Quote-of-the-day

[Geoff-Allen]

"Know that people are doing the best they can from their level of awareness."

~ Source unknown

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now”

~ Eckhart Tolle

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[Geoff-Allen]

"It’s the recognition that other people’s problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own – often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude."

~ Richard Carlson

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

~ Lao Tzu

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself."

~ Ethel Barrymore

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Within every situation is contained a seed of grace. Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world."

~ Eckhart Tolle

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life — not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light."

~ Lama Surya Das in Awakening to the Sacred

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[Geoff-Allen]

"To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself."

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"If you're sincerely interested in being a more loving, good-hearted person then it can be particularly helpful at the beginning to recognise that it's mainly through your practice with difficult people that you will become confident that your inner development is bearing fruit."

~ from "The Lost Art of Compassion" by Lorne Ladner

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I need it most.

~ Swedish proverb

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace."

~ Matthieu Ricard

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[Geoff-Allen]

"Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder."

~ Osho

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[Geoff-Allen]

"I would define love very simply: as a potent blend of openness and warmth, which allows us to make real contact, to take delight in and appreciate, and to be at one with our selves, others, and life itself."

~ John Welwood

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence."

~ Gary Zukav

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The lesson is acceptance of differences. Don't forget you are a part of everything and everything is a part of you. If every human being recognized the power of the love and forgiveness principle, all consciousness on earth would change instantly."

~ Kuan Yin

 

[Dhyana]

"Matter and mind are not separate, they are aspects of one energy. Look at the mind as a function of matter and you have science; look at matter as the product of the mind and you have religion."

Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world."

~ Joseph Addison

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Happiness is a myth we seek,
If manifested surely irks;
Like river speeding to the plain,
On its arrival slows and murks.
For man is happy only in
His aspiration to the heights;
When he attains his goal, he cools
And longs for other distant flights.

~ Kahlil Gibran

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"As you travel on life’s ways, with its many ups and downs, remember it’s quite true to say, one smile is worth a dozen frowns. Among the world’s expensive things, a smile is very cheap. And when you give a smile away, you get one back to keep."

~ Author Unknown

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."

~ Chuang-tzu