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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality ... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others."

~ Wilfred Peterson
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Perhaps some parts of ourselves that we see as normal and essential to who we are in fact block us from being more compassionate, creative, content and joyful than we've yet imagined we could be."

~ from "The Lost Art of Compassion" by Lorne Ladner
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

~ Rob Siltanen
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind."

~ Francis de Sales
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Law of Life

Whatever you give away today
Or think or say or do
Will multiply about tenfold
And then return to you.

It may not come immediately
Nor from the obvious source,
But the LAW applies unfailingly
Through some invisible force.

Whatever you feel about another,
Be it love or hate or passion,
Will surely bounce right back to you
In some clear or secret fashion.

If you speak about some person,
A word of praise or two,
Soon tons of other people
Will speak kind words to you.

Our thoughts are broadcasts of the soul,
Not secrets of the brain.
Kind ones bring us happiness,
Petty ones, untold pain.

Giving works as surely as
Reflections in a mirror.
If hate you send, hate you'll get back,
But loving brings love nearer.

Remember, as you start this day,
And duty crowds your mind,
That kindness comes so quickly back,
To those who first are kind!

Let that thought and this one
Direct you through each day
The only things we ever keep
Are the things we give away!

Author Unknown - at least not by me :)
 
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Unveiled Artist

Veteran Member
"We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize." ~Dr. John Henrik Clarke

Here's a good article by him: Concept of Deity

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
The practice of compassion begins at home. We have our parents, our children, and our brothers and sisters, who perhaps irritate us the most, and we begin our practice of loving-kindness and compassion with them. Then gradually we extend our compassion out into our greater community, our country, neighbouring countries, the world, and finally to all sentient beings equally without exception.

Extending compassion in this way makes it evident that it is not very easy to instantly have compassion for "all sentient beings." Theoretically it may be comfortable to have compassion for "all sentient beings," but through our practice we realize that "all sentient beings" is a collection of individuals. When we actually try to generate compassion for each and every individual, it becomes much more challenging. But if we cannot work with one individual, then how can we work with all sentient beings? Therefore it is important for us to reflect more practically, to work with compassion for individuals and then extend that compassion further.

~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Trainings in Compassion
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”

~ Eckhart Tolle

More quotes here -

http://www.habitsforwellbeing.com/20-quotes-about-living-in-the-present-moment/

Enjoy!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).”

~ James Baraz
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.”

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: MIndfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

~ Margaret Halsey

:)
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
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
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease."

~ Dalai Lama
 
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