KNOWING OTHERS IS WISDOM, KNOWING YOURSELF IS ENLIGHTENMENT. LAO TZU
DEATH is the last enemy: once we’ve got past that I think everything will be alright. ALICE THOMAS ELLIS
THE ANSWER TO OLD AGE is to keep one’s mind busy & to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
LEON EDEL
EILEEN CADDY: AS YOU EXPAND YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS you take in more and more light and then radiate it out. You become illumined within and without. The whole of your being feels different and you look different because you are Light and divine Love is flowing through you. By expanding your consciousness you can change your whole outlook and way of life. It is not your circumstances that need changing; it is you consciousness. It does not matter where you are or what you are doing when your consciousness is raised and you can see Me in everything and everyone. Then you can find heaven upon this earth.
MICHAEL NOVAK 1933-2017. “The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism”
LOVE is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
THE MOST CRITICAL THREAT TO OUR FREEDOM IS A FAILURE TO APPRECIATE THE POWER OF TRUTH.
UNITY IN DIVERSITY is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust.
MARRIAGE, the family unit, was the “original Department of Health, Education and Welfare.”
IN AN INVENTIVE and dynamic society. equal (even relatively equal) incomes can be achieved only by abandoning liberty for tyranny.
SADLY, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality.
OUR FOUNDERS always wondered about how long it would last. The price if liberty is everlasting vigilance. You’ve got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.
OUR CAPACITY FOR SELF-DECEPTION HAS NO KNOWN LIMITS.
TO KNOW ONESELF IS TO DISBELIEVE UTOPIA.
A DYNAMIC economic sector is the poor’s best hope of escaping the prison of poverty. It is the only system so far known to human beings to take poor people and make them, quite soon, middle class and some of them even rich.
LEO TOLSTOY 1828-1910. “War and Peace”. “Anna Karenena”
WRONG does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
ONE MUST put oneself in every one’s position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.
EVERYONE thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
IF YOU MAKE IT A HABIT not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.
SEIZE THE MOMENTS OF HAPPINESS, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
PATIENCE IS WAITING. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. but to keep going when the going is hard and slow — that is patience. the two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
SINCE CORRUPT people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.
IT’S MUCH BETTER TO DO GOOD in a way that no one knows anything about it.
IF YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY, TRY ONLY TO PLEASE GOD, NOT PEOPLE.
EVERY LIE IS A POISON; there are no harmless lies. only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation — it is the one unbreakable diamond.
FREETHINKERS are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.
EFFORT IS NOT A MEANS TO LEAD US TO HAPPINESS. EFFORT ITSELF IS HAPPINESS.
THE MORE we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
GROW SPIRITUALLY AND HELP OTHERS TO DO SO. IT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE.
ONCE WE’RE THROWN OFF OUR HABITUAL PATHS, WE THINK ALL IS LOST, BUT IT’S ONLY HERE THAT THE NEW AND THE GOOD BEGINS.
REST, nature, books, music . . . such is my idea of happiness.
THE KEY TO SUCCESS IN LIFE IS USING THE GOOD THOUGHTS OF WISE PEOPLE.
WHAT IS IMPORTANT is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. you can know many things without knowing the most important.
“Let the Devil take tomorrow” “whatever will be, will be”