Quote of the day

[Geoff-Allen]

"Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word."

~ Goran Persson

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy."

~ Dada Vaswani -

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/happy.html

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!"

~ Lawrence G. Lovasik

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Happiness is only available with total acceptance of who you are, including all your fears, worries, and anxiety. It will be there for you when you can see your own inner beauty. You cannot achieve happiness without using your past, your flaws, insecurities, and imperfections in a positive way. It is about letting go and detaching from unhealthy people, ideas, and lifestyle choices, and replacing them with interdependent, pro-active ways of thinking and responding."

~ Lucinda Bassett

 

[Revoltingest]

"Don't ask me....I'm just a girl <giggle> <giggle>"
Malibu Stacy

 

[Geoff-Allen]

An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life ...

"A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy.

"It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves."

"One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego."

"The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith."

"This same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather,

"Which wolf will win?"

The old chief simply replied,

"The one you feed."

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."

~ Will Smith

 

[Wu Wei]

It would be a nice planet...if were not for all the people.

~ Wu Wei (about 20 years ago)

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Enlightenment - that magnificent escape from anguish and ignorance - never happens by accident. It results from the brave and sometimes lonely battle of one person against his own weaknesses"

~ Nyanasobhano

See more at: http://www.do-meditation.com/Meditation-Quotes.html

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."

~ Erica Jong

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being - because ideological orientation itself is the root cause of all the conflicts and all the miseries. Thought creates boundaries, thought creates divisions and thought creates prejudices; thought itself cannot bridge them. That's why all ideologies fail. Now man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is free to move to new understandings. And in that freedom flowers all that is good and all that is beautiful.”

~ Osho

Here's a huge site! -

http://www.lexiyoga.com/osho-quotes

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"True friends see who we really are, hear our words and the feelings behind them, hold us in the safe harbor of their embrace, and accept us as we are. Good friends mirror our best back to us, forgive us our worst, and believe we will evolve into wise, wacky, and wonderful old people. Dear friends give us their undivided attention, encourage us to laugh, and entice us into silliness. And we do the same for them. A true friend gives us the courage to be ourselves because he or she is with us always and in all ways. In the safety of such friendships, our hearts can fully open."

~ Sue Patton Thoele

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Too often, people make the mistake of believing that if they only had more money or more sex or a different partner or a better-looking body, they would feel the sense of "wholeness" they have always craved. Virtually without exception, this is not the case. What is actually lacking is the dimension of giving and kindness as a means of nourishing the soul. To add this dimension to your life is to nourish your soul."

~ Harold Kushner

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”

~ Buddha

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“Passive witnessing of thoughts and desires transforms them. Witnessing means to watch the thoughts with out interpreting, interfering or analyzing them. Witnessing is the art of just watching the thoughts coming and going.”

~ Anon

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Those who are awake live in a state of constant amazement."

~ Buddha

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"While great brilliance and intellect are to be admired, they cannot dry one tear or mend a broken spirit. Only kindness can accomplish this."

~ John M. Drescher

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"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."

~ St. Frances de Sales

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Since I have stopped searching for fulfillment in the mind or in external circumstances, my life is now lived on a ground of joy. There are moments of unhappiness, anger, and distress, there are moods that pass through, yet all is occurring on a ground of joy. No mood needs to be feared, no moment needs to be avoided. Finally I see that all moods, all states of mind, all feelings, anything that is truly investigated, points back to the same source – that pristine sky of fulfilled consciousness that is the truth of who I am, and is the truth of who you are."

~ Gangaji

http://peterspearls.com.au/glorious-mysterious-peaceful-joy.htm

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.”

~ Brother David Steindl-Rast