LOVE IS AN ACT OF FAITH & WHOEVER IS OF LITTLE FAITH IS ALSO OF LITTLE LOVE. ERICH FROMM
THE HIGHEST ECSTASY IS THE ATTENTION AT ITS FULLEST.
HUMANISM WAS NOT WRONG IN THINKING THAT TRUTH, BEAUTY, LIBERTY & EQUALITY ARE OF INFINITE VALUE BUT IN THINKING THAT MAN CAN GET THEM HIMSELF WITHOUT GRACE. Simone Weil
GO OUT INTO THE WORLD TODAY and love the people you meet.Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people. MOTHER TERESA
IN EVERY WALK WITH NATURE, ONE RECEIVES FAR MORE THAN HE SEEKS.
JOHN MUIR
FOR ME EVERY HOUR IS GRACE. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile. ELIE WIESEL
WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE, ALL OF US, WHAT A CIRCUS! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. CHARLES BUKOWSKI
CENTERING PRAYER, when it reaches full consent to our nothingness, & when the closeness of God becomes a permanent experience, is the perfect preparation for death, because it is death — one has already died to the false self in the Night Sense & had died to the ego in the Night of Spirit — & so is there any self left at all? Even the true self has been transcended. THOMAS KEATING
ALL OF US carry our own dreams, wounds, sorrows & losses in our heart. Let’s treat each other with the KINDNESS — as if we knew each other’s story.
WHEN you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself,
CENTERING PRAYER IS ALL ABOUT HEARTFULNESS, which is a little different from mindfulness. It goes to the relationship with God who is already there. It’s not sitting in a void. CARL ARICO
IBOGAINE catalyzes an altered state of consciousness reminiscent of dreaming while fully conscious & aware so that memories, life experiences, & issues of trauma can be processed. wikipedia
WE ARE NATURALLY meant to be happy, loved and free. SAI MAA LAKSHMI DEVI
I UNDERSTAND why some human beings question their worth if they’re not making a huge amount of money or aren’t famous and that’s not right.
PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER
TO REDEEM THE WORK OF FOOLS
FROM THE MEEK, THE GRACES SHOWER
IT’S DECREED THE PEOPLE RULE. PATTI SMITH
SOUL DEVELOPMENT SHOULD TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER ALL THINGS.
EDGAR CAYCE
OUT OF SUFFERING have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
SAFEGUARDING the rights of others is the most noble & beautiful end of a human being. KAHIL GIBRAN
THE MEANING OF LIFE IS TO FIND YOUR GIFT. THE PURPOSE OF LIFE IS TO GIVE IT AWAY. PABLO PICASSO
7 BLUNDERS OF THE WORLD THAT LEAD TO VIOLENCE: MAHATMA GANDHI
1: WEALTH WITHOUT WORK.
2: PLEASURE WITHOUT CONSCIENCE.
3:KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT CHARACTER.
4: COMMERCE WITHOUT MORALITY.
5: SCIENCE WITHOUT HUMANITY.
6: WORSHIP WITHOUT SACRIFICE.
7: POLITICS WITHOUT PRINCIPLE.
LUDWIG MIES van der ROHE 1886-1969—-DEVELOPED MODERISM————–
NOTHING CAN EXPRESS THE AIM & meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine — ‘Beauty is the splendor of truth ‘
LESS IS MORE.
WE should attempt to bring nature, houses & human beings together in a higher unity.
A CHAIR is very difficult object. a skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO GO FORWARD WHILE LOOKING BACK.
WHAT FINALLY IS BEAUTY? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.
TECHNOLOGY is rooted in the past. It dominates the present
& tends into the future. it is a real historical movement — one of the great movements which shape & represent their epoch.
& tends into the future. it is a real historical movement — one of the great movements which shape & represent their epoch.
JOKO BECK 1917-2011. “Everyday Zen”. “Nothing Special” “Ordinary Wonder”
MEMORY is imagination.. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life.
LIFE always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment.
AWARENESS IS OUR TRUE SELF; it’s what we are. So we don’t have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, our judgments. We’re either in awareness, which is our natural state or we’re doing something else.
ALL I CAN BE IS WHO I AM RIGHT NOW; I can experience that & work with it. that’s all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.
WE HAVE TO FACE THE PAIN we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it & let its searing power transform us.
JOY IS BEING WILLING FOR THINGS TO BE AS THEY ARE.
ENLIGHTENMENT is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something. pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.
IN SPIRITUAL MATURITY THE OPPOSITE OF INJUSTICE IS NOT JUSTICE BUT COMPASSION.
CORLISS LAMONT 1902-1995 “HUMANISM AS A PHILOSOPHY””SOVIET CIVILIZATION” “THE ILLUSION OF IMMORTALITY””LIFETIME OF DISSENT”.
TRUE FREEDOM is the capacity for acting according to one’s true character, to be altogether one’s self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
WE DO NOT ASK TO BE BORN; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.
FOR THE HUMANIST, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Philips Exeter Academy reads: ‘Though goodness without knowledge . . . is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous. . . . Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind.’
THE WISE MAN looks at death with honesty, dignity & calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.
THE INTUITION OF FREE WILL GIVES US THE TRUTH.