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The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as you’ve never explored before, what human nature is like.
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Contribution #4259
The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination.
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Do all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place you are.
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being.
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
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Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it.
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Tomorrow's God
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Contribution #3877
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.
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Ellen Goodman
Viewed on January 13, 2010
Contribution #3746
Each of us can become a blessed channel of peace for the healing of Earth's wounds: We can awaken from apathy and find creative, non-violent ways to transform the abuses rampant in today's world.
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Peace Planet: Light for Our World
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Contribution #3704
In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?
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Interview with Wild River Review
Contribution #3677
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. -
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Ron Sims Daily Wisdom
Henry Miller
Viewed on December 7, 2009
Contribution #3661
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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We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.
Do some work. You don't work. It works. Much to be done.
A deeply felt sense of purpose is as necessary as hunger and thirst--all are universally necessary for survival and homeostasis.
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On Being Certain
Page 183
Published by St. Martin's Press
, New York
, 2008
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Contribution #3180
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
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I guess I’m a spiritual secularist, if that’s not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try to do the appropriate thing at each moment.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."
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When I wake up in the morning, I want to know that my family, friends and fans know what I believe in and what I’m all about. That’s what should be important.
For humans, the challenge is to unite soul and role, to discover the hidden wholeness that enables us to be in the world who we are in our souls, and to act in accordance with our deepest and truest natures.
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
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When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
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The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
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O Magazine
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Contribution #2322
Our calling is where our deepest gladness and the world's hunger meet.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
My motto is straightforward: I try my hardest to achieve my purpose, and come what may. In the event that I lose the means of trying, I will let go of this purpose. What I cannot achieve is none of my concern; I leave it in the care of others. This attitude follows the natural order of things. We humans carry the torch for life during the time that we are alive and capable; then a new generation takes over.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
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Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.
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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
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Thomas J. Watson
http://www.entplaza.com
Viewed on October 2, 2008
Contribution #2033
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
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To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out the essential truth, the essential justice. As a first premise you have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without the conscience, you are just one of many thousands of journalists.
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What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . .
To speak a language of purpose is to return to first principles and to be able to answer, in plain English, the plain questions of Why? Why should we chip in to help someone else? Why should we defer gratification? Why should we care about the long term? Why should we trust anyone who seems to be limiting our ability to do what we want?
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The True Patriot
Page 97,99
Published by True Patriot Publications
, Seattle, USA
, 2007
http://www.truepat.org
Contribution #1670
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Never mistake activity for achievement.
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
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All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
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Mind of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA, USA
, 2003
http://www.amtb-ia.org
Contribution #1218
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
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We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
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Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
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Tyron Edwards
Viewed on April 1, 2008
Contribution #726
We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
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George Bernard Shaw
Viewed on April 13, 2008
Contribution #650
We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.
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Ian Percy
Viewed on April 13, 2008
Contribution #649
The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.
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Roger Birkman
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #448
What does intention look like in a person?
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