"I shut my eyes in order to see."
-Paul Gauguin
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June 08, 2006
“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.”
-Jean Paul Richter
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June 02, 2006
“The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.”
-Buddha
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May 15, 2006
"All real living is meeting."
-Martin Buber, I and Thou
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April 20, 2006
Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you.
-Maori proverb
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March 29, 2006
"Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground."
-The Old Testament
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March 23, 2006
Spirited light! on the edge
of the Presence your yearning
burns in the secret darkness,
O angels, insatiably
into God’s gaze.
--Hildegard of Bingen, Christian Mystic
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March 08, 2006
“…the gospel embraces everything, whether it be in the Old Testament or in the New, that pertains to the work of reconciliation and that proclaims the seeking and redeeming love of God in Christ Jesus.”
-Louis Berkhof, The Law and the Gospel
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February 21, 2006
"As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world."
-Buddha
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February 08, 2006
“…the whole of the macrocosm is kept in being by the…the spiritual powers that are indissolubly linked with each human being and with humanity as a whole. Finite time-space, then, is not a kenoma, an empty nothingness, but a pleroma, a 'full' and vital organism...."
-RC Zaehner, British historian of religion
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January 31, 2006
“Let us consider the deepest and most fundamental element in all strong and sincerely felt religious emotion. Faith unto salvation, trust, love - all these are there. But over and above there is an element which may also on occasion, quite apart from them profoundly affect us and occupy the mind with bewildering strength.”
-Rudolf Otto, Das Heilige
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January 10, 2006
"Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided."
-Paracelsus, the “Father of Toxicology
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December 19, 2005
"That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect."
-Jean De La Bruyere
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December 02, 2005
“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.”
-Aldous Huxley
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November 22, 2005
“He had not known sin before; now he knew it. He had known only good before; now he knew good and evil. But what a curse that new knowledge was, and what an immense loss of knowledge as well as loss of everything else that new knowledge brought in its train! He now knew good and evil; but, alas, he knew good now only in memory, so far as his own experience was concerned; and the evil that he knew he knew to his eternal loss. Innocence, in other words, was gone.”
-J Gresham Machen
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November 08, 2005
A man without learning in this world is as a beast in a field.
-Hindu Proverb
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October 26, 2005
He under whose supreme control are horses, all chariots, and the villages, and cattle;
He who gave being to the Sun and Morning, who leads the waters, He, O men, is Indra.
-Rig Veda
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October 13, 2005
“And though of magnificence and splendour, your house shall not hold your secret nor shelter your longing.
For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.”
-Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
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October 04, 2005
“Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.”
-Joseph Campbell
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September 20, 2005
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."
-Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1890
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September 16, 2005
“…in both creative and intellectual undertakings, reason depends on the instincts for continuous renewal, and the instincts depend on reason as a vehicle for their expression.”
-Lucy Huskinson,
Nietzsche and Jung: The Whole Self in the Union of Opposites
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September 08, 2005
“He alone sees truly who sees the Lord the same in every creature...seeing the same Lord everywhere, he does not harm himself or others.”
-Lord Krishna
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August 30, 2005
“We must never lose sight of how we have been created: from the earth and from the breath of God.”
-Pope John Paul II
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August 26, 2005
"Prayer expressed in song remains one of the most essential expressions of our search for God. Short chants, repeated over and over, emphasize the meditative quality of prayer. They express in a few words a basic truth which is quickly grasped by the mind and gradually penetrates into one's whole being."
-Roger Schutz, founder of the Taizé community
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August 19, 2005
“Thus, wu-wei as "not forcing" is what we mean by going with the grain, rolling with the punch, swimming with the current, trimming sails to the wind, taking the tide at its flood, and stooping to conquer.”
–Alan Watts, Taoist author
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August 12, 2005
"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."
-Seneca
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August 08, 2005
"The seeker's path does not lie over a well-marked road, for in worship the
person is on the fronteir of his or her conscious being."
-Guide to Quaker practice, by Howard H. Briton
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July 18, 2005
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
-Max Planck, Nobel Prize-winning Father of Quantum Theory
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July 07, 2005
“The Sutra says, "To behold the Buddha-nature one must wait for the right moment and the right conditions. When the time comes, one is awakened as from a dream. It is as if one's memory recalls something long forgotten. One realizes that what is obtained is one's own and not from outside one's self." Thus an ancient patriarch said, "After enlightenment one is still the same as one was before. There is no mind and there is no Dharma". One is simply free from unreality and delusion. The mind of the ordinary man is the same as that of the sage because the Original Mind is perfect and complete in itself. When you have attained this recognition, hold on to what you have achieved.”
-Sekito Kisen (700-790)
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June 30, 2005
"God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one."
-Mevlana Rumi
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June 24, 2005
“God is to the world what the soul is to the body.”
-Nikos Kazantzakis
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June 21, 2005
“The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.”
-Shinto Saying
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June 14, 2005
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
Kahlil Gibran
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June 06, 2005
“Our similarities bring us to a common ground. Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.”
-Tom Robbins, author
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June 03, 2005
"If the Father had begotten the Son, he who had been begotten had a beginning, and therefore there must have been a time when the Son did not exist."
-Arius to Bishop Alexander of Alexandria (who stood on the side of what became Christological orthodoxy)
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May 25, 2005
"Three things cannot be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
-Buddha
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May 20, 2005
"A living body is not merely an integration of limbs and flesh but it is the abode of the soul which potentially has perfect perception (Anant-darshana), perfect knowledge (Anant-jnana), perfect power (Anant-virya), and perfect bliss (Anant-sukha)."
-Lord Mahavira
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May 10, 2005
“O Son of Spirit! My claim on thee is great, it cannot be forgotten. My grace to thee is plenteous, it cannot be veiled. My love has made in thee its home, it cannot be concealed. My light is manifest to thee, it cannot be obscured.
-Bahá'u'lláh
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May 03, 2005
“Love, and then do what you will.”
-St. Augustine
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April 27, 2005
“If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.”
~ Buddha
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April 23, 2005
“…justice is the firm will to render to God what is owed to God, and to our neighbour what is owed to him; indeed, justice toward God is what we call the "virtue of religion"; justice toward other human beings is the fundamental attitude that respects the other as a person created by God.”
-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
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April 20, 2005
"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live."
-Pope John Paul II
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April 07, 2005
“We human beings, as individuals, are totally responsible for the state of the world. Wars—we are responsible for wars by the way we lead our lives, for we are nationalistic, German, French, Dutch, English, American, Russian; we are Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Buddhists, belonging to Zen or this or that sect, dividing, quarreling, fighting each other. Our gods, our nationalities, have divided us. When one realizes, not intellectually, but actually, as actually as you would recognize that you are hungry…then the problem becomes tremendously serious.”
-J. Krishnamurti.
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April 01, 2005
"And the believers should not all go out to fight. Of every troop of them, a party only should go forth, that they who are left behind may gain sound knowledge in religion, and that they may worn their folk when they return to them, so that they may beware."
- Surat al-Tawba 9:122
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March 25, 2005
"I who would serve you, O Mazda Ahura and Vohu Mano, do ye give through Asha the blessings of both worlds, the bodily and that of the Spirit, which set the faithful in felicity... I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right."
-Ahunavaiti Gatha, 28:2, 4
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March 21, 2005
"Repentance, without amendment, is like continually pumping without mending the leak."
-Lewis W. Dilwyn (1778 - 1855) English naturalist
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March 14, 2005
That is a childish joy,
to suckle and to rock, a Babe.
I am a full-grown Bride
I must to my lover's side.
Lord, now am I a naked soul
And thou a God most Glorious!
Our two-fold intercourse is Love Eternal Which can never die.
-Mechthild of Magdeburg
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March 08, 2005
Quote: "We walk together on sacred ground. Black feet, white feet, footprints soft upon the land. The Tjukurpa* moves beneath our feet. The landscape is alive."
-Anon
*Tjukurpa is the Pitjantjara word for The Dreaming.
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February 28, 2005
"God is only one and He is Shiva, who has no shape but dwells in every one."
-Shree Basaveshwara 1131 AD
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February 24, 2005
"Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart.
Then, through His grace, one realizes Him in course of time.
God can be seen. One can talk to Him as I am talking to you."
-Sri Ramakrishna
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February 22, 2005
"Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance."
Holy Bible Luke 15:7
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February 21, 2005
"If God can work through me, He can work through anyone."
-St. Francis of Assisi
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February 04, 2005
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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February 01, 2005
“If a man says, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”
-Holy Bible, 1 John 4:20
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January 26, 2005
“There is no such thing as sin as explained by other religions…The wicked man is an ignorant man…He is not regarded as violating God’s will or as a person who must beg for divine mercy or forgiveness. He needs only guidance for his enlightenment.”
-Venerable K. Sri Dhammananda Maha Thera
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January 18, 2005
"My object is none other than the betterment of the world and the tranquility of its peoples."
-Bahá'u'lláh
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January 11, 2005
"Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are: ultimately these are all we need. So long as we practice these in our daily lives, then no matter if we are learned or unlearned, whether we believe in Buddha or God, or follow some other religion or none at all, as long as we have compassion for others and conduct ourselves with restraint out of a sense of responsibility, there is no doubt we will be happy"
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.
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January 05, 2005
"Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates."
Stella Terrill Mann
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December 28, 2004
"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"
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December 20, 2004
David Lloyd George
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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December 15, 2004
David Lloyd George
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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November 24, 2004
H. L. Mencken
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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November 24, 2004
Plato
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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November 17, 2004
Cicero
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
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November 11, 2004
Charles Wadsworth
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
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November 10, 2004
Lewis B. Smedes
Forgiveness is the key that can unshackle us from a past that will not rest in the grave of things over and done with. As long as our minds are captive to the memory of having been wronged, they are not free to wish for reconciliation with the one who wronged us.
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November 01, 2004
Sir John Templeton
Unlimited love was called agape by the ancient Greeks to distinguish the divine love from earthly emotions. Unlimited love means total constant love for every person with no exception.
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October 19, 2004
Bertrand Russell
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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October 14, 2004
Galileo Galilei
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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October 12, 2004
Soren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech to make up for freedom of thought which they avoid.
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September 24, 2004
Pitirim Sorokin
If unselfish love does not extend over the whole of mankind, if it is confined within one group – a given family, tribe, nation, race, religious denomination, political party, trade nation, caste, social class or any part of humanity – such an in-group altruism tends to generate an out-group antagonism.
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September 17, 2004
Cicero
The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
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September 15, 2004
Archbischop Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.
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September 13, 2004
Stephen Post
I think the research will show that when you live for others as much as for yourself, you’re going with the grain of human nature, even the grain of the universe. It’s all paradoxical: In the giving of self lies the unsought discovery of self.
Stephen Post
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September 10, 2004
Shunryu Suzuki
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few.
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September 08, 2004
Sir John Templeton
Know that there is no power in the universe greater than love, and no act more important than loving. Agape is the unselfish love that gives of itself and expects nothing in return. It is the love that grows as you give it to others.
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September 03, 2004
Mohandas K. Gandhi
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
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August 30, 2004
E. M. Bounds
God’s revelation does not need the light of human genius, the polish and strength of human culture, the brilliancy of human thought, the force of human brains to adorn or enforce it. But it does demand the simplicity, docility, humility, and faith of a child’s heart.
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August 26, 2004
Nelson Henderson
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
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August 25, 2004
George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin toward our fellow men is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
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August 13, 2004
Lao-tzu
The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
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August 10, 2004
Carl Jung
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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August 06, 2004
Voltaire
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
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July 16, 2004
Sir Francis Bacon
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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July 15, 2004
Whitney Young
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
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July 14, 2004
Seneca
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
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July 13, 2004
Rev. Sun Myung Moon
It is impossible for God to be contained within the limited doctrines and rituals made by religion. The mission of religion is to cultivate our character through a life of faith that embraces enlightenment and personal growth, so that we can attend God in our everyday lives.
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July 12, 2004
Josh Billings
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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July 09, 2004
Buddha
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
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July 07, 2004
Jonathan Swift
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.
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July 06, 2004
Bede Griffiths
I would like to share with you something of my advaitic experience...I was overwhelmed and deluged with love. … I saw love as the basic principle of the whole universe. I saw God in the earth, in trees, in mountains. … We have to let go of all concepts which divide the world into good and evil, right and wrong, and begin to see the complimentarity of opposites which Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa called the coincidentia oppositorum, the "coincidence of opposites."
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July 01, 2004
Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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June 30, 2004
Doug Larson
The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
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June 29, 2004
Voltaire
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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June 28, 2004
Cicero
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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June 25, 2004
Sophocles
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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June 24, 2004
Malcolm X
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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June 23, 2004
Albert Schweitzer
Jesus assumes that there are righteous men…. He expects those who are gathered round him listening to the sermon on the mount to become a shining light of goodness for others.
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June 22, 2004
Madam Guizot
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
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June 21, 2004
H. L. Mencken
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
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June 18, 2004
Voltaire
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
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June 17, 2004
Lois McMaster Bujold
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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June 16, 2004
Cherie Carter-Scott
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
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June 15, 2004
Helen Keller
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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June 14, 2004
Lawana Blackwell
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
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June 11, 2004
J. R. R. Tolkien
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
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June 10, 2004
Stella Terrill Mann
Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.
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June 09, 2004
Cicero
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
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June 08, 2004
Confucius
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
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June 07, 2004
Mother Teresa
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
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June 04, 2004
Mahatma Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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June 03, 2004
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
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June 02, 2004
Buddha’s last words
You should know that all things in the world are impermanent; coming together inevitably means parting. Do not be troubled, for this is the nature of life. Diligently practicing right effort, you must seek liberation immediately. Within the light of wisdom, destroy the darkness of ignorance.
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June 01, 2004
Bede Griffiths
What Gandhi saw so clearly is that this detachment was not a way of escape from the world but of a freedom from self-interest which enabled one to give oneself totally to God and to the world.
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May 28, 2004
Ali ibn-Abi-Talib
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
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May 27, 2004
Lao-tzu
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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May 26, 2004
Zeno
The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less.
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May 25, 2004
Arthur Golden
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
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May 24, 2004
Albert Schweitzer
Jesus assumes that there are righteous men…. He expects those who are gathered round him listening to the sermon on the mount to become a shining light of goodness for others.
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May 21, 2004
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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April 16, 2004