Just One Positive Thought
“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.”
–Robert H. Schuller (American Protestant Minister and Writer, 1926-)
Wind of the Spirit
“The great sages and seers, the masters of wisdom and compassion, belong to no race, and especially to no creed. They are the children of the spirit, whose familiar thought is truth itself; and hence their sympathies are universal. They need no frontiers of race, of caste, of creed, of color. They are truth-seekers, truth-teachers…. For truth has no age. It never was born, it never has not been. It is timeless because universal. Its appeal is to the hearts and minds of all.”
–Gottfried de Purucker (American Writer, Philosopher, Lecturer, and, from 1929-1942, Leader of the Theosophical Society, 1874-1942)
Your Personal Essence
“Every being…has its own particular essence crowned by a certain quality, a certain form (common to all) which makes it an integral, rightly adapted, part of the single Whole with which it shares a natural harmony.”
–Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (French Jesuit Priest, Mystic, Paleontologist and Author, 1881-1955)
Living For Others
“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.”
–Albert Schweitzer (Alsatian-born Theologian, Philosopher, Mission Doctor and, in 1952, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1875-1965)
Causes of Fatigue
“One of the chief causes of fatigue is boredom. Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. We rarely get tired when we are doing something interesting and exciting.”
–Dale Carnegie (American Educator and Author, 1888-1955)
Getting Out Of Life Alive!
“Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.”
–Elbert Hubbard (American Editor, Publisher and Author, 1856-1915)
Total Interdependence
“The truth is that interdependence exists at the microcosmic and macrocosmic and psychic levels of existence.”
–Matthew Fox (a.k.a. Timothy James, American Theologian and Priest, 1940-)
The Joy Inside
“…keep knocking, and the Joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who’s there.”
–Rumi (a.k.a. Jalal al-Din Rumi. a.k.a. Mevlana Jelaluddin Rúmí, Afghan Sufi Poet, 1207-1273)
Conscious Evolution
“The more advanced the evolution of a certain form [of life] is, the more intelligent the atoms comprising it. In order to reach a higher stage of development, the atom has to pass through the four Kingdoms – the mineral kingdom, the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom and the kingdom of human beings. …The more stable the atoms of given elements in the human organism are, the better characteristics they convey to human character.”
–Peter Konstantinov Deunov (a.k.a. Master Beinsa Douno, Bulgarian Spiritual Master and Founder of a School of Esoteric Christianity, 1864-1944)
Rules for Being Human
This has been around for a little while, but it well worth passing on. I have heard several different claims to the original authorship, but I think that this is the correct one. If not, please let me know!
RULES FOR BEING HUMAN
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately “works”.
4. A lesson is repeated until it is learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive there are lessons to be learned.
6. “There” is no better than “here”. When your “there” has become a “here” you will simply obtain another “there” that will, again, look better than “here”.
7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie inside you. The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, trust.
10. You will forget all this.
–Cherie Carter-Scott (American Author and Life Coach, 1949-)
