1804)
"
A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on May 14, 2010
Contribution #4040
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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in an email
Contribution #4028
Only the individual who has comes to terms with his self have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.
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The True Believer
Page 79
http://
Contribution #3968
For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
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No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?
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No source entered for Contribution #3798
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
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No source entered for Contribution #3762
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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We all have the power to give love. And if we do so, we change the kind of person we are, and we change the kind of world we live in.
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It takes solitude, under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.
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Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
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Many demolitions are actually renovations.
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Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.
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Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.
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No source entered for Contribution #3694
Everyday, think as you wake up: Today I am fortunate to have woken up. I am alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself to expand my heart out to others for the benefit of all beings.
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The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.
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A Bowl of Saki
http://
Contribution #3673
We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected. -
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Ron Sims on Facebook
Contribution #3659
We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for reasons of ideology, politics, religion, or personal taste.
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We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Days Of Healing Days OF Joy
by Earnie Larsen & Carol Larsen Hegarty
Page May 4
Published by Hazelden Meditations
, Center City MN
, 1987
http://
Contribution #3621
Don't go about here and there. Go inside and remain there.
Things that you cannot face in yourself you will hate when you see them in someone else.
This physical world, though necessary to our evolution, is the embodiment of impermanence, of constant change. Thus, we take care not to become overly attached to it.
Self Realization is finding That which is beyond even superconsciousness itself, beyond the mind--timeless, causeless, spaceless.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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New occasions teach new duties, Time makes ancient good uncouth.
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People change and forget to tell each other.
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The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and silently watch someone else do it wrong.
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Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
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There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.
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The Reenchantment of Everyday Life
Published in U.S.A.
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Contribution #3494
We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter we stand by the old -- reformers in the morning, conservatives at night. Reform is affirmative, conservatism is negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.
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Giving is an essential for spiritual unfoldment, for until we give and give abundantly, we don’t really realize that we are not the giver; we are just a channel for giving.
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
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Contribution #3442
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
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Contribution #3437
Do not exhaust yourself trying to change the world. Change yourself and your world will transform accordingly.
Do not despair at making no progress. The feeling of despair is also one of the lessons on the road to the Self.
We make very little progress when we strive to conquer baser instincts in a good mood. However, vast strides are possible when we are miserable and work with ourselves to replace our misery with joy and understanding.
The more we learn, the more we question; institutions and beliefs, once immutable, become like a river, fluid, moving, changing.
Life's not about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
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Dance In The Rain Movie
Marc Anderson
http://danceintherainmovie.com
Viewed on July 7, 2009
Contribution #3395
“Women are the mothers of nations; by empowering them, we empower the next generation.”
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personal correspondence
Contribution #3354
We only die once, but for such a long time
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Contribution #3346
Without deviation from the norm, ‘progress’ is not possible.
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Transition does not require that you reject or deny the importance of your old life, just that you let go of it. The process begins with surrender (of avoidances), awareness (of who and where we really are) and release (of the old ways of being).
It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.
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The world has reasons that we will discover within our lifetime of search and analysis, and others that will remain mysterious even as we die; but until we expand our minds to the limit, we will never know what new understandings are possible. Attribute nothing to chance, any more than you would dismiss an event as ‘God’s will’.
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Daily Inspiration
Josh Mitteldorf
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May 31, 2009"
http://daily-inspiration.org/
Viewed on June 12, 2009
Contribution #3250
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity. ~Pride and Prejudice~
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Pride and Prejudice
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Contribution #3200
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.
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The Glass Bead Game
Page 493
Published by Picador
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Contribution #3168
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
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In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.
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There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
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Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction.
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Of heaven and hell I have no opinion, for I have friends in both you see.
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The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested.
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Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
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I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.
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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate...Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realizing our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.
No his mind is not for rent,
to any god or government.
Always hopeful yet discontent,
he knows changes aren't permanent.
But change is.
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It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
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He who is formerly slothful and afterwards overcomes his sloth, brightens up this world, like the moon when freed from clouds. He whose misdeeds are covered by good deeds, brightens up this world, like the moon when freed from clouds.
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The Dhammapada
172-173
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Contribution #2713
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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You can learn a lot more from listening than you can from talking. Find someone with whom you don’t agree in the slightest and ask them to explain themselves at length. Then take a seat, shut your mouth, and don’t argue back. It’s physically impossible to listen with your mouth open.
Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it.
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There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no civilized nation, but only nations in the process of becoming civilized. From this standpoint, we can now speak of a collective task of humankind. The task of humanity is to build a genuine civilization.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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We live comfortably in the patches of reality where theory is tolerably successful, where reason is functional and predictability predominates. But any day an unexpected event may expel us from this Eden into the larger world of the incomprehensible.
It is then that our attitude will sustain or sink us. If we can revel in the mystery, keeping faith in our sights, then we will thrive and grow stronger.
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Josh Mitteldorf
"
Daily Inspiration 5 October 2008"
http://daily-inspiration.org/
Viewed on November 3, 2008
Contribution #2510
The best loving partnerships demand of us not great sacrifice but great expansion.
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Josh Mitteldorf
"
Daily Inspiration 19 October 2008"
http://daily-inspiration.org/
Viewed on November 3, 2008
Contribution #2509
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.
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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
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The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.
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Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.
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The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
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They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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Now, the past has plenty to teach us, but I don't think it should be allowed to detain us against our will.
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
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By the choices and acts of our lives, we create the person that we are and the faces that we wear. By the choices and acts of our lives we give to the world wherein our lives are lived, hoping that our neighbors will find our contributions to be of worth, and hoping that the world will be a little more gracious for our time in it.
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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.
At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions--that is to say, rather than judgments--and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.
Small people delight in what they call consistency--that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did ten years ago. This simply amounts to a certificate that they have not grown--that they have not developed--and that they know just as little now as they ever did. The highest possible conception of consistency is to be true to the knowledge of today, without the slightest reference to what your opinion was years ago.
It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.
Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
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A man who sees the world the same at fifty as he did at thirty, has wasted twenty years of his life.
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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
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By others faults the wise correct their own.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.
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The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
Like the ocean is your god-self;
It remains for ever undefiled.
And like the ether it lifts but the winged.
Even like the sun is your god-self;
It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent.
But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being.
Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man,
But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Ideas often have results that are the opposite of those their authors anticipated as consequences are rarely those expected or hoped for by the original thinkers. . . . Yet the cure of bad or misapplied ideas is not the refutation of ideas and thinkers but better and corrected ideas.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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A liberal education... frees a person from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family, and even his nation.
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There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.
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The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.
The essence of education is not to stuff you full of facts, but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then show you how to give it away.
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
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Essays on Education
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Contribution #1717
Three real teachers in a lifetime is the very best of luck. I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three had these things in common. They all loved what they were doing. They did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and precious.
A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it.
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Bentham
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Contribution #1710
In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man. History is not yet done with its exploration of the limits and meanings of 'human nature.
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin - more even than death... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.
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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
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Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.
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Being Peace
by Arnold Kotler
Page 58
Published by Parallax Press
, Berkeley, CA, USA
, 1996
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Contribution #1617
Reading without thinking will confuse you.
Thinking without reading will place you in danger.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes
they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Focus
not on the rudeness of others,
not on what they've done or left undone,
but on what you have done and have not done
yourself.
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Heart of a Buddha
by Amita Society
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1420
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
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The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind.
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.
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If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth.
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We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Change means movement, movement means friction, friction means heat, and heat means controversy.
The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.
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If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
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We are slaves of what we don't know;
of what we know we are masters.
Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discover
and understand its cause and workings,
we overcome it by the very knowing.
The primary purpose of meditation is to become more conscious
and familiar with our inner life.
The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life.
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We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
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Maria Mitchell
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Contribution #1125
It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify youreslf, and the world is bound to be purified.
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Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization.
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Come, Whoever you are! Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving, Come. Ours is not a caravan of despair. It doesn’t matter if you’ve broken your vow a thousand times, Still come. And yet again, come!
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
There is no spiritual peace for the ignorant, because they desire and seek it in the external world.
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If
you want to grow, you must be willing to stretch.
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To
exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating
oneself endlessly.
I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other. And all children go through those phases. We're growing up, we're moving into adolescence now. When we grow up - man, we're going to be something!
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Contribution #624
We all have the potential to be better than we are.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
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Bern Williams
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Contribution #465
... by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.
If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.
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The Gift of Change
by Marianne Williamson
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Contribution #409
Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".
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You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in.
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Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!
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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
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I am always willing to learn, however I do not always like to be taught.
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Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
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What does growth look like in a person?
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