Quote of the day

[Geoff-Allen]

"Giving our full attention to another person is itself stimulating. However dull they might appear to be, the person you're with right now is a human being with a full set of human qualities that you can respond to. If you don't see those qualities in them at first, ask yourself: Am I looking deeply enough, attending closely enough? When people feel that they have your full attention sometimes they blossom before your eyes. Even if the communication only lasts three minutes, it can make a big difference to both of your days."

~ Kulananda and Dominic Houlder

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble; how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world."

~ Emmet Fox

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Try Tolle quotes thinking ...

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.”

Cheers!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?"

~ Frank Borman

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The mother, more than any other, affects the moral and spiritual part of the children's character. She is their constant companion and teacher in formative years. The child is ever imitating and assimilating the mother's nature. It is only in after life that men gaze backward and behold how a mother's hand and heart of love molded their young lives and shaped their destiny."

~ E.W. Caswell

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The true Light is a gentle love which, rising in you, causes you to
look on the world with understanding and compassion and respect.
When you respect the souls of your brother and sister, you respect
their lives in every way. This gentle spirit, this respect one for
another, must come. For this is the generation of the one true Light,
and this true light is that of love."

~ White Eagle

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded,
abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every
race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate."

~ Charlotte Gray

http://www.livinglifefully.com/mothers.htm

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are. This capacity for caring can illuminate any relationship: marriage, family, friendships--even the ties of affection that often join humans and animals. Each of us is born with some of it, but whether we let it expand or diminish is largely up to us. To care, you have to surrender the armor of indifference. You have to be willing to act, to make the first move."

Arthur Gordon
A Touch of Wonder

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started
to discover--and practice--the art of acceptance. When I started
to accept life for what it was and I started to accept whatever
situation I was in as the way things were, I started to see that
my happiness depended on my own attitude. When I started focusing
on getting the most out of my life the way it was rather than trying
to turn it into what I thought it should be, I started to realize
that I was, indeed, becoming a much happier person."

~ Tom Walsh

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

~ Leo Buscaglia

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."

~ Dale Carnegie

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Life is made up of a series of challenges designed to bring us
to fullness of growth. Meeting them with hope in the future
is the real test of the spiritual person."

~ Joan Chittister

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The majority of people are not awake; it is only here and there that we find
one even partially awake. Practically all of us, as a result, are living lives that
are unworthy almost the name of lives, compared to those we might be living,
and that lie within our easy grasp. While it is true that each life is in and of
Divine Being, hence always one with it, in order that this great fact bear fruit
in individual lives, each one must be conscious of it; he or she must know it
in thought, and then live continually in this consciousness."

~ Ralph Waldo Trine

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Many of us have a tendency to deny any negative feelings. We judge them as "bad" or "unenlightened" when, in fact, they are our stepping stone to enlightenment. Our so-called negative feelings or attitudes are really parts of ourselves that need recognition, love, and healing. Not only is it safe and healthy to acknowledge and accept all of our feelings and beliefs, it is necessary, if we are to get in touch with the fears and pockets of blocked energy that are holding us back from what we want."

~ Shakti Gawain

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Give us grace and strength to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another."

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy.”

~ Thích Nhat Hanh -

More here -

http://www.purposefairy.com/73702/30-life-changing-lessons-to-learn-from-thich-nhat-hanh/

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"True happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion, and elimination of ignorance, selfishness, and greed."

The Dalai Lama

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you."

~ Gordon MacKenzie

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"What is most necessary for people and what is given us in great abundance,
are experiences, especially experiences of the forces within us. This is our
most essential food, our most essential wealth. If we consciously receive
all this abundance, the universe will pour into us what is called life in
Judaism, spirit in Christianity, light in Islam, power in Taoism."

~ Jacob Needleman