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there is a lot of wisdom in proverbs, quotations and short poems. If you want to share that wisdom post here...

From Henryk Sienkiewicz, the author of "Quo Vadis?"


The human soul,like the bee, extracts sweetness even from bitter herbs.


Love is such a great happiness that even the darkest is still interspersed with beams of light.

" I am a candle," said Reason. Love replied: "Brother! I am the sun - so your time comes only when I set."


Love is not blind: it just changes eyes into prisms and shows the world as rainbow-hued.

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"Love is always patient and kind; love is never jealous; love is not boastful or conceited, it is never rude and never seeks its own advantage, it does not take offense or store up grievances. Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but finds its joy in the truth. It is always ready to make allowances, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes. Love never comes to an end." I Corinthians 13:4-8

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Billy Joel in the song "You're Only Human (Second Wind)":

"You're supposed to make mistakes!"

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The still, small voice within, is the only tyrant I will accept.

Mahatma Gandhi

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"Argue for your limitations, and you get to keep them."


Richard Bach

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# Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
Saint Thomas Acquinas

# What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
Joseph Addison

# People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays, men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
Louisa May Alcott

# Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Aristophanes

# Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
Richard Armour

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus

# Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
James Dean

# I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean

Winter Wolf

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Quotes from Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600-02-17 -- Burned at the stake as a heritic.

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"The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it."

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"All things are in the universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us: and in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity. "

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"It is then unnecessary to investigate whether there be beyond the heaven Space, Void or Time. For there is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call Void; in it are innumerable globes like this one on which we live and grow. This space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, possibility, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit. In it are an infinity of worlds of the same kind as out own."

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"Nature is none other than God in things. Whence all of God is in all things.
Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus,
in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion."

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"Therefore the perfect, absolutely and in itself, is one, infinite, which cannot be greater or better, and than which nothing can be greater or better. This is one, everywhere, the only God, universal nature, of which nothing can be a perfect image or reflection, but the infinite."

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"The Universe is one, infinite, immobile. The absolute potential is one, the act is one, the form or soul is one, the material or body is one, the thing is one, the being in one, one is the maximum and the best... It is not generated, because there is no other being it could desire or hope for. since it comprises all being. It does not grow corrupt. because there is nothing else into which it could change, given that it is itself all things. It cannot diminish or grow, since it is infinite."

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"Anything we take in the universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it."

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“He who desires to philosophize must first of all doubt all things. He must not assume a position in a debate before he has listened to the various opinions, and considered and compared the reasons for and against. He must never judge or take up a position on the evidence of what he has heard, on the opinion of the majority, the age, merits, or prestige of the speaker concerned, but he must proceed according to the persuasion of an organic doctrine which adheres to real things, and to a truth that can be understood by the light of reason."

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"When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. for nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect."

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A whisper is a cry for silence.

The most noble characters are in fairy tales.

It is easier to build a house than to create a home.

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Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen every day.
Ride on the Love flow and have a peacefull journey.
Now we are together flying as a flock of kindred souls .
My heart is thankfull to you all.

mudra

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Never forget that what you turn away from is yourself

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By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.

Lao Tzu

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Those who know don't talk.
Those who talk don't know.

Lao Tzu

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The sage never tries to store things up.
The more he does for others, the more he has.
The more he gives to others, the greater his abundance.

Lao Tzu

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Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly...
Suddenly I awoke...
Now, I do not know whether I was then
a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now a butterfly
dreaming that I am a man.

Chuang Tzu

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Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much
that we don’t want to let them go.

- Pema Chodron

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When the mind is no longer seeking,
no longer breeding conflict
through its wants and cravings,
when it is silent with understanding,
only then can the immeasurable come into being.

~ J. Krishnamurti

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If you have not
Linked yourself
To true emptiness,
You will never understand
The Art of Peace.

Morihei Ueshiba

Loving kindness
mudra

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Attachment to the results of love's labour destroys it all.


~Sri Swami Sai Premananda

Blessings
lightbeing

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Rejoicing in nothing and knowing nothing...
are the true rejoicing and the true knowledge.

~Lao Tzu

Blessings
lightbeing

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Love yourself unconditionally

and trust your heart without

reservation.

~ Sri Ram Kaa

Blessings
lightbeing

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Do not argue with an idiot.
he will bring you down to his level
And defeat with his experience...:wink2:

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Discernment is the quality of detached observation,

free from emotional needs.

~ Sri Ram Kaa


Blessings
lightbeing

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:mfr_lol:

Thanks burgundia!!

I REALLY needed that today. :nono: :wall: :lol3:

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This quotation brought to my mind the term "Recognition" that Leonard Laskow uses in the book Healing with Love. The fact that we can begin to heal our past hurts by calmly knowing what happened. Simply recognizing the truth.

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In each moment we have the potential to be present, or to miss it. If we miss the moment, we never get it back, and when it happened we were essentially dead. Along the journey of evolution, we seemed to picked up the habit of not living in the moment, spending time either in the past, as memories, or in the future, as planning.

author unknown

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And it is often so hard to focus on the present...it is something that must be learned and then practiced.

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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.

Allan Bloom
The Closing of the American Mind

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"He who wears fig leaves should not dance with hungry goats"

Jim Carey - In Living Colour doing a sketch on religious sects in court. For some reason that just cracks me up. I though some light humour would be nice!

Z

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"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

-Gahndi

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And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
- Nelson Mandela


Winter Wolf

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Your possessions possess you.

~ Sri Swami Sai Premananda

lightbeing

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Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess?
You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is,
just as you are responsible for the planet.
As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution,
then they will also cease to create outer pollution.

~ Eckhart Tolle


Blessings
lightbeing

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If you want to make someone happy, practice compassion.
If you want to make yourself happy, practice compassion.


~ Dalai Lama

Namaste
lightbeing

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It is the enemy who can truely teach us to practice
the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

~ Dalai Lama


Namaste
lightbeing

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"Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye"

Bill Hicks

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One must be very diligent in watching the ego's use of
the mask of spirituality to manoeuvre its self-serving
intentions-narcissism, financial, emotional, and
psychological fulfillment.

~ Sri Swami Sai Premananda

lightbeing

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Confused by thoughts,
we experience duality in life.
Unencumbered by ideas,
the enlightened see the one Reality.

- Hui - Neng