Recognizing the World As Sacred
“As the heightening of mental life reveals to the intellect deeper and deeper levels of reality, so with that movement towards enhancement of the life of spirit…. the world assumes not the character of illusion but the character of sacrament; and spirit finds Spirit in the lilies of the field, no less than in the Unknowable Abyss.”
–Evelyn Underhill (English Mystic, Poet, Writer and Spiritual Counselor, 1875-1941)
The World’s Greatest Lie!
“What’s the world’s greatest lie?…. It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.”
–Paulo Coelho (Brazilian Writer, 1947-)
Knowledge Is Your Power
“Knowledge is your power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.”
–Stuart Wilde (English-born Author, Lecturer and Humorist 1946-)
Rising Above the World
“If you will not rise above the things of the world, they will rise above you.”
–Sathya Sai Baba (Indian Spiritual Teacher, c.1926-2011)
Time and Patience
“The strongest of all warriors are these two: Time and Patience.”
–Count Leo Tolstoy (Russian Writer and Philosopher, 1828-1910)
A Daily Prayer
“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be 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; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings.
I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others.
I am going to benefit others as much as I can.”
–The 14th Dalai Lama (a.k.a. Tenzin Gyatso, Tibetan Religious and Political Leader, 1935-)
Aligning Your Thoughts, Words and Actions
“Your thoughts should agree with your words, and the words should agree with your actions. In this world people think one thing, say another thing, and do something else. This is horrible. This is crookedness.”
–Sri Swami Sivananda (Indian Physician and Spiritual Teacher, 1887-1963)
Inspiration
“The way to get people to build a ship is not to teach them carpentry, assign them tasks, and give them schedules to meet; but to inspire them to long for the infinite immensity of the sea.”
–Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (French Aviator and Writer, 1900-1944)
The Universal Flux of Events and Processes
“Indeed, to some extent it has always been necessary and proper for man, in his thinking, to divide things up, if we tried to deal with the whole of reality at once, we would be swamped.
However when this mode of thought is applied more broadly to man’s notion of himself and the whole world in which he lives, i.e. in his world-view then man ceases to regard the resultant divisions as merely useful or convenient and begins to see and experience himself and this world as actually constituted of separately existing fragments. What is needed is a relativistic theory, to give up altogether the notion that the world is constituted of basic objects or building blocks.
Rather one has to view the world in terms of universal flux of events and processes.”
–David Bohm (American-born Theoretical Physicist and Philosopher, 1917-1992)
The Pattern of Life
“It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.”
–R. F. Delderfield (English Novelist and Dramatist, 1912-1972)
