Time and Patience
“The strongest of all warriors are these two: Time and Patience.”
–Count Leo Tolstoy (Russian Writer and Philosopher, 1828-1910)
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)
Notes on a Musical Score
“Each individual life is as special as a note on a musical score where…each fills a designated space….When such individual musical notes are played together, a melody emerges; when nature, including man, responds appropriately through the intertwining of all its unique vibrations, harmony of life emerges.”
–Meredith L. Young-Sowers (American Writer and Creator of the Stillpoint Model of Integrative Life Healing)
The Context of Truth
“As one tone does not produce a harmony, neither is a truth that stands alone complete.”
–Emanuel Swedenborg (Swedish Scientist, Mystic and Philosopher, 1688-1772)
Understanding What Matters
“Understanding what matters you shall be free from the bondage of the world: — Through information, digging, and casting aside the stones, a treasure may be found, but not by calling it to come forth.”
–Shankara (a.k.a. Adi Shankaracharya, Indian Sage, Spiritual Teacher and Author of the Crest-Jewel of Discrimination, Dates Uncertain, but c.A.D. 686-718 or 788-821)
“Shankara’s Crest Jewel of Discrimination” (Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood)
Timelessness
“There is an everlasting in which past, present and future are one, and when we brood on the past, it may be our intensity brings us to live in that brooded upon. It is not only in vision that we revisit the past: our hearts may sink into it and know what others have known.”
–George William Russell (a.k.a. “A.E.” Irish Poet, Artist and Mystic, 1867-1935)
Finding True Health
“Health is gained by the sick who follow the path of healing: health does not come through the acts of others.”
–Shankara (a.k.a. Adi Shankaracharya, Indian Sage, Spiritual Teacher and Author of the Crest-Jewel of Discrimination, Dates Uncertain, but c.A.D. 686-718 or 788-821)
Trust
“Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.”
–François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (French Writer and Moralist, 1613-1680)
