Quote of the day

[Geoff-Allen]

"What we have before us are breathtaking opportunities disguised as insoluble problems."

~ John W. Gardner

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"May the gratitude in my heart kiss all the universe."

~ Hafiz

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly!"

~ Shakti Gawain

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"It is true that overcoming obstacles and difficulties accelerates spiritual progress. The most serious lifetime difficulties, like severe psychiatric illness or physical disability, may be signs of life progress, not regress. In my opinion, it is often the very strongest souls who have chosen to shoulder these burdens because they provide great opportunities for growth."

~ Brian Weiss, MD

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"God is bigger than any problem. God in you is greater than any difficulty that you have to meet. God cares for you more than it is possible for any human being to realize. God can help you in proportion to the degree in which you worship Him. You worship God by really putting your trust in him instead of in outer conditions, or in fear, or in depression, or in seeming dangers, and so forth. You worship God by recognizing His presence everywhere, in all people and conditions that you meet; and by praying regularly. You pray well when you pray with joy."

~ Emmet Fox

More of his thoughts here -

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

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and thistles of depression, discontent, and anxiety in the garden of your mind. Luckily, the opposite is also true. Consistently planting positive, healthy, constructive thoughts will yield a crop of beautiful feelings, such as gratitude, love, and joy."

~ Sue Patton Thoele

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"There is no physician like cheerful thought for dissipating the ills of the body; there is no comforter to compare with good will for dispersing the shadows of grief and sorrow. To live continually in thoughts of ill will, cynicism, suspicion, and envy, is to be confined in a self-made prison hole. But to think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all—such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of happiness; and to dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their possessor."

~ James Allen

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Some of your hurts you have cured
And the sharpest you've even survived,
But what torments of grief you've endured
From evils which never arrived.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others."

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Read more at:

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/v/vincent_van_gogh.html

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. That criterion is, Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them - so keep trying."

~ Peace Pilgrim

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free."

~ Swami Vivekananda

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

~ Maya Angelou

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human."

~ Henri J. M. Nouwen, Words of Hope and Healing

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Whatever you’re feeling, it will eventually pass. You won’t feel sad forever. At some point, you will feel happy again. You won’t feel anxious forever. In time, you will feel calm again. You don’t have to fight your feelings or feel guilty for having them. You just have to accept them and be good to yourself while you ride this out. Resisting your emotions and shaming yourself will only cause you more pain, and you don’t deserve that. You deserve your own love, acceptance, and compassion."

~ Lori Deschene

 

[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]

"Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself."

~ Stephen Levine

Loads more here -

http://simpleandprofound.com/

Enjoy!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"When you are criticised, accept it as a opportunity to acknowledge your hidden faults and increase your humility. Criticisms are your teacher, destroying attachment and craving. If brought to the path, harsh words and blame will inspire your practice and strengthen your discipline. How can you ever repay such kindness?"

~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“ Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one’s particular life path might appear to one’s self or others at any given moment.”

~ Genesis P-Orridge

Read more about being yourself -

http://www.keepinspiring.me/quotes-about-being-yourself/

Enjoy!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is."

~ Jim Morrison

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work."

~ Matthieu Ricard