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Thought for the day....... " Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter." Longchenpa
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Thought for the day....... "Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his lifewith reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will to live." Albert Schweitzer Posts: 7228 | From CO | Registered: May 2002
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Thought for the day....... "A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind." John Neal
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Thought for the day....... "As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape." John Lancaster Spalding Posts: 7228 | From CO | Registered: May 2002
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Thought for the day....... "Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush." Doug Larson Posts: 7228 | From CO | Registered: May 2002
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Thought for the day....... "You forgive if you stop the interpretations and descriptions." Manuel Schoch
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Thought for the day....... "If I had a prayer, it would be this: God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen" Byron Katie
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Thought for the day....... "The best of conversations occur when there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments." Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Posts: 7228 | From CO | Registered: May 2002
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Thought for the day....... "Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd." Voltaire (1767)
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Thought for the day....... "No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive." Mohandas Gandhi Posts: 7228 | From CO | Registered: May 2002
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Thought for the day....... "Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. A generous habit of thought and action carries with it an incalculable influence." Christian Bovee (1820-1904)
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Thought for the day....... "Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes." John Ruskin (1819-1900)
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Thought for the day....... "Certain thoughts are prayers. There are certain moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees." Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Posts: 7228 | From CO | Registered: May 2002
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Thought for the day....... "Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity." Thomas Watson - Founder of IBM (1874-1956)
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Thought for the day....... "The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about." Wayne Dyer
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Thought for the day....... ``The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.'' Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) Posts: 7228 | From CO | Registered: May 2002
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Thought for the day....... "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian." Dennis Wholey (1937-)
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Thought for the day....... " Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal." Mary Baker Eddy
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Thought for the day....... "But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things; by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me." Richard Feynman
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Thought for the day....... "I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time." Josh Billings (1856-1950, Irish playwright & critic)
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Thought for the day....... "Spirituality is not what we think about God or theology, it's participation. That's all it is." Anne Wilson Schaef Posts: 7228 | From CO | Registered: May 2002
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Thought for the day....... "Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." Charles Mingus
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Thought for the day....... "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." Wilson Mizner
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Thought for the day....... "Worship is celebration. All of life is a festival: being persuaded that God is everywhere present on all sides, we praise him as we till the ground, we sing hymns as we sow the seed, we feel his inspiration in all we do." Clement of Alexander
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Thought for the day....... "Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person. In those transparent moments we know other people's joys and sorrows, and we care about their concerns as if they were our own." Fritz Williams
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Thought for the day....... "The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven." John Milton
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Thought for the day....... "Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed." Corita Kent
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Thought for the day....... "Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else." Hermann Hesse
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Thought for the day....... "Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state." George Eliot Posts: 7228 | From CO | Registered: May 2002
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Thought for the day....... "You will have many opportunities in life to keep your mouth shut: You should take advantage of every one of them." Thomas Edison
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Thought for the day....... "The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise." Tacitus
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Hi Glassfish!!
Neat quote there!! I did a quick search and haven't found the author as yet. I will take some more time with it latter today. Fun challenge!!! Can you tell me anything about where you heard or found it.....could help with the search.
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Thought for the day....... "Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born." Dale Turner
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Well, you have me hooked after I saw the quote from Charles Mingus.
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Thought for the day....... "Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant." Stephen Sigmund
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Thought for the day....... "All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene." William Ellery Channing Posts: 7228 | From CO | Registered: May 2002
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Sorry 'bout that. I must have lymed out for a while there. I checked what I wrote... misspelled "conservation". I couldn't type even in high school now...Yikes! OK Let's try this again. www.butterflygardeningandconservation.com
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Thought for the day....... "The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward." Meng-Tse
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Thought for the day....... "Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows." Charles Reade Posts: 7228 | From CO | Registered: May 2002
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Thought for the day....... "Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves." Pema Chodron
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Thought for the day........ "The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body." George Sheehan
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Thought for the day....... "All of us are much more like a river than anything frozen in time and space." Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... "There is in all visible things...a hidden wholeness." Thomas Merton Posts: 7228 | From CO | Registered: May 2002
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Thought for the day....... "People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too." Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)
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Thought for the day....... "Conflict can be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither side loses and a new dance is created." Thomas Crum Posts: 7228 | From CO | Registered: May 2002
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Thought for the day....... "When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock." Stephen Mitchell, Four Watercolors by Tao-chi
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hey foot, thanks. that one today is one of those that makes you stop and think.
Strength in seeming fragility...sweetness and levity in the hardest things????
Ahhhh, if only that feeling could be bottled and sold to us...it would cure better than the best medicine...enlightenment will have to wait for now
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Hi lou! Mitchell seems to be presenting a koan here. (koan: NOUN: A puzzling, often paradoxical statement or story, used in Zen Buddhism as an aid to meditation and a means of gaining spiritual awakening.)
His works are focused on bringing the threads of truth underlying the world religions and philosophies together in language, stories and poetry of our day. His books look pretty interesting. You can read short blips about his many books here: http://www.stephenmitchellbooks.com/anthologies/enlightenedMind.html
So.....there is no right answer......but something to get us pondering.
And to pippy.....glad that one got you thinking too......me too. For me, today, it means a quiet heart sees the all of everything.
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Thought for the day....... "We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations." Anais Nin
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Thought for the day....... "It does not require many words to speak the truth." Chief Joseph (1840-1904)
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Thought for the day....... "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering." Yoda
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Thought for the day....... "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." Margaret Fuller
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Thought for the day....... "When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life." Jean Shindola Bolen Posts: 7228 | From CO | Registered: May 2002
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Thought for the day....... "The human race has only one really effective weapon, and that's laughter. The moment it arises, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together." Josh Billings
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Thought for the day....... "The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning." Ivy Baker Priest
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Thought for the day....... "Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it." Elaine St. James
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Thought for the day....... "A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born." Antoine de Saint Exupery
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Thought for the day....... "Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer." Harriet Rochlin
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Thought for the day....... "Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours." Swedish Proverb Posts: 7228 | From CO | Registered: May 2002
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Thought for the day....... "When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth." George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Posts: 7228 | From CO | Registered: May 2002
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