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BELOVED,
show me the way out of this prison.
Erase from my mind
all
that is not You. |
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REAL love
is unconditional. |
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A man with outward courage dares to die.
A man with inward courage dares to live.
~Lao-Tzu~ |
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The world needs a healing.
Nothing you do, however minor or mundane, is ever exempt from the rules of cause and effect. From the moment of your birth, you have served as an agent of change, setting forces beyond your comprehension into motion across the surface of the earth and beyond. You can exert conscious control over this transformative energy simply by examining your intentions and endeavoring always to promote peace, positive energy, and passion in your ideas and actions. While you may never fully comprehend the extent of your purposefully heartfelt influence, you can rest assured that it will be universally felt. |
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Faith
is being sure
of what we hope for
and certain
of what we do not see.
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What does that mean~~"tame" ?
It is an act too often neglected...
It means to establish ties.
To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you on your part have no need of me...
But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world...
If you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow...Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me!...
Please~~tame me!
One only understands the things that one tames...there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship...If you want a friend, tame me...
What must I do to tame you?
You must be very patient...first you will sit down at a little distance from me~~like that~~in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me every day...
As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one...But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince~ |
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She usually cried
at least once each day.
Not because she was sad,
but because the world was so beautiful
and life was so short. |
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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
~Carl Gustav Jung~ |
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you.
Don't claim them.
Feel the artistry moving through
and be silent.
~Rumi~ |
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Be kind,
for everyone you meet
is fighting a harder battle.
~Plato~ |
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Laugh
when troubles come your way.
There is nothing better
to conquer calamity.
A flood of troubles will vanish
the moment the mind of a wise man collects itself
to face them. |
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The gift of truth excels all other gifts.
~Buddha~ |
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The legendary Perseid meteor shower will peak in the next few days. It's expected to display the greatest number of meteors Sunday morning, August 12, late Sunday night and Monday morning, August 13, before dawn. But you'll see some Perseids Saturday, August 11, before dawn, too. The Perseid shower favors northern hemisphere skywatchers. At its peak, the Perseids typically produce 60 or more meteors per hour. |
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Abandoning false speech, he abstains from false speech; he speaks truth, adheres to truth, is trustworthy and reliable, one who is no deceiver of the world.
-Majjhima Nikaya- |
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elusive dream
world of wonder i crave
flights of fancy
swirling round my head
ever wanting
just out of reach
i lie awake
and hope
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Some things I love...
Integrity
Honesty
Intelligence
Wit
The ability to communicate frankly, openly and honestly
Sensuality
Creativity
Kindness
Generosity of Spirit
Compassion
Empathy
Grace under pressure
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I bring You,
with reverent hands,
the books
of my numberless dreams.
~William Butler Yeats~ |
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I've been so many places in my life and time
I've sung a lot of songs I've made some bad rhyme
I've acted out my love in stages
With ten thousand people watching
But we're alone now and I'm singing this song for you
I know your image of me is what I hope to be
I've treated you unkindly but darlin' can't you see
There's no one more important to me
Darlin' can't you please see through me
Cause we're alone now and I'm singing this song for you
You taught me precious secrets of the truth withholding nothing
You came out in front and I was hiding
But now I'm so much better and if my words don't come together
Listen to the melody cause my love is in there hiding
I love you in a place where there's no space or time
I love you for all life you are a friend of mine
And when my life is over
Remember when we were together
We were alone and I was singing this song for you
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Honor is a whisper never spoken, told instead by ones actions.
~Sun Tzu~ |
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I came
to live
out loud.
~Emile Zola~ |
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The ideal man is modest in outward expression. There is no need to broadcast what is established and quietly revered. He is benevolent. He gives all of himself, acknowledging and partaking in the bounty of life. He is compassionate toward all life, which is precious. It is a gift of God and therefore sacrosanct. He makes no excuses for his past shortcomings. They no longer embrace his consciousness but have left their gentle lessons which he has learned and accepted well. He forgives freely and easily, while understanding, too, that man is fallible. He guides with reason and passion. He will stand up for what is righteous, focused to steer his energies to that which is for the common good. He can be gentle, firm, endearing, strict, entrancing and assertive. He is mature in his knowledge of self and, through his understanding, he has been enjoined as a part of life's heart. |
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A true Dom heals old wounds,
He doesn't inflict new ones.
Period.
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The earth turned to bring us closer,
it spun on itself and within us,
and finally joined us together in this dream
as written in the Symposium.
Nights passed by, snowfalls and solstices;
time passed in minutes and millennia.
An ox cart that was on its way to Nineveh
arrived in Nebraska.
A rooster was singing some distance from the world,
in one of the thousand pre-lives of our fathers.
The earth was spinning with its music
carrying us on board;
it didn't stop turning a single moment
as if so much love, so much that's miraculous
was only an adagio written long ago
in the Symposium's score.
~Eugenio Montejo~ |
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A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
~William Makepeace Thackeray~ |
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Stop for a moment and calm your thoughts.
Let go of your anxieties and look around you.
What do you see?
You see a world filled with beauty.
You see a life filled with possibilities.
You see dreams being born,
being nurtured and being fulfilled.
Yes, there are challenges.
Yes, there is sorrow.
Yes, there is violence and hatred.
But more than these there is love,
there is goodness, there is joy.
The future is uncertain.
And that means there's no limit as to how
beautiful and joyful you can make it.
Yet what you have is right now.
And right now is completely as it should be.
It is your time to live.
Think of what a precious thing your life is
and how truly blessed you are to be experiencing it.
Right now.
Right now, any anxiety you may have about the future
is only an illusion.
Let it go.
Let it fade away as the beauty and perfection of
right now was over you.
The best thing you can do for the future
is to live with everything you have in the present.
Right now, you are in a position to create real,
lasting positive value for the world in which you live.
How do you do that?
By following your heart.
By being the you that is really you.
You may have wandered away from yourself.
Now is the time to come home.
You know in your heart that you're here for a reason.
The pain you feel is that purpose, that reason for living,
as it constantly aches to break free.
When it does, you'll be more alive than you ever
could have imagined.
Breathe in the beauty around you,
the beauty and richness of being alive.
It is your gift.
It is your fortune.
It is your blessing.
And it is yours, to live, to experience, to fulfill.
Right now.
~Ralph S. Marston, Jr.~ |
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Be resolved to keep developing patience, creativity, emotional independence, confidence, courage, humor, serene empowerment, calm persistence, self-mastery, unconditional love and compassion. |
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Bitter is made sweet through love;
copper becomes gold through love.
Through love dregs become clear;
love heals all pain.
Through love the king becomes slave;
love brings the dead to life.
~Rumi~ |
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Cling to the feet of a master
who can introduce you
to yourself.
~Swami Veda Bharati~ |
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What I desire is on its way. It will arrive precisely on the Creator's timetable. It is coming to me in abundance, in even greater amounts than I can imagine. |
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The memory of you makes my heart pound
and my eyes cry tears of blood,
Until, again, I am calm at the sound of your name.
From all but you I shy away; for you alone I'm tame.
~Rumi~ |
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Greater in battle
than the man who would conquer
a thousand-thousand men,
is he who would conquer
just one--
himself.
I am one who believes a man must FIRST master himself and his own life before he can possibly master or control the life of another. |
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Intense pleasures
kill the taste
for normal ones. |
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There's no fire like passion,
no seizure like anger,
no snare like delusion,
no river like craving. |
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If you judge people,
you have no time to love them.
~Mother Teresa~ |
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"There's no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."
~Alexander Woollcott~ |
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...when you're touching me
and my feelings start to show... |
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The world grows green again
and runs with gardens;
Jewels from the mines
glitter in each tree;
Souls open like suns
and link with one another.
~Rumi~ |
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