Quote-of-the-day

[Geoff-Allen]

"Every human being has the same potential for compassion; the only question is whether we really take any care of that potential, and develop and implement it in our daily life."

~ Dalai Lama

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Your greatest power is the power to be. To be more loving. To be more courageous. To be more joyous. To be more friendly. To be more sensitive. To be more aware. To be more forgiving. To be more tolerant. To be more humble. To be more patient. To be more helpful ... To be a greater human being."

~ Wilferd A. Peterson

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Kindness has converted more people than zeal, science, or eloquence."

~ Mother Teresa

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Casting our ego as the enemy in a holy war and winning that battle is an exceedingly difficult proposition, primarily because the ego proves to be a most subtle adversary. In fact, the ego will even join the battle against itself. It will take it on and say “this is wonderful, I’m going to battle against ego, I will become free, I will be wonderful, I will be better than I am now, and I will be better than other people, because I will be a highly evolved spiritual being.” Pretense, for example, cannot solve the problem of egoism. Acting humble does not make us humble. Non-egoism cannot be added on from the outside: it must be subtracted from us, from within."

Comes from this site -

Illusion of Ego

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”

~ M. Scott Peck

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul."

~ Harold Kushner

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[Geoff-Allen]

"The more love we give away, the more we have left. The laws of love differ from the laws of arithmetic. Love hoarded dwindles, but love given grows. If we give all our love, we will have more left than they who save some. Giving love, not receiving, is important; but when we give with no thought of receiving, we automatically, and inescapably receive abundantly. Heaven is a by-product of love. When we say, "I love you," we mean that "a little of God's love flows from me to you." Thereby, we do not have less, but more. For in flowing, the quantity is magnified."

~ John Marks Templeton, Riches for Mind and Spirit

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, or thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much."

~ Mother Teresa

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love. We must try to love all of humanity with the inner awareness, consciousness, and conviction that inside each individual is the living presence of God."

~ Sri Chinmoy

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."

~ Maya Angelou

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The deepest need of humans is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God. We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of the soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace."

~ Thomas R. Kelly

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being -- because ideological orientation itself is the root cause of all the conflicts and all the miseries. Thought creates boundaries, thought creates divisions and thought creates prejudices; thought itself cannot bridge them. That's why all ideologies fail."

~ Osho

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"I like to walk alone on country paths, rice plants and wild grasses on both sides, putting each foot down on the earth in mindfulness, knowing that I walk on the wondrous earth. In such moments, existence is a miraculous and mysterious reality."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment; Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition."

~ Rumi

 

[Quagmire]

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment; Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition."

~ Rumi

I don't get it.

Wait, does that mean I got it?

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Hi Quagmire!

I think Rumi is saying the intellect alone won't lead you to the ultimate truth?

There's another quote -

"The intellect gives many things, but ultimately it cannot give comfort."

Cheers!

 

[Quagmire]

Hi Quagmire!

I think Rumi is saying the intellect alone won't lead you to the ultimate truth?

There's another quote -

"The intellect gives many things, but ultimately it cannot give comfort."

Cheers!

I think I know what he meant, I was just trying to be clever.

(Now you know why I haven't sold mine: who would buy it? )

 

[Geoff-Allen]

I'm not buying

"For most of us it is very difficult to be constantly aware of the limitations and of the relativity of conceptual knowledge. Because our representation of reality is so much easier to grasp than reality itself, we tend to confuse the two and to take our concepts and symbols for reality."

Fritjof Capra in The Tao of Physics

Interlude Meditation Archive

LOADS at that site!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses."

~ Alphonse Karr

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad ... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!”

~ Dr. Seuss