Quote of the day

[Geoff-Allen]

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

~ Marcel Proust

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."

~ George Santayana

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[Geoff-Allen]

"If I had my life to live over again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

~ Tallulah Bankhead

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[Geoff-Allen]

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "A Psalm of Life"

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation. A smile, a face in the subway, the sight of a small flower growing in the crack of cement pavement, a fall of rich cloth in a shop window, the way the sun lights up flower pots on a windowsill. Be alert for any sign of beauty or grace. Offer up every joy, be awake at all moments, to “the news that is always arriving out of silence.”

Slowly, you will become a master of your own bliss, a chemist of your own joy, with all sorts of remedies always at hand to elevate, cheer, illuminate, and inspire your every breath and movement.

~ Sogyal Rinpoche

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun."

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

 

[lewisnotmiller]

“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”

St Thomas Aquinas

 

[Wu Wei]

Keeping with the political season we are in here in the US..... here is a quote that I feel is spot on the money

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." Groucho Marx

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you."

~ Eckhart Tolle

 

[bobhikes]

Everything you do in life with gusto will succeed, failure is the negative view of life.

bobhikes 10/23/2016

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Why do we consistently refuse to allow love to light our way? We resist the allure of love, while still longing for its comfort. And what is that resistance, really? First, it is resistance to the experience of a bigger life, in which our small and separate identity disappears. What is actually the birth of our spiritual identity feels to the ego like death. The ego, our small and separate sense of self, is an imposter personality. It is a false self. It resists our genuinely remembering God, because in the recognition of our oneness with him lies the death of the ego and the end of all fear."

~ Marianne Williamson

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.”

~ Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

~ Joseph Addison

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[Geoff-Allen]

"All the great and true spiritual masters offer their devotees a tangible spiritual realization of a greater reality, and a destiny greater than merely mortal, material existence. Divine realization itself—perfect happiness itself, complete awakening from the dream of mortal, limited existence—is the greatest of all human destinies, and the destiny for which every heart longs."

Adi Da Samraj

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

Melody Beattie

 

[Geoff-Allen]

If a person can laugh totally, wholeheartedly, not holding anything back at all, in that very moment something tremendous can happen because laughter, when it is total, is absolutely egoless, and that is the only condition in which to know God, to be egoless.

— Osho

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."

~ Ray Bradbury

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"You are spiritually whole, complete and perfect, and your success and happiness in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about yourself."

~ from "Beyond Positive Thinking" by Dr. Robert Anthony

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common—this is my symphony."

~ William Henry Channing

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of rebirth, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all humanity in friendly embrace."

~ Mahatma Gandhi