Living Your Legacy
“Men cannot for long live hopefully unless they are embarked upon some great unifying enterprise — one for which they may pledge their lives, their fortunes and their honor.”
–Clarence Addison Dykstra (American Educator, Civic Administrator and, from 1945-1950, Chancellor of UCLA, 1883-1950)
Carpe Diem!
“Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?”
–David Brin (American Writer and Former Physics Professor and NASA Consultant, 1950- )
Loving Acceptance
“A conscious being knows that life always works best when we operate from a loving space that lets us receive and experience other people no matter what they do or say as no different from ourselves.”
–Ken Keyes (American “New Age” Author and Lecturer, 1921-1995)
“Handbook to Higher Consciousness: The Workbook (Keyes, Jr, Ken)” (Jr. Ken Keyes, Penny Keyes)
Helping Others to Help Yourself
“If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off her debt: it is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.”
–George Gurdjieff (Armenian-born Adept, Teacher and Writer, c.1873-1949)
Reflecting the Source
“All life down to its smallest element, can, if rightly approached, be seen as a reflection of the infinite source of holiness, which is God.”
–Huston Smith (Chinese-born American Religious Studies Scholar and Emeritus Professor at Syracuse University, 1919-)
The Power of Solitude
The path of the hermit is meant for very few people. But we can all benefit from learning the power of occasional solitude.
Even if you have a house full of cats, dogs and kids demanding your attention, you will be better able to help them all if you can have just a little quiet time. Even if it means spending five minutes sitting on your own in a closet!
“When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our inner senses. Infused with silence and solitude, they bring out the mystery of inner landscape.”
–John O’Donohue (Irish Poet, Author, Catholic Priest and Hegelian Philosopher, 1956-2008)
Exchange Is The Law of Life
“Exchange is the law of life, and to exchange means to give and receive. Understanding this law allows us to better understand the processes of the spiritual life, such as communion, for example. To commune means to make exchanges.”
–Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov (Bulgarian Spiritual Master, 1900-1986)
Happiness Is Within Us
“Happiness is within us, and it is ours, but we are always superimposing our own inner joy onto something outside and thinking it comes from there.”
–Swami Muktananda (Indian Spiritual Teacher and Writer, 1908-1982)
The Emergence of Truth
“If we really contemplate the course of human evolution, we are bound to say that however overbearing the opposition, the misunderstandings, the slanders that oppose the truth, the truth will find its own way through the narrowest cracks in the rocks of human evolution, however great the pressure from the rocks may be.”
–Rudolf Steiner (Croatian-born Austrian Mystic, Occultist, Social Philosopher, Architect and Founder of Anthroposophy, 1861-1925)
Other Ways of Knowing
“I will be mindful of the first principle of our great period, never to rely on and let myself be disconcerted by reason, always to know that faith is stronger than so-called reality.”
–Hermann Hesse (German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet and, in 1946, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1877-1962)
