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[Geoff-Allen]

"The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter."

~ Mark Twain

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[Geoff-Allen]

"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life."

~ John Lennon

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that."

~ Michael Leunig

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."

~ George Bernard Shaw

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world."

~ Francis Schaeffer

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."

~ Norman Cousins

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"I Don’t Suffer from Insanity; I Enjoy Every Minute of It!"

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[Geoff-Allen]

“It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense.”

~ Mark Twain

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”

~ Twain again

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The Buddha insisted that he would present or discuss only ideas that would help people attain happiness and awakening; anything else was simply not worth our breath or our thought."

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

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a person's mind can get both provocation and privacy."

~ Edward P. Morgan

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"There is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it; you can know a lot and not really understand anything."

~ Charles F. Kettering

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

~ Bertrand Russell

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"If you obey all the rules, you’ll miss all the fun."

~ Katharine Hepburn

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.”

~ Plato

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”

~ Osho

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"It Turns Out Enlightenment is Just Having a Really Good Sense of Humour"

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It turns out enlightenment is just having a really good sense of humour

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."

~ Seneca

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to. ”

Sogyal Rinpoche