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When we ignore the question of the impact our actions have on others' well-being, inevitably we end up hurting them.~ The Dalai Lama
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"How cold and gloomy the weather is today! It is something like the atmosphere that envelopes a materialistic person at the time of death. They slip from this world into what seems a heavy mist. Nothing is clear to them; and for a time they feel lost and afraid. Then, in accordance with their karma, they either move on into the bright astral world to learn spiritual lessons, or they sink into a stupor until the right karmic moment arrives for them to be reborn on Earth. The consciousness of one who loves God, is not disturbed by the transition from this world to the next. They effortlessly enter a realm of light, love, and joy."- Paramahansa Yogananda
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Sunday, at my house on a hill
"To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace."
Milan Kundera "I am convinced that there are times in everybody’s experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing." Fanny Fern |
The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.
Lucian |
We need a reason for speaking; we need none for keeping silent.
Pierre Nicole |
Thinking brings us to the foot of the mountain; faith brings us to the top.
Lin-Chi |
You sing, and your voice peels the husk of the day's grain, your song with the sun and sky, the pine trees speak with their green tongue: All the birds of the winter whistle. The sea fills its cellar with footfalls, with bells, chains, whimpers, the tools and the metal's jangle, wheels of the caravan creak. But I hear only your voice, your voice soars with the zing and precision of an arrow, it drops with gravity of rain, Your voice scatters the highest swords and returns with its cargo of violets: it accompanies me through the sky. ~ Pablo Neruda |
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
~Roger Ascham |
We are lost and wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to us only when we step on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
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Self-trust is the first secret of success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's a beautiful thing
"Do not let Sunday be taken from you. For if your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.”
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“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.” Anais Nin
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Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.
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“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~Oscar Wilde
The past is a good place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. ~Author Unknown If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today. ~Author Unknown Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. ~Montaigne |
"...Weather abroad
And weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction." ~Adrienne Rich/"Storm Warnings" |
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." Unknown
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I hate ruts. Ruts are common, unimaginative, and oh, so boring.
I know because I've spent time in them. Actually, I even took up emotional residence in a couple. To make them more comfortable, I even decorated them. I adorned the walls with excuses: "I can't," "I tried," and "I don't wanna." Those are just a few of the plagues, I mean plaques, I hung in my ruts. Patsy Clairmont |
You're only given a little spark of madness....You mustn't lose it.
~Robin Williams |
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
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"Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face."
- Augusten Burroughs |
Gregory Maguire
"As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention."
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"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury." - John Stuart Mill
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you wanted me to speak to you, here's what I have to say
"Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back
and back and back to the same question and never get an answer." - Norman Mailer |
"Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead." — Paula White |
"Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it." — Polly B. Berends |
"It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you." — Lillian Hellman |
"Conflict cannot survive without your participation." ~ Wayne Dyer
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~ You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. ~
Oprah |
The life and times.
"She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!"
What?" She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER!" Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose." |
“People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
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"Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting." ~ Arthur Brisbane
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"You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."
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"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt |
Days of Wine and Roses
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate. They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream. Ernest Dowson |
"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." ~Lao Tzu
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“(On what her longevity is attributed to) Red meat and gin.”
-Julia Child |
Storming Out by Stan Rice
She goes out into the cold night
to search for the She with the guts. Death is firmest where it is fluid. A bucket rises with my body in it. She looks in it and says, Well, there you are, chopped up in little pieces, and sure enough, no guts either. |
Today I read a passage about a scene that supposedly took place during Voltaire's final days. While Voltaire was on his deathbed a priest came to try to get a final confession out of him and to see if, on his deathbed, he would renounce his atheism. So he asked Voltaire if he would finally "renounce the devil," to which Voltaire supposedly replied "Father, now is not the time to make new enemies." :D I knew there was a reason I always loved Voltaire...well...beyond, you know, just about everything he ever wrote :p
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" Age does not diminish the crushing disappointment that is felt when the scoop of ice cream falls off the cone. "
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