Thought for the day....... “I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom.” Terri Guillemets
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Thought for the day....... “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” William James
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Thought for the day....... “Hindsight is a double-edged sword. Too much of it and the past seems inevitable, With too little hindsight, a panoramic perspective is impossible.” Lance K. Kurke
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Thought for the day....... “All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.” Lao-Tzu
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Thought for your day: looks like an admin will be able to restore the old thread soon.
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Robin, wow! That's amazing!!! Keep me posted. Thought for the day....... “When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice – the thinker – but the one who is aware of it.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.” Alistair Cooke
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Thought for the day....... “As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did – except in my own imagination." Thomas Merton
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Thought for the day....... “Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.” Michael Josephson
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Thought for the day....... “To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—all in the same relationship.” Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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- Thanks so much for the delightful food for thought or perhaps, thought as food for our very character. A take on the "let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." -
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Thought for the day....... "Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." Jonas Salk
Keebler, you are so welcome!!!!! Glad you are enjoying the quotes! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." Henry Ward Beecher
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Thought for the day....... “I really didn't say everything I said.” Yogi Berra
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Thought for the day....... “The true wonder of the world is everywhere, in the minutest parts of our bodies, in the vast expanses of the cosmos, and in the interconnectedness of these and all things.” Michael Stark
Happy Earth Day!
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Thought for the day....... “He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Thought for the day....... “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.” William Blake
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Thought for the day....... "......I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself." Lone Man (Isna-la-wica) Teton Sioux
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Thought for the day....... “Exterior circumstances may present themselves in a wide variety of ways, but the way you respond and react to them is entirely under your control. What is happening is happening, but how you are experiencing what is happening is something You are making up.” Neale Donald Walsch
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Thought for the day....... “Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.” Steve Jobs (Commencement address at Stanford University, June 12, 2005)
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Thought for the day....... “The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.” Mary Ritter Beard
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Thought for the day....... “There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.” Washington Irving
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Thought for the day....... “Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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Thought for the day....... “Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.” W. Somerset Maugham
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Thought for the day....... “The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present.” Abraham Lincoln
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Thought for the day....... "Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforeseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences." Ben Aaronvitch
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Thought for the day....... “Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.” Nicholas Black Elk
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Thought for the day....... "As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world." Adabella Radici
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Thought for the day....... “Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.” Vanna Bonta
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Thought for the day....... “Awareness knows itself simply by being itself, just as the sun illuminates itself simply by being itself.” Rupert Spira
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5-8-2018 Thought for the day....... “Awareness knows itself simply by being itself, just as the sun illuminates itself simply by being itself.” Rupert Spira
5-9-2018 Thought for the day....... “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.” Confucius
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Thought for the day....... “Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.” Edwin Way Teale
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Thought for the day……. “The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me: my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.” Meister Eckhart
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Thought for the day....... "The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give. The joy of life is to love." Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thought for the day....... "Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed." Linda Wooten
Happy Mother's Day!!!!
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Thought for the day....... “Mind makes a man of God.” Emmanuel Diogu
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Thought for the day....... "Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves." Bryant McGill
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5-15-2018 Thought for the day....... "Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves." Bryant McGill
5-16-2018 Thought for the day....... "Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions." Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
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Thought for the day....... “An intelligent man believes only half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.” Evan Esar
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Thought for the day....... “The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.” Sophocles, Antigone
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Thought for the day....... “To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.” Bertrand Russell
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Thought for the day....... “Wisdom is the perception of the unimportance of the things we call great, and of the importance of the things we call small.” Charles Edward Jerningham
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Thought for the day....... “A simple realization that there are other points of view is the beginning of wisdom.” Grenville Kleiser
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Thought for the day....... “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” Bruce Lee
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Thought for the day.......”Wisdom is less about academic intelligence, cognitive abilities or analytical skills, although these can help significantly. Instead, wisdom refers to the ability to see the "big picture" and translate one's experience and knowledge into good judgment and decisions.” David Chan
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Thought for the day....... “Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?” Plato
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Thought for the day....... “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that, don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf." Rabindranath Tagore
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Thought for the day....... “The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.” Herbert Spencer
Have a meaningful Memorial Day, whatever that is for you today!!!
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Thought for the day....... “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.” Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
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Thought for the day....... “Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.” Zen Proverb
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Thought for the day....... “When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well.” Isaac Asimov, The Roving Mind
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Thought for the day....... “At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?” Jonas Salk
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Thought for the day....... “True wisdom is not found in yes-or-no answers, but in the open mind of not-knowing.” Melvin McLeod
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Thought for the day....... “All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence.” David Hume
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Thought for the day.......”All revelation is born in the dark, when you let go of clutching onto the certainty of what you know.” Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... “Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.” Johann Gottfried Von Herder
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Thought for the day....... “Too much agreement kills the chat.” Eldridge Cleave
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Thought for the day....... “The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.” Israel Zangwillr
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Thought for the day....... “You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.” Louie Morris
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Thought for the day....... “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.” Isaac Asimov
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Thought for the day....... “Try to disregard whatever you believe to be real or not and keep an open mind.” Jason Medina
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Thought for the day....... “...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.” Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925)
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Thought for the day....... “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... “Simple in actions and in thoughts, you return to the source of being.” Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” Hans Hofman
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Thought for the day....... “In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.” Dag Hammarskjold
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Thought for the day....... "What do you like doing best in the world, Pooh? [asked Christopher Robin].. "What I like best in the whole world is Me and Piglet going to see You, and You saying 'What about a little something?' and Me saying, 'Well, I shouldn't mind a little something, should you, Piglet,' and it being a hummy sort of day outside, and birds singing." A.A. Milne, from The House at Pooh Corner
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Thought for the day....... “There is enchantment right in front of you, waiting for you to notice.” Janet Luhrs
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Thought for the day....... “...to find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter...to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest, or a wild flower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.” John Burroughs
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Thought for the day....... “How many undervalue the power of simplicity! But it is the real key to the heart.” William Wordsworth
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“Thought for the day....... “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Clare Boothe Luce
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Thought for the day....... “Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.” Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth." Leo Tolstoy
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Thought for the day....... "The Self is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." C.G. Jung
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Thought for the day....... "Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different." Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
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Thought for the day...... “When we listen to trees, we “unself” ourselves – and open to great beauty.” David Haskell (The Forest Unseen & The Songs of Trees)
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Thought for the day....... “Keep an open mind. Every time you define something or someone you confine yourself to your beliefs.” Akiroq Brost
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Thought for the day....... “Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awareness. Instead of a belief system, awareness sees through all beliefs.” Joan Tollifson
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Thought for the day....... “No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied — it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.” Ansel Adams
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Thought for the day....... “Life, like all other games, becomes fun when one realizes that it's just a game” Nerijus Stasiulis
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Thought for the day....... “The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea — and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. That it doesn’t matter where you came from but where you are going.” Condoleeza Rice
Happy Independence Day!!!!!
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Thought for the day....... "Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands." Seneca
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Thought for the day....... “Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.” Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... “True freedom is when all the stories, all the insights, all the realizations, concepts, beliefs and positions dissolve. What remains is what you are; a vast, conscious, luminous space simply resting in itself, not knowing a thing, at the point where all things are possible.” Enza Vita
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Thought for the day....... "Stand Tall and Proud Sink your roots deeply into the Earth Reflect the light of a greater source Think long term Go out on a limb Remember your place among all living beings Embrace with joy the changing seasons For each yields its own abundance The Energy and Birth of Spring The Growth and Contentment of Summer The Wisdom to let go of leaves in the Fall The Rest and Quiet Renewal of Winter" Ilan Shamir, Advice From a Tree
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Thought for the day....... "We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing." G. C. Lichtenberg
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Thought for the day....... “What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.” Paul Hawken
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Thought for the day....... “Good listening works magic... Listen intently intentionally!” Frank Bettger
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Thought for the day....... “Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.” Hermann Hesse
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Thought for the day....... “So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.” Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Thought for the day....... “Listening means forgetting yourself completely - only then can you listen.” Osho
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Thought for the day....... “Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere.” Tom Peters
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Thought for the day....... “When we load all of the history we have into a relationship, we can’t really look and see the other person.” Jack Kornfield
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Thought for the day....... "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." Bertrand Russell
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Thought for the day....... “Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow / The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.” Marya Mannes
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Thought for the day....... “Who speaks, sows; Who listens, reaps." Argentine Proverb
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Thought for the day....... “The wilderness has profound lessons for us if we will make the effort to slow our pace and be silent and listen; just go into the wilderness and start to listen.” Murray Phillips
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Thought for the day....... “Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean, and bring your talky business to an end.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “Stories move in circle. They don't move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles.” Deena Metzger
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Thought for the day....... “The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.” Rollo May
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Thought for the day....... "Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It's a way of entering into the quiet that's already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day." Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... “We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.” Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... “We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.” Carl Rogers
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Thought for the day....... “While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important.” Walter Lippmann
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Thought for the day........ “Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild or a grandparent.” Donald A. Norberg
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Thought for the day....... “Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.” Hayley Williams
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Thought for the day....... “May your heart and mind be open, and your body and soul, energy and spirit and community be nourished.” Lama Surya Das
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Thought for the day....... “Grandchildren are God’s way of compensating us for growing old.” Mary H. Waldrip
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Thought for the day....... “Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.” Lois Wyse
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Thought for the day....... "Surpassingly lovely, precious days. What is there ti say except: Here they are. Sifting through my fingers like sand." Joyce Carol Oates
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Thought for the day....... “You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.” Frederick Buechner
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Thought for the day....... “There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.” Aleksander Hemon, The Lazarus Project
Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
Thanks for always being here and posting these quotes.
I'll comment on your quote in a real way here - CA has been getting a lot of fires. This is due to the disturbance of our climate patterns. And not only CA, but many places around the world.
And not only fires, but also the opposite wet catastrophes around the world.
I think perturbation of normal patterns is what generates this experience of feeling like it's unreal, since it was unreal before it started. Now many people have lost their homes and communities and have to start over.
When "unreal" experience starts to happen, take a good look, because we probably may need to change the ways we're operating.
San Francisco will be a center for climate change discussion and action in September. Out of that, people will be organizing to do things differently re energy production, etc.
There - that's a real-life response!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Good Morning, Robin and All!!
Robin, thank you AND thank you for your thoughtful comments. We have been traveling through the forest fire smoke. Yes, all that is going on globally gives plenty of reason for pause!
Thought for the day....... “You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.” Dr. Seuss
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Thought for the day....... “I am not what I do. I'm not what people say about me. I'm not what I have. My life os not rooted in the world, the things the world gives me.” Henri Nouwen
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Thought for the day...... “The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.” Helen Luke
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Thought for the day....... “When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.” George Harrison
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Thought for the day....... “The Mind, I have discovered, is very clever. As soon as it recognizes that it is entering territory where it is not in charge, it becomes very protective. It quickly begins inventing reasons to stop, because it does not want to let go.” Michael Jones
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Thought for the day....... "Good humored patience is necessary with mischievous children and your own mind." Robert Aitkin Roshi
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Thought for the day....... “Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.” Mahatma Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... “You teach best what you most need to learn.” Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... “A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.” Albert Einstein
Happy Labor Day!!! A great day for honoring each other! Have a super day!!!
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Thought for the day....... “The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.” Richard Bandler
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Thought for the day....... “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” Zora Neale Hurston (“Their Eyes Were Watching God”)
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Thought for the day....... “Imagination is the highest form of research.” Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... “All of humanity’s problems, stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Blaise Pascal, Written in 1654
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Thought for the day....... “Our fates are tied. We have this strange notion on this planet that our fates are not tied. If we were not so, we would not be here together. It's that simple.” Luisah Teish
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Thought for the day....... “An age is called dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.” James Michener
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Thought for the day....... “Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “True wisdom is less presuming than folly; the wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.” Robert Dodsley, The Economy of Life
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Thought for the day....... “Keep the window of the mind open to let the fresh thoughts come in like fresh air.” Debasish Mridha
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Thought for the day....... “Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name, you have no past, you have no relationships, you have no country, you have no spiritual attainment, you have no lack of spiritual attainment. There is just the presence of Beingness with itself. “ Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... “The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.” Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... “Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.” Johann Gottfried Von Herder
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Thought for the day....... “The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.” John Seely Brown
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Thought for the day....... “Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.” Oprah Winfrey
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Thought for the day....... “Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.” Anatoli Boukreev
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Thought for the day.......“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.” Victor Hugo
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Thought for the day....... “Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.” Christopher Morley
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Thought for the day....... “I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.” Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church, I keep it staying at Home – With a bobolink for a Chorister, And an Orchard, for a Dome.” Emily Dickinson, c.1862
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Thought for the day....... “It is the nature of the mind to wander. You are not the mind. The mind springs up and sinks down. It is impermanent, transitory, whereas you are eternal. There is nothing but the Self. To inhere in the Self is the thing. Never mind the mind. If its source is sought, it will vanish leaving the Self unaffected.” Ramana Maharshi
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Thought for the day....... “Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers — for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.” Osho
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Thought for the day....... “Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.” Alan C. Kay
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Thought for the day....... “The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.” Frieda Harris
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Thought for the day....... “Nature is new every morning, but its cycles are ancient, independent of all our anxieties, oblivious to our plans.” Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
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Thought for the day....... “Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.” Alfred Billings Street
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Thought for the day....... “I had an early run in the woods before the dew was off the grass. The moss was like velvet, and as I ran under the arches of yellow and red leaves I sang for joy, my heart was so bright and the world so beautiful.” Louisa May Alcott, 1845
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Thought for the day....... “Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.” Rachel Carson
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Thought for the day....... “I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?” Jerry Seinfeld
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Thought for the day....... “The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “There is nothing more impressive — intellectually or otherwise — than to change long held beliefs, opinions, and habits. The more you’ve changed, the better you probably are.” Ryan Holiday
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Thought for the day....... “Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.” Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Thought for the day....... “This is not your responsibility but it is your problem.” Cheryl Strayed
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Thought for the day....... “Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view.” Obi-Wan Kenobi
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Thought for the day....... "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet." Stephen hawking (Into the Universe, 2010)
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Thought for the day....... "I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong." Richard Feynman
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Thought for the day....... “To be able to suffer with is good news because it means you can share power with, share joy with, exchange love with. Let your pain tell you that you are not alone. What we thought might have been sealing us off can become connective tissue. Joanna Macy, Schooling Our Intention
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Thought for the day....... “Yesterday is ashes. Tomorrow is green wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.” Eskimo Saying
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Thought for the day....... "I don't let go of concepts - I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me." Byron Katie
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Thought for the day....... “We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living fully in the present.” Marianne Williamson
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Thought for the day....... “We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation.
We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.” Alan Watts
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Thought for the day....... "To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright." Walter Benjamin
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Thought for the day....... "Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation." Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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Thought for the day....... "The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love." Che Guevara
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Thought for the day....... "The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love." Che Guevara
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Thought for the day....... “You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.” Mary Oliver (“Wild Geese”)
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Thought for the day....... “And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words… As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.” Alan Watts
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Thought for the day....... “Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.” Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)
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Thought for the day.......“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.” R. Buckminster Fuller
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Thought for the day....... “The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.” Kin Hubbard
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Thought for the day....... "Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else." Thomas Merton
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Thought for the day....... "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... “Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins / that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, / but then drag you for days / like a broken man / behind a farting camel.” Hafiz
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Thought for the day....... “Living in harmony with all beings is flexibility. It is a kind of cosmic democracy. Each of us has a role in the situation and gets one vote. You cast your vote by being here like a great unmoving mountain. Please cast your vote completely: that is your job. Then listen to all other beings, especially foreigners, especially strangers, and especially enemies.” Reb Anderson (In it Together)
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Thought for the day....... “To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.” Aldous Huxley
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Thought for the day....... "There can be peace in the unknown. It is the known, or what we perceive as the known, that causes conflict." Steve Reedy
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Thought for the day....... “There's a point... when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.” Ursula K. Le Guin
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Thought for the day....... “Where there is no imagination there is no horror.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Happy Halloween, 2018!!!!
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Thought for the day....... “There is sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief, and unspeakable love.” Washington Irving
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Thought for the day....... “Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.” James Russell Lowell
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Thought for the day....... “If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.” J. Krishnamurti
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Thought for the day....... "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." Francis Bacon
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Thought for the day....... “You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.” Teilhard de Chardin
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Thought for the day....... "It is the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive." C. W. Leadbeater
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Thought for the day....... "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." Abraham Lincoln
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Thought for the day....... "Friendship is a sheltering tree." Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
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Thought for the day....... “Happiness is simply to allow everything to be exactly as it is from moment to moment.” Rupert Spira
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Thought for the day....... "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts." Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... "Knowledge is not what you can remember, but what you cannot forget." Anonymous
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Thought for the day....... "The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology." Red Auerbach
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Thought for the day....... "It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." Alan Cohen
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Thought for the day....... "Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue." Henry James
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Thought for the day....... "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Thought for the day....... "One of the greatest things that happened in my relationship with my father was when he was approaching death. I finally allowed him to be who he was instead of trying to make him into who I thought he should be. And he stopped trying to make me into who he thought I should be, and we became friends." Ram Dass
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Thought for the day....... "What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." Crowfoot, Blackfoot Warrior & Orator
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Thought for the day....... “I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.” Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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Thought for the day....... "People only see what they are prepared to see." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.” John Ciardi
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Thought for the day....... “We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” Thornton Wilder
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Thought for the day....... “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” William Arthur Ward
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!! I appreciate the presence of Lymenet in my life and all of you here!
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Thought for the day....... “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” W.T. Purkiser
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Thought for the day....... "There are many religions, but there is only one morality." John Ruskin (1819-1900)
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Thought for the day....... "Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts." Arnold Bennett
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Thought for the day....... “If you want to be free, get to know your real self. It has no form, no appearance, no root, no basis, no abode, but is lively and buoyant. It responds with versatile facility, but its function cannot be located. Therefore when you look for it you become further from it, when you seek it you turn away from it all the more.” Great Zen Master Lin Chi
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Thought for the day....... "The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring." Francis H. Bradley
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Thought for the day....... "Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk." Peggy Noonan
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Thought for the day.......“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "Our greatest strength lies not in how much we differ from each other but in how much-how very much-we are the same.'' Eknath Easwaran, The Compassionate Universe
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Thought for the day....... "Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way." Louis L'Amour
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Thought for the day....... "The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind." Bodhidharma (440 AD - 528 AD)
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Thought for the day....... "Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives." William A. Foster
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Thought for the day....... “The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.” Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... “Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love, a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one’s bridges because you’re never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end.” Saul Alinsky (1909–1972)
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Thought for the day....... "Speech is of time, silence is of eternity." Thomas Carlyle
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Thought for the day....... "Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day.......“Clearly, one of the major obstacles to our experience of gratitude is the habit we have of sleepwalking through life. The truth is that we are never lacking for blessings in our lives, but we are often lacking in awareness and recognition of them.” Rev. Diane Berke, Ph.D
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Thought for the day....... "Change is the nursery of music, joy, life and Eternity." John Donne
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Thought for the day....... “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us." Donald Williams
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Thought for the day....... “Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.” Menander (342 BC - 291 BC)
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Thought for the day....... “The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.” Katherine Graham
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Thought for the day....... "I love those who yearn for the impossible." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thought for the day....... "Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin." Hermann Hesse
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Thought for the day....... "When there is no more separation between "this" and "that," it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things." Chuang Tzu
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Thought for the day....... "Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what's going on outside of us, there's always something we could be grateful for." Barry Neil Kaufman
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Thought for the day....... "I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought to know all along, and that is what binds us here on earth - all the diverse peoples here- is really much more profound than what seems to separate us." Richard Berendzen (American University Professor, 8-96)
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Thought for the day....... "The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom." James Allen (1864 – 1912)
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Thought for the day....... "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking." Albert Einstein
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12-25-2018 Thought for the day....... "Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time." Laura Ingalls Wilder
Wishing each of you the joy of the season!!
12-26-2018 Thought for the day....... “Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.” Gail Lumet Buckley
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Thought for the day....... "There is no more destructive force in human affairs -- not greed, not hatred -- than the desire to have been right. Non-attachment to possessions is trivial when compared with non-attachment to opinions." Mark Kleiman
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Thought for the day....... "Wise men contemplate the world, knowing full well that they are contemplating themselves." James Cowan
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Thought for the day....... “Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Thought for the day....... “Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Thought for the day....... “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
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Thought for the day....... “May you have the hindsight to know where you've been The foresight to know where you are going, And the insight to know when you have gone too far.” Irish Blessing
Happy New Year!!
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Thought for the day....... “Endings and beginnings are merely paired facets of an imagined stone curtain, behind which a plethora of opportunities await.” Ged Thompson, Liverpool Poet
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Thought for the day....... “It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.” Paulo Coelho
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Thought for the day....... “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” Chinese Proverb
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Thought for the day....... “Knowing that we are looking for something we already have and are does not, of course, mean that the journey is unnecessary, only that there is a vast and sublime joke waiting to be discovered at its end.” Andrew Harvey, The Sublime Joke of the Journey
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Thought for the day....... “Life is an adventure in forgiveness.” Norman Cousins
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Thought for the day....... "Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “One must have chaos within oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star.” Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... “You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” Anne Lamont
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Thought for the day....... "I believe in rain, in odd miracles, in the intelligence that allows terns and swallows to find their way across Earth. " Paul Hawkins
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Thought for the day....... “We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.” Bono
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Thought for the day....... "The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind." David Hume (1711-1776)
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Thought for the day....... "The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results.'' Krishna (Bhagavad-Gita)
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Thought for the day....... "The greatest strength is gentleness." Iroquois Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences." Norman Cousins
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Thought for the day....... "If you suffer, it is not because things are impermanent. It is because you believe things are permanent." Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thought for the day....... "When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time." Francis de Sales
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Thought for the day....... "The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind." Albert Camus
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Thought for the day....... "Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." Malcolm S. Forbes
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Thought for the day....... "It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!" Abraham Lincoln
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Thought for the day....... "New ideas stir from every corner. They show up disguised innocently as interruptions, contradictions and embarrassing dilemmas. Beware of total strangers and friends alike who shower you with comfortable sameness, and remain open to those who make you uneasy, for they are the true messengers of the future." Rob Lebow
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Thought for the day....... "Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love...Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy." Randolph Ray
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Thought for the day....... “I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.” Noam Chomsky
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Thought for the day....... “If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.” David Richo
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Thought for the day....... "Humor and creativity are kissing cousins. If you want to develop your sense of humor, invite more creativity into your life--and vice versa. In the presence of humor, new creative perspectives naturally occur. You can't stop them." Joel Goodman
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Thought for the day....... “Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.” Coria Kent
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Thought for the day....... “Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.” Sir William Osler
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Thought for the day....... "As you begin to nourish creativity in one area of your life, it begins to flourish in other areas." C. Diane Ealy, Ph.D.
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Thought for the day....... “Knowing what our beliefs are requires confronting ourselves, our fears, and our resistance to change. Once we know what our real beliefs are, we can allow them to evolve and change if they do not serve us.” Pat B. Allen
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Thought for the day....... “Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.” Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer
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Thought for the day....... "Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted--a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul." Rabbi Harold Kushner
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Thought for the day....... "If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a fact, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system." Wayne Dyer
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Thought for the day....... “The beginning is always today.” Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 – 1851)
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Thought for the day……. “The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.” Leo Tolstoy
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Thought for the day....... “Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.” Sean O'Casey
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Thought for the day....... "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." Roald Dahl
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Thought for the day....... “Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.” Marianne Williamson
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Thought for the day....... “Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.” But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.” Kahill Gibran, The Prophet
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Thought for the day....... “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.” Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
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Thought for the day....... “Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” Hermann Hesse
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Thought for the day....... "The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into formations - each a gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony." Ruth Bernhard
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Thought for the day....... "Learn to live in it (the world) in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is." Oriental Mythology
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Thought for the day....... "Come out of the circle of time. And into the circle of love." Rumi
Happy Valentines Day!
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Thought for the day....... "At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, a complex of wave forms and resonances which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything in the universe." George Leonard
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Thought for the day……. “In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.” Peter Matthiesen
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Thought for the day....... “Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty.” Shannon L. Alder Reg
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Thought for the day....... “Just like your body and lifestyle can be healthy or unhealthy, the same is true with your beliefs. Your beliefs can be your medicine or your poison.” Steve Maraboli
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Thought for the day....... “Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today.” Roy T. Bennett
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Thought for the day....... "Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul." Walt Whitman
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Thought for the day....... “At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were any different, that would be remarkable. As far as I can tell it isn't.” Paul Graham
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Thought for the day....... “Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “When you hold onto a script that doesn't serve you, you leave no space to write a new one that does.” Jennifer Ho
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Thought for the day....... “Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.” Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Thought for the day....... “In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.” Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... “All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion.” Paulo Coelho
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Thought for the day....... “If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?” William Somerset Maugham
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Thought for the day....... “You can never be really sure of how much you believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life or death to you.” C.S. Lewis
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Thought for the day....... “We grow stronger and freer with every hope, every belief, we discard.” Marty Rubin
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Thought for the day....... "Ego-self is but a shadow of reality; of true-self. Yet it is so subtle and so believable as to discourage all but the most serious and determined examiner." Anthony de Mello, SJ
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Thought for the day....... “A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.” Anton Chekhov
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Thought for the day....... “You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.” Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Thought for the day....... “How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it” Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Thought for the day....... "Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat." Caroline Schoeder
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Thought for the day....... "One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever." Robert Holden, Shift Happens!
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Thought for the day....... “For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.” Stuart Chase
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Thought for the day....... “In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.” John Lilly
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Thought for the day....... “It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... “People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.” Blaise Pascal
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Thought for the day....... “Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices.” Roy T. Bennett
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Thought for the day....... "We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away." Chuang Tzu
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Thought for the day....... "I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which they take for granted -- but his or her entertainment value." Geoffrey Household
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Thought for the day....... “Peace and kindness have their best shot at establishing themselves when we accept our own inadequacy, when limitation and error become aspects of ourselves we can embrace rather than strive to mask.” Henry Shukman, 'The Art of Being Wrong'
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Thought for the day....... “Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.” Flannery O'Connor
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Thought for the day....... "Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Thought for the day....... “To me every hour of the light and the dark is a miracle, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.” Walt Whitman
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Thought for the day....... “If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.” Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... “What you call freedom is still nothing but choosing how to steer straight into the heart of what chooses you.” Kate Gleason
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Thought for the day....... "Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly." Jonathon Livingston Seagull
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Thought for the day....... “Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Thought for the day....... "Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." Raymond Lindquist
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Thought for the day....... “We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.” Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... "Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to that place where you don't have to be anything else." Levis Ad
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Thought for the day....... “When we face the limitations of our power and control, all we can skillfully do is bow to that moment. The conceit of self is challenged and eroded not only by the circumstances of our lives but also by our willingness to meet those circumstances with grace rather than with fear.” Christina Feldman, 'Long Journey to a Bow'
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Thought for the day....... "It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them---the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas." Dostoyevsky
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Thought for the day....... "Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness." Marshall McLuhan
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Thought for the day....... "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition." Henry Mintzberg (Researcher McGill University)
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Thought for the day.......“Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.” Arnold Toynbee (1852-1883)
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Thought for the day....... "True creativity often starts where language ends." Arthur Koestler
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Thought for the day....... “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” Audre Lorde
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Thought for the day....... "Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "The little things? The little moments? The aren't little." Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Thought for the day....... "The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them." George Bernard Shaw
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Thought for the day....... "Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace." Albert Schweitzer
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Thought for the day....... "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Thought for the day....... "When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change... you will change." Anonymous
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Thought for the day....... “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” Richard P. Feynman
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Thought for the day....... "Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure." George Milton
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Thought for the day....... "Ask yourself this question: "Will this matter a year from now?" Richard Carlson PhD
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Thought for the day....... "The sage is one who has first discovered what is common in our hearts." Mencius
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Thought for the day....... “If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.” Orville Wright
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Thought for the day....... “The fool wonders, the wise man asks.” Benjamin Disraeli
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Thought for the day....... "Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point - a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides." Thomas Crum (The Magic of Conflict)
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Thought for the day....... "Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there's always something we could be grateful for." Barry Neil Kaufman
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Thought for the day....... “Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.” Bob Goff, American Diplomat & Author
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4-18-19 Thought for the day....... "Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information." John Erskine
4-19-19 Thought for the day....... "If you have lived, take thankfully the past." John Dryden
4-20-19 Thought for the day....... “Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” Jimmy Carter
Happy Earth Day!!!
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Thought for the day....... "We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." Thornton Wilder
Happy Easter!
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Thought for the day....... "Nothing divides one as much as thought." R. H. Blyth
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Thought for the day....... “The meaning of your life depends on which ideas you permit to use you. Who you think you are determines where you put your attention. Where you direct your attention creates your life experiences, and brings a new course of events into being. Where you habitually put your attention is what you worship. What do you worship in this mindstream called your life?” Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... “Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.” Ram Dass
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Thought for the day....... “Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.” Margaret J. Wheatlley
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Thought for the day....... “Listening means forgetting yourself completely - only then can you listen.” Osho
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Thought for the day....... “Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver." Martin Luther
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Thought for the day....... "In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth." J. Donald Walters
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Thought for the day....... "There is in all visible things...a hidden wholeness." Thomas Merton
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Thought for the day....... "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." Marcel Proust
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Thought for the day....... "The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity." Erich Fromm
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Thought for the day....... "Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information." John Erskine
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Thought for the day....... "The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate." Bern Williams
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Thought for the day....... “'How' is always more important than 'what'. See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Thought for the day....... “Give up defining yourself — to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear." Wayne Dyer
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Thought for the day....... “Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.” Henri Frederic Amiel
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Thought for the day....... “The attachment to beliefs is / The greatest shackle. To be free is / To know that / One does not know.” Wu Hsin
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Thought for the day....... "You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you." Barbara Sher
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Thought for the day....... “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” Eric Fromm
Happy Mother's Day!!!
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Thought for the day....... “When we become more fully aware that our success is due in large measure to the loyalty, helpfulness, and encouragement we have received from others, our desire grows to pass on similar gifts. Gratitude spurs us on to prove ourselves worthy of what others have done for us. The spirit of gratitude is a powerful energizer.” Wilferd A. Peterson
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Thought for the day....... "Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever." Isak Dinesen
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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....... “Thinking and consciousness are not synonymous. Thinking is only a small aspect of consiciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.” Blaise Pascal
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Thought for the day....... “Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.” Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
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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
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Thought for the day....... “Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive." Alexis De Veaux
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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....... "Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk." William Arthur Ward
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Thought for the day....... “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you" Barbara Sher
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Thought for the day....... "Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice." Barack Obama
Memorial Day! Wishing you a day of fond remembrance and a day to remember!
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Thought for the day....... "To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it." Ken Keyes, Jr.
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Thought for the day....... "The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions." Anthony Jay
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Thought for the day....... "The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness. This world is not perfect. There are problems. But things like happiness and unhappiness are relative. Realizing this gives you hope." H. H. The Dalai Lama
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Thought for the day....... “A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren’t quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.” Criss Jami
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Thought for the day....... "Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things." Bruce Barton
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Thought for the day....... "Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!" George Bernard Shaw
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Thought for the day....... “Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?” Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... “The only way to make sense of change is to plunge into it and join the dance.” Alan Watts
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Thought for the day....... "Understanding the diversity of our gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other." Max DePree
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Thought for the day....... “Your mind constantly seeks proof that will confirm your beliefs. If you have negative beliefs, your mind will seek to prove those negative thoughts. If you have positive beliefs, your minds will seek to prove those positive thoughts. Therefore, it is important to be mindful of our beliefs.” Akiroq Brost
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Thought for the day......“The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story that the mind has managed to construct.” Daniel Kahneman
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Thought for the day....... “Our misbeliefs often make it impossible for us to realize, and/or to accept, some facts.” Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Thought for the day....... "Everything in life can be nourishing. Everything can bless us, but we've got to be there for the blessing to occur. Being present with quality is a decision we are invited to make each day." MacRina Wiederkehr
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Thought for the day....... “Objects appear in awareness. These objects include experiences, states, feelings, paths, practices, and concepts. Awareness is not any of those objects. You can never find awareness because 'you' are a mental object in awareness.” Scott Kiloby
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Thought for the day....... "Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is." Thomas Szasz
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Thought for the day....... "Obsession with one's wealth is no more a stumbling block than obsession with one's poverty, or health, or relationships. Obsession with anything keeps us from the One Thing." Anthony de Mello, S.J.
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Thought for the day....... "The best attitude is to be very grateful and thankful and constantly generous. What can I give, not what can I get. Just let the lightness of the moment be what it is." Bhagavan Das
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Thought for the day....... "Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting." William Arthur Ward
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Thought for the day....... “Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes.” Surgeo Bell
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Thought for the day....... "There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it." George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
Happy Fathers Day!!!
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Thought for the day....... "The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it." Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
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Thought for the day....... "People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly." Brendan Francis
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Thought for the day....... "Wilderness.... is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium." Sigurd Olson, conservationist
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Thought for the day....... "Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever." Isak Dinesen
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Thought for the day....... "Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence." Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... "People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." Ramona L. Anderson
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Thought for the day....... "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day........ "Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition." Plotinus
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Thought for the day....... "Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." Dr. Joyce Brothers
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Thought for the day....... "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." Albert Gyorgyi
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Thought for the day....... "We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is." Serge Kahili King
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Thought for the day....... "The roads are different, but the goal is one. When people reach the goal, all those who yelled at each other along the road, 'You are wrong!' or 'You are a blasphemer!' forget all possible differences. There, all hearts sing in unison." Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different." Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
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Thought for the day....... "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough." Frank Crane
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Thought for the day....... “You have forgotten the One who doesn’t care about ownership, who doesn’t try to turn a profit from every human exchange.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “I believe that when things are a mess, we need others to know what we are thinking, feeling, or doing. We must share our feelings with people who will not reprimand us for our thoughts. We need to share these feelings with someone who will encourage us to move forward.” David DeNotaris (Words of Encouragement)
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Thought for the day....... "Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day...... “Liberty is the breath of life to nations.” George Bernard Shaw
Happy Fourth of July!!!!
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Thought for the day...... “Liberty is the breath of life to nations.” George Bernard Shaw
Happy Fourth of July!!!!
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Thought for the day....... "It takes a rare person to want to hear what he doesn't want to hear." Dick Cavett
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Thought for the day....... "To imagine that turmoil is in the past and somehow we are now in a more stable time seems to be a psychological need." E. Moores (Geologist)
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Thought for the day....... "There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations." Washington Irving
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Thought for the day....... "My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view." H. Fred Ale
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Thought for the day....... "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King
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Thought for the day....... "Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator." Wendell Phillips (1811-1884)
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Thought for the day........ "To make room for silence is difficult, like letting a fire go out in the dark when we fear the dark." Barbara Jordan
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Thought for the day....... “When we become more fully aware that our success is due in large measure to the loyalty, helpfulness, and encouragement we have received from others, our desire grows to pass on similar gifts. Gratitude spurs us on to prove ourselves worthy of what others have done for us. The spirit of gratitude is a powerful energizer.” Wilferd A. Peterson
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Thought for the day....... "We are the environment." Charles Panati
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Thought for the day....... "Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life." Joseph Campbell
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Thought for the day....... "The Emptiness of mind is the ocean; the luminosity of mind is the sunlit ocean; and the unimpeded dynamic quality of mind is the waves of the sunlit ocean." Kalu Rinpoche
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Thought for the day....... “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." Bertrand Russell
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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....... "After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
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Thought for the day....... “Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.” Anna Deavere Smith
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Thought for the day....... “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” Leo Burnett
I'll be off the ghrid for a few days....'see' you when I get back!
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Thought for the day....... "A friend's eye is a good mirror." Irish Proverb
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Thought for the day....... “We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.” Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... "Once we notice the preconceptions that we are carrying around with us, then it is possible for us to let them go and say, "Well, maybe so, maybe not". Suzuki Roshi once said, "The essence of Zen is 'Not always so'". Not always so. It’s a good little phrase to carry around when you’re sure. It gives you an opportunity to look again more carefully and see what other possibilities there might be in the situation." Zenkei Blanche Hartman from "The Zen of Not Knowing"
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Thought for the day....... "So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.” Hermann Hesse
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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....... "Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy... Why not choose joy?... Why not live in joy?" Leo Buscaglia
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Thought for the day....... "Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you." Doctor Suess
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Thought for the day....... “What we are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.” Alan Watts
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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....... "To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler -- and less trouble." Mark Twain
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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
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Thought for the day....... "The ancestor of every action is thought." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds." Michael Dorris
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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....... “It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.” Rollo May
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Thought for the day....... “There's no organ system in the body that's not affected by sound, music and vibration. You can look at disease as a form of disharmony.” Mitchell Gayner
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Thought for the day....... “The body always leads us home . . . if we can simply learn to trust sensation and stay with it long enough for it to reveal appropriate action, movement, insight, or feeling.” Pat Ogden
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Thought for the day....... "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." C. S. Lewis
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Thought for the day....... “Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.” Carl G. Jung
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Thought for the day....... “Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies . . . our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.” Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... “My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.” Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... “Great ideas originate in the muscles.” Thomas Edison
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Thought for the day....... “There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.” Wendell Berry
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Thought for the day....... “The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope.” Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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Thought for the day....... “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” Anatole France
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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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Thought for the day....... "Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love....Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy." Randolph Ray
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Thought for the day....... “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” Benjamin Disraeli
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Thought for the day....... "Unity is not something that we are called to create; it's something we are called to recognize." William Sloan Coffin
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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....... "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....... "If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down." Eckart Tolle
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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......... "You can't tell when this will happen. Usually we act as if we are autonomous, independent beings. But occasionally - at a waterfall, on a walk, hugging someone we love - we glimpse a trace of infinity. Something inside us remembers the oneness." Daniel C. Matt
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Thought for the day....... "It is impossible to be present if you're trapped in personal history. And what, after all, is the difference between the past and a dream?" Ram Dass
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Thought for the day....... "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original" Sir Ken Robinson
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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
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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....... "Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties." Sara Ban Breathnach
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Thought for the day....... "A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving." Albert Einstein Have a wonderful Labor Day!!!
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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....... "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
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Thought for the day....... "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent." John Donne (Devotions – 1624)
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Thought for the day....... "Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things." Zen Master Dogen
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Thought for the day....... “The beliefs that more technology is always better, that every problem must have a technological solution, and that technology always solves more problems than it creates, are among the prevailing superstitions of our time.” John Michael Greer
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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....... "However degraded or wretched a fellow mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species." Seneca
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Thought for the day....... "If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself." Charles Shultz
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Good Morning!!!! So glad to be back!
9-11-19 Thought for the day....... "The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to oneself." Nietzsche
9-12-19 Thought for the day....... "To bring this contemplation alive, imagine swimming in the ocean. Can you recall the experience of attempting to just float on the surface? As we relax and trust, we sense that the water will support us; we don't have to hold ourselves up. Faith feels like that. We trust in it by surrendering to it and allowing it to carry us." Ajahn Munindo
9-13-19 Thought for the day....... "It does not require many words to speak the truth." Chief Joseph (1840-1904)
9-14-19 Thought for the day....... "Your resistance to change is likely to reach its peak when significant change is imminent." George Leonard
9-15-19 Thought for the day....... "Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer." Harriet Rochli
9-16-19 Thought for the day....... “Celebrate your journey of life.” Lailah Gifty Akita
9-17-19 Thought for the day....... "An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather." Washington Irving
9-18-19 Thought for the day....... "And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Anais Nin
9-19-19 Thought for the day....... "Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your drea
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Thought for the day....... "With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity." Keshavan Nair
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Thought for the day....... "You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes." Winnie The Pooh
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Thought for the day....... "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." Reinhold Niebuhr
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Thought for the day....... "Improvisers don't look at change as an obstacle; we look at it as fuel. We know that the next great idea lies just on the other side of change. We are constantly asking ourselves, 'What can I do to incite change?' Well?" John Sweeney (Speaker, trainer and author of 'Innovation at the Speed of Laughter')
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Thought for the day....... "I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." Pablo Picasso
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Thought for the day....... "Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains." Helen Gahagan Douglas
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Thought for the day....... "Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." Mark Twain
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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
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Thought for the day....... "The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you. They are unique manifestations of the human spirit." Wade Davis
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Thought for the day....... "It's not denial. I'm just very selective about what I accept as reality." Calvin
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Thought for the day....... “Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken new possibilities for balance, healing, and transformation.” David Simon
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Thought for the day....... "Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a moustache. You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, it will come looking for you." Ajahn Chah
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Thought for the day....... "Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits." Winnie the Pooh
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Thought for the day....... "When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge." Tuli Kupferberg
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Thought for the day....... "We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness." Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thought for the day....... "The more zigzag the way, the deeper the scenery. The winding path approaches the secluded and peaceful place." Huang Binhong
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Thought for the day....... "This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess." Rainer Maria Rilke
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Thought for the day....... "To love means never to be afraid of the windstorms of life; should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the beauty of the carvings." Elizabeth Kubler Ross
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Thought for the day....... "We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are." Tobias Wolff
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Thought for the day....... "The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem." Theodore Rubin
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Thought for the day....... "A man never speaks of himself without losing thereby. His self-accusations are always believed; his self-praise disbelieved." Michel de Montague
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Thought for the day....... ”Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.” Niels Bohr
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Thought for the day....... "Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is." Thomas Azasz
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Thought for the day....... "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'' Winston Churchill
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Thought for the day....... "Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day." Barbara Sher
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Thought for the day....... "When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightning cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your very own limitless Being, waving back at you?" Ken Wilbur
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Thought for the day....... "Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware if its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm." Donella A Meadows, The Global Citizen
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Thought for the day....... "The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react." George Bernard Shaw
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Thought for the day....... "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation." Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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Thought for the day....... “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wise people so full of doubts.” Bertrand Russell
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Thought for the day....... "Science isn't about knowing the mind of God; it's about understanding nature and the reasons for things. The thrill is that our ignorance exceeds our knowledge." Professor Eric Cornell (Nobel Prize winner in physics)
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Thought for the day....... "Every now and then take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom, and patience, and solace, and above all the assurance that you are not alone in the world.'' Sidney Lovett
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Thought for the day....... "If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated." Wilfred Trotter
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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....... “What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.” Anthony de Mello
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Thought for the day....... "The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colors which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts." James Edward Allen
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10-27-19 Thought for the day....... "Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a permanent attitude." Martin Luther King
10-28-19 Thought for the day....... "There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." Robert Louis Stevenson
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Thought for the day....... “I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.” Igor Stravinsky
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Thought for the day....... “If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a wonderful tool that keeps realigning me with my higher purpose for living.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween.” Unknown
Bugs and Hisses to you!!! Happy Halloween!!!
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Thought for the day....... "Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Thought for the day....... “It's all in the mind.” George Harrison
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Thought for the day....... "Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands." Seneca
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Thought for the day....... “Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.” Erich Fromm
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Thought for the day....... "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." William James
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Thought for the day....... "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Thought for the day....... "We ain't what we want to be, and we ain't what we gonna' be, but we ain't what we wuz." Carolina Mountain Proverb
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Thought for the day....... “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.” Sylvia Plath (Mad Girl's Love Song)
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Thought for the day....... "Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty." John Finley
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Thought for the day....... “The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.” Janna Levin
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Thought for the day....... "Knowledge is not what you can remember, but what you cannot forget." Anonymous
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Thought for the day....... "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts." Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... "It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." Alan Cohen
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Thought for the day....lightfoot demonstrates amazing persistence here!
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Thought for the day....... “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” William Blake
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Thanks, Robin!
I have been sharing the Thought for the day....... for 20 years. I started with e-mail and have continued that.
I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I enjoy collecting and sharing the quotes.
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Thought for the day....... "The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches, but to reveal theirs." Jesse Fair
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Thought for the day....... "Change is the nursery of music, joy, life and Eternity." John Donne
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Thought for the day....... "If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen." Henry David Thoreau
Happy Sunday!!
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Thought for the day....... “When you're interested, you'll do whatever is convenient. When you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes.” John Assaraf
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Thought for the day....... “The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.” Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thought for the day....... "Even the thought of giving, the thought of blessing or a simple prayer has the power to affect others." Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... "A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it." Austin O'Malley (American physicist)
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Thought for the day....... “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T.S Eliot
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Thought for the day....... "The peace which is the most important is that which comes to the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe." Black Elk
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Thought for the day....... "In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart." John Bunyan
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Thought for the day....... “There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.” Joseph Addison
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Thought for the day....... “Praise the bridge that carried you over.” George Colman
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11-27-19 Thought for the day....... “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”G.K. Chesterton
11-28-19 Thought for the day....... "When we count our many blessings; it isn't hard to see that life's most valued treasures are the treasures that are free. For it isn't what we own or buy that signifies our wealth. It's the special gifts that have no price; our family, friends and health." Author Unknown
Happy Thanksgiving!! Wherever you are and whomever you gather with today, I wish you and yours a harvest of blessings, good health and good times.
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Thought for the day...... “Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.” Erma Bombeck
Happy Black Friday!!! Could be that the internet has changed everything!!
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Thought for the day....... "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." Louis B. Smedes
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Thought for the day....... “Tis the great art of life to manage well / The restless mind.” John Armstrong (1709–1779), The Art of Preserving Health, 1744 [Armstrong, a physician, was known as 'The Poet of Health.'
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Thought for the day....... “Passion can transform the mind, body and spirit...Passion can align you with the wisdom of nature and the power of what is in your heart.” JoLynne Valerie
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Thought for the day....... "The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind." David Hume (1711-1776)
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Thought for the day....... “It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.” Carl Jung
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Thought for the day....... "If your motive is good, a farting donkey won't harm you." Omani Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains." Marvin J. Ashton (1915-1994)
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Thought for the day....... "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant." Horace 65-68 B.C.
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Thought for the day....... "Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished." Nelson Mandela (From Long Walk to Freedom, 1995)
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Thought for the day....... “Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.'' Edwin Markham
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Thought for the day....... "Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it." Wallace Stegner
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Thought for the day....... "Solitude is not found so much by looking outside the boundaries of your dwelling as by staying within them. Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present; and unless you look for it in the present, you will never find it." Thomas Merton
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Thought for the day……. “Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “Sometimes the littlest inquiries produce the biggest results.” Terri Guillemets
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Thought for the day....... "A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a single Whole. You can call this web God, the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Infinite Mystery, Mother or Father, but it can be known only as love." Joan Borysenko
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Thought for the day....... "Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial." Richard Ben Sapir
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Thought for the day....... "Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another." George Eliot
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Thought for the day....... “The greatest obstacle to a Joyful Life is your "story" about your life. Your story is filled with perceived needs and obligations.” Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thought for the day....... "To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." Crowfoot, Blackfoot Warrior & Orator
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Thought for the day....... “Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with truth.” Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thought for the day....... "Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise." Cato the Elder (Roman Censor 234-149 B.C.)
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Thought for the day....... "Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness." Marshall McLuhan
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Thought for the day....... “Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.” Author-Poet Aberjhani
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Thought for the day....... “Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” Washington Irving
Merry Christmas
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Thought for the day....... “The whole worth of a kind deed is in the love that inspires it.” The Talmud
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Thought for the day....... “To invest one’s identity and security in something that appears, moves, changes and disappears is the cause of unhappiness.” Rupert Spira
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Thought for the day....... “Amidst the worldly comings and goings, observe how endings become beginnings.” Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... “People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” George Bernard Shaw
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Thought for the day....... "We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven." Martha Kilpatrick
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Thought for the day....... “There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.” G. K. Chesterton
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1-1-2020 Thought for the day....... “If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” Paulo Coehlo
Happy New Year!!
1-2-2020 Thought for the day....... “And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” Meister Eckhart
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Thought for the day....... “Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.” John Fletcher
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1-4-2020 Thought for the day....... “I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.” Nick Frederickson
1-5-2020 Thought for the day....... "Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time-just like it does for you and me." Sara Paddison
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Thought for the day....... “When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.” Gary Snyder (Earth House Hold)
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Thought for the day....... "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Socrates
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Thought for the day....... “Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.” Kahlil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... “Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by traveling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.” Samuel Smile
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Thought for the day....... “What we do comes out of who we believe we are.” Rob Bell
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Thought for the day....... “Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.” Thomas Moore
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Thought for the day....... “”Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.” Gerald Brenan
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Thought for the day....... “Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “Just as there is no time but the present and nothing but All and Everything, there is never really anything to get, though the zest of the game is to pretend there is.” Alan Watts
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Thought for the day....... “Stop looking from your cloud of hazy thoughts. Looking from that vantage point is pure folly. Look from behind that cloud of thinking. There it is always clear.” Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... “If we want something new in our lives, we need to open ourselves up to possibilities — fly out of the cage of conditioning and experiences. We don’t have to be a continuation of our past or define what is next by what has come before. We can choose to make a brand new start.” Lisa Guyman
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Thought for the day....... "Living in harmony with all beings is flexibility. It is a kind of cosmic democracy. Each of us has a role in the situation and gets one vote. You cast your vote by being here like a great unmoving mountain. Please cast your vote completely: that is your job. Then listen to all other beings, especially foreigners, especially strangers, and especially enemies.” Reb Anderson (In it Together)
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Thought for the day....... “Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.” Hermann Hesse
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Thought for the day....... “In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.” Ram Dass
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Thought for the day....... “When one is completely emancipated from what he has built around himself, what is left is his pure nature. A person can then spontaneously release his pure energy in daily life, so that his very essence is connected with the entire universe. He is thus regarded as a person of truth.” Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... “Mass, energy, space, and time as they are conceived by the human mind have no existence apart from our conceptual awareness of them no more than our dreams at night. All appearances exist only relative to the mind that experiences them, and all mental states arise relative to experienced phenomena. We are living in a participatory universe, with no absolute subjects or objects.” Alan Wallace, Awakening to the Dream
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Thought for the day....... “If you use your mind to study reality, you will understand neither reality nor the mind. If you study reality without using your mind, you will understand both.” Bodhidarma
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Thought for the day....... "All suffering is caused either by an attachment to a positive outcome or an avoidance of a negative one." Jafree Oswald
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Thought for the day....... “I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.” Richard P. Feynman
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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....... "Paths and movements cannot transport you into Reality, because their function is to enmesh you within the dimensions of knowledge, while the Reality prevails prior to it." Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Thought for the day....... "Spirituality is seeded, germinates, spouts and blossoms in the mundane. It is to be found and nurtured in the smallest of daily activities." Thomas Moore
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Thought for the day....... "There are two core fears: losing what you have, and not getting what you want. There is one solution: Falling in love with where you are..." Jeff Foster
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Thought for the day....... “As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.” Ram Dass
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Thought for the day....... "When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free." Catherine Ponder
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Thought for the day....... "The whole problem with the world, is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell
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Thought for the day....... “Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.” M. Scott Peck
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Thought for the day....... “The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "Sometimes when I get up in the morning, I feel very peculiar. I feel like I've just got to bite a cat! I feel like if I don't bite a cat before sundown, I'll go crazy! But then I just take a deep breath and forget about it. That's what is known as real maturity." Snoopy
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Thought for the day....... “We do not ‘come into’ this world. We come out of it as leaves from a tree. As the ocean ‘waves,’ the universe ‘peoples.’” Alan Watts
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Thought for the day....... “If we should be so lucky as to touch the lives of many, so be it. But if our lot is no more than the setting of a table, or the tending of a garden, or showing a child a path in a wood, our lives are no less worthy.” Kent Nerburn
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Thought for the day....... "Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting." William Arthur Ward
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Thought for the day....... "Any perception can connect us to reality properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything." Chogyam Trungpa
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Thought for the day....... "Whatever you are not changing, you are choosing." Laurie Buchanan
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Thought for the day....... “Our minds have a belief system filter that rejects or ridicules information that is inconsistent with our beliefs.” Rajesh` (Random Cosmos)
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Thought for the day....... “Gratitude can transform common days into Thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” William Arthur Ward
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Thought for the day....... “What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.” Henry Miller
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Thought for the day....... “I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.” Margaret Mead
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Thought for the day....... “Happiness is a function of accepting what is.” Werner Erhard
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Thought for the day....... "Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” Madame de Stael
Happy Valentines Day!!!
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Thought for the day....... “What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.” Anthony Robbins
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Thought for the day....... "Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way." Louis L'Amour
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Thought for the day....... “We grow stronger and freer with every hope, every belief, we discard.” Marty Rubin
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Thought for the day....... “When we see images of the earth from space, we see no boundaries between us, just this one blue planet, where climate change affects us all, where the global economy brings us all together. In the past, Tibet, surrounded by mountains, cherished its isolation. But, such isolation is outdated. Today, we need to take account of the well-being of the whole of humanity and preserving the health of the planet.” Dalia Lama
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Thought for the day....... “Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.” Ramana Maharshi
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Thought for the day....... “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” Charles F. Kettering
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Thought for the day....... "What wisdom is acquired during the course of a life is a result of the mind's tenderness toward the heart." James Cowan
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Thought for the day....... "Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted." George Knelle
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Thought for the day: gratitude to you for giving us some wise thinkings to consider! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.” Seneca
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Thought for the day....... "You can't choose up sides on a round world." Wayne Dyer
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Thought for the day....... “Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning,that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.” Henri Nouwen
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Thought for the day....... “Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.” Rollo May
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Thought for the day....... "Release the need to be upset with others. Remember that anytime you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate." Wayne Dyer
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Thanks, Robin!! So glad you are finding use, fun and contempation in the mind muffins!
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Thought for the day....... "For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as though there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart." Eugene Ionesco
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Thought for the day....... “The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.” William Booth
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Thought for the day....... “The intellect can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.” Immanuel Kant
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Thought for the day....... “Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” John F. Kennedy
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Thought for the day....... “When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.” Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... “Liberation is the aliveness and immediacy beyond belief. Liberation is when all the answers, explanations and positions disappear, and what remains is the open mind of not knowing.” Joan Tollifson
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Thought for the day....... “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” Dale Carnegie
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Thought for the day....... “Tears are words that need to be written.” Paulo Coelho
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Thought for the day....... “We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.” Angeles Arrien, The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom
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Thought for the day....... “Acceptance is another key to letting go. If you can learn to willingly receive whatever flows through your life, you can learn to let it go as well.” Susan Carrell, Escaping Toxic Guilt
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Thought for the day....... “We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.” Tami Hoag
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Thought for the day....... “No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.” Paulo Coelho
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Thought for the day....... “The body always leads us home . . . if we can simply learn to trust sensation and stay with it long enough for it to reveal appropriate action, movement, insight, or feeling.” Pat Ogden
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Thought for the day....... “It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.” Rollo May
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Thought for the day....... “Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles.” Moshe Feldenkrais
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Thought for the day....... “Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true.” Harriet Goldhor Lerner
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Thought for the day....... “Trying out new ways of using your body in handling various situations breaks you free from old ways of thinking and being.” Mirka Knaster
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Thought for the day....... “The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.” Claude Lévi-Strauss
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Thought for the day....... “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Marie Curie
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Thought for the day....... “[Science] teaches the value of rational thought as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that the lessons are all true.” Richard Feynman
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Thought for the day....... “However disorienting, difficult, or humbling our mistakes might be, it is ultimately wrongness, not rightness, that can teach us who we are.” Kathryn Schulz
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Thought for the day....... "Every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love." John Muir
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Thought for the day....... "Contemplation is a sudden gift of awareness, an awakening to the Real within all that is real. A vivid awareness of infinite Being at the roots of our own limited being. An awareness of our contingent reality as received, as a present from God, as a free gift of love." Thomas Merton
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Thought for the day....... “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” Joseph Addison
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Thought for the day....... “Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.” Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Thought for the day....... "Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind; What the weak head with strongest bias rules,-- Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools." Alexander Pope (1668-1744)
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Thought for the day....... “Compassion is the basis of all morality.” Arthur Schopenhauer
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Thought for the day....... "Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them." Marilyn Ferguson
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Thought for the day....... "Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World." Black Elk
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Thought for the day......... "You can't tell when this will happen. Usually we act as if we are autonomous, independent beings. But occasionally - at a waterfall, on a walk, hugging someone we love - we glimpse a trace of infinity. Something inside us remembers the oneness." Daniel C. Matt
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Thought for the day....... “Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.” Dalai Lama
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Thought for the day....... "When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence." Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou
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Thought for the day....... “The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “There are in life a few moments so beautiful, that even words are a sort of profanity.” Diana Palmer
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Thought for the day....... “Sometimes, it’s not the times you decide to fight, but the times you decide to surrender, that makes all the difference.” Sissy Gavrilaki
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Thought for the day....... "Eternity is not something that happens after you are dead. It's going on all the time. We're in it now." Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Thought for the day....... “The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.” Ram Dass
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Thought for the day....... “When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” Peace Pilgrim
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Thought for the day....... “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw
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Thought for the day....... “Our inner lives are every bit as astonishing, baffling, and mysterious as the infinite vastness of the cosmos.” Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... “Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awareness. Instead of a belief system, awareness sees through all beliefs.” Joan Tollifson
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Thought for the day....... “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” Brene Brown
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Thought for the day....... “Spring is the season of restoration of all living things.” Lailah Gifty Akita
Happy Spring, Happy Easter, Happy Restoration!!!
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4-13-2020 Thought for the day....... “Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.” Sean O'Casey
4-14-2020 Thought for the day....... "Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point - a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides." Thomas Crum (The Magic of Conflict)
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Thought for the day....... "Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there's always something we could be grateful for." Barry Neil Kaufman
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Thought for the day....... “You're not who you think you are.” Ram Dass
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Thought for the day....... “The 'I' in 'I think' and 'I do' is as real as the 'it' in 'it rains' and 'it is cold'.” Leo Hartong
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Thought for the day....... “The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.” Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” Mahatma Gandhi
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Thought for the day……. ”True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything." Paul Pearsall
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Thought for the day....... “We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.” Jane Goodall
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Thought for the day....... “Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery in nature. And it is because in the last analysis we ourselves are part of the mystery we try to solve.” Max Planck
Happy Earth Day!!
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Thought for the day....... "Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence." Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... “There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the undercurrents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.” John Hay (1916-2011) - The Immortal Wilderness
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Thought for the day....... “Realize that resting in your true nature does not have to do with having a still mind or not experiencing the desires and interests of the body and mind.” John Wheeler
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Thought for the day....... “Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say.” Wynn Bullock
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Thought for the day....... “Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.” William James
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Thought for the day....... “This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.” John Muir
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Thought for the day....... “If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.” Ram Dass
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Thought for the day....... “Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender.” Marianne Williamson
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Thought for the day....... “All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.” Enza Vita
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Thought for the day....... "As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. ” Adabella Radici
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Thought for the day....... “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “True freedom is when all the stories, all the insights, all the realizations, concepts, beliefs and positions dissolve. What remains is what you are; a vast, conscious, luminous space simply resting in itself, not knowing a thing, at the point where all things are possible.” Enza Vita
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Thought for the day....... “If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.” Patrick Rothfuss
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Thought for the day....... “My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.” Aristotle
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Thought for the day....... “Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelled, felt or thought,expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear.” Nisargadatta
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Thought for the day....... “Nature will always wear the colors of spirit.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "One has to go beyond the pairs of opposites to find the real source. Beyond the world of opposites is an unseen, but experienced, unity and identity in us all.'' Joseph Campbell
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Thought for the day....... “Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.” Harriette Hartigan
Happy Mothers Day to all my family and friends, far and near!!!! Wishing each of you a joyful day with a quiet heart!!
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Thought for the day....... “Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumines his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.” Alfred Billings Street
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Thought for the day....... “Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumines his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.” Alfred Billings Street
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Thought for the day....... "Flowers help us release, renew and rejoice.They remind us of who we really are and let us return to our state of beauty and freedom." Darina Stoyanova
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Thought for the day....... "Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm." Robert Louis Stevenson
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Thought for the day....... "To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." Kahlil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... “One by one she slew her fears, and then planted a flower garden over their graves.” John Mark Green
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Thought for the day....... “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions” Rainer Maria Rilke
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Thought for the day....... “If there is any wisdom running through my life now, in my walking on this earth, it came from listening in the Great Silence to the stones, trees, space, the wild animals, to the pulse of all life as my heartbeat.” Vijali Hamilton
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Thought for the day....... "In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place." Susan Taylor
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Thought for the day....... "The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them." Thomas Merton
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Thought for the day....... "Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly." St. Francis de Sales
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Thought for the day....... "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt." Frederick Buechner
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Thought for the day....... “There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom, the mother of us all, "natura naturans." There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness, and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being.” Thomas Merton
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Thought for the day....... “When you lose interest in spiritual pipe dreams, your craving for a pain-free life will weaken. Then your attention will remain where it belongs – not in some fanciful trouble-free future, but in this moment, which is the only moment one ever has, the only moment one must deal with, and the only moment one can actually deal with. Seeing that simplifies matters considerably, I find. The wise among us enjoy and suffer a fully human experience with an equanimity they are powerless to explain, albeit countless ones have tried.” Robert Saltzman
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Thought for the day....... “Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.” Daniel Webster
May this Memorial Day be meaningful and significant to you!!!!
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5-26-2020 Thought for the day....... “There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.” Elizabeth A. Behnke
5-27-2020 Thought for the day....... “The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.” Richard Bandler
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Thought for the day....... “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.” Ruth Stout
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Thought for the day....... “Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.” W. Somerset Maugham
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Thought for the day....... "To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive." Alexis De Veaux
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Thought for the day....... “Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.” Robert Frost, American Poet
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Thought for the day....... “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test his character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln
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Thought for the day....... “Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval.” Lama Surya Das
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Thought for the day....... “We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves…” Vauvenargues
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Thought for the day....... “Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise.” Tao Te Ching
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Thought for the day....... “Giving of any kind... taking an action... begins the process of change, and moves us to remember that we are part of a much greater universe.” Mbali Creazzo
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Thought for the day....... “Remembering who you really are stops you living in suspense, longing for your next holiday, tired of life and waiting for retirement, and makes every day a holiday – a holy day. Which it always was, of course.” Jeff Foster
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Thought for the day....... The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice." Brian Herbert
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Thought for the day....... "I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought to know all along, and that is what binds us here on earth - all the diverse peoples here- is really much more profound than what seems to separate us." Richard Berendzen (American University Professor, 8-96)
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Thought for the day....... “Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.” Hermann Hesse (1877 – 1962)
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Thought for the day....... "Enjoy the little things and the big things will take care of themselves." Garfield
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Thought for the day....... “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awareness. Instead of a belief system, awareness sees through all beliefs.” Joan Tollifson
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Thought for the day....... “Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.” Luther Burbank
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Thought for the day....... “Cherry trees are in full bloom for two weeks at the most. The perfect, delicate flowers have come to represent the essence of life itself - shockingly beautiful and heartbreakingly fleeting.” Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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Thought for the day....... “Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.” May Sarton
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Thought for the day....... “The daisies remind you to be happy. The hydrangeas remind you to be colorful. The lilacs remind us to breath deeply. The pansies reflect our own images back at us. The hollyhocks remind us to stand tall in this world. And the roses - oh, the roses! - they remind us that beauty is always present even amongst the thorns.” Viola Shipman, The Heirloom Garden
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Thought for the day........ “The heart is like a flower. Unless it is open, it cannot release its fragrance into the world.” Rajineesh
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Thought for the day....... “It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.” Anne Sexton
Happy Father's Day!! Wishing you all the best of days!!!
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Thought for the day....... “You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.” Oscar de la Renta
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Thought for the day....... “The love of flowers is a consequence of modesty and an accommodation with disappointment. Some things need to go permanently wrong before we can start to admire the stem of a rose or the petals of a bluebell.” Alain de Botton, The Course of Love
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Thought for the day....... “Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” John Harrigan
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Thought for the day....... "It is impossible to be present if you're trapped in personal history. And what, after all, is the difference between the past and a dream?" Ram Dass
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Thought for the day....... "When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time." Francis de Sales
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Thought for the day....... "Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Thought for the day....... “All the power of the universe is with you. Feel it, know it, and then act as though it were true.” Ernest Holmes
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Thought for the day....... “Find the good and praise it.” Alex Haley
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Thought for the day....... "Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” Mayo Angelou
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Thought for the day....... “You have forgotten the One who doesn’t care about ownership, who doesn’t try to turn a profit from every human exchange.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "The great metaphors from all spiritual traditions - grace, liberation, being born again, awakening from illusion - testify that it is possible to transcend the conditioning of my past and do a new thing." Sam Keen
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Thought for the day....... “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." Harry S. Truman
Wishing you a Safe and Happy Fourth of July!!!
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Thought for the day....... "Science isn't the sum of what scientists think. Had science operated by majority consensus we would still be stuck in the Middle Ages and Einstein would have ended as he started, a patent clerk with fruitless side hobbies." Nassim Taleb
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Thought for the day....... “Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?” Chuang-tzu
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Thought for the day....... “Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.” Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Thought for the day....... “I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.” Hermann Hesse
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Thought for the day....... “The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.” Chuang-tzu
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Thought for the day....... "There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations." Washington Irving
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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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Thought for the day....... "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." Bertrand Russell
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Thought for the day....... “In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Favorite Poems
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Thought for the day....... “When you realize that no one really knows what they are doing and that everyone is doing the best they can according to their own level of consciousness, life gets a lot easier.” Bruno Cavaleiro
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Thought for the day....... “Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.” Nelson DeMille
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Thought for the day....... “Relationships become claustrophobic if they keep you in a state of personal identification. When they serve to reflect your universality, they are a mirror, a tool of liberation.” Mooji
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Thought for the day....... “Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.” Ken Wilber
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Thought for the day....... "Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you've ever imagined." Dr. Seuss
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Thought for the day....... “Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.” Charles Cook
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Thought for the day....... “Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.” Teilhard de Chardin
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Thought for the day....... "Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you." Maya Lin
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Thought for the day....... “Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.” Calvin (Calvin & Hobbs)
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Thought for the day....... “The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day." Calvin
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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)
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Thought for the day....... “Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.” Alice M. Swaim
I will be off the grid for the next week. I look forward to connecting again when I return.
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Thought for the day....... “Love stays open, even when things seem closed. Love is possibility.” Jeff Foster
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Thought for the day....... “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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Thought for the day....... “A person who owns nothing—or, more precisely, who desires to own nothing, and regards nothing as a personal possession—in spirit owns everything. He can look at a beautiful valley, regardless of who the legal owner is, and rejoice in its beauty.” John Chrysostom
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Thought for the day....... "A garden is like the self. It has so many layers and winding paths, real or imagined, that it can never be known, completely, even by the most intimate of friends." Ann Raver
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Thought for the day....... "When we love unconditionally, with our hearts wide open, we feel joyfulness." Arnold Patent
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Thought for the day....... “This one question — ‘What do I know for certain?’ is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it’s meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions — things you believe because you were taught or told that they were true. Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.” Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.” Thomas Merton
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Thought for the day....... “To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.” Confucius
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Thought for the day....... “We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.” Francis J. Braceland
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Thought for the day....... “The observation that conflict is part of the human condition, banal though it is, contradicts fashionable beliefs.” Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
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Thought for the day....... “Time and space are not conditions in which we live, but modes by which we think.” Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... “Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search...” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "I use to think that if I focused on learning the doing would just happen, now I know that if I focus on doing, the learning will just happen." Eric Jorgenson
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Thought for the day....... "There is as much wisdom in soliciting good counsel as in giving it. The most sensible people are not reluctant to consider the feelings of other people; and to know how to submit to the wise guidance of others is a kind of wisdom in itself." Magdeleine Sable (French patroness of letters)
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Thought for the day....... “The world exists only when we think about it; creation stories are for children. In reality the world is created every moment.” Jean Klein
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Thought for the day....... “Our normal sensation of self is a hoax, or, at best, a temporary role that we are playing, or have been conned into playing — with our own tacit consent, just as every hypnotized person is basically willing to be hypnotized. The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.” Alan Watts
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Thought for the day....... "The ancestor of every action is thought." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view." H. Fred Ale
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Thought for the day....... "The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you. They are unique manifestations of the human spirit." Wade Davis
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Thought for the day....... "The meaning of your life depends on which ideas you permit to use you. Who you think you are determines where you put your attention. Where you direct your attention creates your life experiences, and brings a new course of events into being. Where you habitually put your attention is what you worship. What do you worship in this mindstream called your life?" Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... “The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.” Ram Dass
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Thought for the day....... “But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.” Keith Ablow
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Thought for the day....... “All the ups and downs and gettings and losings are only dust devils spinning in empty space. There is no event, no moment, no wonderful “ John Wheeler (Shining in Plain View)
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Thought for the day....... “It’s only the ego that wants to surrender the ego; the real meaning of surrender does not involve anything external. It means to surrender to your true nature.” Enza Vita
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Thought for the day....... “The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.” Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
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Thought for the day....... “It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.” George Harrison
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Thought for the day....... “There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Thought for the day....... “Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.” Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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Thought for the day....... “Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.” Brené Brown
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Thought for the day....... “As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.” Anthony de Mello
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Thought for the day....... “A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.” Alan Wilson Watts
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9-4-2020 Thought for the day....... “Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today.” Roy T. Bennett
9-5-2020 Thought for the day....... “When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.” Donna Quesada, Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire
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Thought for the day....... “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.” David Richo
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Thought for the day....... “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” Thomas Edison
Enjoy the holiday!! Happy Labor Day!!!
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Thought for the day....... "Loving can cost a lot, but not loving always costs more...." Merle Shain
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Thought for the day....... “Wherever you are is the entry point.” Kabir
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Thought for the day....... “An open mind and heart usually lead you to those who have the same.” Jeffrey Fry
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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....... "For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin-real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life." Alfred D’Souza
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Thought for the day....... “Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.” Brian Weiss
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Thought for the day....... “Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.” Paulo Coelho
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Thought for the day....... “The biggest illusion about a path of refuge is that we are on our way somewhere else, on our way to becoming a different kind of person. But ultimately, our refuge is not outside ourselves, not somewhere in the future - it is always and already here.” Tara Brach, True Refuge
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Thought for the day....... “The person who takes medicine for disease must recover twice, once from the disease, and once from the medicine.” Sir William Osler
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Thought for the day....... “A healthy lifestyle is a series of small, good decisions.” James Gregory
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Thought for the day....... “In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.” Erma Bombeck
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Thought for the day....... "In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty....in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe." Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... “There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.” David Carradine
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Thought for the day....... "Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade." Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Thought for the day....... “So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Thought for the day....... “I don’t say women’s rights—I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Thought for the day....... "When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge." Tuli Kupferberg
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Thought for the day....... "Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness." Athenaeus
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Thought for the day....... “Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken.” Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
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Thought for the day....... "You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes." Winnie The Pooh
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Thought for the day....... "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "Envy is ignorance. Imitation is suicide." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "What is wanted is not the will to believe but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite." Bertrand Russell
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Thought for the day....... “The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” Henry Miller
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Thought for the day....... “Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.” Mooji
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Thought for the day....... "Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us." Vulcan greeting
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Thought for the day....... "People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped." Author Unknown
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Thought for the day....... “We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.” Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
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Thought for the day....... “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.” Steve Maraboli
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Thought for the day....... “What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.” Sam Harris
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Thought for the day....... “Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.” James Robertson, 'And the Land Lay Still'
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Thought for the day....... “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new” Socrates
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Thought for the day....... “Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.” J.R. Ward, 'Lover Enshrined'
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Thought for the day....... “It was impossible to understand how brief it is. It seemed like youth would last so long; it would last forever. But it's just a blink.” Chris Pavone
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Thought for the day....... "The great metaphors from all spiritual traditions - grace, liberation, being born again, awakening from illusion - testify that it is possible to transcend the conditioning of my past and do a new thing." Sam Keen
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Thought for the day....... “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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Thought for the day....... “Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.” Brian Weiss
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Thought for the day....... “Between life’s stimuli and our habitual responses exists choice.” Ken Wilber
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10-21-2020 Thought for the day....... "We were all given the same amount of spirit. None more, none less. The difference between individuals is allowing the Spirit to have more of you." Bear Heart
10-22-2020 Thought for the day....... "Science isn't about knowing the mind of God; it's about understanding nature and the reasons for things. The thrill is that our ignorance exceeds our knowledge." Professor Eric Cornell (Nobel Prize winner in physics)
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Thought for the day....... “Experiences that come and go are not an experience of the permanent state. The permanent state never comes and goes, and it is not experienced at one time but not at other.” Papaji
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Thought for the day....... “Empathy has no script. There is no right way or wrong way to do it. It’s simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of ‘You’re not alone.'” Brené Brown
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Thought for the day....... “You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.” Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Thought for the day....... “Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day……. “What, then, is to be done? To make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it occurs.” Epictetus
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Thought for the day....... "Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." Voltaire
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Thought for the day....... “Mind makes a man of God.” Emmanuel Diogu
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Thought for the day....... "May we exist like a lotus, at home in the muddy water. Thus we bow to life as it is." Zen Verse
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Thought for the day....... “I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.” Susan Beth Pfeffer, 'Life As We Knew it'
Bugs and Hisses on this Blue Moon Halloween!!!
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Thought for the day....... "Friendship is a sheltering tree." Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
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Thought for the day....... “As soon as you believe that a label you’ve put on yourself is true, you’ve limited something that is literally limitless, you’ve limited who you are into nothing but a thought.” Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... “Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.” Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... "It is the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive." C. W. Leadbeater
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Thought for the day....... “Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.” Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
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Thought for the day....... “In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.” Gary Snyder, Old Ways
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Thought for the day....... “The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems.” Francis Brett Young, Cold Harbour
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Thought for the day....... “We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves…” Vauvenargues
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Thought for the day....... “If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.” Masaru Emoto
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Thought for the day....... “One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.” Winnie-The-Pooh (A. A. Milne)
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Thought for the day....... "One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest." Maya Angelou
Remembering all veterans today, thanks to each and every one!
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11-12-2020 Thought for the day....... "The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing." Pierre Bonnard
11-13-2020 Thought for the day....... “So let us understand that reality transcends all of our notions about reality. Reality is neither Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Advaita Vedanta, nor Buddhist. It is neither dualistic nor nondualistic, neither spiritual nor nonspiritual. We should come to know that there is more reality and sacredness in a blade of grass than in all of our thoughts and ideas about reality.” Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... “What do you really care about? What pulls you into here and now, this minute?” Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... “You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.” Alan Alda
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Thought for the day....... “Family is not an important thing. It's everything.” Michael J. Fox.
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Thought for the day....... “Because of an innocent misunderstanding you think that you are a human being in the relative world seeking the experience of oneness, but actually you are the One expressing itself as the experience of being a human being.” Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... “The separate self is not an entity; it is an activity: the activity of thinking and feeling that our essential nature of pure Awareness shares the limits and the destiny of the body and mind.” Rupert Spira
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Thought for the day……. “In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.” Peter Matthiesen
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Thought for the day....... "Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue." Henry James
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Thought for the day....... "The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology." Red Auerbach
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Thought for the day....... “Gratitude unlocks all that’s blocking us from really feeling truthful, really feeling authentic and vulnerable and happy.” Gabrielle Bernstein
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Thought for the day....... “Gratitude doesn’t change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.” Richelle E. Goodrich
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Thought for the day....... "When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.” Kristin Armstrong
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Thought for the day....... “Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.” Theodore Roosevelt
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Thought for the day....... “The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.” Dalai Lama
Wishing you a harvest of blessings, good health and good times. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Thought for the day....... “In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and all I have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.” Henri Nouwen
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Thought for the day....... “To invest one’s identity and security in something that appears, moves, changes and disappears is the cause of unhappiness.” Rupert Spira
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Thought for the day....... "Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present." Albert Camus
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Thought for the day....... "Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others." Barbara Bush
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Thought for the day....... “It's a beautiful thing, the blossoming of Wisdom. Like a flower in spring.” Michael Rudd (Clothes for their Souls)
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Thought for the day....... “Recognising your true nature is not an advantage -- that is the seeker's assumption and is what appears to keep the whole seeking drama in place, the idea that there will be an advantage.” Nathan Gill (Already Awake, pg 142)
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Thought for the day....... "True creativity often starts where language ends." Arthur Koestler
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Thought for the day....... "Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?" Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
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Thought for the day....... “In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.” Gary Snyder, Old Ways
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Thought for the day....... "Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted." George Knelle
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Thought for the day....... “Part of the irony of loving the natural world is understanding that it would be better off without human presence.” Jill Fredston
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Thought for the day....... “Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” Mary Oliver
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Thought for the day....... “Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.” Rainer Maria Rilke
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Thought for the day....... “The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.” Paulo Coelho
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Thought for the day....... “Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.” Fulton J. Sheen
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Thought for the day....... "It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time." Winston Churchill
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Thought for the day....... “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams
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Thought for the day....... “Knowing or being aware is never modified by experience. It never moves, changes or fluctuates, and yet is the sole reality of all that moves, changes or fluctuates. It is the only stable element in experience.” Rupert Spira
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Thought for the day....... "Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial." Richard Ben Sapir
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Thought for the day....... “People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.” Carl Sagan
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Thought for the day....... “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” Khalil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... "Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart." Washington Irving
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Thought for the day....... “Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition." Henry Mintzberg (Researcher McGill University)
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Thought for the day....... "For fast acting relief; try slowing down." Lily Tomlin
Happy Winter Solstice!! Happy conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn!!
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Thought for the day....... “There is a voice that doesn't use words...listen!” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.” J. C. Penney, (Christmas Thoughts)
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Thought for the day....... “Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.” Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Thought for the day....... “At its best, Christmas is a mirror in which we see reflected the very best life can be. Where we see ourselves moved by generosity, inspired by hope, and uplifted by love, not only for ourselves but for the whole evolving universe.” Bruce Sanguin (If Darwin Prayed)
Wishing you the best of the season!!!!
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Thought for the day....... "Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts." Arnold Bennett
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Thought for the day....... “The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.” Sophocles (Antigone, Written about 442 BCE)
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Thought for the day……. “Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” Oliver Goldsmith
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Thought for the day....... "The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post." Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809)
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Thought for the day....... “The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.” Herbert Spencer
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Thought for the day....... “Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.” Neil Gaiman
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Thought for the day....... “For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” T. S. Eliot ("Little Gidding")
Happy New Year!!!
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Thought for the day....... “Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.” Marsha Petrie Sue
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Thought for the day....... “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.” Carl Jung
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Thought for the day....... “The soul is healed by being with children” Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Thought for the day....... “I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.” Andy Warhol
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Thought for the day....... “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” Swami Sivananda
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Thought for the day....... “If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.” Tara Brach
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Thought for the day....... "All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every second." Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... “One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But even if no one ever learns of it, even if it is invisible to every human on Earth, it will have no less of an effect.” Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
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Thought for the day....... "We shrink from change; yet is there anything that can come into being without it? What does Nature hold dearer, or more proper to herself? Could you have a hot bath unless the firewood underwent some change.. is it possible for any useful thing to be achieved without change? Do you not see, then, that change in yourself is of the same order, and no less necessary to Nature?" Marcus Aurelius
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Thought for the day....... "I believe in rain, in odd miracles, in the intelligence that allows terns and swallows to find their way across Earth." Paul Hawkins
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Thought for the day....... “Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” Kristin Kreuk
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Thought for the day....... “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... “Whatever you think you are, that’s not it.” Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... “You are the Self, here and now. Leave the mind alone, stand aware and unconcerned and you will realize that to stand alert but detached, watching events come and go, is an aspect of your real nature.” Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Thought for the day....... “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.” Martin Luther King
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Thought for the day....... “Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.” Adyashanti
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Thought for the day……. “ What, then, is to be done? To make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it occurs.” Epictetus
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Thought for the day....... “We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.” Sheryl Sandberg
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Thought for the day....... “We end up putting so much attention onto our image that we remain in a continuous state of protecting or improving our image in order to control how others see us.” Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... "Even the thought of giving, the thought of blessing or a simple prayer has the power to affect others." Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... “Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.” Alan Alda
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Thought for the day....... "Wherever you are - be all there." Jim Elliot
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Thought for the day....... “Even to hold to Oneness is to miss it.” Tao-Wu
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Thought for the day....... “The more you buy into thoughts about your identity, the more you cut yourself off from who you really are.” Reuben Lowe
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Thought for the day....... “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” Alan Watts
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Thought for the day....... “There seem to be two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realizing its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being.” Wei Wu Wei
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Thought for the day....... “Love has no culture, boundaries, race and religion. It is pure and beautiful like early morning sunrise falling in lake.” Santosh Kalwar
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Thought for the day....... “The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.” Terry Tempest Williams
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Thought for the day....... "Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy." Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Thought for the day....... “When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.” Shannon L. Alder
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2-3-2021 Thought for the day....... “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” Lao Tzu
2-4-2021 Thought for the day....... "The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results.'' Krishna (Bhagavad-Gita)
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Thought for the day....... “Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.” Listen to it carefully.” Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” Richard Feynman
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Thought for the day....... “Wherever you are is the entry point.” Kabir
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Hi, lightfoot! Carry on!!
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Thanks, tutu!!! Back atcha'!!!
Thought for the day....... “Time heals nothing. It only brings other issues and tissues, and takes what is incurable or unacceptable out of the center of our attention.” Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
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Thought for the day....... “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” Dr Suess
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Thought for the day....... “Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” Winnie the Pooh
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Thought for the day....... "Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise." Cato the Elder (Roman Censor 234-149 B.C.)
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Thought for the day....... "At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, a complex of wave forms and resonances which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything in the universe." George Leonard
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Thought for the day....... "The nature of mind is the background to the whole of life and death, like the sky, which enfolds the whole universe in its embrace.” Sogyal Rinpoche, Glimpse after Glimpse
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Thought for the day....... “We are born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.” Benjamin Disraeli
Happy Valentines Day!
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Thought for the day....... “We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.” Sean Covey, The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens
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Thought for the day....... "Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances." Julie Bishop
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Thought for the day....... "Great leaders are paradoxical. They catalyze, rather control, the work of their teams. They have an overarching vision for the team but are not autocratic in the realization of this vision. Their eyes are open to whatever results occur--not just planned goals, because serendipity is a great innovator." Guy Kawasa
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Thought for the day....... “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” Khalil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... "Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted." George Knelle
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Thought for the day....... “It is so much easier to enjoy people, to like them, when you have no opinions, no beliefs.” Marty Rubin
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Thought for the day....... "I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism.....Our innermost prayer should be that of a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian." Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... “If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.” President Lyndon B. Johnson - Signing the Wilderness act in 1964.
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Thought for the day....... “In Nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion and change.” David Bohm (1917-1992)
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Thought for the day....... "Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals." Gunilla Norris
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Thought for the day....... “Hindsight is a double-edged sword. Too much of it and the past seems inevitable, With too little hindsight, a panoramic perspective is impossible.” Lance K. Kurke
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Thought for the day....... “A man can tolerate any what if he has a big enough why.” Victor Frankl
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Thought for the day....... "True creativity often starts where language ends." Arthur Koestler
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Thought for the day....... “Something I have come to understand slowly over my lifetime is that nature, earth, the world—whatever you call it—is not simply something I am on but something I am. It is not outside of me: it is me, and I am it. There is no outside.” Paul Kingsnorth, The Witness
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Thought for the day....... “The dawn of life is like the dawn of day, full of purity, visions and harmonies.” François de Chateaubriand (1768-1848)
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Thought for the day....... “There’s a trick to the 'graceful exit.' It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out.” Ellen Goodman
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Thought for the day....... “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.” John F. Kennedy
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Thought for the day....... “Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.” Anais Nin
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Thought for the day....... “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Thought for the day....... “Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.” Nikki Giovanni
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Thought for the day....... “Need nothing and then see what happens.” Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... "Wise men contemplate the world, knowing full well that they are contemplating themselves." James Cowan
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Thought for the day....... "Life is a celebration of awakenings, of new beginnings, and wonderful surprises that enlighten the soul." Cielo
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Thought for the day....... “One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand – to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.” John Burroughs (1837-1921)
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Thought for the day....... “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you … never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), American abolitionist and author
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Thought for the day....... “The ever-present, ever-changing, nonconceptual actuality of the present moment is effortlessly presenting itself right now. This bare being is nondual, undivided, boundless, and without obstruction.… ” Joan Tollifson
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Thought for the day....... “The quieter you become the more you can hear.” Ram Dass
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Thought for the day....... “Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies . . . our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.” Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... "Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure." George Milton
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Thought for the day....... “The ocean doesn't complain about the dance of ten million waves; so don't be concerned with the rise and fall of thoughts.” Papaji
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Thought for the day....... “Be still and know that I am. Be still and know. Be still. Be.” St. Patrick
Happy Saint Paddy's Day!!!
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Thought for the day....... “A great silence overcomes me, and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “Mass, energy, space, and time as they are conceived by the human mind have no existence apart from our conceptual awareness of them no more than our dreams at night. All appearances exist only relative to the mind that experiences them, and all mental states arise relative to experienced phenomena. We are living in a participatory universe, with no absolute subjects or objects.“ Alan Wallace, Awakening to the Dream
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Happy Spring Equinox!!!
Thought for the day....... "Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations." George Bernard Shaw
Ask yourself this question: 'Will this matter a year from now?' Richard Carlson
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Thought for the day....... “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in your mind.” David G. Allen
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Thought for the day....... “The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.” Paulo Coelho
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Thought for the day....... "If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction." Emma Goldman
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Thought for the day....... “Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.” Greg Peterson, 1997, www.urbanfarm.org Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Space has no “existence.” “To exist” literally means “to stand out.” You cannot understand space because it doesn’t stand out. Although in itself it has no existence, it enables everything else to exist. Silence has no existence either, nor does the Unmanifested.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side." Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Thought for the day....... “Quite often, the consequence of doing nothing is greater than the consequence of actually having done something and having done it wrong.” Craig D. Lounsbroug
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Thought for the day....... "Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech." Plutarch
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Thought for the day....... “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.” Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
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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
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Thought for the day....... "Oppression does not always crush the spirit of progress. Men will achieve in spite of it." Carter G. Woodson
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Thought for the day....... “The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Thought for the day....... “Wisdom tells me I am nothing, love tells me I am everything. Between the two, my life flows.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Thought for the day....... “I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.” Mahatma Gandhi
Happy Easter!
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Thought for the day....... “In laughter there is always a kind of joyousness that is incompatible with contempt or indignation." Voltaire
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Thought for the day....... “Forgiveness is a deep process, which is repeated over and over and over again in our hearts. It honors the grief and it honors the betrayal. And in its own time, it ripens into the freedom to truly forgive.” Mark Epstein
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Thought for the day....... “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. ” Abraham Lincoln
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Thought for the day....... "The meaning of life is found in openness to being and 'being present' in full awareness" Thomas Merton
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Thought for the day....... “There is happiness in planning the generous act, happiness in the actual giving, and happiness in reflecting latter on your generosity.” Joseph Goldstein
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Thought for the day....... "There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy. " Ralph H. Blum
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Thought for the day....... "If you woke up tomorrow morning and found out you had ten years to live, what would you stop doing?" Jim Collins
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Thought or the day....... “Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment and make the most of it.” Jim Valvan
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Thought for the day....... “Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.” Khalil Gibran
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Thought for the day.......“The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.” Janna Levin
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Thought for the day....... “What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?” Tara Brach
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Thought for the day....... “The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.” Carl Jung
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Thought for the day....... “In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.” Bertrand Russell
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Thought for the day....... “There is sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief, and unspeakable love.” Washington Irving
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Thought for the day....... "There can be peace in the unknown. It is the known, or what we perceive as the known, that causes conflict." Steve Reedy
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Thought for the day....... “A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.” John Ciardi
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Thought for the day....... “Don't let your struggle become your identity.” Ralston Bowles, American Musician
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Thought for the day....... “The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.” Tony Robbins
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Thought for the day....... “Half the problem of getting an answer is being able to listen” Nari
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Thought for the day....... “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” Og Mandino
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Thought for the day....... “We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.” Aristotle Onassis
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Thought for the day....... “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” Aristotle
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Thought for the day....... “What we know matters but who we are matters more.” Brené Brown
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Thought for the day....... “Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.” Greg McKeown
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Thought for the day....... “Exploration really is the essence of the human spirit, and to pause, to falter, to turn our back on the quest for knowledge, is to perish.” Frank Borman
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Thought for the day....... “To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.” John Burroughs
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Thought for the day....... “Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.” Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Thought for the day.......”To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” Audrey Hepburn
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Thought for the day....... “Spring shows the power and love of the earth; she can grow magnificent flowers from the dirt.” Debasish Mridha
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Thought for the day....... "To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.” Jill Bolte Taylor
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Thought for the day....... “In most of our human relationships, we spend ”much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight." Ram Dass
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Thought for the day....... “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T. S. Eliot
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Thought for the day....... “Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.” James Baldwin
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Thought for the day....... "Do not be ashamed of your sensitivity! It has brought you many riches. You see what others cannot see, feel what others are ashamed to feel..." Jeff Foster
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5-9-2021 Thought for the day....... "Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world." Kate Douglas Wiggin
Happy Mothers Day!!!!!
5-10-2-21 Thought for the day....... “There is good in everything, if only we look for it.” Laura Ingall Wilder
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Thought for the day....... “Failure isn't fatal, but failure to change might be.” John Wooden, UCLA Basketball Coach
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Thought for the day....... “Failure is not the deterrent for the next try. Rather, it is information that empowers the next step.” Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Thought for the day....... “Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained.” Nicolas Manetta
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Thought for the day....... "Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances." Wayne Dyer
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Thought for the day....... “I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.” Kurt Vonnegut
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Thought for the day....... “We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.” David Richo
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Thought for the day....... “The only illusion is division.” Wald Wassermann
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Thought for the day....... “Words do not contain the truth, they only point us to it.” Nirmala
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Thought for the day....... “Experiences that come and go are not an experience of the permanent state. The permanent state never comes and goes, and it is not experienced at one time but not at other.” Papaji
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Thought for the day....... "Kindness in thinking or giving, creates profoundness and happiness. Kindness in saying creates an everlasting love.” Morgan Freeman
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Thought for the day....... “Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful.” Stephen Levine
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Thought for the day....... “Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust life.” Jeanne Achterber
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Thought for the day....... “Laughter, music, prayer, touch, truth telling, and forgiveness are universal methods of healing.” Mary Piphe
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Thought for the day....... “Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.” Joshua Kai
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Thought for the day....... “Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.” Ruth Carter Stapleton
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Thought for the day....... “Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.” Jerry Cantrell
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Thought for the day....... “Of all the stories we tell, the story we most often mistake for nonfiction is the one about who we are.” George Saunders
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Thought for the day....... "I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody." Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Thought for the day....... “The shell must break before the bird can fly.” Alfred Tennyson
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Thought for the day....... “Helping others, encouraging others, are often acts of kindness that have more meaning than you may realize.” Catherine Pulsifer
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Thought for the day....... "In war, there are no unwounded soldiers." Jose Narosky
Heartfelt thanks to all of our veterans who lost their lives throughout history. Have a great Memorial Day in remembrance!!!
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Thought for the day........ “The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been truth, goodness, and beauty.” Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... “I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” Eric Roth
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Thought for the day....... “Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others.” Brene Brown
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Thought for the day....... “The past has no power over the present moment.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.” Krister Stendahl
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Thought for the day....... “Wherever they may have come from, And wherever they may have gone, unicorns live inside the true believer’s heart. Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.” Bruce Coville
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Thought for the day....... “One has to go beyond the pairs of opposites to find the real source. Beyond the world of opposites is an unseen, but experienced, unity and identity in us all." Joseph Campbell
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Thought for the day....... “Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day.......”Wisdom is less about academic intelligence, cognitive abilities or analytical skills, although these can help significantly. Instead, wisdom refers to the ability to see the "big picture" and translate one's experience and knowledge into good judgment and decisions.” David Chan
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Thought for the day....... “Never underestimate the power of gaining a new perspective by simply changing your immediate environment. Going for a walk, reading a book, or talking to a friend can provide you with life-changing insights that you not otherwise attain while remaining stagnant.” Hal Elrod
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Thought for the day....... “Loosen the bonds of discursive thought. Extend the circle of caring. Cease armoring against suffering. Wish for others the same happiness you wish for yourself. Be a tender-minded steward of creation.” Marc Ian Barasch
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Thought for the day....... “Wisdom is the perception of the unimportance of the things we call great, and of the importance of the things we call small.” Charles Edward Jerningham
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Thought for the day....... “Acceptance means events can make it through you without resistance.” Michael Singer
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Thought for the day....... “Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.” Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
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Thought for the day....... “In laughter there is always a kind of joyousness that is incompatible with contempt or indignation." Voltaire
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Thought for the day....... "He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass." Thomas Adams
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Thought for the day....... “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” Bruce Lee
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Thought for the day....... “Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.” Samuel Johnson
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Thought for the day....... “I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.” John Cleese
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Thought for the day....... "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." Anne Sexton
Happy Father's Day!!!
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Thought for the day....... “Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.” Barbara Bush
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Thought for the day....... "You are not the voice of the mind; you are just the one that hears it." Michael Singer
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Thought for the day....... “No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.” Mooji
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Thought for the day....... “No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.” Mooji
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Thought for the day....... “Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.” Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Thought for the day....... "Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement and it becomes part of our belief system." Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
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Thought for the day....... “Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.” Luther Burbank
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Thought for the day....... “The thought that seeks happiness is already made out of the stuff for which it is in search.” Rupert Spira
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Thought for the day....... “Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name, you have no past, you have no relationships, you have no country, you have no spiritual attainment, you have no lack of spiritual attainment. There is just the presence of Beingness with itself.“ Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... “Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water. It is an acting, living, moving force... it moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean.” Prentice Mulford
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Thought for the day....... “That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most inexplicable that we may encounter.” Rainer Maria Rilke
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Thought for the day....... “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” Nelson Mandela
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Thought for the day....... “The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity… that’s all there is. That’s the whole economy. That’s where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.” Gaylord Nelson
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Thought for the day....... “There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that, don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward." Steve Maraboli
I continue to be on and off the grid for the next week.
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Thought for the day....... "When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills." Chinese proverb
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Thought for the day....... "After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over." Alfred Edward Perlman
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Thought for the day....... "Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later." Bob Goff
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Thought for the day....... “Coincidences give you opportunities to look more deeply into your existence.” Doug Dillon
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To: Thought for the day....... “Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don’t know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don’t know." Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
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Thought for the day....... “Walk into the unknown with what you know in your heart." Adrienne Posey
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Thought for the day....... “You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment of your magic.” Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Thought for the day....... “One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.” Krishnamurti
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Thought for the day....... "Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty." John Finley
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Thought for the day....... “The one-eyed mollusc on the sea-bottom, feathered and luminous, is my equal in what he and I know of star clusters not yet found by the best of star-gazers.” Carl Sandburg, Selected Poems
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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....... “The future is uncertain… but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.” Ilya Prigogine
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Thought for the day....... “We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.” Adyashanti, The End of Your World
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Thought for the day....... "Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you." Wayne Dyer
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Thought for the day....... "Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different." Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
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Thought for the day....... "After you awaken from the dream of separateness and realize that you are the source, you need to discover the implications of applying this revelation to your life. When you truly realize there is no other than you, it takes your breath away. All is one and you are the One." Adyashanti, Emptiness Dancing
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Thought for the day....... "Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think. What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality." David Bohm (December 20, 1917–October 27, 1992)
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Thought for the day....... "No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in." Gail Sheehy
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Thought for the day....... “You can't prepare for the things that change your life. They come suddenly and unannounced.” Marty Rubin
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Thought for the day....... “Wisdom comes with the ability to be still." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive." Alexis De Veaux
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Thought for the day....... “There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well." Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
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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....... "Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stale these experiences may have become to others." Abraham Maslow
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Thought for the day....... "You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself." Alan Alda
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Thought for the day....... "When given the choice between being right or being kind, always choose kind." Dr. Wayne Dyer
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Thought for the day....... "The moment we refuse to hurt others because of our own pain, is the time we evolve as souls." Aleksandra Ninkovic
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Thought for the day....... "Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise--then you will discover the fullness of your life." Brother David Steindl-Rast
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Thought for the day....... "Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise--then you will discover the fullness of your life." Brother David Steindl-Rast
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Thought for the day....... "One has to go beyond the pairs of opposites to find the real source. Beyond the world of opposites is an unseen, but experienced, unity and identity in us all.'' Joseph Campbell
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Thought for the day....... “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem." Theodore Rubin
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Thought for the day....... "The dance of the flower in the wind, in the sun, in the rain, cannot be understood by the head; the heart has to be open for it." Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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Thought for the day....... "Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix." Christina Baldwin
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Thought for the day....... "He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views." William Congreve, English Poet
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Thought for the day....... “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
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Thought for the day....... "Social acceptance, ‘being liked,’ has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay." Rollo May
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Thought for the day....... "The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like." Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... "Resolve means standing in the midst of all your conditioning and recognizing the pull of it, the presumed safety of it, and saying, “No!” to the conditioning and “Yes!” to your Self." Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... "Change is the end result of all true learning." Leo Buscaglia
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Thought for the day....... "Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering." Steve Maraboli
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Thought for the day....... "The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds." William James
On vacation and I'll be off the grid for about a week.....'see' you later!
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Thought for the day....... "When we start defining “who we are”, we not only create a box with a boundary identifying ourselves but also, implicitly and perhaps unknowingly, we also end up defining who we are NOT." Ken Wilbur
Happy to be back on board!
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Thought for the day....... "Man matures when he no longer believes discomfort is uncomfortable." Carlos Del Valle
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Thought for the day....... "In my view, the realistic goal of practices like mindfulness … is the ability to drop your sense of self in the present moment more or less no matter what’s happening. If you can do that, it seems to me that you have solved many of life’s problems. Because doing that is coincident with no longer being hostage to the contents of the next thought that is arising in consciousness: the angry thought, the self-hating thought, the judgmental thought. This breaks the spell." Sam Harris
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Thought for the day....... “Oneness is like the clear blue sky – everything arises, unfolds, and subsides within its all-compassionate love… Everything is an aspect of Oneness. And our quest to know this comes from Oneness.” Abhinavagupta
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Thought for the day....... “Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it." Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Thought for the day....... "What I call radical aliveness is aliveness without there being anybody in it that’s alive. … Breathing is happening, sitting on a seat is happening, hearing this voice is happening, hearing sounds is happening." Tony Parsons
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Thought for the day....... "Keep looking up… that’s the secret of life." Snoopy
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Thought for the day....... "Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive." Haruki Murakami
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Thought for the day....... "Autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves." Margaret Elizabeth Sangster, Poet
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Thought for the day....... “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” Arthur Schopenhauer
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Thought for the day....... “Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.” Katharine Weber
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Thought for the day....... ”Love is taking a few steps backward maybe even more… to give way to the happiness of the person you love.” Winnie the Pooh
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Thought for the day....... “True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.” Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... “A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.” Winnie the Pooh
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Thought for the day....... “Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.” Rachel Naomi Remen
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Thought for the day....... "Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." Octavia Butler
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Thought for the day....... “A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.” Ram Dass
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Thought for the day....... “To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.” Aldous Huxley
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Thought for the day....... "For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin-real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life." Alfred D’Souza
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Thought for the day....... "The sage is one who has first discovered what is common in our hearts." Mencius
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Thought for the day....... “It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.” Rabindranath Tagore
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Thought for the day....... “To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.” Martha Nussbaum
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Thought for the day....... “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.” Brene Brown
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Thought for the day....... “Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these.” Gautama Buddha
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Thought for the day....... "Sharing a burdened heart with another who has the wisdom, strength, and knowledge to carry it, frees us from its weight long enough to focus on solutions." Liane Cordes
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Thought for the day....... "Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us." Vulcan Greeting
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Thought for the day....... “Autumn is the time of year when Mother Nature says, ‘Look how easy, how healthy, and how beautiful letting go can be.'" Toni Sorenson
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Thought for the day....... “I always get to where I’m going by walking away from where I have been.” Winnie the Pooh
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Thought for the day....... “I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.” Stanley Horowitz
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Thought for the day....... “Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize.” George Eliot
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Thought for the day....... “There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.” Joe L. Wheeler
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Thought for the day....... "Only when the inner dialogue stops can the hidden parts of ourselves be seen and revealed." Don Juan
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Thought for the day....... "Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is." Thomas Azasz
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Thought for the day....... “What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.” Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
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Thought for the day....... "Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." Dr. Seuss
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Thought for the day....... “Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.” Edward de Bono
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Thought for the day....... "The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it." Carl Jung
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Thought for the day....... “Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.” J. Robert Moskin
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Thought for the day....... “The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.” Kurt Vonnegut
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Thought for the day....... "Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Thought for the day....... "When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel." Catherine Ponder
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Thought for the day....... "Science isn't about knowing the mind of God; it's about understanding nature and the reasons for things. The thrill is that our ignorance exceeds our knowledge." Professor Eric Cornell (Nobel Prize winner in physics)
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Thought for the day....... "Our age can be determined by the ways in which we allow ourselves to play." Louis Walsh
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Thought for the day....... "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” Mark Jenkins
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Thought for the day....... “Sagehood has nothing to do with governing others but is a matter of ordering oneself. Nobility has nothing to do with power and rank but is a matter of self realization. Attain self-realization, and the whole world is found in the self. Happiness has nothing to do with wealth and status, but is a matter of harmony.” Lao-Tzu
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Thought for the day....... "One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever." Robert Holden (From - Shift Happens!)
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Thought for the day....... “Clarity doesn't come out of the discussion. Clarity comes out of the surrender to love." Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... “The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.” Bertrand Russell
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Thought for the day....... “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” Aldous Huxley
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Thought for the day....... "There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin." Linus from “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”
Happy Halloween!!!
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Thought for the day....... “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” Joseph Campbell
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Thought for the day....... “It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.” Samuel R. Delany
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Thought for the day....... "It is the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive." C. W. Leadbeate
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Thought for the day....... “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” Washington Irving
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Thought for the day....... “Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.” Winnie The Poo
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Thought for the day....... “The problem is not to find the answer; it’s to face the answer.” Terence McKenna
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Thought for the day....... “There is a huge abyss within every mind. When we belong, we have an outside mooring to prevent us from falling into ourselves.” John O'Donohue
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Thought for the day....... “Fearlessness is what love seeks… Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future… Hence the only valid tense is the present, the Now.” Hannah Arendt
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Thought for the day....... “Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid...The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid. Becoming intimate with the queasy feeling of being in the middle of nowhere only makes our hearts more tender.” Pema Chodron
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Thought for the day....... “Judging has become such a part of our thinking patterns that we are rarely even aware of why and how we do it. It takes a great deal of conscious thinking or mindfulness to even bring the habit of judging into our awareness.” Brené Brown
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Thought for the day....... “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Viktor Frankl
Veteran's Day.....In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…"
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Thought for the day....... "There is something about a crisis that gives us clarity." Grace Marshall
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Thought for the day....... "It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." Alan Cohen
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Thought for the day....... “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” Carl Jung
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Thought for the day....... "The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches, but to reveal theirs." Jesse Fair
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Thought for the day....... "Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up." Andy Law ("Creative Company")
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Thought for the day....... "I have learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different." James Rhinehart
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Thought or the day....... “We have tried everything to get rid of suffering. We have gone everywhere to get rid of suffering. We have bought everything to get rid of it. We have ingested everything to get rid of it. Finally, when one has tried enough, there arises the possibility of spiritual maturity with the willingness to stop the futile attempt to get rid of it and, instead, to actually experience suffering. In that momentous instant, there is the realization of that which is beyond suffering, of that which is untouched by suffering. There is the realization of who one truly is.” Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... “My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.” Winnie the Pooh
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Thought for the day....... “While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important.” Walter Lippmann
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Thought for the day....... "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Thought for the day....... “We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.” Carl Rogers
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Thought for the day....... “When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.” Chinese Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude." Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... “Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.” Henry Clay
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Thought for the day....... “A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.” Cicero
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Thought for the day....... “Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.” Margaret J Wheatley
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Thought for the day....... “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day." Einstein
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Thought for the day....... “Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything." George Bernard Shaw
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Thought for the day....... “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thought for the day....... “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” James A. Michener (1907-1997), American Author
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Thought for the day....... “Goals and contingencies, as I’ve said, are important. But they exist in the future and the past, beyond the pale of the sensory realm. Practice, the path of mastery, exists only in the present. You can see it, hear it, smell it, feel it. To love the plateau is to love the eternal now, to enjoy the inevitable spurts of progress and the fruits of accomplishment, then serenely to accept the new plateau that waits just beyond them. To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.” George Leonard from Mastery
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Thought for the day....... “Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know." Pema Chödrön
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Thought for the day....... “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well or badly arranged constellations.” Alan Watts
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Thought for the day....... "To the most trivial actions, attach the devotion and mindfulness of a hundred monks. To matters of life and death, attach a sense of humor." Zhuangzi, Chinese Philosopher
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Thought for the day....... “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” Maya Angelou
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Thought for the day....... "Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day." Barbara Sher
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Thought for the day....... "So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs." Ella Wilcox (1850-1919)
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Thought for the day....... “When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.” Joe Namath
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Thought for the day....... "Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances." Julie Bishop
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Thought for the day....... "Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation." Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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Thought for the day....... “You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you" Barbara Sher
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Thought for the day....... “Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises from ongoing circles of exchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created. Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren't there before.” Margaret J. Wheatley
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Thought for the day....... “Surrender is a journey from outer turmoil to inner peace.” Sri Chinmoy
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Thought for the day....... “Surrender is like a fish finding the current and going with it.” Mark Nepo
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Thought for the day....... “The Buddha encouraged us to think of the good things done for us by our parents, by our teachers, friends, whomever; and to do this intentionally, to cultivate it, rather than just letting it happen accidentally.” Ajahn Sumedho, The Gift of Gratitude
Happy Day!! Our power and internet are restored. Both were a casualty of the severe windstorm on Wednesday. Have a super day!!!
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Thought for the day....... “(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.” Abaham Maslow
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Thought for the day....... "Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use." Peter Mere Latham
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Thought for the day....... "The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life." Stephen Levine
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Thought for the day....... "Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time." Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Thought for the day....... “If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.” Kitaro Nishida
May the spirit of Christmas be yours today and every day!
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Thought for the day....... “Awareness is not separate from the movie of waking life, but it is not entangled in the movie or trapped in the drama.” Joan Tollifson
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Thought for the day....... “A mind which is possessive will be possessed. To possess anything is to be possessed by it. The more you possess, the more slavery you create around yourself. The freedom comes when you unlearn possessiveness.” Osho
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Thought for the day....... “Happiness is not the opposite of unhappiness, any more than the blue sky is the opposite of the clouds. Just as the clouds are the veiling of the blue sky, so unhappiness is the veiling of happiness.” Rupert Spira
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Thought for the day...... “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.” Tao Te Ching
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Thought for the day....... “To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.” Jack Kornfield
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Thought for the day....... “Perhaps that is where our choice lies — in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.” Elana K. Arnold
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Thought for the day....... “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” T.S. Eliot
Wishing you health, prosperity, love and friendship in the new year!!! Happy New Year!!
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Thought for the day....... “Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they’re part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They’re not only the ending, but the beginning as well.” Benjamin Hoff
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To: Thought for the day....... “Two points are important to consider. First, the mind can never know what is being pointed to. Second, the answer is not in the mind. Realize that the mind can never find what you are. You already are what you are seeking.” John Wheeler, Shining in Plain View
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Thought for the day....... “Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy.” Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Thought for the day....... “For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.” Benjamin Franklin
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Thought for the day....... “Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you.” Judith Jamison
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Thought for the day....... "All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every second." Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... “In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am – unbound.” Nisargadatta
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Thought for the day....... “If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.” Holly Near
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Thought for the day....... “Just stop it. Seriously. Whatever it is. Just stop it. If only for an hour, a day, a week. Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse of what the change would actually look like.” Mary Anne Radmacher
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Thought for the day....... “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.” Maya Angelou
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Thought for the day....... “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.” Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.” Pema Chodron
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Thought for the day....... “To be able to suffer with is good news because it means you can share power with, share joy with, exchange love with. Let your pain tell you that you are not alone. What we thought might have been sealing us off can become connective tissue." Joanna Macy
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Thought for the day....... “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” Carl Sagan
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Thought for the day....... "There can be peace in the unknown. It is the known, or what we perceive as the known, that causes conflict." Steve Reedy
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Thought for the day....... "It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Thought for the day....... "We do not see the lens through which we look." Ruth Fulton Benedict
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Thought for the day....... "New ideas stir from every corner. They show up disguised innocently as interruptions, contradictions and embarrassing dilemmas. Beware of total strangers and friends alike who shower you with comfortable sameness, and remain open to those who make you uneasy, for they are the true messengers of the future." Rob Lebow
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Thought for the day....... “Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.” Sydney J. Harris
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Thought for the day....... "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of a genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." Mozart
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Thought for the day....... "Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind." Cicero
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Thought for the day....... “The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.” Jean de la Bruyere
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Thought for the day....... "I am not ... my life story, the mind, the body, feelings, experiences of pain or pleasure, struggle, success, or failure. I am not loneliness, stillness, frustration, or compassion. I am not even what I think is my purpose, the seeking, the finding, or anything which is called a spiritual experience.” Tony Parsons
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Thought for the day....... “The focus in non-duality is to clarify what you are. It is not an inquiry into the world appearance (cosmology), the creator (theology) or the apparent person and its motives, actions and experiences (psychology). The cosmos, God and the person are subsequent appearances upon your fundamental nature.” John Wheeler
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Thought for the day....... "When we are captured by anger, emotional injury, anxiety, or jealousy, the only thing actually threatened is our self-image: the way we want to feel, would like to be seen, or prefer to imagine ourselves." Richard Moss, MD
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Thought for the day....... "Spirituality is seeded, germinates, spouts and blossoms in the mundane. It is to be found and nurtured in the smallest of daily activities." Thomas Moore
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Thought for the day....... “We design our lives through the power of choices." Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... "The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization." Ram Dass
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Thought for the day...... “The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story that the mind has managed to construct.” Daniel Kahneman
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Thought for the day....... "If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." Frank A. Clark
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Thought for the day....... "When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like wildfire." Whoopi Goldberg
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Thought for the day....... “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.” Abraham Lincoln
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Thought for the day....... “Sagehood has nothing to do with governing others but is a matter of ordering oneself. Nobility has nothing to do with power and rank but is a matter of self realization. Attain self-realization, and the whole world is found in the self. Happiness has nothing to do with wealth and status, but is a matter of harmony.” Lao-tzo
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Thought for the day....... "Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition." Henry Mintzberg (Researcher McGill University)
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Thought for the day....... "Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence." Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... “You must always be willing to truly consider evidence that contradicts your beliefs, and admit the possibility that you may be wrong. Intelligence isn't knowing everything, it's the ability to challenge everything you know.” Mind Unleashed
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Thought for the day....... "The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process." Barbara Colorose
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Thought for the day....... "Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius." Josh Billings
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Thought for the day....... “If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.” Alan Watts
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Thought for the day....... “The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.” Tony Wagner
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Thought for the day....... “You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.” Lewis B. Smeades
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Thought for the day....... "Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all." Thomas A. Kempis
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Thought for the day....... “The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.” William Booth
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Thought for the day....... "Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses." Lao Tzu Happy Valentines Day!!
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Thought for the day....... "Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul." Walt Whitman
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Thought for the day....... "As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech." Katherine Francke
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Thought for the day....... “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” Khalil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... “When you know how to listen everybody is the guru.” Ram Dass
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Thought for the day....... “You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.” Frederick Buechner
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Thought for the day....... “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” Samuel Johnson
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Thought for the day....... “Zen teaches nothing. It merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach. It points.” Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki
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Thought for the day....... "Every moment in life is absolute in itself. That's all there is. There is nothing other than this present moment; there is no past, there is no future; there is nothing but this. So when we don't pay attention to each little this, we miss the whole thing." Charlotte Joko Beck, Attention Means Attention
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Thought for the day....... “If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” Toni Morrison
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Thought for the day....... "With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity." Keshavan Nai
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Thought for the day....... “To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.” Criss Jami
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Thought for the day....... "We live in two realities: what happens to us and our perception of what happens to us." Alex Lieberman
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Thought for the day....... "Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking." Kahlil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... "Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds." Black Elk (1863-1950, Ogalala Sioux Holy Man)
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Thought for the day....... “If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.” J. Krishnamurti
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Thought for the day....... “Every person that you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them.” H. Jackson Brown Jr
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Thought for the day....... “I obtained life because the time was right. I will lose life because it is time. Those who go quietly with the flow of nature are not worried by either joy or sorrow. People like these were considered in the past as having achieved freedom from bondage. Those who cannot free themselves are constrained by things.” Zhuangzi
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Thought for the day....... “The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.” Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thought for the day....... “No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.” Brené Brown
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Thought for the day....... “However disorienting, difficult, or humbling our mistakes might be, it is ultimately wrongness, not rightness, that can teach us who we are.” Kathryn Schulz
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Thought for the day....... "Life is a celebration of awakenings, of new beginnings, and wonderful surprises that enlighten the soul." Cielo
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Thought for the day....... “Happiness and freedom begin with one principle. Some things are within your control, and some are not.” Epictetus, Stoic philosopher, 55-155 A.D.
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Thought for the day....... "The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am." Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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Thought for the day....... “Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.” Chuang Tzu
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Thought for the day....... "Do not let the future trouble you. You will come to it, if that is what you must, possessed of the same reason that you apply now to the present. Instead, focus on the present moment. That includes practising gratitude for what we have right now, not focusing on what we would like to have (or avoid) in the future." Marcus Aurelius (Roman Emperor 161 to 180 and Stoic Philosopher)
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3-14-22 Thought for the day....... “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
3-15-22 Thought for the day....... “Enabling is the mortal enemy of consequences.” D.C. Hyden, The Sober Addict
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Thought for the day....... “I recommend you take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.” Earl of Chesterfield
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Thought for the day....... “May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road downhill all the way to your door.” Irish Blessing
Happy Saint Paddy's Day!!!
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Thought for the day....... “When I think about the world today and the challenges facing mankind, I don’t think the problems are technical. I think they’re human.” Nichol Bradford
Thought for the day....... "Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance." Tara Brach
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Thought for the day....... "Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering,thought we respond to it." Tara Brach
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Thought for the day....... “What you don’t know can’t hurt you, but what you think you know certainly can.” Isaac Lidsky, Eyes Wide Open
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Thought for the day....... “Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... ”Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.” Niels Bohr
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Thought for the day....... “The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.” Seneca, Natural Questions
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Thought for the day....... “The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.” Mooji
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Thought for the day....... "Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side." Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Thought for the day....... “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.” Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Thought for the day....... “The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks.” Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
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Thought for the day....... “The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.” Nancy Newhall
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Thought for the day....... "Intrinsically, we are perfect in being as we are. We are enlightened. But until we really understand this, we will do deluded things." Charlotte Joko Beck
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Thought for the day....... "Sometimes when I get up in the morning, I feel very peculiar. I feel like I've just got to bite a cat! I feel like if I don't bite a cat before sundown, I'll go crazy! But then I just take a deep breath and forget about it. That's what is known as real maturity." Snoopy
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Thought for the day....... “Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.” Bernard Haish
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Thought for the day....... "You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you." Barbara Sher
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Thought for the day....... "Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk." Peggy Noonan
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Thought for the day....... “I never lose. I either win or learn.” Nelson Mandela
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Thought for the day....... “We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed” G.K. Chesterton
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Thought for the day....... “Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awareness. Instead of a belief system, awareness sees through all beliefs.” Joan Tollifson
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Thought for the day....... "All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during our childhood, whether these messages are communicated verbally, physically, or silently.” Heyward Bruce Ewart III
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Thought for the day....... “Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations.” Steven Novella
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Thought for the day....... “The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Thought for the day....... “Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.” Rachel Carson
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Thought for the day....... "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." Albert Gyorgy
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Thought for the day....... "The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves." Kahlil Gilbran
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Thought for the day....... "Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there's always something we could be grateful for." Barry Neil Kaufman
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Thought for the day....... “Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.” Bill Bullard
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Thought for the day....... “No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves” Hugh Prather, I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches Me
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Thought for the day....... “In prayer all are equal.” Rumi
Happy Easter!
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Thought for the day....... “Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.” Brian Weiss, Messages from the Masters: Tapping Into the Power of Love
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Thought for the day....... “Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.” Sir William Osler
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Thought for the day....... “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” Aldous Huxley
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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 you because you are a vegetarian." Dennis Wholey
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Thought for the day....... “A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” Zen Shin
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Thought for the day....... “Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” Edwin Curran
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Thought for the day....... “When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” William Wordsworth
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Thought for the day....... “In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.” Okakura Kakuzo
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Thought for the day....... “Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.” Alistair Cooke
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Thought for the day....... “No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds start singing." Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life." Wu-Men (1183-1260)
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Thought for the day....... "I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets." Hamlin Garland
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Thought for the day....... “When we become more fully aware that our success is due in large measure to the loyalty, helpfulness, and encouragement we have received from others, our desire grows to pass on similar gifts. Gratitude spurs us on to prove ourselves worthy of what others have done for us. The spirit of gratitude is a powerful energizer.” Wilferd A. Peterson
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Thought for the day....... “Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn't want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment. “ Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
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Thought for the day....... "As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. ” Adabella Radici
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Thought for the day....... “Not to review and learn from our day is foolish. Moreover, if we don't constantly spend time asking ourselves about why we feel, think, and believe what we do, we will ruin the chance to live a freer, more satisfying life.” Robert J. Wicks, Riding the Dragon
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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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Thought for the day....... “Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.” Swami Satchidananda
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Thought for the day....... “The years teach much the days never know.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “Your soul needs time for solitude and self-reflection. In order to love, lead, heal, and create, you must nourish yourself first.” Louise Hay
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Thought for the day....... “Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions." Albert Einstein (Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)
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Thought for the day....... “The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.” Rumi
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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....... “If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.” Vincent Van Gogh
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Thought for the day....... “You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.” Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thought for the day....... “Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.” Adam Grant
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Thought for the day....... “What is important is not getting intoxicated with a good feeling or getting intoxicated even with an insight. These take many forms in our practice. We go through times of great release, where there has been physical holding for what feels like forever, and something opens up and releases.” Sharon Salzberg
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Thought for the day....... “It’s [beauty] a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a different frequency.” Cameron Diaz
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Thought for the day....... “It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.” Amelia Barr
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Thought for the day....... “Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.” Wayne Dyer
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Thought for the day....... “We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.” Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thought for the day....... “As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.” Anthony de Mello
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Thought for the day....... "I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone." Charles de Lint
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Thought for the day....... "The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colors which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts." James Edward Allengail
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Thought for the day....... “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.” Jack Kornfield
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Thought for the day....... “The commitment to morality, or non-harming, is a source of tremendous strength, because it helps free the mind from the remorse of having done unwholesome actions. Freedom from remorse leads to happiness. Happiness leads to concentration. Concentration brings wisdom. And wisdom is the source of peace and freedom in our lives.” Joseph Goldstein, A Heart Full of Peace
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Thought for the day....... "There is divine beauty in learning…. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps." Elie Wiesel
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Thought for the day....... “To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.” Henri Poincare
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Thought for the day....... “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” Leo Burnett
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Thought for the day....... "Humor and creativity are kissing cousins. If you want to develop your sense of humor, invite more creativity into your life--and vice versa. In the presence of humor, new creative perspectives naturally occur. You can't stop them." Joel Goodman
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Thought for the day....... "For Memorial Day.... Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years of their manhood away. Give them the meed they have won in the past; Give them the honors their future forecast; Give them the chaplets they won in the strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life." Will Carleton, Cover Them Over
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Thought for the day....... “Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.” Alan Cohen
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Thought for the day....... “Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.” Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... “People do not hold questionable beliefs simply because they have not been exposed to the relevant evidence. Nor do people hold questionable beliefs simply because they are stupid or gullible. Quite the contrary. Evolution has given us powerful intellectual tools for processing vast amounts of information with accuracy and dispatch, and our questionable beliefs derive primarily from the misapplication or overutilization of generally valid and effective strategies for knowing. Just as we are subject to perceptual illusions in spite of, and largely because of, our extraordinary perceptual capacities, so too are many of our cognitive shortcomings closely related to, or even an unavoidable cost of, our greatest strengths.” Thomas Gilovich
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6-3-22 Thought for the day....... “Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.” Arthur M. Schlesinger
6-4-22 Thought for the day....... “The tremendous danger is that this belief - that genuine happiness comes only from pleasant feelings - becomes a strong motivation to stay closed to anything unpleasant. But by staying closed to all unpleasantness, we also stay closed to our own wellspring of compassion.” Joseph Goldstein
6-5-22 Thought for the day....... “Wisdom is the clear seeing of the impermanent, conditioned nature of all phenomena, knowing that whatever arises has the nature to cease. When we see this impermanence deeply, we no longer cling; and when we no longer cling, we come to the end of suffering.” Joseph Goldstein
6-6-22 Thought for the day....... "There is in all visible things...a hidden wholeness." Thomas Merton
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6-7-22 Thought for the day....... "Who are you in the silence between your thoughts?" Gil Fronsdal
6-8-22 Thought for the day....... "One has to go beyond the pairs of opposites to find the real source. Beyond the world of opposites is an unseen, but experienced, unity and identity in us all.'' Joseph Campbell
6-9-22 Thought for the day....... “Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.” Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements
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Thought for the day....... “Behind every problem, there is a question trying to ask itself... Behind every question there is an answer trying to reveal itself. Behind every answer there is an action trying to take place. And behind every action there is a way of life trying to be born.” Michael Beckwith
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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....... “When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.” Harry Palmer
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Thought for the day....... "Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point - a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides." Thomas Crum (The Magic of Conflict)
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Thought for the day....... "Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency." Natalie Goldberg
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Thought for the day....... “The quieter you become the more you can hear.” Ram Dass
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Thought for the day....... “While stroking an octopus, it is easy to fall into reverie. To share such a moment of deep tranquility with another being, especially one as different from us as the octopus, is a humbling privilege. It’s a shared sweetness, a gentle miracle, an uplink to universal consciousness.” Sy Montgomery (Naturalist, Writer, and Documentary Filmmaker) The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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Thought for the day....... “All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.” Abraham Maslow
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Thought for the day....... “When you think about it, here we are, we started off on this planet — this fragment of dust spinning around the sun — and in 4 billion years we gradually changed form bacteria into us. That is a spellbinding story.” Richard Dawkins
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Thought for the day....... “It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.” Anne Sexton, Poet Happy Father's Day!!
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Thought for the day....... “The summer solstice is a time for strength and vitality for action and movement.” Carole Carlton
Happy Solstice! Let the energy of the summer solstice help you to balance, release, recharge.
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Thought for the day....... “This feeling… of alertness to the inner-spirit of things — this humming — comes from a hard-earned understanding of the impermanence of things and, indeed, our own impermanence. This lesson ultimately animates and illuminates our lives. We become witnesses to the thrilling emergency of the present — a series of exquisite and burning moments, each extinguished as the next arises. These magical moments are the bright jewels of loss to which we cling.” Nick Cave
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I will be off the grid for a few days.....see you when I return!
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Thought for the day....... "We should be optimistic, not because our problems are smaller than we thought, but because our capacity to solve them is larger than we thought.” Kevin Kelly
Good Morning & Happy Monday!!! I'm happy to be back on the grid!!!
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Thought for the day....... “Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.” Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... “Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life's seasons.” Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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Thought for the day....... "One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever." Robert Holden (From Shift Happens!)
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Thought for the day....... “It is through story… that we can distinguish what is true, and that we may glimpse, at least occasionally, how to live without despair in the midst of the horror that dogs and unhinges us.” Barry Lopez
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Thought for the day....... “If you think long enough about what you see in a cat, you begin to suppose you will understand everything, but its eyes tell you there is nothing to understand, there is only life.” Leonard Michael
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Thought for the day....... “The logic of dreams is superior to the one we exercise while awake. In dreams the mind at last finds its courage: it dares what we do not dare.” Etel Adnan
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Thought for the day....... "This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters This land was made for you and me." Woody Guthrie Enjoy a Safe and Happy Fourth!!!
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Thought for the day....... “Keep your mind open; challenge yourself before you challenge others.” Debasish Mridha
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Thought for the day....... “Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.” Joan Didion
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Thought for the day........ "Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition." Plotinus
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Thought for the day....... “The essence of loving kindness is being able to offer happiness. You can be the sunshine for another person. You can’t offer happiness until you have it for yourself. So build a home inside by accepting yourself and learning to love and heal yourself. Learn how to practice mindfulness in such a way that you can create moments of happiness and joy for your own nourishment. Then you have something to offer the other person.” Thich Nhat Hanh (10-11-1926 To 1-22-2022)
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To: Thought for the day....... "If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation." Chuang Tzu
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Thought for the day....... "Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability." Sam Keen
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Thought for the day....... “When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.” Winnie the Pooh
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Thought for the day....... “The reality of life is that your perceptions – right or wrong – influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.” Roger Birkman
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Thought for the day....... “I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather…” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thought for the day....... “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thought for the day........ "The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible." Tara Brach
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Thought for the day....... "There is often in people to whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it." Carol Pearson
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Thought for the day....... “It’s not that “today is the first day of the rest of my life,” but that now is all there is of my life.” Hugh Prather
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Thought for the day....... “In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.” Sophie Swetchine (1782–1857)
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Thought for the day....... "Too often, we fall into an all-or-nothing cycle with our habits. The problem is not slipping up; the problem is thinking that if you can't do something perfectly, then you shouldn't do it at all." James Clear
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Thought for the day....... “The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thought for the day...... "Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago… The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrassing Amendment." George Will
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Thought for the day...... “Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Thought for the day....... “Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace is transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.” Paulo Coelho
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Thought for the day....... “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don’t help.” Calvin
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Thought for the day....... "Contemplate the workings of this world, listen to the words of the wise, take all that is good as your own. With this as your base, open your won door to truth. Do not overlook the truth that is right before you. Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything-even mountains, rivers, plants, and trees-should be your teacher." Morihei Ueshiba
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Thought for the day....... "Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive… The unexpected is usually not received at all.” Peter Drucker
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Thought for the day....... “The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless…beyond speech…beyond concept.” Thomas Merton.
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Thought for the day....... “He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat.” Robert Estabrook
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Thought for the day……. “The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me: my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.” Meister Eckhart
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Thought for the day....... “The sciences are not sectarian. People do not persecute each other on account of disagreements in mathematics. Families are not divided about botany, and astronomy does not even tend to make a man hate his father and mother. It is what people do not know, that they persecute each other about. Science will bring, not a sword, but peace.” Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
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Thought for the day....... "It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable." Roger L'Estrange
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Thought for the day....... "Wilderness.... is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium." Sigurd Olson, Conservationist
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Thought for the day....... "Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in." Gail Sheehy
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Thought for the day....... “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” John Maynard Keyne
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Thought for the day....... “It's not the things you don't know that trip you up. It's the things you think you know, but you don't. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your assumptions can be very tricky business.” Claudia Gray
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Thought for the day....... “My dog has the intellectual capacity of a lime wedge, yet even he possesses an elaborate set of assumptions, based on his ability to control my behavior through a combination of slavish devotion and incessant howling.” Martha Beck
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Thought for the day....... “Assumptions are maintained by the hug of history. Yet, history does not guarantee their validity, nor does it ever reassess their validity.” Michael Michalko
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Thought for the day....... “But when you drop your assumptions altogether, your soul stands naked in the open fields of possibility.” T.K. Coleman
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Thought for the day....... “Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.” Maajid Nawaz
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Thought for the day....... “The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don’t even know you’re making.” Douglas Adams
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Thought for the day....... "Assumptions close doors. Intrigue opens them." Sam Owen
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Thought for the day....... “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams
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Thought for the day....... "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary. Whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Isaac Newton
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Thought for the day....... “The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give. The joy of life is to love.” Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thought for the day....... "Sometimes rest is the highest spiritual practice." Tom Yeomans
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Thought for the day....... “You should never underestimate the power of keeping your mind open to new information. If you're always receptive, you could gain just that piece of the puzzle you need, when you're least expecting it.” Bryan Dodge
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Thought for the day....... "To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent--that is to triumph over old age." Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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9-1-22 Thought for the day....... "A man never speaks of himself without losing thereby. His self-accusations are always believed; his self-praise disbelieved." Michel de Montague
9-2-22 Thought for the day....... “Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life." Wu-Men (1183-1260)
9-3-22 Thought for the day....... “We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.” Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
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Thought for the day....... “After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.” Michael Foley, Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life
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Thought for the day....... “Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.” Criss Jami, Killosophy
Wishing you a memorable Labor Day!! Enjoy and stay safe!!
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Thought for the day....... “There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.” Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance
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Thought for the day....... “Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” Brene Brown
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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....... “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....... “Keep your mind open; challenge yourself before you challenge others.” Debasish Mri
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Thought for the day....... “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” Gloria Steinem
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Thought for the day....... “If we use resources productively and take to heart the lessons learned from coping with the energy crisis, we face a future confronted only, as Pogo, once said, by insurmountable opportunities. The many crises facing us should be seen, then, not as threats, but as chances to remake the future so it serves all beings.” Hunter Lovins
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Thought for the day....... “Experiences that come and go are not an experience of the permanent state. The permanent state never comes and goes, and it is not experienced at one time but not at other.” Papaji
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Thought for the day....... “The world is here to surprise us. My most lasting insights have occurred off the [meditation] cushion, not on it.” Stephen Batchelor, The Art of Solitude
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Thought for the day....... “When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight. When you see in yourself the wish that the other person stop suffering, that is a sign of real love.” Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thought for the day....... “The only problem facing you in life is the belief in separation from your Source. Solve that one and all the other ones will vanish.” John Randolph Price
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Thought for the day....... “How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” John Burroughs
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Thought for the day....... "All those days that came and went, little did I know that they were life." Stig Johansson
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Thought for the day....... “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated" William James
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9-20-22 Thought for the day....... “Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.” Albert Camus
Thought for the day....... “Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” Charles Bukowski
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Thought for the day....... “What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.” John Ruskin
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Thought for the day....... “The greatest communication is usually how we are rather than what we say.” Joseph Goldstein
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Thought for the day....... “Our progress in meditation does not depend on the measure of pleasure or pain in our experience. Rather, the quality of our practice has to do with how open we are to whatever is there.” Joseph Goldstein, Insight Meditation: A Psychology of Freedom
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Thought for the day....... “And just as a path that goes to a mountain does not cause the mountain, the path of practice leads us to this highest freedom, but does not cause it.”
Joseph Goldstein, Insight Meditation: A Psychology of Freedom
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Thought for the day....... "Our greatest strength lies not in how much we differ from each other but in how much-how very much-we are the same." Eknath Easwaran, The Compassionate Universe
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Thought for the day....... “The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.” B.F. Skinner
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Thought for the day....... “Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.” Alan Wilson Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
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Thought for the day....... “Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.” Isaac Asimov
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Thought for the day....... "Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted." George Knell
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Thought for the day....... “I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color--something which exists before all forms and colors appear... No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.” Shunryu Suzuki
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Thought for the day....... "Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it." Ken Keyes, Jr.
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Thought for the day....... “If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.” J. Krishnamurti
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Thought for the day....... “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... “Revelation is beyond doctrines and belief systems. It is beyond everything imaginable. It is beyond because it is so close. Revelation is more direct than every word, for it arises out of the truth of who you are. This truth is all you have ever longed for, all you have ever needed.” Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... “A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn’t mean we don’t run and jump and dance about. It means there’s no compulsiveness. We don’t overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.” Pema Chodran
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Thought for the day.......“At its best religion is the way humanity translates its deepest myths — the metaphors, parables, and stories that carry our greatest insights into the human struggle for justice, compassion, and wisdom — into rituals and behaviors supportive of caring community.” Rabbi Rami Shapiro
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Thought for the day....... “The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. ” Rachel Naomi Remen
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Thought for the day....... “Face your embarrassment at being human, and you’ll uncover a deep well of passion and compassion. It’s a great power, your Open Secret. When your heart is undefended, you make it safe for whomever you meet to put down his burden of hiding, and then you both can walk through the open door.” Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
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Thought for the day....... “Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.” Rachel Naomi Remen
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Thought for the day....... "When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are." Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... “The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.” Rachel Naomi Remen
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Thought for the day....... “We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” Carl Jung
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Thought for the day....... “Harvest the meaning of life and pass it down to the next generation through stories.” Joan Borysenko
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Thought for the day....... “Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? It's really all memory ... except for each passing moment." Eric Kandel (Neuroscientist, Columbia University)
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Thought for the day....... “When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.” Mooji
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10-25-22 Thought for the day....... “Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.” Rachel Naomi Remen
10-26-22 Thought for the day....... “Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.” Rachel Naomi Remen
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Thought for the day....... “Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it.” Naval Ravikant
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10-28-22 Thought for the day....... “You are not what you want to be. You are what you do daily.” Maxime Lagacé
10-29-22 Thought for the day....... “Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away or become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.” Pema Chodran
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Thought for the day....... “The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.” Charles Sanders Peirce
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Thought for the day....... “Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, voices whisper in the trees, ‘Tonight is Halloween!'” Dexter Kozen
Happy Halloween!!!!
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Thought for the day....... “I find that a duck’s opinion of me is very much influenced over whether or not I have bread.” Mitch Hedberg
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Thought for the day....... “The body loves routine. Try to eat, sleep, and so on at the same times every day in order for the body to function at its optimum efficiency. The body loves consistency.” Theresa Hearn Haynes
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Thought for the day....... “Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” Aldous Huxley
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Thought for the day....... “When you train your eyes to see the magic and miracles in the little things, you open the door for your whole life to shift.” Carol Woodlif
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Thought for the day....... “If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.” Jake Thompson
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Thought for the day....... “It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul.” Rachel Naomi Remen
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Thought for the day....... “Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection” Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Thought for the day....... “My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!” Dr. Seuss
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Thought for the day....... "Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." Jonas Salk
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Thought for the day....... “If you wish to become a philosopher, the first thing to realise is that most people go through life with a whole world of beliefs that have no sort of rational justification, and that one man’s world of beliefs is apt to be incompatible with another man’s, so that they cannot both be right. People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration.” Bertrand Russell
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Thought for the day....... “If you’ve dug deep into your reluctance and uncovered some of your limiting, filtering beliefs, take a pause and congratulate yourself. This process can be really uncomfortable; after all, you’re pushing against some of the fundamental ways that you relate to the world and the people in it, and that can be really unsettling. So unsettling, in fact, that when we encounter evidence against these beliefs, we often prefer to dispute or dismiss that evidence than to give up our more fundamental beliefs.” Rebecca Roac
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Thought for the day....... “For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Thought for the day....... “Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over will always stand between us and life. When we don’t grieve, a part of us becomes caught in the past like Lot’s wife who, because she looked back, was turned into a pillar of salt.” Rachel Naomi Remen
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Thought for the day....... "The Self is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." C.G. Jung
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Thought for the day....... "Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing." Thomas H. Huxley
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Thought for the day....... “Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.” Thomas Merton
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Thought for the day....... “Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.” Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thought for the day....... “To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart; a heart that's aching to see you smile again.” Laura Ortiz
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Thought for the day....... "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Thought for the day....... “Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Thought for the day....... “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.” Alfred Adler
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Thought for the day.......”Your breathing is happening. Your thinking is happening. Your feeling is happening. Your hearing, your seeing, the clouds are happening across the sky. The sky is happening blue, the sun is happening shining. You are a function of this total galaxy, bounded by the Milky Way, and this galaxy is a function of all other galaxies.” Alan Watts
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Thought for the day....... “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... “Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages are nothing but the mind. The bubbles of water and the flames of fire are nothing but the mind. The flowers of the spring and the moon of the autumn are nothing but the mind. Confusions and dangers are nothing but the mind.” Dogen
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Thought for the day....... “Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.” Frieda Harris
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Thought for the day....... “Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.” Timothy Leary
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Thought for the day....... “I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.” Kristin Armstrong
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