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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....... " 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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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
Posted by robi (Member # 5547) on :
Thanks for these.......I like them a lot
robi
Posted by lymesux (Member # 6248) on :
Hey Lightfoot,
good to see you posting these!!
thanks, AK
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Thought for the day....... "Never fear shadows.... that always means there is a light shining somewhere." Jonathan Santos
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it." Ken Keyes, Jr.
Thanks robi and lymesux for your responses!! I'm hopelessly addicted to quotes!!! Glad you are enjoying tham!!
have a great day!!! lightfoot
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
Posted by trecetetodromonmetabia (Member # 6250) on :
lightfoot,I love these quotes.Keep posting them!
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Thought for the day....... "The most important words we'll ever utter are those words we say to ourselves, about ourselves, when we are by ourselves." Al Waker
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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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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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "If you are coming to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you are coming because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together." Australian Aboriginal Woman
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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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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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart." Mencius (Meng-Tse), 4th century BCE
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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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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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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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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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." Descartes
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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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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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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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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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear...It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to." Marilyn Ferguson
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "If everything is coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane." Garrison Keillor
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet." Hal Borland
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "Among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver." Maya Angelou
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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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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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." Mark Twain
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion." Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "Laughter liberates. It liberates from the fear of the sacred, of the past, of power. Laughter shows the world anew." Bakhtin
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do." Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is you. Remember that all is in motion, is growing, is you." Joy Harjo
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Thought for the day....... "Consciousness is the ability to release the old and embrace the new with the awareness that all things end at the appropriate time and that all things begin at the appropriate time." Caroline Myss
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Thought for the day....... " Understanding is the willingness to put yourself in another's shoes for the sake of appreciating that person's experience of the world." Tom Rusk M.D.
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Thought for the day....... "Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God." Bayazid al-Bistami
Posted by treepatrol (Member # 4117) on :
This is the day that the Lord hath made. Let us be glad and rejoice in it!
Whats this mean to you?
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Hi Tree!!
What I enjoy about quotes is the fact that the same one can strike me differently at differnt times. I like the "food for thought" aspect.
It always seems to point back to the attention of the present moment and the appreciation of it all.
Healing thoughts.......lightfoot
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." Epictetus
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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....... "If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it." Stanley Garn
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Thought for the day....... "There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy." Ralph H. Blum (American Author)
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Thought for the day....... "Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears. Love lives the moment; it's neither lost in yesteryear nor does it crave for tomorrow. Love is NOW!" Leo Buscaglia
Happy Valentines Day!!!
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Thought for the day....... "You are not your personal history. You are not your story." Eckhart Tolle
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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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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away." Linus Pauling
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Thought for the day....... "Loving can make plain people beautiful." Linda Clark
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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....... "The Self is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." C.G. Jung
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
Posted by laserred (Member # 6796) on :
-lightfoot- I love your 'quotes for the day' thread, some are a little deep for my lymie brain some days but keep 'um coming....they are very inspiring!
Thanks -laserred-
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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)
Thanks for the feedback, laserred!!!! Glad you are enjoying them!! I'm hopelessly hooked on them. Have a great day!!! Healing thoughts....lightfoot
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Thought for the day....... "Forgiving releases you from the punishment of a self-made prison where you are both the inmate and the jailer." Howard Martin
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Thought for the day....... "Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being." Mahatma Gandhi
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out." Michael Burke
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Thought for the day....... "There was never a good war, or a bad peace." Benjamin Franklin
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Thought for the day....... "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." Mother Teresa
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Thought for the day....... "Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy." Thomas Paine
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Thought for the day....... "Blessed are the Peacemakers, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven." Matthew
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "If you must speak badly of someone, don't speak it, but write it -- in the sand, at the water's edge, near the waves." Unknown
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Thought for the day....... " Only dead fish swim with the stream." Malcolm Muggeridge
Posted by Loribelle (Member # 6293) on :
i really enjoy these...... thanks
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Thought for the day....... ``Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.'' Leonardo da Vinci
Loribelle...thanks for your input.....soooo glad you are enjoying them!!! Have a great day!!
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Thought for the day....... "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned." Buddha
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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....... "Predictions are difficult, especially about the future." Yogi Berra
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Thought for the day....... "When we touch beneath all the busyness of thought we discover a sweet, healing silence, an inherent peacefulness in each of us, a goodness of heart, strength and wholeness that is our birthright." Jack Kornfield (A Path With Heart)
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Thought for the day....... "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murders, and for a time they may seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always." Mahatma Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... "He who adds not to his learning diminishes it" The Talmud
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Thought for the day....... "It's what we learn after we think we know it all that counts." Dr. B. J. Palmer (the developer of Chiropractic)
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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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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?" Lao-Tzu, Tao-te-Ching
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
Posted by cbb (Member # 788) on :
Lightfoot, Thanks for taking time to give us these Thoughts for the day..."
Sorry to be so slow in thanking you. I'm sure others are appreciative, too.
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Thought for the day....... "When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination." Dr. Rollo May
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Thought for the day....... "Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent." Stephen Jay Gould
cbb.....you are very welcome.....glad you are enjoying the Thoughts......!!!!
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Thought for the day....... "Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance." S. Leonard Rubinstein, A Habit of Mind
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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....... "A friend's eye is a good mirror." Irish Proverb
Happy Saint Patricks Day!!!!!
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Thought for the day....... "I never gave them hell. I just told the truth and they think it's hell." Harry S. Truman
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Thought for the day....... "It is never too late to give up your prejudices." Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... "Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop, than when we soar." William Wordsworth
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Thought for the day....... "Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment." Ellis Peters
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Thought for the day....... "Never stand between a dog and the hydrant." John Peers
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Thought for the day....... " Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter." Longchenpa
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are." Edgar Z. Friedenber
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Thought for the day....... "Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his lifewith reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will to live." Albert Schweitzer
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Thought for the day....... "A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind." John Neal
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Thought for the day....... "As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape." John Lancaster Spalding
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Thought for the day....... "Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush." Doug Larson
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Thought for the day....... "You forgive if you stop the interpretations and descriptions." Manuel Schoch
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Thought for the day....... "If I had a prayer, it would be this: God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen" Byron Katie
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Thought for the day....... "The best of conversations occur when there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments." Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
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Thought for the day....... "Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd." Voltaire (1767)
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Thought for the day....... "No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive." Mohandas Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... "Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." Saul Bellow
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Thought for the day....... "Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. A generous habit of thought and action carries with it an incalculable influence." Christian Bovee (1820-1904)
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Thought for the day....... "Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes." John Ruskin (1819-1900)
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Thought for the day....... "Certain thoughts are prayers. There are certain moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees." Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
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Thought for the day....... "Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity." Thomas Watson - Founder of IBM (1874-1956)
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Thought for the day....... "The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about." Wayne Dyer
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Thought for the day....... ``The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.'' Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
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Thought for the day....... "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian." Dennis Wholey (1937-)
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Thought for the day....... " Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal." Mary Baker Eddy
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Thought for the day....... "But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things; by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me." Richard Feynman
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time." Josh Billings (1856-1950, Irish playwright & critic)
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Thought for the day....... "Spirituality is not what we think about God or theology, it's participation. That's all it is." Anne Wilson Schaef
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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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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." Wilson Mizner
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Thought for the day....... "Worship is celebration. All of life is a festival: being persuaded that God is everywhere present on all sides, we praise him as we till the ground, we sing hymns as we sow the seed, we feel his inspiration in all we do." Clement of Alexander
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Thought for the day....... "Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person. In those transparent moments we know other people's joys and sorrows, and we care about their concerns as if they were our own." Fritz Williams
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Thought for the day....... "The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven." John Milton
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Thought for the day....... "Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed." Corita Kent
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Thought for the day....... "Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else." Hermann Hesse
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Thought for the day....... "Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state." George Eliot
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Thought for the day....... "You will have many opportunities in life to keep your mouth shut: You should take advantage of every one of them." Thomas Edison
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Thought for the day....... "Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together." Eugene Ionesco
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Thought for the day....... "The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise." Tacitus
Posted by Glassfish (Member # 5693) on :
Lightfoot, Question? I found a quote I want to
display in my butterfly garden, but I
couldn't make out the whole name of the
person who said it. The quote is "Instead
of lamenting the absurdity of the world let
us try to transform the corner of it into
which we were born." I didn't want to not
give the right person credit. The first
name is Andre. The last starts with Ma..
I think. That's all ai could make out.
Glassfish
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Hi Glassfish!!
Neat quote there!! I did a quick search and haven't found the author as yet. I will take some more time with it latter today. Fun challenge!!! Can you tell me anything about where you heard or found it.....could help with the search.
Healing thoughts.....lightfoot
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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
Posted by Glassfish (Member # 5693) on :
Well, you have me hooked after I saw the quote from Charles Mingus.
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant." Stephen Sigmund
Posted by pippy (Member # 6005) on :
foot, thanks for the quotes! I love them! pip
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Hi!!
Glassfish......I was glad to see you found the author but I couldn't get the link to work, ideas?
Lou & pippy.....enjoy!! Guaranteed yeast free, compatible with all meds and good for lyme brain!!
Healing thoughts.....lightfoot
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Thought for the day....... "All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene." William Ellery Channing
Posted by Glassfish (Member # 5693) on :
Lightfoot,
Sorry 'bout that. I must have lymed out for a while there. I checked what I wrote... misspelled "conservation". I couldn't type even in high school now...Yikes! OK Let's try this again. www.butterflygardeningandconservation.com
Glassfish
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Thought for the day....... "The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward." Meng-Tse
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Thought for the day....... "Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows." Charles Reade
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves." Pema Chodron
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Thought for the day........ "The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body." George Sheehan
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "There is in all visible things...a hidden wholeness." Thomas Merton
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too." Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lou (Member # 81) on :
OK, this last one stumps me. Quiet hearts are bad things?
Posted by pippy (Member # 6005) on :
hey foot, thanks. that one today is one of those that makes you stop and think.
Strength in seeming fragility...sweetness and levity in the hardest things????
Ahhhh, if only that feeling could be bottled and sold to us...it would cure better than the best medicine...enlightenment will have to wait for now
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Hi lou! Mitchell seems to be presenting a koan here. (koan: NOUN: A puzzling, often paradoxical statement or story, used in Zen Buddhism as an aid to meditation and a means of gaining spiritual awakening.)
His works are focused on bringing the threads of truth underlying the world religions and philosophies together in language, stories and poetry of our day. His books look pretty interesting. You can read short blips about his many books here: http://www.stephenmitchellbooks.com/anthologies/enlightenedMind.html
So.....there is no right answer......but something to get us pondering.
And to pippy.....glad that one got you thinking too......me too. For me, today, it means a quiet heart sees the all of everything.
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "It does not require many words to speak the truth." Chief Joseph (1840-1904)
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Thought for the day....... "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering." Yoda
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Thought for the day....... "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." Margaret Fuller
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Thought for the day....... "When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life." Jean Shindola Bolen
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together." Josh Billings
Posted by Glassfish (Member # 5693) on :
Lightfoot...
How 'bout "Do or Do Not. There is no Try." -Yoda from "the Empire Strikes Back"
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "We are always vulnerable to the negative and accessible to the positive." Ruth Denison, The Book of Ruth
Glassfish.....I love that one!!!!
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Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning." Ivy Baker Priest
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Thought for the day....... "Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it." Elaine St. James
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Thought for the day....... "A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born." Antoine de Saint Exupery
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Thought for the day....... "Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer." Harriet Rochlin
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours." Swedish Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth." George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
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Thought for the day....... "How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown." Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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Thought for the day....... "Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." Theodore Isaac Rubin
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Thought for the day....... "Joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed." Kahil Gibran
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." Abraham Lincoln
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips." Oliver Goldsmith (English Author, 1723-1774)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.'' Hamilton Wright Mabee
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "He who thinks he has no faults has one." Unknown
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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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place." Daniel J. Boorstin
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering." Henri-Frederic Amiel
Posted by Kathy Boss (Member # 3062) on :
Lightfoot,
Choice words of wisdom, I LOVE it.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
Words not from a popular known source..... It's just from me.
"Today may feel like the last day of your life.....Tomorrow can be the new beginning.
Scrape, dig, crawl, cry, laugh, believe in you, question all oppositions.
Choice words of wisdom, I LOVE it.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
Words not from a popular known source..... It's just from me.
"Today may feel like the last day of your life.....Tomorrow can be the new beginning.
Scrape, dig, crawl, cry, laugh, believe in you, question all opositions, love life, love you, love those that are ignorant, move on and on with your last leg forward....
YOU are the most important part of your healing.
Many of you may say "I have already done this"
Well......Do it again and again. Believe in you. Leave nagative remarks at the door.
Get alkaline DRINK WHOLE LEMON JUICE EVERYDAY.. Do not go crazy on a yeast free diet. Just eat right! This is a automimunne disease. We loose all sorts of vitamins and minerals. NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT ANSWER.
When you try to eliminate certain foods/or add certain vitamins.... you are leashing out against all odds. Expecting...hopeing for the best outcome. Did they know? Are they doctors? Are they insurance specialists and if so.... could they have saved my life, could they have saved me money?
Doctors...as we know them. We expect them to have the best knowledge. We forget they are human too. Are we getting what we think is the best?
Situations, love.... life, love for yourself, love those that are ignorant, move on and on with your last leg forward....
YOU are the most important part of your healing.
Many of you may say "I have already done this"
Well......Do it again and again. Believe in you. Leave nagative remarks at the door.
Get alkaline DRINK WHOLE LEMON JUICE EVERYDAY.. Do not go grazy on a yeast free diet. Just eat right! This is a automimunne disease. We loose all sorts of vitamins and minerals. NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT ANSWER.
When you try to eliminate certain foods/or add certain vitamins.... you are leashing out against all odds. Expecting...hopeing for the best outcome. Did they know? Are they doctors? Are they insurance specialists and if so.... could they have saved my life, could they have saved me money?
Follow one example one step at a time. If it does not work in 30 days give it up quickly and go to the next. Don't loose time.
This is so messed up. Foolow YOUR instincts. Doctors...as we know them. We expect them to have the best knowledge. We forget they are human too. Are we getting what we think is the best?
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Hi there, Kathy Boss!!
Thanks for your wonderful positive comments and personal words of wisdom. We are definitely the most important person on our medical team and we have to be pioneers in our treatment. Our good docs don't live in our skins 24/7.
Hope you are doing well out there in El Paso!!!
Healing smiles and hugs.......lightfoot
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy." Bobby Jones
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." Mark Twain
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... "We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom." Anne Morrow Lindberg
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams." Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
Posted by CA quest (Member # 6827) on :
here are some good quotes already here...but I can't resist adding a few more: two touting diversity and one relishing "doubt".... "that low kinds live without!" Quest.
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.--Doug Floyd
Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.--Vulcan greeting
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about... -- Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity." Arabian Proverb
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
CA quest, hello!!
Thanks for the wonderful quotes.....every one great!!! I greeted a friend with the Vulcan greeting yesterday!!
Always tickled to meet another quote enthusiast.
Healing thoughts.....lightfoot
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness." Thich Nhat Hanh (French-based Vietnamese Buddhist monk, peace activist and author, b. 1926)
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Thought for the day....... "The learning never stops. 'To teach is to learn' is a Japanese Proverb which reminds us to see every time we teach something as a chance to learn it all again from scratch ourselves." Despina
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "'Come to the edge,' He said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' He said. They came. He pushed them...and they flew." Guillaume Apollinaire
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly; the chances are, it's holding you too." Bob Alberti
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." Michelangelo
Posted by shadow13 (Member # 1467) on :
My Father
The memory of my father is wrapped in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day at work. Thought for the day .... "Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body, and the rivers of his hands overflowed with good deeds.
--Yehuda Amichai
Posted by shadow13 (Member # 1467) on :
Thought for the day ........
******************************** "Rest as soon as there is pain...." --Hippocrates ********************************
Posted by shadow13 (Member # 1467) on :
Thought for the day ............
************************************** "Loving can cost a lot, but not loving always costs more...." --Merle Shain **************************************
Posted by shadow13 (Member # 1467) on :
Thought for the day ........
***************************************** "If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power but for the passionate sense of the potential...." --Soren Kierkegaard *****************************************
Posted by shadow13 (Member # 1467) on :
Thought for the day ..........
****************************************** "If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others." --Anne Morrow Lindbergh ******************************************
Posted by shadow13 (Member # 1467) on :
Thought for the day ........
******************************************** "The mind can also be an erogenous zone." --Raquel Welch ********************************************
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow." Luigi Pirandello
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Hi Shadow!!
Thanks for the wonderful quotes, every one superb!! They'll go into my collection. Always fun to meet another quote enthusiast!
Smiles....lightfoot
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Laughter really is good medicine. It reduces stress, relieves pain, lowers blood pressure and boosts the immune system. It puts people at ease and can lower the tension level in your relationships. Frequent laughter may even reduce your risk for heart disease" Craig Hassed, MBBS. (senior lecturer, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "What worries you, masters you." John Locke
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Thought for the day....... "Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile...initially scared me to death." Betty Bender
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have." Edvard Munch
Posted by FightFireWithWater (Member # 5781) on :
"And just at the moment that the caterpillar thought that all was lost, it turned into a butterfly!"
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear." Marilyn C. Barrick, Psychologist and writer
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "What we call 'I' is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. When your mind is... calm enough to follow this movement, there is nothing, no world, no mind nor body, just a swinging door." Pema Chodron
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Howdy, FightFireWithWater!
I love the metaphor of the caterpillar and the butterfly!! Thanks!!!
Healing smiles.....lightfoot
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... "Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave." Mary Tyler Moore
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Thought for the day....... "There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." P.J. O'Rourke
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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 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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust." Josh Billings
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Thought for the day....... "We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still." Lewis Thomas
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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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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." Thomas Paine
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Thought for the day....... "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." Thomas Alva Edison
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "...stay cool babies. For those of you who don't know, to stay cool is to believe, to have the sweet fragrance of serenity rock your wig." Lord Buckley
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need." Jerry Gillies
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "I have often thought that morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice." Leon Blum
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The greatest strength is gentleness." Iroquois Proverb
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else." Thomas Merton
Posted by Loribelle (Member # 6293) on :
I have told you before, just thought I'd say it again...
thanks for these
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit." R. E. Shay
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense and believe you can achieve things, which are impossible." Mary Anne M. B. L. Radmacher
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Life, on the whole, isn't like fiction. It's only in hindsight that you can make these pseudo-patterns; create a narrative in which you are the main protagonist; pretend that it was all destined to happen the way that it happened." Carole Cadwalladr
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.'' Henry Miller
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open." Shakti Gawain
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." Mark Twain
I'll be away from the computer August 1st through 9th. I'll "see" you when I get back....smiles.....lightfoot
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Many rounds of merriment and pleasure past, soon it will be evening. Drunk with tears now, rest and see, soon it will be too late to finish the journey." Lao Folk Saying
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." Robert Louis Stevenson
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words". Unknown
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The only journey is the one within." Rainer Maria Rilke
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day...... "The greatest revelation is stillness." Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... "If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot." John Bunyan
Posted by Marnie (Member # 773) on :
Blessed With Stress
Those few who're stressed beyond what's fair can find a strength in struggle's lair can come to know a deeper care and realize things they're want to share.
For like the tree our spirits grow towards nearest light we come to know past any force, however slow whatever vessel guides our flow.
The quality of light we find - the nutrients our roots can bind - the space where branches unwind - is most determined by our mind.
And that is where we differ most for other trees this planet hosts and why we're so darn quick to boast the spirit of a Holy Ghost.
When really we're just nature's leap- a brand new niche she's found to reap- a fresh step in her subtle creep towards forms of life that she can keep.
And that is why she loves to stress those beings who have been most blessed for it is they that she has guessed who'll find the path to save the rest!
-Anonymous
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Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence." John Lahr
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thanks, Marnie!!! That's beautiful and makes my day!!!
Healing smiles....lightfoot
Posted by lymeloco on :
Thank you for posting those thought's for the day.
They are very inspiring, and thought provoking when I'm able to focus.lol
You come away with a whole new sense of life and self. Thanks, again
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "I discovered the middle path of stillness within speed, calmness within fear, and I held it longer and quieter than ever before." Steve McKinney
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Dear lymeloco,
Thanks, glad you are enjoying them!!! Somehow it seems to soften the ole' Lyme life....
Healing smiles....lightfoot
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Thought for the day....... "It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is the space between the bars that holds the tiger." An Old Zen Saying
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Thought for the day....... "Friends are people you can be quiet with." Unknown
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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....... "Friendship is a sheltering tree." Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
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Thought for the day....... "God is the essence of all that appears, God is not what appears." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "I see you as you are, for I see that you are as I am, and I have seen myself." Daniel Waite
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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 prudent question is one-half of wisdom." Francis Bacon
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Thought for the day....... "Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom." Chip Bell
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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....... "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....... "Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." Denis Waitley
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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....... "There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived." Amy Grant
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Thought for the day....... "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought." Basho
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Thought for the day....... "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." John Wooden (Hall of Fame Basketball Coach)
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Thought for the day....... "Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty." John Finley
I'm off today for an outdoor adventure in the mountains and will be back on the 10th. "See" you all then!!!
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Thought for the day....... "The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other." Epictetus. Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... "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....... "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
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Thought for the day....... "Compassion is the basis of morality." Arnold Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
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Thought for the day....... "Love is an act of courage." Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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Thought for the day....... "One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life." Anatole France (1844-1924)
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Thought for the day....... "In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool." Rabbi Ben Azai
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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....... "Though leaves are many, the root is one" W.B. Yeats
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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....... "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. If [people] can learn to hate they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." Nelson Mandela
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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....... "Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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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....... "As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens." Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping
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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....... "Peace originates with the flow of things -- its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is like the veins that circulate blood through our bodies, following the natural flow of the life force. If you are separated in the slightest from that divine essence, you are far off the path." Morihei Uyeshiba (1883-1969)
Founder of Aikido, a Japanese martial art dedicated to peace
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Thought for the day....... "Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers." Austin O'Malley
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Thought for the day....... "The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is a process of change." William James
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Thought for the day....... "And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." Roald Dahl
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Thought for the day....... "In order for your dreams to come true, you've got to stay awake." Charles Durning
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Thought for the day....... "The hardest part of anything is the beginning, and the second hardest part is letting go when it's the end." E. Fritz
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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....... "Every exit is an entry somewhere." Tom Stoppard
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Thought for the day....... "The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart." Julien Green
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Thought for the day....... "Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken." Frank Herbert
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Thought for the day....... "Nothing exists; all things are becoming." Reiho Masunaga
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Thought for the day....... "Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one." Voltaire
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Thought for the day....... "Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places." Frederick Douglass
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Thought for the day....... "Honest men fear neither the light nor the dark." Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
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Thought for the day....... "I have no desire to move mountains, construct monuments, or leave behind in my wake material evidence of my existence. But, in the final recollection, if the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart . . . Then in living--I have made my mark." Thomas L. Odem
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Thought for the day....... "No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know." Lucretius
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Thought for the day....... "Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other." M. C. Richards
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Thought for the day....... "No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking." Voltaire
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Thought for the day....... "The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience." Benjamin Franklin
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Thought for the day....... "The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause." Henri Bergson
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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....... "To those who are awake, there is one ordered universe common to all, whereas in sleep each man turns away from this world to one of his own." Heraclitus
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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....... "Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters." African Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?" C. S. Lewis
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Thought for the day....... "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." John Muir
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Thought for the day....... "To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause within our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace." Terry Tempest Williams
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Thought for the day....... "We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts." William Hazlitt
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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." George C Lichtenberg
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Thought for the day....... "Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough." Charles Dudley Warner
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Thought for the day....... "Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus." 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....... "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....... "When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it." Carl Sagan
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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 awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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....... "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile...it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"What we do does not define us.".
What defines us is how well we rise
after falling" Author unknown. Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... "Peace originates with the flow of things -- its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is like the veins that circulate blood through our bodies, following the natural flow of the life force. If you are separated in the slightest from that divine essence, you are far off the path." Monihei Uyeshiba (1883-1969)
Thanks, dana!!!
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Thought for the day....... "We must remember that hatred is like acid. It does more damage to the vessel in which it is stored than to the object on which it is poured." Ann Landers
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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....... "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....... "Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances." Seneca (4 BC-65 AD)
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Thought for the day....... "If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman." Luther Burbank
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Thought for the day....... "The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life" Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "He that does good to another does good also to himself." Seneca
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Thought for the day....... "I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him." Abraham Lincoln
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Thought for the day....... "Thought, like all potent weapons, is exceedingly dangerous if mishandled. Clear thinking is therefore desirable not only in order to develop the full potentialities of the mind, but also to avoid disaster." Giles St. Aubyn
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Thought for the day....... "we are inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts." Harold Nicolson
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Thought for the day....... "When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see reality for what it really is, infinite." William Blake
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Thought for the day....... "Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road." John Henry Jowett
Happy Thanksgiving!
I am grateful for each of you. I am grateful for discovering Lyme in my life. I am grateful for the progress I'm making. I am grateful for this board.
Healing smiles & laughter......lightfoot Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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, Simple Abundance
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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....... Little by little one walks far" Peruvian Proverb
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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....... "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....... "Oh if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that seem so trivial and unimportant at the time! And should we not conclude from such examples that there is no such thing in life as unimportant moments devoid of meaning for the future?" Isabelle Eberhardt (The Passionate Nomad)
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Thought for the day....... "There is no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another." E. B. White
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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 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.......
12-5 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
12-6 Thought for the day....... "When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change... you will change." Anonymous
12-7 Thought for the day....... "Some people change their ways when they see the light; other when they feel the heat." Caroline Schoeder
12-8 Thought for the day....... "Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness." Marshall McLuhan
12-9 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....... "Wisdom is to finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit." Saint Thomas Aquinas
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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....... "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....... "We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion." Benjamin Cardozo
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Thought for the day....... "If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you don't bring forth will destroy you." The Gospel of St. Thomas
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Thought for the day....... "Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine." William Feather
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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....... "Peace of mind happens to a man only after he has developed deep insight, only after he starts seeing the things in the right perspective." Sam Veda
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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....... "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." Roald Dahl
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Thought for the day....... "Those who wish to sing, always find a song." Swedish Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion." Barry Lopez
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Thought for the day....... "Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision" Harold Taylor
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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 will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." Charles Dickens.
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December 26, 2005
Thought for the day....... "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." Henry Ward Beecher
December 27, 2005
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....... "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....... ``Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.'' Maya Angelou
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Thought for the day....... "All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes." Cecil
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Thought for the day....... "The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." Ivy Baker
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Thought for the day....... "Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities -- those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness." Thich Nhat Hanh
Best wishes for healing, laughter, friendship and support in the New Year!!!
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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....... "The heart should be fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every minutest fibre." Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Thought for the day....... "Be willing to be a beginner every single morning." Meister Eckhart
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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....... "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....... He who knows not and knows not that he knows not, He is a fool - shun him;
He who knows not and knows he knows not, He is simple - teach him;
He who knows and knows not he knows, He is asleep - wake him;
He who knows and knows he knows, He is wise - follow him. Arabian Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves." John Locke
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Thought for the day....... "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." Lin Yutang
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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....... "He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds." St. Gregory
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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....... "A realized soul is like a river or a tree, giving comfort and coolness to those who come to him." Amma
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Thought for the day....... "A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world." Joseph Addison
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Thought for the day....... "He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature." Socrates (470?-399)
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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....... "True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment." William Penn
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Thought for the day....... "All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand.....any dog, child, or horse would recognize the kindness of it." Freya Stark
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Thought for the day....... "The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life." Robert Louis Stevenson
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Thought for the day....... The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only." Joseph Wood Krutch
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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....... "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul." John Muir
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Thought for the day....... "Nature is a mutual cloud, which is always and never the same." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted by treepatrol (Member # 4117) on :
When you have the runs
run for it
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Thought for the day....... "How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset." George MacDonald
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Tree....good advice!!! Sounds like the experience is close in memory!!! Or....we could say it's one we don't forget!!!
Thought for the day....... "That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed." Vida D. Scudder
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Thought for the day....... "The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next." Mignon McLaughlin
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Thought for the day....... "For fast acting relief; try slowing down." Lily Tomlin
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1-29-06 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
1-30-06 Thought for the day....... "The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring." Francis H. Bradley
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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....... "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....... "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....... "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
Posted by cbb (Member # 788) on :
I continue to be impressed with your time & effort in giving us the "Thought for the day...". Thank you so much for sharing!!!
This German Proverb seems to illustrate the problem the medical community has with Lyme disease: "An old error is always more popular than a new truth."
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Thought for the day....... "Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all." Thomas A. Kempis.
Thanks, cbb!! It's my pleasure. I startd collecting quotes about four years ago from all over. I continue collecting as an inspirational pastime.
So true, your German Proverb!!!
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Thought for the day....... "Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear." Corrie Ten Boom
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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....... "If your motive is good, a farting donkey won't harm you." Omani Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "Step by step the ladder is ascended." George Herbert
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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....... "You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least three ways." M. Minsky
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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....... "You can't choose up sides on a round world." Wayne Dyer
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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....... "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... "A light heart lives long." William Shakespeare
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Thought for the day....... "Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." Denis Waitley
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
Got this today & had to share this.
God has kept me here for a reason
Repeat after me:
God has kept me here for a reason. I survived because He has a plan for me.
All my bad relationships, the bad credit, the repossessions, the death of my loved ones, the back stabbing from my friends, the negative thoughts, or the lack of support; I made it because I am blessed!
I release and let go of all past hurts, misunderstandings and grudges because I am blessed! I recognize them as the illusions they are, for God is all there is. All else is a lie!
Now give yourself a hug, wipe your tears and walk in victory! I love you, but more appropriately God loves you BEST! Be blessed and know that you are at one with THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD!
And may the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other. Genesis 31:49. Amen!
Now since you are a true child of God, you know that with every blessing, a blessing is required! So bless another, by passing this on.
"The Will of GOD will never take you where the GRACE of GOD will not protect you."
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thanks, Betty!!!
I posted the Thought for the day..... before seeeing your post. I've been feeling very blessed latley and so your post realy hit home for me today!!
Thanks again!!
Thought for the day....... "You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection" The Buddha
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Thought for the day....... "Get to know two things about a man - how he earns his money and how be spends it - and you have the clue to his character, for you have a searchlight that shows up the innermost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, and his real religion." Robert J. McCracken
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Thought for the day....... "Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality." Alfred Painter
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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....... "A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness." Seneca
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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
Posted by hopeful123 (Member # 3244) on :
i have this pinned to my bulletin board at work:
don't be afraid to express yourself
cherish every day
love your friends, no matter who they are
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Hopeful.....I like it!!! Thanks!!
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)
Posted by FightFireWithWater (Member # 5781) on :
"Do Something Every Day That Scares You"
( ... No, I'm not talking about extreme sports)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Fire......good advice!! For us Lymies it can sometimes be a very small thing!! Did you see that olympic arial skiing?? Yikes!!
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....... "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....... "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
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Thought for the day....... "Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is." Yogi Berra
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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
Posted by FightFireWithWater (Member # 5781) on :
"It is only by risking from one hour to another that we live at all."
(Thank you for this inspiring thread, Lightfoot.)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Fire.....you are so welcome!! Do you know the author of the quote you included? It's a good one to rememeber!! Healing smiles....
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....... "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
Posted by FightFireWithWater (Member # 5781) on :
An especially important quotation just above, Lightfoot!
The risking hour by hour thought is from William James.
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Thought for the day....... "I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine." Bertrand Russell
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Thought for the day....... "Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade." Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
Posted by FightFireWithWater (Member # 5781) on :
"Action is character."
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Thought for the day....... "All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full" The Bible
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Thought for the day....... "Integrity has no need of rules." Albert Camus
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Thought for the day....... "The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." John Berry
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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
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
The Holy Alphabet is wonderful & gorgious graphics!
3-9-06 Thought for the day....... "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." Galileo
3-10-06 Thought for the day....... "Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure." George Milton
Thanks, Betty!! I'll explore that one!! Posted by Carlie (Member # 8745) on :
Lightfoot,
Cannot tell you how much I have enjoyed reading your quotes! They sure lifted my spirits today
Thank You! Carlie
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Thought for the day....... "All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love." Sri da Avabhas (Adi Da Samraj)
Carlie......welcome aboard! Glad you are enjoying them! Healing smiles.... Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... "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....... "The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life." Stephen Levine
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
up...was going to copy/paste something really darling here, but ran into problems. May try again tomorrow if I'm up to figuring out what went wrong!
PS - can any graphics go into the messages here along with the text in addition to signature line?Bettyg
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Thought for the day....... "Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact." Friedrich Nietzsche
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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....... ``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....... "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....... "When the well's dry, we know the worth of water." Benjamin Franklin
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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 need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind." Albert Camus
Posted by hopeful123 (Member # 3244) on :
thanks for all the postings....don't usually drop by, but glad i did today. will again soon.
thanks again Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech." Plutarch
hopeful, your are so welcome!!! Have a great day!!
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this! If you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it. If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope!
Why Go To Church? A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons.
But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."
This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:
"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But , for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals.
But I do know this... They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today.
Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!" When you are DOWN to nothing... God is UP to something!
Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!
All right .. now that you're done reading .send it on! I think everyone should read this!! "When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say, "Jesus, could you get that for me?!!"
Bettyg
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3-23-06 Thought for the day....... "Calmness comes from within. It is the peace and restfulness of the depths of our nature. The fury of storm and of wind agitate only the surface of the sea; they penetrate only two or three hundred feet; below that is the calm, unruffled deep. To be ready for the great crises of life we must learn serenity in our daily living. Calmness is the crown of self-control." William Jordon
3-24-06 Thought for the day....... ``There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots. The other is wings.'' Hodding Carter, Jr.
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Thought for the day....... "{True zazen is surrendering every moment.} But surrendering to what? It really does not matter what we call it: God or the Tao or the Dharma or the Buddha or our true nature. . . . It is the act of letting go, of surrendering, that matters. The very act of letting go opens us up completely." Dennis Genpo Merzel
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
The Penny
You always hear the usual stories of pennies on the sidewalk being good luck, gifts from angels, etc. This is the first time I've ever heard this twist on the story. Gives you something to think about.
Several years ago, a friend of mine and her husband were invited to spend the weekend at the husband's employer's home. My friend, Arlene, was nervous about the weekend. The boss was very wealthy, with a fine home on the waterway, and cars costing more than her house.
The first day and evening went well, and Arlene was delighted to have this rare glimpse into how the very wealthy live. The husband's employer was quite generous as a host, and took them to the finest restaurants.
Arlene knew she would never have the opportunity to indulge in this kind of extravagance again, so was enjoying herself immensely.
As the three of them were about to enter an exclusive restaurant that evening, the boss was walking slightly ahead of Arlene and her husband.
He stopped suddenly, looking down on the pavement for a long, silent moment.
Arlene wondered if she was supposed to pass him. There was nothing on the ground except a single darkened penny that someone had dropped, and a few cigarette butts.
Still silent, the man reached down and picked up the penny. He held it up and smiled, then put it in his pocket as if he had found a great treasure. How absurd!
What need did this man have for a single penny? Why would he even take the time to stop and pick it up?
Throughout dinner, the entire scene nagged at her. Finally, she could stand it no longer. She causally mentioned that her daughter once had a coin collection, and asked if the penny he had found had been of some value.
A smile crept across the man's face as he reached into his pocket for the penny and held it out for her to see. She had seen many pennies before! What was the point of this?
"Look at it." He said. "Read what it says." She read the words "United States of America." "No, not that; read further." "One cent?" "No, keep reading." "In God we Trust?" "Yes!" "And?"
"And if I trust in God, the name of God is holy, even on a coin.
Whenever I find a coin I see that inscription. It is written on every single United States coin, but we never seem to notice it! God drops a message right in front of me telling me to trust Him?
Who am I to pass it by? When I see a coin, I pray, I stop to see if my trust IS in God at that moment. I pick the coin up as a response to God; that I do trust in Him. For a short time, at least, I cherish it as if it were gold. I think it is God's way of starting a conversation with me.
Lucky for me, God is patient and pennies are plentiful!
When I was out shopping today, I found a penny on the sidewalk. I stopped and picked it up, and realized that I had been worrying and fretting in my mind about things I cannot change.
I read the words, "In God We Trust," and had to laugh. Yes, God, I get the message.
It seems that I have been finding an inordinate number of pennies in the last few months, but then, pennies are plentiful!
And, God is patient...Have a blessed day!! The best mathematical equation I have ever seen: 1 cross 3 nails -------- 4 given
That's the whole gospel message simply stated. Take 60 seconds give this a shot! Let's just see if Satan stops this one.
All you do is - 1. Simply say a small prayer for the person who sent you this, (Father God, bless this person in whatever it is that you know he or she may be needing this day.)
2. Then send it on to five other people. Within hours five people have prayed for you, and you caused a multitude of people to pray to God for other people. Bettyg
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Thought for the day....... "Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves." Pema Chodron
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Thought for the day....... "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
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
"You'll Never Walk Alone"
TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR STRESS REDUCTION
I. Thou shalt not be perfect, or even try to be.
II. Thou shalt not try to be all things to all people.
III. Thou shalt sometimes leave things undone.
IV. Thou shalt not spread thyself too thin.
V. Thou shalt learn to say "no".
VI. Thou shalt schedule time for thyself and for thy support network.
VII. Thou shalt switch thyself off, and do nothing regularly.
VIII. Thou shalt not even feel guilty for doing nothing, or saying no.
IX. Thou shalt be boring, untidy, inelegant, and unattractive at times.
X. Especially, thou shalt not be thine own worst enemy. But, be thine own b st friend.
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
3-28-06 Thought for the day....... "If you want the rainbow, you gotta' put up with the rain." Dolly Parton
3-29-06 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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven." Johannes A. Gaertner
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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....... "It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking." Epictetus
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``A gauge for wisdom.- The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.'' Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... "Even as fire without fuel finds peace in its resting place, when thoughts become silence the soul finds peace in its own source." Maitri Upanishad
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
S O M E T I M E S
Sometimes... when you cry... no one sees your tears.
Sometimes... when you are in pain... no one sees your hurt.
Sometimes... when you are worried... no one sees your stress.
Sometimes... when you are happy... no one sees your smile.
Bettyg
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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....... "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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4-6-06 Thought for the day....... "Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom." Michel de Montagne
4-7-06 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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
4-8-06 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
4-9-06 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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." Charlotte Bronte
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4-11-06 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
4-12-06 Thought for the day....... "We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are." Tobias Wolff
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... ``Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, `Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.''' Melvana Rumi
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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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The kingdom of God is within you.'' Jesus of Nazareth
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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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Nothing divides one as much as thought." R. H. Blyth
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Thought for the day....... "The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself." Rabindranath Tagore
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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....... "We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted by Carol B (Member # 9110) on :
Hey Lightfoot-couldn't figure out why you kept repeating "a friend is someone who..." quote, till I realized it was part of your signature-DUH.
Anyway here's one back at you- "When going through Hell-keep moving!"
I like that . And Iove the fact you are posting these quotes-food for thought since it feels like I can't eat much else-just started recovery process-can you tell?
Thanks and blessings to you, Carol
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "One man cannot do right in one department of life whist he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole." Mahatma Gandhi
Carol.....I love that quote too and it fits with us Lymies sooooo well!!! Glad you are enjoying the "food"!! Hang in there...it takes time but what have we got to lose???....that was mny attitude when I started treatment. I'm soooo much better than I ever dreamed I could be.
Healing smiles and laughter....
[ 23. April 2006, 01:48 PM: Message edited by: lightfoot ]
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch." David A. Schmaltz (U.S. writer)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
4-26-06 Thought for the day....... "Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." Scott Adams
4-27-06 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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." Bertrand Russell
Posted by trueblue (Member # 7348) on :
quote:Originally posted by lightfoot: 4-26-06 Thought for the day....... "Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." Scott Adams
I think this one is my favorite. Thank you, lightfoot! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
4-30-06 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." A.H. Maslow
5-1-06 Thought for the day....... "'Silent' and 'listen' are spelled with the same letters." Unknown
True,thanks for your comment! Me too....I think we underestimate the little things. Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
5-2-06 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
5-3-06 Thought for the day....... "In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." Galileo
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The sage is one who has first discovered what is common in our hearts." Mencius
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities." Elizabeth Bowen
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream." Robert Greenleaf
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "An ocean refuses no river." Sheila Chandra
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "If you can't explain what you're doing in simple English, you're probably doing something wrong." Alfred Kazin, American critic and author
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
Boy, this is great for a lymie plus everyone! Many wonderful comments & music in it. Enjoy. Betty This is really beautiful - turn your sound on!!!! www.mayyoubeblessedmovie.com Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
5-11-06 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
5-12-06 Thought for the day....... "A clear breeze has no price, the bright moon no owner" Song Hun
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." Thomas Carlyle
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Indecision may, or may not, be my problem." Jimmy Buffett
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding." Chinese Proverb
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity." Cicero
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out." Art Linkletter
I will be away from the computer until Monday the 22nd. "See" you then.
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way." Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching (D.C. Lau, translator)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
5-29-06 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
5-30-06 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
Posted by jif (Member # 9215) on :
Hi Lightfoot-
I feel a little like I am bothering you. Lou responded to posting of mine regarding Co. indicating I should find out about Colorado Support System. i hope it is O.K. to private post you. I am trying to find out what resources are available in Colorado. I'm in N.NM (as you can tell) but went to school and worked for several years in the Front range (and S. co. too) and still have good friends there. Am considering a move up there, although I don't know if i can really pull it off for several reeasons.
It would help to know about the support groups, medical help anything that is up there. I do know there is a doc. on co. Springs and one taht works with him outside on Boudler--but nothing else. are there other LLMDs. Does the support group meet virtually or in person??!
anyway thanks for any info. you might offer--I am kind of drowning here in the desert, and long for dare i say it green, and good schools for my son, good friends and hopefully good med care.
jif
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So, what the hell, leap!" Cynthia Heimel
jif....Private Message sent. I look forward to hearing from you! Healing smiles and laughter...lightfoot
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!" George Bernard Shaw
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." Henry Ford
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another." Thomas Hughes
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out." Calvin
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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)
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
I thought this had a good thought inside the story line! Enjoy.
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.
"What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning.
"There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.
The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.
The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever. Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.
But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.
The farmer's wife did not get well; she died. So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.
The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.
So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember -- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.
We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.
SEND THIS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER HELPED YOU OUT AND LET THEM KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE.
REMEMBER: EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY; OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER FOR A REASON.
One of the best things to hold onto in this world..... is a friend. Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states." Carol Welch
Thanks, Betty! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
6-9-06 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
6-10-06 Thought for the day....... "In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them." Aldo Leopold
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." Mark Twain
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly." St. Francis de Sales
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny." Eric Hoffer
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path." D'Alembert
I'll be away from my computer June 16th through the 24th. I look forward to more Thoughts.......
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all." Dora Russell (Wife of Bertrand Russell)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue." Aristotle
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits." Blaise Pascal
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
6-28-06 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
6-29-06 Thought for the day....... "If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give." George MacDonald
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
Enjoy the Coffee
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself, adds no quality to the coffee in most cases, just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... and then began eyeing each other's cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."
God brews the coffee, not the cups..........enjoy your coffee!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
6-30-06
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
7-1-06
Thought for the day....... "There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are well-dressed fools." Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." Albert Gyorgyi
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." Aristotle
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Whoops!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by FightFireWithWater (Member # 5781) on :
"If the only prayer you ever said was, "Thank You" it would suffice."
(quote from 14th century Christian mystic Meister Eckhart)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is." Joseph Wood Krutch
FireFighter.....that's one of my favorites!! Thanks!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor; if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich." Lucius Annaceus Seneca
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child." Marie Curie
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse." Edward Abbey
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
July 10 Thought for the day....... "Look how noble the world is, the lonely-flowing waters, the secret-keeping stones, the flowing sky." Robinson Jeffers
July 11 Thought for the day....... "People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle." Thich Nhat Hanh
Posted by Tracy9 (Member # 7521) on :
Hey, you ought to send submit some of these on lymelog.com!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Hi there, Tracy 9!! It's always wonderful to get that kind of appreciation and acknowledgment. Thanks! I sent you a PM.
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
7-13 Thought for the day....... "Nature is not a place to visit. It is home." Gary Snyder
7-14 Thought for the day....... "We know too much and feel too little. At least we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life spring." Bertrand Russell
7-15 Thought for the day....... "In the process of working with others you'll experience great growth in yourself, both emotional and spiritual. Your bond with your Heavenly Father will strengthen immeasurably. This is both a calling and a sacred trust." Betty Pettit
7-16 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
7-17 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)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no body of information which will lead your mind back to the Tao. Today I speak in this fashion, tomorrow in another, but always the Integral Way is beyond words and beyond mind." Lao Tzu
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best--and therefore never scrutinize or question." Stephen Jay Gould
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world." Wittgenstein
Posted by trueblue (Member # 7348) on :
lightfoot, Thank you so much for these thoughts I read them all the time.
I do have to tell you this is my favorite page. Everytime I open it it has your Quote of "Whoops!" right at the top and cracks me up.
A win-win... a little laugh and then something insprirational.
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent." Dalai Lama
Hi True! You made my day! So glad you enjoy these....they help keep me lyme sane (is that even possible?.
Healing smiles and laughter.... Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love....Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy." Randolph Ray
I'll be gone for a few days......I'll be back with thoughts on Saturday, 7-29. Namaste
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
Everything I need to know about life, I learned from Noah's Ark
One: Don't miss the boat.
Two: Remember that we are all in the same boat.
Three: Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.
Four: Stay fit When you're 600 years old, someone may
ask you to do something really big.
Five: Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job
Six: Build your future on high ground.
Seven: For safety's sake, travel in pairs.
Eight: Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.
Nine: When you're stressed, float a while .
Ten: Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.
Eleven: No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a rainbow waiting...
Pass this along and make someone else smile, too. -- May your troubles be less, may your blessings be more, and may nothing but happiness come through your door!
for your info, this same with a photo of Noah's Ark, and woodpecker having HOLES all over the boat! "The Woodpecker Might have to go!" your laugh for today. Bettyg Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
Got this in my email, and thought it was appropriate for this section with poster's absence to this weekend.
You're My friend, my companion, through good times and my buddy through happy times, beside me you stand, beside me you walk
You're there to listen, you're there to talk, with happiness, with smiles, with pain and tears,
I know you'll be there, through out the years you are all good friends to me. and I am grateful to you.
Bettyg
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Each entered the forest at a point he, himself, had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away." Henry David Thoreau
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Where there is great love there are always miracles." Willa Cather
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." Bertrand Russell
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself." Claude Roy
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength." Charles H. Spurgeon (English preacher, 1834-1892)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "There is nothing you can see that is not a flower, There is nothing you can think that is not the moon" Matsuo Basho
Posted by 5dana8 (Member # 7935) on :
"follow your bliss" -
Joseph Campell
Posted by 5dana8 (Member # 7935) on :
" The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart"
Annie Dillard
Posted by 5dana8 (Member # 7935) on :
"hope is the bird that sings while the dawn is still dark"
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
8-4-06 Thought for the day....... "Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected." Gandhi
8-5-06 Thought for the day....... "To allow ourself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is itself to succumb to the violence of our times." Thomas Merton
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand." Sue Patton Thoele
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists." Charles Dickens
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places." Mark Twain
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "We have a long long way to go, so let us hasten along the road, the road to human tenderness and generosity. Groping, we may find one another's hands in the dark." Emily Greene Balch
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved." M. Scott Peck
I will be off line 8-11 to 8-28. I look forward to resuming the Thoughts.....when I get back.
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?'' Satchel Paige
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation: 'As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It's not as wide as you think.''' Joseph Campbell
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.'' Henry Miller
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you." Wayne Dyer
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Hope your weekend was a good one. I've retuned from a weekend of travels. Healing thoughts and smiles....lightfoot
9-2
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
9-3
Thought for the day....... "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." Mahatma Gandhi
9-4
Thought for the day....... "The ancestor of every action is thought." Ralph Waldo Emerson
9-5
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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9-6-06 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
9-7-06 Thought for the day....... "Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne
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Thought for the day....... "Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues." Moses Ibn Exra
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Thought for the day....... "A great teacher never strives to explain his vision - he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself." R. Inman
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Thought for the day....... "You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." St. Francis De Sales
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Thought for the day....... "To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude." Albert Schweitzer
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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....... "Cause and effect are two aspects of the same thing. that thing is simply how this universe operates. We are neither cause nor effect; we are One with the universe - One with All." Anthony de Mello, SJ
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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
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9-15-06 Thought for the day....... "The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face." William M. Thackeray
9-16-06 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....... "If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice." George Gobel
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Thought for the day....... "Some say, after we have mastered the wind, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in history of the world, man will have discovered fire." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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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....... "Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared." David Ben-Gurion
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Thought for the day....... "If for company you find a wise and prudent friend who leads a good life, you should, overcoming all impediments, keep his company joyously and mindfully." Dhammapada 328
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Thought for the day....... "We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one." Jacques Cousteau
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Thought for the day....... "What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt -- it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else." Hal Boyle
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Thought for the day....... "We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul." Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life
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9-25-06 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
9-26-06 Thought for the day....... "The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires." Seneca
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"Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone...."
Singer Joni Mitchell
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"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." ~ Mother Teresa
Researchers have discovered that smiling increases our feelings of happiness and well-being whether we are the benefactor or the recipient, and even whether the smile is genuine or fake.
Highly contagious, smiling serves to build a bridge between us and those around us and is the accepted and universal language of love and kindness and peace.
So it appears that when you smile, your world really does smile with you. As Mother Teresa said, it truly is "a beautiful thing."
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We all need to read this one over and over until it becomes part of who we are!
HOW TO STAY YOUNG
1. Try everything twice. On Madams tombstone (of Whelan's and Madam) she said she wanted this epitaph: Tried everything twice...loved it both times!
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. (keep this in mind if you are one of those grouches;)
3. Keep learning: Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain get idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's!
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. And if you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time with HIM/HER.
6. The tears happen: Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. LIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love: Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.
10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
11. Forgive now those who made you cry. You might not get a second time.
But do share this with someone. Lost time can never be found. Bettyg Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons." Ruth Ann Schabacker
Thanks Fire and Betty!! Good stuff! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... "Seeing is different than being told." Proverb from Kenya
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Thought for the day....... "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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10-1-06 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
10-2-06 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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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....... "However degraded or wretched a fellow mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species." Seneca
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I really love these lightfoot, thanks so much! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." Eugene V. Debs
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Thought for the day....... "Clean your room well, for good spirits will not live where there is dirt." Shaker Saying
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Thought for the day....... "Jesus throws down the dividing prejudices of nationality, and teaches universal love, without distinction of race, merit, or rank.--A man's neighbor is every one that needs help." J. C. Geikie
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Thought for the day....... "A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth." George D. Prentice
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"Fanatics are those who when they discover they are headed in the wrong direction, double their speed."
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10-10-06 Thought for the day....... "Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." Carl Jung
10-11-06 Thought for the day....... "The world is smaller than you think, and the people on it are more beautiful than you think." Bertram van Munster
Fire....I love it!!! I find myself chuckling out loud.....it is so true!! Do you know who we could credit with this wisdom??
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Thought for the day....... "Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!" Confucius
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10-13-06 Thought for the day....... "Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it." Francois de La Rochefoucauld
10-14-06 Thought for the day....... "Wisdom: to live in the present, plan for the future, and profit from the past." Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for His heart was meek and always thought of others." Mother Teresa
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Thought for the day....... "To love is to know that you live in union with all other creatures in a world that is itself alive and constantly becoming; in short, to live is to know that you exist in a world whose highest harmony is love." Daphne Rose Kingma
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Thought for the day....... "All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else." The Buddha
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you:
1. Jesus Christ 2. The American G. I.
One died for your soul; the other for your freedom.
YOU MIGHT WANT TO PASS THIS ON, AS MANY SEEM TO FORGET BOTH OF THEM. I was humbled by this thought Bettyg Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "It is the test of a good religion is whether you can joke about it." Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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....... "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....... "When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge." Tuli Kupferberg
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Thought for the day........ "Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and the left in front of the right, moving down narrow corridors toward narrow goals. Play widens the halls. Work will always be with us, and many works are worthy. But the worthiest works of all often reflect an artful creativity that looks more like play than work." James Ogilvy
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Thought for the day....... "And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound." Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Dear God, Help me to be a good sport in this game of life. I don't ask for an easy place in the lineup. Put me anywhere you need me.
I only ask that I can give you 100% of everything I have. If all the hard drives come my way, I thank you for the compliment.
Help me remember that you never send a player more trouble than he can handle. And help me, Lord, to accept the bad breaks as part of the game.
May I always play on the square, no matter what the others do. Help me to study the Book so I'll know the rules.
Finally, God, if the natural turn of events goes against me and I'm benched for sickness or old age, help me to accept that as part of the game too.
Keep me from whimpering that I was framed or that I got a raw deal.
And when I finish the inning, I ask for no laurels. All I want is to believe in my heart that I played as well as I could, and that I didn't let you down.
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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 a bad plan that admits of no modification." Publilius Syrus, First Century BC
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Thought for the day....... "Nature is not a place to visit. It is home." Gary Snyder
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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....... "Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the byproduct of other activities." Aldous Huxley
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Thought for the day....... "Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny." Heraclitus
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Thought for the day....... "Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius." Isaac D'Israeli (1766-1848)
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Thought for the day....... "After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers." Emily Luchetti
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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 must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration; to breathe with them, mobile and soft in the limberness of our bodies, in our agility, our ability, as it were, to dance, and yet to stand upright." T. S. Eliot
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Thought for the day....... "Think what a better place it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap." Barbara Jordon (Civil Rights Champion)
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Thought for the day....... "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." Abraham Lincoln
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11-5-06 Thought for the day....... "A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease." John Muir
11-6-06 Thought for the day....... "Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith." Paul Johannes Tillich
11-7-06 Thought for the day........ "Deceiving someone for his own good is a responsibility that should be shouldered only by the gods." Henry S. Haskins
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11-8-06 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
11-9-06 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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from 11-10-06 Des Moines Register, Iowa's 2 cents column from anonymous Des Moines woman:
PAIN-specialty drs.: *********************
Have some sympathy; if you are running behind, don't take it out on the rest of your patients! They deserve their TIME too! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... "Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly." St. Francis de Sales
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11-13-06 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
11-14-06 Thought for the day....... "And the more souls who resonate together; the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror-like, each soul reflects the other." Dante Alighieri
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What if the Hokie Pokie really IS what it is all about? Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
11-15-06 Thought for the day....... "Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river" Cordell Hull
11-16-06 Thought for the day....... "The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love." Che Guevara
Lisa, What if the Hokie Pokie really IS what it is all about? I think you've got something there!!!!!!!! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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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11-18-06
Thought for the day....... "The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best -- and therefore never scrutinize or question." Stephen Jay Gould
11-19-06
Thought for the day....... "Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live." Jackie Windspear
Blessings to all for a wonderful Thanksgiving. I'm off now and will be back on the 28th. Namaste
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Thought for the day....... "Whatever you have in your mind - forget it; Whatever you have in your hand - give it; Whatever is to be your fate - face it!" Abu Sa'id
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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....... "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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THREE THINGS IN LIFE
Three things in life that, once gone, never come back
1. Time 2. Words 3. Opportunity
Three things in life that can destroy a person
1. Anger 2. Pride 3. Unforgiveness
Three things in life that you should never lose
1. Hope 2. Peace 3. Honesty
Three things in life that are most valuable
1. Love 2. Family & Friends 3. Kindness
Three things in life that are never certain
1. Fortune 2. Success 3. Dreams
Three things that make a person
1. Commitment 2. Sincerity 3. Hard work
Three things that are truly constant
Father - Son - Holy Spirit
I ask the Lord to bless you, as I pray for you today; to guide you and protect you, as you go along your way.
God's love is always with you, God's promises are true. And when you give God all your cares, you know God will see you through.
Pass this along to People you want God to Bless Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "I love those who yearn for the impossible." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Bell =========
I really hope you take the time to read it all. I've held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I've placed in God's hands that I still possess.
Just up the road from my home is a field with two horses in it. From a distance, each looks like every other horse. But if you stop your car or are walking by, you will notice something quite amazing.
Looking into the eyes of one horse will disclose that he is blind. His owner has chosen not to have him put down, but has made a good home for him. This alone is amazing. If nearby and listening, you will hear the sound of a bell. Looking around for the source of the sound, you will see that it comes from the smaller horse in the field.
Attached to her halter is a small bell. It lets her blind friend know where she is, so he can follow her. As you stand and watch these two friends, you'll see how she is always checking on him, and that he will listen for her bell and then slowly walk to where she is, trusting that she will not lead him astray.
When she returns to the shelter of the barn each evening, she stops occasionally and looks back, making sure her friend isn't too far behind to hear the bell.
Like the owners of these two horses, God does not throw us away just because we are not perfect or because we have problems or challenges. God watches over us and even brings others into our lives to help us when we are in need.
Sometimes we are the blind horse being guided by the little ringing bell of those who God places in our lives. Other times we are the guide horse, helping others see.
Good friends are like this. You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.
Please listen for my bell and I'll listen for yours. ************************************************* ~Author Unknown~
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Thought for the day....... "God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open." Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Thought for the day....... "The color of the skin makes no difference. What is good and just for one is good and just for the other, and the Great Spirit made all men brothers. I have red skin, but my grandfather was a white man. What does it matter? It is not the color of the skin that makes me good or bad. " White Shield (Arikara Chief)
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Thought for the day....... "Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a permanent attitude." Martin Luther King
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Thought for the day....... ``Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.'' Abraham Maslow
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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....... "You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?" Kahlil Gibran
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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....... "The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results." Michael LeBeuf
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I believe - . . .
that just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other. And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.
that we don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.
that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.
that it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be
that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
that you can keep going long after you think you can't.
that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.
that either you control your attitude or it controls you.
That heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.
that money is a lousy way of keeping score. that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.
that sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down, will be the ones to help you get back up.
that sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.
that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.
that it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.
that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.
that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.
that you shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.
that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.
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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....... "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
Betty.....do you know where or who originated the "I believe" piece you posted? Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands." Seneca
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Thought for the day....... "If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality." Dan Millman
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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....... "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....... "Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you." Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
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Thought for the day....... "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." Havelock Ellis
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Thought for the day....... "Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily handled than dumb mistakes." William Wister Haines
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Thought for the day....... "Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
lf, no, I don't know who wrote the i believe; it was NOT with this when i received it yesterday or i would have posted the name too! i loved the words so i posted it....
This is AWESOME !! This Really Took Some Doing To Set Up! It's a great reference.... just click here for: God's Yellow Pages
Malachi 3:3 says: "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver."
This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God.
One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study.
That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining silver.
As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities.
The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she thought again about the verse that says: "He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver." She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined.
The man answered that yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.
The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?"
He smiled at her and answered, "Oh, that's easy -- when I see my image in it"
If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God has his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in you.
Pass this on right now. This very moment, someone needs to know that God is watching over them.
And, whatever they're going through, they'll be a better person in the end.
"Life is a coin. You can spend it anyway you wish, but you can only spend it once."
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
12-19-06
Thought for the day....... "Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods." Ralph Waldo Emerson
12-20-06
Thought for the day....... "The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology." Red Auerbach
12-21-06 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
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Thought for the day....... "There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else." Peyton Conway March
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give." Walt Whitman
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May you have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Betty
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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....... " Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love." Hamilton Wright Mabi
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
on this Christmas day, is this very lovely one! ***********************************************
Thought for the day....... "Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas." Dale Evans
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." From Mary Poppins
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12-28-06
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")
12-29-07
Thought for the day....... "Wisdom: to live in the present, plan for the future, and profit from the past." Anonymous
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
12-30-06
Thought for the day....... "One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things, but if they are capable of saying them, it is always visible." Marie Leneru
12-31-06
Thought for the day....... "Speech is of time, silence is of eternity." Thomas Carlyle
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Thought for the day....... "We live in deeds, not years; In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs...'' Aristotle
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Thought for the day....... "We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake." Marie B. Ray
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
ABC's of LIFE
Although things are not perfect Because of trial or pain Continue in thanksgiving Do not begin to blame
Even when the times are hard Fierce winds are bound to blow God is forever able Hold on to what you know
Imagine life without His love Joy would cease to be Keep thanking Him for all the things Love imparts to thee
Move out of " Camp Complaining " No weapon that is known On earth can yield the power Praise can do alone
Quit looking at the future Redeem the time at hand Start every day with worship To "thank" is a command
Until we see Him coming Victorious in the sky We'll run the race with gratitude Xalting God most high
Yes, there'll be good times and yes some will be sad, But...
Zion waits in glory...where none are ever sad! author unknown
"I AM Too blessed to be stressed!"
The shortest distance between problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor.
The one who kneels to the Lord can stand up to anything.
Love and peace be with you forever, Amen.
PS: GOD LOVES YOU...PASS THE WORD ON TO MORE!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... "Learning is the very essence of humility . . . " J. Krishnamurti
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Thought for the day....... "Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity." Buddha
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this took my dialup 20 minutes to go thru 50 photos; warning you only! well worth the photos though!
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Thought for the day....... "It is said that love comes through a window in the heart, but if there are no walls, there's no need to have a window." Rumi
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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
I will be away from 1-7-07 through 2-4-07. I look forward to resuming the Thought for the day.......when I return. Until then, Namaste
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2-6-07 Thought for the day....... "Come out of the circle of time. And into the circle of love." Rumi
2-7-07 Thought for the day....... "That which is essential is invisible to the eye." Antoine de Saint Exupery
2-8-07 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)
2-9-07 Thought for the day....... "We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making." Joseph Chilton Pearce
2-10-07 Thought for the day....... "Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go." Louise Driscoll
2-11-07 Thought for the day....... "Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
2-12-07 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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Welcome back lightfoot! Thank you I missed seeing these daily. Posted by Geneal (Member # 10375) on :
Dear Lightfoot,
How did you know how to spell supercalifraga....from Mary Poppins? My hat is off to you!!!
My thought for every day is .....
Be still.......and know that I am.
I really love reading your uplifting posts! Keep them coming.
Geneal
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks." Eden Phillpotts
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Dear General and true,
Thanks for the warm welcome back!! I enjoy collecting the quotes and posting. It's great to meet other quote enthusiasts. Thanks for your wonderful positive feedback!
General, how did you know that supercalifraga is spelled correctly?? I like your daily thought!
Healing smiles....lightfoot Posted by Geneal (Member # 10375) on :
Dear Lightfoot,
It looked right to me!!! By the way, my name is Geneal not General. It is my real name.
Lucky me!!!
Geneal
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Thought for the day....... ``Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.'' Zora Neale Hurston
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Thought for the day....... "Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." Aaron Levenstein
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Thought for the day....... "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul." John Muir
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Thought for the day....... "We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive." Wayne Dyer
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Thought for the day....... ``For those who believe no words are necessary, for those who don't, no words are possible.'' St. Ignatius of Loyola.
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Thought for the day....... "The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world." H H The Dalai Lama
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Thought for the day....... "Know thyself, and thou shalt know the universe." Socrates
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Thought for the day....... "Language is the Trojan Horse by which the universe gets into the mind." Hugh Kenner
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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....... "If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning!" Chuang Tzu (360 BC - 275 BC)
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Thought for the day....... "Get used to the feeling of falling." Pema Chodron
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2-25-07 Thought for the day....... "You are indeed the light of the world; a city that is built upon a mountain cannot be hidden." Matthew 5:14
2-26-07 Thought for the day....... "Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter." Paul Klee (Swiss Artist, 1879-1940)
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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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2-26-07 Thought for the day....... "Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter." Paul Klee (Swiss Artist, 1879-1940)
2-28-07 Thought for the day....... "Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough." Ella Wheeler Wilcox
3-1-07 Thought for the day....... "It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation." Bernard Haring
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... "When you look for the good in others you discover the best in yourself." Martin Walsh
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Thought for the day....... "Where the people lead, the leaders must follow." Gandhi
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3-5-07 Thought for the day....... "Kind words, kind looks, kind acts and warm handshakes, these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles." John Hall
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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....... "A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas: there is no need to experience all the ways of worldly life. The reflections of the moon on one thousand rivers are from the same moon: the mind must be full of light." Hung Tzu-ch'eng
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Thought for the day....... "Colour is a basic human need...like fire and water, a raw material, indispensable to life." Fernand L�ger, [painter, 1881-1955]
Posted by trueblue (Member # 7348) on :
quote:Originally posted by lightfoot: Thought for the day....... "Colour is a basic human need...like fire and water, a raw material, indispensable to life." Fernand L�ger, [painter, 1881-1955]
Oooooo, I love this one! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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3-10-07 Thought for the day....... "If you are open to new possibilities in your life, then that alone will give you access to those possibilities - readiness is all." Dr. Deepak Chopra
3-11-07 Thought for the day....... "At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path." George Leonard (US pioneer in human potential, author of 12 books, aikido black belt, senior editor of Look magazine)
3-12-07 Thought for the day....... "It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about." Kim Hubbard
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Thought for the day....... "It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not." James Gordon, M.D.
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
turn up the volume to enjoy! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." Mitch Ratliffe (U.S. Journalist)
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3-15-07 Thought for the day....... "Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware." Mel Colgrove
3-16-07 Thought for the day....... "The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves." Marvin J. Ashton
3-17-07 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)
3-18-07 Thought for the day....... "A good intention clothes itself with power." Ralph Waldo Emerson
3-19-07 Thought for the day....... "We are the environment." Charles Panati
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3-20-07 Thought for the day....... "Given human being's love of truth, justice, peace and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there." H. H. The Dalai Lama.
3-21-07 Thought for the day....... "Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance." Unknown
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
Heavenly Father,
Help us remember that the jerk who cut us off in traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day and is rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children. Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man who can't make change correctly is a worried 19-year-old college student, balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear of not getting his student loans for next semester.
Remind us, Lord, that the scary looking bum, begging for money in the same spot every day (who really ought to get a job!) is a slave to addictions that we can only imagine in our worst nightmares.
Help us t o remember that the old couple walking annoyingly slow through the store aisles and blocking our shopping progress are savoring this oment, knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week, this will be the last year that they go shopping together.
Heavenly Father, remind us each day that, of all the gifts you give us, the greatest gift is love. It is not enough to share that love with those we hold dear.
Open our hearts not to just those who are close to us, but to all humanity. Let us be slow to judge and quick to forgive, show patience, empathy and love.
Working for God on earth doesn't pay much......but His retirement plan is out of this world!
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Thought for the day....... "This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes." Robert E. Speer
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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
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
This is always good advice even if we receive it many times. ____________________________________________________________
This is without a doubt one of the nicest good luck forwards I have received. Hope it works for you -- and me! You have 6 minutes.
There's some mighty fine advice in these words, even if you're not superstitious. This has been sent To you for good luck from the Anthony Robbins organization. It has been sent around the world ten times so Far.
Do not keep this message.
This must leave your hands in 6 MINUTES. Otherwise you will get a very unpleasant surprise. This is true, even if you are not superstitious, agnostic, or otherwise faith impaired.
ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
THREE. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
FOUR. When you say, "I love you," mean it.
FIVE. When you say, "I'm sorry," look the person in the eye.
SIX. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
SEVEN. Believe in love at first sight.
EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.
NINE. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
TEN.. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
ELEVEN. Don't judge people by their relatives.
TWELVE. Talk slowly but think quickly.
THIRTEEN. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"
FOURTEEN. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
FIFTEEN. Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.
SIXTEEN. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
SEVENTEEN. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and responsibility for all your actions.
EIGHTEEN. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
NINETEEN. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
TWENTY. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
TWENTY-ONE. Spend some time alone.
A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart. Do not keep this message. Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results." Herman Melville
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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....... "There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it's hard to tell which one of us ought to reform the rest of us." Author Unknown
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3-27-07 Thought for the day....... "The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." Anais Nin
3-28-07 Thought for the day....... "Rest and unrest derive from illusion. In enlightenment there is no liking or unliking, just the realization of your eternal singularity." Seng T'San, Third Patriarch of Zen
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Man wishes to be happy even when he lives as to make happiness impossible." St. Augustine
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Thought for the day....... "The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy--I mean that if you are happy you will be good." Bertrand Russell
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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....... "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." Jesus of Nazareth
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Thought for the day....... "Life is deathless. Life is the origin and ultimate of man, never attainable through death, but gained by walking the pathway of Truth both before and after that which is called death. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual." Mary Baker Eddy
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Thought for the day....... "The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided by wisdom rather than emotion. Whole and virtuous, it can never die." Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... "The only way to find God, is to let go of God." Meister Eckhart
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Thought for the day....... "The spirit is the true self." Cicero (106-43 BC)
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Thought for the day....... "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." Mahatma Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... "The fact is that because no one thing or feature of this universe is separable from the whole, the only real You, or Self, is the whole." Alan Watts
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Thought for the day....... "Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one." John Lennon
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Thought for the day....... "Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician." Karl Ludwig von Knebel (1744-1834)
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Thought for the day....... "Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order." Ann Wilson Schaef
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Thought for the day....... "We don't have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart." Jack Kornfield
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Thought for the day....... "Spiritually speaking, everything that one wants, aspires to, and needs is ever-present, accessible here and now - for those with eyes to see." Surya Das
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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....... "If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they too would purr." Martin Buxbaum
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Thought for the day....... "The unfolding of Essence becomes the process of living. Life is no longer a string of disconnected experiences of pleasure and pain but a flow, a stream of aliveness." A. H. Almas
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Thought for the day....... ``Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.'' Carlos Castaneda
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Thought for the day....... "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." Walt Disney
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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....... "Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways." Oscar Wilde
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Thought for the day....... "To love what you do and feel that it matters--how could anything be more fun?" Catherine Graham
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Thought for the day....... "Opportunities are seldom labeled." John A. Shedd
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Thought for the day....... "When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty." John Muir
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
THIS IS A SECRET THAT HAS BEEN TOLD MANY TIMES SINCE CHRIST WALKED THE EARTH. IT'S TOO BIG TO KEEP TO YOURSELF.
The Secret
One day, one friend asked another, "How is it that you are always so happy? You have so much energy, and you never seem to get down."
With her eyes smiling, she said, "I know the Secret!" "What secret is that?" To which she replied, "I'll tell you all about it, but you have to promise to share the Secret with others."
"The Secret is this: I have learned there is little I can do in my life that will make me truly happy. I must depend on God to make me happy and to meet my needs. When a need arises in my life, I have to trust God to supply according to HIS riches. I have learned most of the time I don't need half of what I think I do. He has never let me down. Since I learned that 'Secret', I am happy."
The questioner's first thought was, "That's too simple!" But upon reflecting over her own life she recalled how she thought a bigger house would make her happy, but it didn't! She thought a better paying job would make her happy, but it hadn't. When did she realize her greatest happiness? Sitting on the floor with her grandchildren, playing games, eating pizza or reading a story, a simple gift from God.
Now you know it too! We can't depend on people to make us happy. Only GOD in His infinite wisdom can do that. Trust HIM! And now I pass the Secret on to you! So once you get it, what will you do?
YOU have to tell someone the Secret, too! That GOD in His wisdom will take care of YOU! But it's not really a secret... We just have to believe it and do it... Really trust God! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
4-23-07 Thought for the day....... "When given the choice between being right or being kind, always choose kind." Dr. Wayne Dyer
4-24-07 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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Remember this every time you pass that little penny in the parking lot. I always thought that it was for Good Luck, but I love this version better:
I found a penny today Just laying on the ground. But it's not just a penny, this little coin I've found.
Found pennies come from heaven, That's what my Grandpa told me. He said Angels toss them down. Oh, how I loved that story.
He said when an Angel misses you, They toss a penny down. Sometimes just to cheer you up, To make a smile out of your frown.
So, don't pass by that penny, When you're feeling blue. It may be a penny from heaven, that an Angel's tossed to you.
So now pass this on to the people who you care about and who you feel are Angels to you, I just did. An Angel is now watching over you. Have A Great Day! ********************** Two Horses
Just up the road from my home is a field,
with two horses in it.
From a distance, each looks like every other horse.
But if you stop your car, or are walking by,
you will notice something quite amazing.
Looking into the eyes of one horse will
disclose that he is blind.
His owner has chosen not to have him put down,
but has made a good home for him.
This alone is amazing.
If nearby and listening,
you will hear the sound of a bell.
Looking around for the source of the sound,
you will see that it comes from the
smaller horse in the field.
Attached to her halter is a small bell.
It lets her blind friend know where she is,
so he can follow her.
As you stand and watch these two friends,
you'll see how she is always checking on him,
and that he will listen for her bell and then
slowly walk to where she is, trusting that she
will not lead him astray. When she returns to the
shelter of the barn each evening, she stops
occasionally and looks back, making sure her
friend isn't too far behind to hear the bell.
Like the owners of these two horses,
God does not throw us away just because
we are not perfect or because we have problems
or challenges. He watches over us and even brings
others into our lives to help us when we are in need.
Sometimes we are the blind horse being guided by
the little ringing bell of those who God places in our lives.
Other times we are the guide horse, helping others see.
Good friends are like this ..........
You don't always see them, but you know they are always there. Please listen for my bell and I'll listen for yours.
"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle". Peace Be With You!
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Thought for the day....... "Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned." Taylor Caldwell
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Thought for the day....... "A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books." Chinese Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression." Dodie Smith
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Thought for the day....... "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "God bless the whole world. No exceptions." Recent Bumper Sticker
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He was just a little boy on a week's first day He was wandering home from Sunday school and dawdling on the way
He scuffed his shoes into the grass He found a caterpillar He found a fluffy milkweed pod and blew out all the "filler"
A bird's nest in a tree o'erhead so wisely placed on high was just another wonder that caught his eager eye
A neighbor watched his zig-zag course and hailed him from the lawn Asked him where he's been that day and what was going on
"I've been to bible school" he said and turned a piece of sod He picked up a wiggly worm, replying "I've learned a lot of God"
"Very fine way" the neighbor said "for a boy to spend his time - if you'll tell me where God is I'll give you a brand new dime
Quick as a flash the answer came Nor were his accents faint "I'll give you a dollar, Mister if you can tell me where God ain't".
The NATURE OF SUCCESS MOVIE is great! dial up is very slow, so have something else to read here when you download it!
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....... "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....... "At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path." George Leonard
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DIAL UP folks like me, this will take a LONG time to download. if you want to see/listen to it, do so and then open another window so you can get some work done while it loads up. AMAZING PICTURE AT THE END! betty
Thought for the day....... "One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment." Gurdjieff
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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....... "The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man." Francis Bacon
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Thought for the day....... "A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles." Washington Irving
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Thought for the day....... "Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself." Samuel Butler
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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....... "The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to oneself." Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... "To understand everything is to forgive everything." The Buddha
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Thought for the day....... "Goodness is the only investment that never fails." Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... "Colour is a basic human need...like fire and water, a raw material, indispensable to life." Fernand L�ger, [painter, 1881-1955]
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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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Thanks Lightfoot
I always look forward to reading your thoughts for the day
Blessings to you for all you do Dana Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Talk as much philosophy as you please, worship as many gods as you like, observe all ceremonies, sing devoted praises to any number of divine beings -- liberation never comes, even at the end of a hundred aeons, without the realization of the Oneness of Self." Shankara
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Thought for the day....... "Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people." Welsh Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day." Robert Fulghum
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Thought for the day....... "To learn something new, take the path you took yesterday." John Burroughs (1837-1921)
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Thought for the day....... "Your resistance to change is likely to reach its peak when significant change is imminent." George Leonard
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Thought for the day....... "Meditation is not a way to enlightenment nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace and blessedness itself." Dogen
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Thought for the day....... "You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go" Heraclitus
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5-21-07 Thought for the day....... "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same." Carlos Casteneda
5-22-07 Thought for the day....... "Get a life in which you are generous. Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star burst in spring; look at the full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious... Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around." Anna Quindlen
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Thought for the day....... ``Nowhere in nature can you find purer color than sunlight passing through the petal of a flower.'' Larry K. Stephenson
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Thought for the day....... ``Colors produce a corresponding spiritual vibration, and it is only as a step towards this spiritual vibration that the elementary physical impression is of importance.'' Wassily Kandinsky (Expressionist Painter, 1866-1944)
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Thought for the day....... "A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do." Calvin
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Thought for the day....... "Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny." Carl Schurz
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Thought for the day....... "Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity." R. I. Fitzhenry
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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....... "I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun." Charles Swindoll
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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....... "Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them." Albert Schweitzer
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Thought for the day....... "Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself." Alexander Graham Bell
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Thought for the day....... "The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul." Alexandra Stoddard
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Thought for the day....... "Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness." Athenaeus
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6-4-07 Thought for the day....... "The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life." Albert Einstein
6-5-07 Thought for the day....... "Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance." Jose Ortega Gasset
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Thought for the day....... "Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are." Krishnamurti
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Thought for the day....... "The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance." Dr. Bryan Miller
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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 opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." Elie Wiesel
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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....... "Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more." Robert Collier
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Thought for the day....... "I wish I could disaccustom myself from everything, so that I might see anew, hear anew, feel anew.....habit spoils our philosophy." G. C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
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Thought for the day....... "We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us." Virginia Satir
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Thought for the day....... "A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action." Vaclav Havel
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Thanks lightfoot, I so look forward to your posts Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand." Karl Menninger
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Thought for the day....... "Of all the skills of leadership, listening is the most valuable--and one of the least understood. Most captains of industry listen only sometimes, and they remain ordinary leaders. But a few, the great ones, never stop listening. That's how they get word before anyone else of unseen problems and opportunities." Peter Nulty
I'm back from a wonderful trek in the hills.
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6-19-07 Thought for the day....... "The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer." Henry David Thoreau
6-20-07 Thought for the day....... "There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy." W. Clement Stone
6-21-07 Thought for the day....... "In the sun I feel as one." Kurt Cobain, All Apologies
6-22-07 Thought for the day....... "All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation." Francois FeNelon
6-23-07 Thought for the day....... "Of all paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path for every man; to find this path, and to walk in it, is the one thing needful for him." Thomas Carlyle
6-24-07 Thought for the day....... "In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth." Gandhi
6-25-07 Thought for the day....... "There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time." George Eliot (1819-1880)
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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....... "It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insulating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor." Lucius Seneca
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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....... "Silence is more than just a lack of words." Egyptian Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." Winston Churchill
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Thought for the day....... "We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us." Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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....... "The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men." John F. Kennedy
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7-5-07 Thought for the day....... "I can make more generals, but horses cost money." Abraham Lincoln
7-6-07 Thought for the day....... "I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forget my number." Edith Armstrong
I will be off of the internet until 7-15-07.......more thoughts to come.
7-15-07 Thought for the day....... "Silence is more musical than any song." Christina Rossetti
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Thought for the day....... ``Colors express the main psychic functions of man.'' Carl Jung
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Welcome back, lightfoot, and thank you.
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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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Thought for the day....... "Follow the wisdom provided by nature. Everything in moderation - sunlight, water, nutrients. Too much of a good thing will topple your structure. You can't harvest what you don't sow. So plant your desires, gently nurture them, and they will be rewarded with abundance." Vivian Elisabeth Glyck
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Thought for the day....... "Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others." Wilfred A. Peterson
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Thought for the day....... "Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness." Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832)
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Thought for the day....... "Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end." Walter Savage Landor
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Thought for the day....... "In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth." Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... "Just remember when looking in the mirror, it is always looking back at you...the reflections seen are only ever as kind or as ill as your own projections." Morrigan (Source - Jacquelene Close Moore)
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Thought for the day....... "Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well." Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
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Thought for the day....... "The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next." Ursula K. LeGuin
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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....... "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....... "A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high." William Sharp
I'm off to spend some time with nature. I will turn my attention back to the Thoughts when I return, August 4th. Meanwhile, my very best to each one of you.
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Thought for the day....... "Beyond its practical aspects, gardening - be it of the soil or soul - can lead us on a philosophical and spiritual exploration that is nothing less than a journey into the depths of our own sacredness and the sacredness of all beings. After all, there must be something more mystical beyond the garden gate, something that satisfies the soul's attraction to beauty, peace, solace, and celebration." Christopher McDowell
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8-6-07 Thought for the day....... "People only see what they are prepared to see." Ralph Waldo Emerson
8-7-07 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 every one, best both for the body and the mind." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it." George Bernard Shaw
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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....... "The greatest strength is gentleness." Iroquois Proverb
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8-11-07 Thought for the day....... "Wherever you are - be all there." Jim Elliot
8-12-07 Thought for the day....... "In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart." John Bunyan
8-13-07 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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8-14-07 Thought for the day....... "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." Daniel J. Boorstin
8-15-07 Thought for the day....... "Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight." Orison Swett Marden
8-16-07 Thought for the day....... "Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient." Eugene S Wilson
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8-17-07 Thought for the day....... "The same sun that melts butter hardens clay." Donald Meyer
8-18-07 Thought for the day....... "Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way." Florence Scovel Shinn
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Thought for the day....... "A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right." Vanna Bonta
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Thought for the day....... "Instinct is the nose of the mind." Madame De Girardin
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8-21-07 Thought for the day....... "Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." John Quincy Adams
8-22-07 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....... "We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." Calvin Coolidge
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Thought for the day....... "He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass." George Herbert
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8-25-07 Thought for the day....... "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." Mao Zedong
8-26-07 Thought for the day....... "You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." Robert Louis Stevenson
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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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8-28-07 Thought for the day....... "Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away." Sir Arthur Helps
8-29-07 Thought for the day....... "There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." Maya Angelou
8-30-07 Thought for the day....... "Your problem is never really your problem, your reaction to your problem is your problem." Brian Kinsey
I'm off again and will be away from the net. I look forward to "seeing" each of you on Tuesday the 4th of September. Smiles and laughter.......lightfoot
9-4-07 I'm glad to be back!! 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)
9-5-07 Thought for the day....... "He who fishes for compliments can expect to be handed a line." Ivern Ball
I'm so glad to be back!! I hope you are all doing well!! lightfoot
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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....... "All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors." Kahlil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton
I'm off the web again until 9-12-07.
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Thought for the day....... "A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind." Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Thought for the day....... "Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience their world in the way they have been told to." Alan Keightley
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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....... "When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder." James H. Boren
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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....... " Earth is here so kind, If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest." Douglas Jerrold
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Thought for the day....... "It seems to me that we learn the most not when we look for a certain answer, but when we allow questions to naturally guide us to an outcome, often an outcome that we have not planned or predicted. My goal...is to live the questions." Michael Sweeney
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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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The Carpenter's Glasses
God does nothing by "accident". We need to thank Him and praise Him for everything. Even if we never know about it, he could be using our "troubles" for some other purpose.
My Mother's father worked as a carpenter. On this particular day, he was building some crates for the clothes his church was sending to orphanages in China.
On his way home, he reached into his shirt pocket to find his glasses, but they were gone. When he mentally replayed his earlier actions, he realized what had happened; the glasses had slipped out of his pocket unnoticed and fallen into one of the crates, which he had nailed shut. His brand new glasses were heading for China!
The Great Depression was at its height and Grandpa had six children. He had spent $20 for those glasses that very morning. He was upset by the thought of having to buy another pair. "It's not fair," he told God as he drove home in frustration. "I've been very faithful in giving of my time and money to your work, and now this!"
Months later, the director of the orphanage was on furlough in the United States. He wanted to visit all the churches that supported him in China, so he came to speak one Sunday at my grandfather's small church in Chicago.
The missionary began by thanking the people for their faithfulness in supporting the orphanage.
"But most of all," he said, "I must thank you for the glasses you sent last year. You see, the Communists had just swept through the orphanage, destroying everything, including my glasses. I was desperate. Even if I had the money, there was simply no way of replacing those glasses.
Along with not being able to see well, I experienced headaches every day, so my coworkers and I were much in prayer about this. Then your crates arrived. When my staff removed the covers, they found a pair of glasses lying on top.
The missionary paused long enough to let his words sink in. Then, still gripped with the wonder of it all, he continued: "Folks, when I tried on the glasses, it was as though they had been custom made just for me! I want to thank you for being a part of that."
The people listened, happy for the miraculous glasses. But the missionary surely must have confused their church with another, they thought. There were no glasses on their list of items to be sent overseas.
But sitting quietly in the back, with tears streaming down his face, an ordinary carpenter realized the Master Carpenter had used him in an extraordinary way.
There are times we want to blame God instead of thanking him! I have to remember this in these times of trial with my own family. May GOD bless your week. Look for the perfect mistakes.
"People are like tea bags- - you have to put them in hot water before you know how strong they are." Now "isn't" it just like God to do something like that????
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I'll be happy when...
We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another.
Then we are frustrated that the kids aren't old enough and we'll be more content when they are.
After that, we're frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage.
We tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our spouse gets his or her act together, when we get a nicer car, when we are able to go on a nice vacation or when we retire.
The truth is there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when? Your life will always be filled with challenges.
It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway. Happiness is the way.
So, treasure every moment that you have and treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with..... and remember that time waits for no one.
So, stop waiting Until your car or home is paid off. Until you get a new car or home. Until your kids leave the house. Until you go back to school. Until you finish school. Until you lose 10 lbs. Until you gain 10 lbs. Until you get married. Until you get a divorce. Until you have kids. Until you retire. Until summer.. Until spring. Until winter. Until fall. Until you die.
There is no better time than right now to be happy. Happiness is a journey, not a destination. So work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching,
If you want to brighten someone's day, pass this on to someone special. I just did!
I am going to be happy today---want to join me?
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Thought for the day....... " I am the garden - But I'm also the gardener." Rebecca Riots
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Thought for the day....... "Emotions consist of Energy plus a Story. If we let go of the story, only the energy is left." Trumpa Rimpoche
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Thought for the day....... "But now in September the garden has cooled, and with it my possessiveness. The sun warms my back instead of beating on my head ... The harvest has dwindled, and I have grown apart from the intense midsummer relationship that brought it on." Robert Finch
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Thought for the day....... "God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart." African Proverb
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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....... "Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." Malcolm S. Forbes
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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....... "What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil." Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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9-29-07 Thought for the day....... "Sometimes rest is the highest spiritual practice." Tom Yeomans
9-30-07 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
Posted by susan2health (Member # 10446) on :
Wow,
Now I have a reason to look in General Support.
I'm usually so desperate physically that all else seems inconsequential.
But maybe feeding my soul will also nourish my body. "A merry heart does good like a medicine." from the book of Proverbs.
I'll look for these in the future. Thank you.
Susan
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Thought for the day....... "Seeing within changes one's outer vision." Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Thought for the day....... "A daydream is an evasion." Thomas Merton
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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....... "Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them." Agatha Christie
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Thought for the day....... "The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity." Paul Tillich
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Thought for the day....... "The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment." Ayya Khema
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Thought for the day....... "It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." James Thurber
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"Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful." - Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "Evil is any abstraction that enables you to look at someone and not see the person." Lee Thorn
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Thought for the day....... "Whenever we get angry, we should realize that the strength we feel is not the strength of the charioteer in us. It is the strength of the runaway horse. We should immediately try to put the charioteer back in control. If we can do this, we are masters. If we cannot, we are slaves." Ananda Pereira
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Thought for the day....... "The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings." Kate Chopin
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10-11-07 Thought for the day....... "There is a way between voice and presence where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens. With wandering talk it closes." Rumi
10-12-07 Thought for the day....... "Blessed is he who finds happiness in his own foolishness. For he will always be happy." Chade Meng
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Thought for the day....... "To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness." Confucius
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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
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
Click on the "years ago" and watch a beautiful story. It scrolls by itself after you start it.
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....... "No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and pure and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of the goodness." Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
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Thought for the day....... "The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer." Edward R. Murrow
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Thought for the day....... "The whole world is you yet you keep thinking there is something else." Hsueh-Feng
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Thought for the day....... "Practice wonder today - be present, begin again, know nothing, and allow everything to surprise you, inspire you, excite you, entertain you, teach you. Be fully open to life, today, and let yourself live wonder-fully." Robert Holden (From 'Hello Happiness')
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Thought for the day....... "We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness." Thich Nhat Hanh
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
THE PATHWAY OF PAIN (Author Unknown)
If my days were untroubled And my heart always light Would I seek that fair land Where there is no night?
If I never grew weary With the weight of my load Would I search for God's peace At the end of the road?
If I never knew sickness And never felt pain Would I reach for a hand To help and sustain?
If I walked not with sorrow And lived without loss Would my soul seek sweet solace At the foot of the cross?
If all I desired was mine Day by day Would I kneel before God And earnestly pray?
If God allowed no "WINTER" To freeze me with fear Would I yearn for the warmth Of "SPRING" every year?
I ask myself this And the answer is plain. If my life were all pleasure And I never knew pain -
I'd seek God less often And need Him much less For God's sought more often In times of distress.
And no one knows God Or sees Him as plain As those who have met Him On "THE PATHWAY OF PAIN."
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Thought for the day....... "The fewer the words, the better the prayer." Martin Luther
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Thought for the day....... "Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere." Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... "The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is "look under foot." You are always nearer the divine and true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world." John Burroughs
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Thought for the day....... "Change is never a loss, it is change only." Vernon Howard (Author & Mystic 1918-1992)
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Thought for the day....... "Any man who knows all the answers most likely misunderstood the questions." Anonymous
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Thought for the day....... "Silence is one of the great arts of conversation" Marcus T. Cicero
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Thought for the day....... "A lie has speed, but truth has endurance." Edgar J. Mohn
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Thought for the day....... "I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian." Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... "Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." A. W. Pinero
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Thought for the day....... "One who knows that enough is enough will always have enough." Tao Te Ching
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Thought for the day....... "Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything." Meister Eckhart
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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
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
APACHE SEASONS
Lessons on Life
There was an Indian Chief who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge Things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at A pear tree that was a great distance away.
The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in Summer, and the youngest son in the fall.
When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe What they had seen.
The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted.
The second son said no, it was covered with green buds and full of promise.
The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so Sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever Seen.
The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping with Fruit, full of life and fulfillment.
The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they Had each seen but only one season in the tree's life.
He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, And that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that Come from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons Are up.
If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the Beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.
Moral: ******
Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.
Don't judge life by one difficult season.
Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come Some time
Happiness keeps You Sweet,
Trials keep You Strong,
Sorrows keep You Human,
Failures keep You Humble,
Success keeps You Glowing,
But Only God keeps You Going! -----------------------------
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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....... "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." Lin Yutang
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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....... "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 (1874-1956, Founder of IBM )
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Thought for the day....... "No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." Francois Muriac
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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....... "Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold." Tolstoy
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Thought for the day....... "How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!" John Muir
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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....... "May the Great Spirit watch over you as long as the rivers shall run and the grass shall grow." Native American Blessing
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Thought for the day....... "There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life." Booker T. Washington
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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....... "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....... "The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days." Robert Leighton
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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....... "Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing." Quincy Jones
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe." Voltaire
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Thought for the day....... "Nobody believes the official spokesman, but everybody trusts an unidentified source." Ron Nesen
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Thought for the day....... "Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person." C. Neil Strait
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11-21-07 Thought for the day....... "Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." Peter Ustinov
11-22-07 Thought for the day....... "Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." Melody Beattie
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!" Amanda Bradley
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Thought for the day....... "There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them." Heisenberg
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Thought for the day........ "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." A Course in Miracles
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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....... "Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it." William James
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Thought for the day....... "Confusion is the only suffering" Byron Katie
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Thought for the day....... "He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear." Michel De Montaigne "(Essays-1580)
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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....... "Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind." Jonathan Edwards
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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....... "If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come." Chinese Proverb
Posted by Cobweb (Member # 10053) on :
What came first? The Green Bough or the Field of Dreams?
Faith it's all about faith. Mind if I use some of these wonderful "Thoughts for the day.." in our Church bulletin?
I'm responsible for the Words to Ponder page.
Cobby
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Thought for the day....... "Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process." Roger von Oech
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Thought for the day....... "In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds." Robert Green Ingersoll
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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....... "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......... "A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within." Eudora Welty
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Thought for the day....... "For the man who prays in his heart, the whole world is a church." Sylvain of Athos
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Thought for the day....... "Forget goals. Value the process." Jim Bouton
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Thought for the day....... "Vulnerability is not a weakness. It's a strength. Very few of us are tough enough to be soft." Merle Shain
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Thought for the day....... "Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly." George MacDonald
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12-13 Thought for the day....... "Life always gives us exactly the teacher need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath." Charlotte Joko Beck
12-14 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....... "The highest truth cannot be put into words. Therefore the greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries." Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... "What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day." Phyllis Diller
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Thought for the day....... "The creative person is both; more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person." Frank Barron
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Thought for the day....... "The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness." Neale Donald Walsch
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Thought for the day....... "Even as fire without fuel finds peace in its resting place, when thoughts become silence the soul finds peace in its own source." Maitri Upanishad
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Thought for the day....... "Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness." Seneca
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Thought for the day....... "Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence." George Santayana
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Thought for the day....... "Each being is sacred - meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being." Starhawk
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Thought for the day....... "Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death." Anais Nin
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Thought for the day....... "The heart that loves is always young." Greek Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting." Bernard Meltzer
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Thought for the day....... "Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another." Jenny Ausubel
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Thought for the day....... "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." Edith Wharton
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Thought for the day....... "Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier." Charles F. Kettering
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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....... "Life does not consist mainly--or even largely--of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head." Mark Twain's Autobiography
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Thought for the day....... "Don't let your past decide your future." Frederick R. Bliss
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Thought for the day....... "This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:
"Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream; Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream."
"So is all conditioned existence to be seen." From the Diamond Sutra - Translation by Alex Johnson
Happy New Year!!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost." James Thurber
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Thought for the day....... "One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve." Paul Nitze
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Thought for the day....... "Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary." Peter Minard
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Thought for the day....... "All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles." Francoise Voltaire
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Thought for the day....... "Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things." Philippians 4:8
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Thought for the day....... "What we call I or me is a kind of default mental construction that our minds automatically return to unconsciously. We assume our own existence as concrete and objective, yet this assumption remains valid only as long as we do not directly look for our I. The moment we do, it is gone." Richard Moss, MD
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Thought for the day....... "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." Oscar Wilde
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Thought for the day....... "No legacy is so rich as honesty." William Shakespeare
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Thought for the day....... "An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and who manages to avoid them." Werner Heisenberg
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Thought for the day....... "Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thought nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away." Anonymous Shoshone
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Thought for the day....... "It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do." Charly Heavenrich
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Thought for the day....... "There ain't no different churches in heaven' cos everybody is heaven is inside themselves" Anna ("Mister God This is Anna" (A true story of the wisdom of a small child - written by Fynn)
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Thought for the day....... "You win only if you aren't afraid to lose." Rocky Aoki
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Thought for the day....... "Those who have conquered themselves...live in peace, alike in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, praise and blame...To such people a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same...Because they are impartial, they rise to great heights." Krishna
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Thought for the day....... "Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." Jacob Bronowski
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Thought for the day....... "Charity sees the need, not the cause." German Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "To explain to others you must truly understand. To make others understand as you do, you have to be an exceptional guide." Brad Anderson
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Thought for the day....... "Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest." Rodin (1840 - 1917)
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Thought for the day....... "Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could." Barbara De Angelis
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1-21-08 Thought for the day....... "Be kind to your mind. Clean it out and make it your friend, your resting place, your home." Hugh Prather
1-22-08 Thought for the day....... "Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." Henry James
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Thought for the day....... "Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love" Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Thought for the day....... "No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pain many times greater then the pleasures" Epicurus
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Thought for the day....... "Discovering real goodness comes from appreciating very simple experiences. We are not talking about how good it feels to make a million dollars or finally graduate from college or buy a new house, but we are speaking here of the basic goodness of being alive." Chogyam Trungpa
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Thought for the day....... "Remember yourself always and everywhere." Gurdjieff
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Thought for the day....... "Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended." Benjamin Franklin
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Thought for the day....... "Whenever a man awakes, he awakes from the false assumption that he has always been awake, and therefore the master of his thoughts, feelings, and actions." Henri Tracol
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Thought for the day....... "The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance." Peter De Vries
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1-30-08 Thought for the day....... "Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours." Doug Larson
1-31-08 Thought for the day....... "There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." Willa Cather
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Thought for the day....... "When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing -- just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?" Ralph Marston
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Thought for the day....... "Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim." I Ching (1150 BC)
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Thought for the day....... "He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he see." Benjamin Franklin
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2-4-08 Thought for the day....... "Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary." Ray Knight
2-5-08 Thought for the day....... "To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence." Edith Sitwell
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Thought for the day....... "Silence is the mother of everything that has come out from the Depth. And Silence kept quiet about what she was unable to describe: the Unspeakable." Clement of Alexandria
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Thought for the day....... "If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing." W. Edwards Deming
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Thought for the day....... "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." Ralph Nader
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Thought for the day....... "He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees." Benjamin Franklin
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Thought for the day....... "When you listen, you offer a package of the most valuable healing gifts you can give: compassion, consolation, and forgiveness." James Kullander
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Thought for the day....... "Do not value money for anymore nor any less than it's worth; it is a good servant but a bad master." Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
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2-13-08 Thought for the day....... "Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous -- not just to some people in some circumstances -- but to everyone all the time." Thomas J. Watson
2-14-08 Thought for the day....... "Love Is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." Alexander Smith
Happy Valentine's Day!!!
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2-15-08 Thought for the day....... "You teach best what you most need to learn." Richard Bach
2-16-08 Thought the day....... "We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing." Charles Schaefer
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Thought for the day....... "I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence." Doug McLeod
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Thought for the day....... "A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently." Saint Augustine
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Thought for the day....... "We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us." Billy Graham
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2-20-08 Thought for the day....... "Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love." Rainer Maria Rilke
2-21-08 Thought for the day....... "Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness." Kahlil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... "It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand." Veda Upanishads
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Thought for the day....... "I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and uncorrupted." Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Thought for the day....... "All virtue is summed up in dealing justly." Aristotle
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Thought for the day....... "Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity." Thor Heyerdahl
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Thought for the day....... "The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new." Norman O. Brown
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Thought for the day....... "Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form." Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
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Thought for the day....... "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain" The Wizard of Oz
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Thought for the day....... "My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?" Charles M. Schulz
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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....... "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 Lamott
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Thought for the day....... "It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in so doing, you bring everything to the realm of possibility." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "Natural abilities are like plants that need pruning by study." Francis Bacon
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Thought for the day....... "It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block." Paul Gauguin (French Post-Impressionist Painter, 1848-1903)
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Thought for the day....... "Silence is more musical than any song." Christina Rossetti
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Thought for the day....... "A loving person lives in a loving world, A hostile person lives in a hostile world, Everyone you meet is your mirror." Ken Keyes, Jr.
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3-8-08 Thought for the day....... "Inspiration... who can say where it is born, and why it leaves us? Who can tell the reasons for its being or not being? Only this... I can think. Inspiration comes from the Heart of Heaven to give the lift of wings, and the breath of divine music to those of us who are earthbound." Margaret Sangster
3-9-08 Thought for the day....... "Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it." Hank Ketcham
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Thought for the day....... "If you want to get the plain truth, be not concerned with right and wrong. The conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind." Seng-Ts'an
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Thought for the day....... "Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher." Oprah Winfrey
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Thought for the day....... "On hearing true teachings, the hearts of those who are receptive, become serene - like a lake, deep, clear and still." Dhammapada, 82
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Thought for the day....... "Realize that true happiness lies within you." Lucian
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Thought for the day....... "Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for Joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live." Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
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Thought for the day....... "The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity." Keith Ferrazzi (Never Eat Alone)
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Thought for the day....... ``Myth is something that never happened, but is happening all the time.'' Sallistius, Greek poet
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Thought for the day....... "A child sings before it speaks, dances almost before it walks. Music is in our hearts from the beginning." Pamela Brown
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Thought for the day....... "True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it." Pliny The Elder
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Thought for the day....... "Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them, and the evils bear patiently, and sweetly; for this day only is ours; we are dead to yesterday, and are not born tomorrow." Jeremy Taylor
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Thought for the day....... "Look back and smile at perils past." Walter Scott
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Thought for the day....... "I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life." Corazon Aquino
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Thought for the day....... "If we can be cheered up by positive images we can be depressed by negative ones. As long as we accept images as realities we are in that trap, because you can't control the images." David Bohm
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2-23-08
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
3-24-08 Thought for the day....... "In the midst of despair or pain, you may be convinced that no one has ever felt this way before. Yet there is no pain you can experience that has not been experienced before by another in a different time or place. our emotional world is universal." Christina Feldman
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Just when I think I'm getting better- I have been opening this thread lately - and wondered why you keep posting the same thing...
"It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand." Veda Upanishads
DUH Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in your heart." Chandogya Upanishad
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Thought for the day....... "The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world." Paul Farmer
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Lightfoot-your PM is full. Have to tell you I have been opening this thread and wondering why you keep posting the same quote over and over again...
Finally it dawned on me that I was not scrolling down-DUH. February 22 was like the movie Groundhog Day for me.
You're doing great-and I very much appreciate the "Thought for the day..."
Helps me exercise this Lyme Brain-especially when I remember to scroll down to the correct day.! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Don't side with yourself." Bankei
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Thought for the day....... "Love your crooked neighbor with all your crooked heart." W.H. Auden
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Hi Cobweb!
Glad you have been released from Groundhog Day!!
Thanks for your comments.
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Thought for the day....... "Everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing." Galway Kinnell
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Thought for the day....... "As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering?...by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One." Christmas Humphreys
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Thought for the day....... "No man is rich enough to buy back his past." Oscar Wilde
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Thought for the day....... "Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." Proverbs 27:1
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Thought for the day....... "A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday." Lytton
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Thought for the day....... "The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures." Sir Humphrey Davy (1778 - 1829)
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Thought for the day....... "Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace." Eugene O'Neill
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Thought for the day....... "Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!" Davy Crockett
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Thought for the day....... "What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored." John Greenleaf Whittier
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Thought for the day....... "Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge." Stephen Levine
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Thought for the day....... "Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of leaf." Rabindranath Tagore
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Thought for the day....... "How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die." Thomas Cole
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Thought for the day....... "Remember this ~ very little is needed to make a happy life." Marcus Aurelius
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Thought for the day....... "All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child." Marie Curie
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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....... "My spirit was lifted and my soul nourished by my time in the garden. It gave me a calm connection with all of life, and an awareness that remains with me now, long after leaving the garden." Nancy Ross
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Thought for the day....... "Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure. Carry out an action with complete attention and intensity, as if it were your last." Piero Ferrucci
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Thought for the day....... "Tradition is a guide and not a jailer." William Somerset Maugham
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Thought for the day....... "Our enemy's opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own." Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
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Thought for the day....... "Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness." Lao Tzu (c.604 - 531 B.C.)
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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....... "Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day." W. Earl Hall
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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....... "Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." Rachel Carson
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Thought for the day....... "The earth is what we all have in common." Wendell Berry (author, farmer, cultural critic)
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Thought for the day....... "Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring . . ." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Thought for the day....... "While I dance I cannot judge. I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance." Hans Bos
I'll be away from the computer the 25th though the 29th. I'll get back to more thoughts on the 30th.
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Thought for the day....... "Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism." William Strunk (1869 - 1946)
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Thought for the day....... "An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." H.L. Mencken
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Thought for the day....... "Every problem has in it the seed of its own solution. If you have no problems, you don't have any seeds." Norman Vincent Peale
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Thought for the day....... "Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world." Dalai Lama
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Thought for the day....... "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." Neil Armstrong
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Thought for the day....... "We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us, that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet." William Butler Yeats
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Thought for the day....... "The job of leaders is to think from their heads, communicate from their hearts and act from their guts." David Gaster
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Thought for the day....... "Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower." Shigenori Kameoka
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Thought for the day....... "Do no try to get the jar off my head, because it hurts when you pull. Please simply sit next to me and hold my hand, and the jar will soon come off itself." Winnie the Pooh
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Thought for the day....... "Believe that each day is the last to shine upon thee." Horace
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Thought for the day....... "The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises." Leo Buscaglia
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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
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Thought for the day....... "In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
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Thought for the day....... "If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up." Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... "When you look for the good in others you discover the best in yourself." Martin Walsh
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Thought for the day....... "In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it." Marianne Williamson
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Thought for the day....... "Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness." Anonymous 18th century monk
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Thought for the day....... "Kind words, kind looks, kind acts and warm handshakes, these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles." John Hall
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Thought for the day....... "Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface." Confucius (551- 479 BC)
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Thought for the day....... "Know your gifts and share them." Les Brown
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Thought for the day....... "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die." Thomas Carlyle
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Thought for the day....... "Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." Walter Anderson
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Thought for the day....... "By words the mind is winged." Aristophanes
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Thought for the day....... "He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." Henri L. Bergson
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Thought for the day....... "Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it." Akhenaton
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Thought for the day....... "Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind." Philo
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Thought for the day....... "Practice is allowing everything in your life to wake you up." Mirabai Bush
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Thought for the day....... "We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves." Thomas Merton
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Thought for the day....... "Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark." Rabindranath Tagore
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Thought for the day....... "The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves, as well." Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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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....... "We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery." Samuel Smiles
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Thought for the day....... "The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness." Abraham H. Maslow
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Thought for the day....... "Get a life in which you are generous. Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star burst in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious... Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around." Anna Quindlen
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Thought for the day....... "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." Pablo Picasso
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Thought for the day....... "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." Marcel Proust
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Thought for the day....... "All men should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why." James Thurber
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Thought for the day....... "Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes." Etty Hillesum
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Thought for the day....... "In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them" Aldo Leopold
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Thought for the day....... "To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Thought for the day....... "There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth." Charles Dickens
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Thought for the day....... "Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Thought for the day....... "Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral." John Burroughs
I'll be away from the computer over the weekend......I'll "see" you Monday. : ~ ))
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Thought for the day....... "The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice." R. D. Laing
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6-17-08 Thought for the day....... "Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley." James Rogers
6-18-08 Thought for the day....... "It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that." Alan Alda
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Thought for the day....... "May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland." Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro
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Thought for the day....... "Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, Nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favorable comparison with the products of Nature, the living cell of a plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life." Thomas Alva Edison
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Thought for the day....... "There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet." Brooke Medicine Eagle
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Thought for the day....... "Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies." The Talmud
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Thought for the day....... "Fair and softly goes far." Miguel De Cervantes
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Thought for the day....... "Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy." Randolph Ray
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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
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Thought for the day....... "My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is." St. Augustine
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Thought for the day....... "To achieve freedom requires only two things: a silent mind and an open heart." Dr. Thynn Thynn
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Thought for the day....... " The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story." Byron Katie
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Thought for the day....... "Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit." Hosea Ballou
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Thought for the day....... "Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity." Anne Lamott
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Thought for the day....... "Mind itself is utterly without root, like space. Just as space does not refer to the nature of space, Nor can awareness be pointed out by illustrations." Jigme Lingpa
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Thought for the day....... "The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position." Leo Buscaglia
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Thought for the day....... "In a dark time, the eye begins to see." Theodore Roethke
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Thought for the day....... "Its soul, its climate, its equality, liberty, laws, people, and manners. My god! how little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!" Thomas Jefferson
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Thought for the day....... "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely." Aristotle
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Thought for the day....... "Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen." Carl Sandburg
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Thought for the day....... "All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own." Plutarch
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Thought for the day....... "The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate." Joseph Priestly,1733- 1804 (scientist)
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Thought for the day....... "Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed." Eileen Caddy
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Thought for the day....... "In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom." Euripides
I'm off to the hills......another thought on Monday.
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Thought for the day....... "Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion." Lorraine Anderson
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Thought for the day....... "Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books." Sir John Lubbock
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Thought for the day....... "The deeper we look into nature the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret, and we are all united to all this life." Albert Schweitzer
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Thought for the day....... "When you welcome your emotions as teachers, every emotion brings good news, even the ones that are painful." Gary Zukav & Linda Francis, 'The Heart Of The Soul'
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Thought for the day....... "Life is completely still. It is without excitement. It is always still, indifferent to whether or not your life is dramatic." Dave Joko Haselwood
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Thought for the day....... "What we love is your peace not your mask. Your warrior's face is not handsome." Pablo Neruda
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Thought for the day....... "The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!" Henry David Thoreau
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7-21-08 Thought for the day....... "Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift." Albert Einstein
7-22-08 Thought for the day....... "There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward." Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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Thought for the day....... "We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile." Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... "As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming." Leo Buscaglia
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Thought for the day....... "If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot." John Bunyan
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7-26-08 Thought for the day....... "We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others." Thomas a Kempis
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7-27-08 Thought for the day....... "Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it." Louis-Ferdinand Celine
7-28-08 Thought for the day....... "An instinct is a propensity prior to experience and independent of instruction." William Paley, Archdeacon of Saragossa
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7-29-08 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
7-30-08 Thought for the day....... "The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still." George Seaton Bowes
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Thought for the day....... "Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do." Lydia M. Child
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Thought for the day....... "A little experience often upsets a lot of theory." Cadman
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Thought for the day....... "Only by becoming a fish can one know how a fish lives. To understand a great being, one first has to become one with him. That is true knowledge." Muktananda (Indian Saint 1908-1982)
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Thought for the day....... "The more the words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit anyone?" Ecclesiastes 6:11
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Thought for the day....... ``Do not seek the truth; only cease to cherish opinions.'' Seng-ts'an
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Thought for the day....... "Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience finds in nature the ''correspondence'' through which we may know our boundless selves." Kathleen Raine
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Thought for the day....... "The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." Peter Drucker
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Thought for the day....... "I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did." Ibn Gabirol
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Thought for the day....... "If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you." Charles Gordon
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Thought for the day....... "Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." Ovid
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Thought for the day....... "It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains." Alice Caldwell Rice
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Thought for the day....... "Approach the present with your heart's consent. Make it a blessed event." Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
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Thought for the day....... "Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." Thomas Carlyle
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Thought for the day....... "It is impossible for any one to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows." Epictetus
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Thought for the day....... "Now. This is it. The whole purpose and meaning for the existence of everything." 'Zen Wisdom' (Edited by Timothy Freke)
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Thought for the day....... "Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece." Nadia Boulanger (1887-1974)
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Thought for the day....... "Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "What a pity flowers can utter no sound! A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle--oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!" Henry Ward Beecher
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Thought for the day....... "Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it." Pablo Casals
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Thought for the day....... "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Thought for the day....... "People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do." Lewis Cass
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Thought for the day....... "Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen." Leonardo Da Vinci
Best wishes for a wonderful Labor Day!
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Thought for the day....... "There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes." William J. Bennett
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Thought for the day....... "Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Thought for the day....... "The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible." Alexander Chase
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Thought for the day....... "That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything--every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate--is always changing, moment to moment." Pema Chodron
I'll be away from the computer until Monday the 8th.......more thoughts to come.
Thought for the day....... "A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers." Honore de Balzac
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Thought for the day....... "At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago." Francis Hodgson Burnett
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Thought for the day....... "The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Thought for the day....... "Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters." M. Scott Peck
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Thought for the day....... "Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows." David Grayson
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Thought for the day....... "Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an a$$." Japanese proverb
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Thought for the day....... "Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig." Marcus Aurelius
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Thought for the day....... "Be persuaded that your only treasures are those which you carry in your heart." Demophilus
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Thought for the day....... "Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive." Jonas Salk
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Thought for the day....... "Humor is not concerned with improving people." Bernard Berenson
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Thought for the day....... "Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination." Alan Watts
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Thought for the day....... "There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity." John Caspar Lavater
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Thought for the day....... "The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred." George Bancroft
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Thought for the day....... "Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower." Albert Camus
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Thought for the day....... "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." Galileo
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Thought for the day....... "You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind." Herbert Prochnow
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Thought for the day....... "I say this with all the emphasis of which I am capable--that there can ever be any good excuse for refusing to face the evidence in favour of something unwelcome. It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth." Bertrand Russell
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Thought for the day....... "You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with logic, not with the intellect, but because you can feel that Life - you find out that you are the force that makes the flowers open and close, that makes the hummingbird fly from flower to flower. You find out that you are in every tree, and you are in every animal, vegetable, and rock. You are that force that moves the wind and breathes through your body. The whole universe is a living being that is moved by that force, and that is what you are. You are Life." Don Miguel Ruiz
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Thought for the day....... "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." Eugene Ionesco Decouvertes
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Thought for the day....... "Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why." Bernard Baruch
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9-28-08 Thought for the day....... "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." Albert Einstein
9-29-08 Thought for the day....... "I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way." Franklin P. Adams
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9-30-08 Thought for the day....... "If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns." Edwin Hubbell Chapin
10-1-08 Thought for the day....... "The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables. At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt." Dave Barry
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Thought for the day....... "Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results." Thomas Merton
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Thought for the day....... "A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding." Marshall McLuhan
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Thought for the day....... "What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others." Joseph Priestley
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Thought for the day....... "For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred." Paula Gunn Allen
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Thought for the day....... "Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change." Edwin Teale
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10-7-08 Thought for the day....... "The heart must be at rest before the mind, like a quiet lake under an unclouded summer evening, can reflect the solemn starlight and the splendid mysteries of heaven." M'Donald Clarke (1798-1842, "The Mad Poet")
10-8-08 Thought for the day....... "A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable." Richard E. Byrd
10-9-08 Thought for the day....... "A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." Charlotte Bronte
10-10-08 Thought for the day....... "When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail." Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Thought for the day....... "You are, in all that you represent, a part of living. Not somewhere in a corner all by yourself, but like the incense of a burning incense stick, gradually spreading itself out into infinity. This is the way you are sharing in living." Abbah Fr�d�ric
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Thought for the day....... "Solidarity, compassion, caring, communion and loving. Such values and inner powers can lay the foundation of a new paradigm of civilization, the civilization of the humanity reunited in the Common House, on the Planet Earth.... Our mission is to celebrate the greatness of Creation and connect it again to the Core where it came from and to where it will go, with care, lightness, joy, reverence and love." Leonardo Boff (Brazilian Theologian )
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Thought for the day....... "It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos." Carlos Castaneda
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Thought for the day....... "When truly creative people come up with a new idea, they do not reject it immediately because of its flaws. They play with it, looking for strengths and sliding over weaknesses." David Campbell
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Thought for the day....... "The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." Carl Jung
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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 also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization." Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Thought for the day....... "An optimist is one who sees light where there is none. A pessimist is one who blows it out." Dr. B. J. Palmer
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Thought for the day....... "Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment." R. Buckminster Fuller
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Thought for the day....... "People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument." Will Rogers
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Thought for the day....... "It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so." Josh Billings
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Thought for the day....... "Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand." Abraham Maslow
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Thought for the day....... "Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence." Norman Podhoretz
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Thought for the day....... "Trust Everybody, but cut the cards." Finley Peter Dunne
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Thought for the day....... "Comic vision often leads to serious solutions." Malcolm L. Kushner
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Thought for the day....... "Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both." Leo Buscaglia
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Thought for the day....... "We cannot force those we want to forgive into accepting our forgiveness. They might not be willing or able to do so. They may not even know or feel that they have wounded us. We can only change ourselves. Forgiving others is first and foremost healing our own hearts." Henri J. M. Nouwen
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Thought for the day....... "The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods." Elbert Hubbard
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Thought for the day....... "When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge." Gerald Jampolsky
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Thought for the day....... "The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good." Catherine Ponder
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Thought for the day....... "We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences. By our affirmation of the person as he is, we give him support and strength to take the next step in his own growth." Clark Moustakas
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Thought for the day....... "The major difference between hating and loving is perhaps that whereas to love somebody is to be fulfilled and enriched by the experience, to hate somebody is to be diminished and drained by it. Lovers, by losing themselves in their loving, find themselves, become themselves. Haters simply lose themselves. Theirs is the ultimately 'consuming' passion." Frederick Buechner
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Thought for the day....... "To recognize another's inwardness is to have seen the sacred." Peter Koestenbaum
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Thought for the day....... "The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question." Stephen Jay Gould
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Thought for the day....... "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." E. W. Dijkstra
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Thought for the day....... "The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong.'" Sydney J. Harris
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Thought for the day....... "Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty." Socrates
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Thought for the day....... "The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms; wine is in order to be wine: things are precious before they are contributory." Father Robert Cadon
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Thought for the day....... "In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November." Rose G. Kingsley (The Autumn Garden - 1905)
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Thought for the day....... "The only thing that you will take through those pearly gates is what you've given away." Marcia Moore
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Thought for the day....... "To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much impossible." Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Thought for the day....... "There is no such thing as preaching patience into people unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurly-burly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to and riding out the gale." Henry Ward Beecher
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Thought for the day....... "There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect." Golbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
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Thought for the day....... "Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will." James Stephens (The Crock of Gold)
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Thought for the day....... "There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it." Ernest Holmes
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Thought for the day....... "The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space." Aleksei Leonov
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Thought for the day....... "If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive." Eleonora Duse
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Thought for the day....... "We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians." Edgar Mitchell
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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....... "The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me - a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence don't show from that distance." Frank Borman
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Thought for the day....... "To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves a riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold--brothers who know now they are truly brothers." Archibald MacLeish
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Thought for the day....... "To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." Stephen Hawking
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Thought for the day....... "Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken. Although its light is wide and great, The moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide. The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass." Dogen
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Thought for the day....... "The fruit of the spirit is love, joy and peace." Galatians 5:22
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"no matter how many times i go around the barn, sometimes i just can't find the door"...
randi
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Thought for the day....... "Presence is more than just being there." Malcolm Forbes
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Thought for the day....... "Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens.....My grandfather would say we're part of something incredibly wonderful - more marvelous than we imagine. My grandfather would say we ought to go out and look at it once in a while so we don't lose our place in it." Robert Fulghum
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11-26-08 Thought for the day....... "How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove men mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen." Roger Ebert
11-27-08 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 Thanksgiving!
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Thought for the day....... "When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system." Laurel Clark (Astronaut - Perished on The Space Shuttle Columbia)
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Thought for the day....... "Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Thought for the day....... "When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars." Vincent van Gogh
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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
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Thought for the day....... "Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best." John Tillotson
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Thought for the day....... "To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us." Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) British Sportsman, Writer
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Thought for the day....... "One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little." Alexander Chase
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Thought for the day....... "At the touch of Love every one becomes a poet." Plato
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Thought for the day....... "A loving heart is the truest wisdom." Charles Dickens
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Thought for the day....... "It is important to recognize the power of our emotions--and to take responsibility for them by creating a light and positive atmosphere around ourselves. This attitude of joy that we create helps alleviate states of hopelessness, loneliness, and despair. Our relationships with others thus naturally improve, and little by little the whole of society becomes more positive and balanced." Tarthang Tulku
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Thought for the day....... "Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius." Anton Ehrenzweig
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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. Smedes
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Thought for the day....... "Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries." John Muir
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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....... "Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity." R. I. Fitzhenry
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Thought for the day....... "Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination." Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Thought for the day....... "Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love." Saul Bellow
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Thought for the day....... "To be enlightened is simply to be absolutely, unconditionally intimate with this moment. No more. No less." Scott Morrison
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12-16-08 Thought for the day....... "Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving." Mary Bateson
12-17-08 Thought for the day....... "The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable." J. S. Buckminster
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12-18-08 Thought for the day....... "A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer." Seneca
12-19-08 Thought for the day....... "To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it." Mother Teresa
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Thought for the day....... "Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion." Gandhi
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12-21-08 Thought for the day....... "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." Zora Neale Hurston
12-22-08 Thought for the day....... "A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog." Jack London
12-23-08 Thought for the day....... "To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another." Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
12-24-08 Thought for the day....... "If two angels were sent down from heaven, one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep a street, they would feel no inclination to change employments." John Newton
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Thought for the day....... "Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion." Ralph Sockman
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Thought for the day....... "Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thought for teh day....... "When you are present in this moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love. The only way love can come into your life is not through form, but through that inner spaciousness that is Presence. Love has no form." Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Amidst the World
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Thought for the day....... "Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong." Dandemis
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Thought for the day....... "Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress." Bruce Barton
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Thought for the day....... "It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities." Josiah Stamp
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Thought for the day....... "Long-term planning is not about making long-term decisions, it is about understanding the future consequences of today's decisions." Gary Ryan Blair
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Thought for the day....... "You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection--it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self." Bernie Siegel
Happy New Year!!
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Thought for the day....... "Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery." Joyce Brothers
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Thought for the day....... "Silence stands outside the world of profit and utility. It cannot be exploited for profit; you cannot get anything out of it. It is 'unproductive', therefore it is regarded as useless. Yet there is more help and healing in silence than in all useful things." Max Picard
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Thought for the day....... "Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time." Thomas Carlyle
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Thought for the day....... "There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub." Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Thought for the day....... "All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest." Bayazid Al-Bistami
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Thought for the day....... "The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself." Bernard Baruch
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Thought for the day....... "Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems." John W. Gardner
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Thought for the day....... "It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately apprehensive about tripping." Francis de Sales
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Thought for the day....... "Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards." James Harvey Robinson
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nancy,
thank you for the really nice note today; it was greatly appreciated.
PM BOX IS FULL; so please clean house. send me another om, and i've got the info you want ready to send ok! betty
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Thought for the day....... "The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us." Morihei Ueshiba
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Thought for the day....... "Thinking and consciousness are not synonymous. Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought." Eckhart Tolle
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Hi Betty!
My box is cleaned up. Thanks a million. I'll be in touch.
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Thought for the day....... "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own." Disraeli
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Thought for the day....... "Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead or rubbing it in. Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves." William Hazlitt
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Thought for the day....... "In a world of tension and breakdown it is necessary for there to be those who seek to integrate their inner lives not by avoiding anguish and running away from problems, but by facing them in their naked reality and in their ordinariness." Thomas Merton
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Thought for the day....... "Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow." Sappho
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Thought for the day....... "A clown may be the first in the kingdom of heaven, if he or she has helped lessen the sadness of human life." Rabbi Baroka
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Thought for the day....... "Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it." Jack Nichols
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Thought for the day....... "Regarding Winter: There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you ..... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself." Ruth Stout
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1-21-09 Thought for the day....... "As I looked down, I saw a large river meandering slowly along for miles, passing from one country to another without stopping. I also saw huge forests, extending along several borders. And I watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of separate continents. Two words leaped to mind as I looked down on all this: commonality and interdependence. We are one world." John-David Bartoe
1-22-09 Thought for the day....... "If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record." Jan McKeithen
1-23-09 Thought for the day....... "Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder." Osho
1-24-09 Thought for the day....... "The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." Richard Bach
1-25-09 Thought for the day....... "You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one." John Wooden
1-26-09 Thought for the day....... "Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you." Andr� Gide
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Thought for the day....... "Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time." Jean Paul Richter
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Thought for the day....... "The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief." George Eliot
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Thought for the day....... "In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious." Blaise Pascal
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Thought for the day....... "Light is the symbol of truth." James Russell Lowell
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Thought for the day....... "There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one's experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action." Howard Thurman
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Thought for the day....... "Prayer is not asking. It is a language of the soul." Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... "Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil." Anatole France
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Thought for the day....... "To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand." Abraham Maslow
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Thought for the day....... "Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form." Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Thought for the day....... "The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." Brenda Ueland
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Thought for the day....... "Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it." Seneca
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Thought for the day....... "Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do." Kahlil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... "Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech." Edwin H. Friedman
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Thought for the day....... "I fully subscribe to the judgment of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense of conscience is by far the most important......It is the most noble of all the attributes of man." Charles Darwin (2-12-1809 to 4-19-1882)
I'll be away from the computer until Monday...more thoughts to come.
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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....... "Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity." Michael Gelb
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Thought for the day....... "It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong." G. K. Chesterton
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Thought for the day....... "Common sense has given to words their ordinary signification, and common sense is the genius of mankind." Francois Pierre Guizot
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Thought for the day....... "Though we are no doubt always at choice, there is no realistic chance for meaningful choice until we learn that it is possible." Steve Ryals
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Thought for the day....... "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy." Leo Buscaglia
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Thought for the day....... "The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves." Gehlek Rinpoche
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Thought for the day....... "The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided by wisdom rather than emotion. Whole and virtuous, it can never die." Lao Tzu (c.604 - 531 B.C.)
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Thought for the day....... "The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil may care attitude toward responsibility, and their disinclination to earn an honest dollar." Robertson Davies (1913 - 1995)
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Thought for the day....... "Nature does not use anything as a model. It is only interested in perfecting the species. It is trying to create perfect species and not perfect beings." Krishnamurti
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Thought for the day....... "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." Rudyard Kipling
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Thought for the day....... "Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day........ "The custom of frequent reflection will keep their minds from running adrift, and call their thoughts home from useless unattentive roving." John Locke (1632 - 1704)
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Thought for the day....... "But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. And thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine." Benjamin Franklin
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Thought for the day....... "Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." Eleanor Roosevelt
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Thought for the day....... "Call it 'womb awe' or even 'womb worship' but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence." Sam Keen
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Thought for the day....... "Resolving conflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment and appreciation of differences." Thomas Crum
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Thought for the day....... "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." James A. Baldwin
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Thought for the day....... "If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy's propensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet." Kenneth Kaye
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Thought for the day....... "An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions." Robert A. Humphrey
Hi! We've all heard of computer crashes, right? AND for our own good we should back up our system, right? Well, guess what?? So......nothing like a little personal experience, right? ; ~ ))
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Thought for the day....... "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all." Charles Babbage
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Thought for the day....... "Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy." Sir Isaac Newton
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Thought for the day....... "In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning." H. A. Kramers
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Thought for the day....... "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." Mother Teresa
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Thought for the day....... "You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him." Leo Aikman
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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....... "Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable." Francis Bacon
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Thought for the day....... "Creator of heaven and earth, You are me, I am you." Prayer of a Navajo Girl (early 20th century)
I'll be away from the computer 3-20 to 3-29. More Thoughts to come on Monday the 30th.
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Thought for the day....... "We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen." Rainer Maria Rilke
Greetings once again!
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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
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Thought for the day....... "One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities." Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
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Thought for the day....... "Alert to the needs of the journey, those on the path to awareness, like swans, glide on, leaving behind their former resting places." Dhammapada 91
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Thought for the day....... "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem." John Galsworthy
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Thought for the day....... "Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem." J. Krishnamurti
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Thought for the day....... "The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation." Anne Rice
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Thought for the day....... "The fruit of self-understanding is self acceptance. The fruit of self acceptance is self-love. The fruit of self-love is love for the world. The fruit of love for the world is service to the world. The fruit of service to the world is peace" Russell Rowe
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Thought for the day....... "You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometime fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand" Robert Louis Stevenson
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Thought for the day....... "If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, "You are wrong." This method works every time." Henry Link
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Thought for the day....... "It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing." D. H. Lawrence
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Thought for the day....... "Accepting does not necessarily mean 'liking,' 'enjoying,' or 'condoning.' I can accept what is--and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck." Nathaniel Branden
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Thought for the day....... "Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge." Stephen Levine
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Thought for the day....... "I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us." Anne Lamott
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Thought for the day....... "Happiness can exist only in acceptance." Denis De Rougamont
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Thought for the day....... "'I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment.' That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness." Eckhart Tolle
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness." Pearl S. Buck
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." William Cowper
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork." Pearl Bailey
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "In all affairs it's a healthy thing to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." Bertrand Russell
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all." Dwight Eisenhower
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible." Alexander Chase
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing." Ed Foreman
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Thought for the day....... "The wise man carries his possessions within him." Bias
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond." Hypatia
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "When I speak of change, I do not mean a simple switch of positions or a temporary lessening of tensions, nor the ability to smile or feel good. I am speaking of a basic and radical alteration in all those assumptions underlining our lives." Audre Lorde
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe." Winston Churchill
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And, honey, that ain't easy either." Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delaney, at age 104
I'll be away from the computer from 5-1-09 to 5-4-09. More thoughts to come. : ~ ))
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Cowardice or bravery is never racial. You find both in every country. No country has a monopoly on bravery; great deeds of heroism are liable to break out in the most unexpected places." Will Rogers
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Thought for the day....... "Learning to love and accept ourselves is basic to human education. So is learning to language emotion in a positive way. Ultimately when we learn to truly love and accept ourselves, we'll be able to live well and love each other and every thing we encounter." Barbara Hoberman Levine (Your Body Believes Every Word You Say)
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Thought for the day....... "In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world...Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying...on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace." Louise Erdrich
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC)
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Thought for the day....... "Play the game for more than you can afford to lose - only then will you learn the game." Winston Churchill
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Thought for the day....... "The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat." Jules Reynard
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Thought for the day....... "Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower." Shigenori Kameoka
Happy Mother's Day!!!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." T.S. Eliot
Posted by John S (Member # 19756) on :
If they survive the journey =)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "All empowerment exists in the present moment." Ken Blanchard
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Thought for the day....... "Make the most of what you have, when you have it, where you are." Eleanor Roosevelt
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Thought for the day....... "When the heart weeps for what is lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found." Sufi Aphorism
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Life is too short for a long story." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1689-1762 (British Society Figure - Letter Writer)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... "Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering." Jane Roberts
Thanks, Betty!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "'Meow' means 'woof' in cat." George Carlin
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Thought for the day....... "Is stillness just the absence of noise and content? No, it is intelligence itself - the underlying consciousness out of which every form is born. And how could that be separate from who you are?" Eckhart Tolle
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." Gilbert K. Chesterton
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.'' Alice Walker
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Thought for the day....... "Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." Goethe
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches you by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly - not one.'' Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love." Edith Stein
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The incoherence that results from holding on to resentments and unforgiving attitudes keeps you from being aligned with your true self. It can block you from your next level of quality life experience. Metaphorically, it's the curtain standing between the room you're living in now and a new room, much larger and full of beautiful objects. The act of forgiveness removes the curtain. Clearing up your old accounts can free up so much energy that you jump right into a whole new house. Forgiving releases you from the punishment of a self-made prison where you are both the inmate and the jailer." Doc Childre and Howard Martin (The HeartMath Solution)
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
i received this in today's email; author is posted!
Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio
"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.
It is the most requested column I've ever written.
My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time. 31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's,we'd grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come..
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."
Remember that I will always share my spoon with you !
Friends are the family that we choose for ourselves
Please consider the environment before printing this email
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Eight Gifts You Can Give at No Cost ===================================
1) THE GIFT OF LISTENING...
But you must REALLY listen. No interrupting, no daydreaming, no planning your response. Just listening.
2) THE GIFT OF AFFECTION...
Be generous with appropriate hugs, kisses, pats on the back and handholds. Let these small actions demonstrate the love you have for family and friends.
3) THE GIFT OF LAUGHTER...
Clip cartoons. Share articles and funny MountainWings stories.
Your gift will say, "I love to laugh with you."
4) THE GIFT OF A WRITTEN NOTE...
It can be a simple "Thanks for the help" note or a full sonnet.
A brief, handwritten note may be remembered for a lifetime and may even change a life.
5) THE GIFT OF A COMPLIMENT...
A simple and sincere, "You look great in red," "You did a super job" or "That was a wonderful meal" can make someone's day.
6) THE GIFT OF A FAVOR...
Every day, go out of your way to do something kind.
7) THE GIFT OF SOLITUDE...
There are times when we want nothing better than to be left alone.
Be sensitive to those times, and give the gift of solitude to others.
8) THE GIFT OF A CHEERFUL DISPOSITION...
The easiest way to feel good is to extend a kind word to someone, really it's not that hard to say, "Hello" or "Thank You."
~Author Unknown~
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back." Arthur Rubinstein
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Thought for the day....... "Around a flowering tree, one finds many insects." African Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "In the landscape of spring, there is neither better nor worse. The flowering branches grow naturally, some long, some short." Zen Proverb
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``Plant the seeds of love in your heart. Let them grow into trees of service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate.'' Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Sanskrit - Ananda is our true nature, bliss pure and absolute.)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day........ "Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither." Christmas Humphreys
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home." Australian Aboriginal Proverb
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "If the problem has a solution, worrying is pointless, in the end the problem will be solved. If the problem has no solution, there is no reason to worry, because it can't be solved." Zen Proverb
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.'' Vance Havner
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications." Laurence Overmire (Poet & Genealogist)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Do you realize what this means? The fact of being alive.......I still find it staggering that I am here at all." Christopher Leach
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
Clay Balls
A man was exploring caves by the Seashore. In one of the caves he found a canvas bag with a bunch of hardened clay balls. It was like someone had rolled clay balls and left them out in the sun to bake.
They didn't look like much, but they intrigued the man, so he took the bag out of the cave with him. As he strolled along the beach, he would throw the clay balls one at a time out into the ocean as far as he could.
He thought little about it, until he dropped one of the clay balls and it cracked open on a rock . Inside was a beautiful, precious stone!
Excited, the man started breaking open the remaining clay balls. Each contained a similar treasure. He found thousands of dollars worth of jewels in the 20 or so clay balls he had left.
Then it struck him...He had been on the beach a long time. He had thrown maybe 50 or 60 of the clay balls with their hidden treasure into the ocean waves.
Instead of thousands of dollars in treasure, he could have taken home tens of thousands, but he had just thrown it away!
It's like that with people. We look at someone, maybe even ourselves, and we see the external clay vessel.
It doesn't look like much from the outside. It isn't always beautiful or sparkling, so we discount it.
We see that person as less important than someone more beautiful or stylish or well known or wealthy. But we have not taken the time to find the treasure hidden inside that person.
There is a treasure in each and every one of us.
If we take the time to get to know that person, and if we ask God to show us that person the way He sees them, then the clay begins to peel away and the brilliant gem begins to shine forth.
May we not come to the end of our lives and find out that we have thrown away a fortune in friendships because the gems were hidden in bits of clay.
May we see the people in our world as God sees them.
I am so blessed by the gems of friendship I have with you.. Thank you for looking beyond my clay vessel.
APPRECIATE EVERY SINGLE
THING YOU HAVE, ESPECIALLY YOUR FRIENDS!
LIFE IS TOO SHORT AND FRIENDS ARE TOO FEW!
Pass this on to another Clay Ball!!!
Do not ask the Lord to Guide your Footsteps if you are not willing to MOVE your Feet.
author unknown ... i received this in my emails today Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know that just to be alive is a grand thing." Agatha Christie
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day........ "Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness." Pearl S. Buck
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "You are as old as God and as young as the morning." Hilda Charlton
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life." Jean Giradoux
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "There is a vitality, a life force, an energy that is translated through you; and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique." Martha Graham
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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. Smedes
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it." Byron Katie from Loving What Is
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family, birth and pain and joy - and then death." Katharine Hepburn
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects." Marianne Williamson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god." Alan Watts
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking." Khalil Gibran
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." Thomas Edison
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." Cherokee Proverb
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Watch your mind, how it comes into being, how it operates. As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. The source of light is dark, unknown is the source of knowledge. That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there." Nisargadatta
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do." Wayne Dyer
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay." Sallustius Crispus (86 - 34 BC)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable." Buckminster Fuller
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience." Eric Butterworth
Posted by thejoje (Member # 19976) on :
"we must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." e. m. forester
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery." Seneca
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion - and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.'' Ram Dass
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong." G. K. Chesterton
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Everyday life is the way." Zen Proverb
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy." Steven Weinberg
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Comic vision often leads to serious solutions." Malcolm L. Kushner
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice." Dogen
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped." African Proverb
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together." Eugen Ionescu (1909-1994)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited." Lewis B. Smedes
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Thought for the day....... "You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism." Erma Bombeck
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits." Nancy Long
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass where ever you may be." Robert Fulghum
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door." Albert Camus
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "A fail proof formula for liberation: dare to keep expanding your heart even if you've been justifiably wounded by pain or disappointment. The effort is never wasted." Judith Orloff MD
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could." Barbara De Angelis
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "To me, the garden is a doorway to other worlds; one of them, of course, is the world of birds. The garden is their dinner table, bursting with bugs and worms and succulent berries." Anne Raver
I'm off on an adventure......see you Monday! : ~ )))
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "When power narrows the areas of men's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence." John F. Kennedy
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I am the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up." Alice Walker
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation." Walter Bagehot
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Any cause that requires a lengthy explanation isn't a cause around which a crusade can be built." Charles Handy
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?" James Thomson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side." Clement of Alexandria
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated." Sri Ramakrishna
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind." Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of man, you will never be rich." Seneca
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us." Albert Einstein (1875-1955)
Posted by Leelee (Member # 19112) on :
lightfoot,
I just discovered your thread! I don't know how I missed it and wish I had been reading daily. I certainly will be from now on.
Thank you very much! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause within our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace.'' Terry Williams
Thanks, leelee! Enjoy!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``What you risk reveals what you value.`` Jeanette Winterson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "A good person gives in five ways: out of faith, with respect, at the right time, generously, and without denigrating the other." AN V.148
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "You know what we need, Hobbes? We need an attitude." Calvin
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds." Henry David Thoreau
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "We can escape the prison of our own beliefs and enter the Palace of Possibilities when we allow ourselves to be astonished by everything." Gary Craig
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." Roberta Muller
Posted by farraday (Member # 21494) on :
Thought for the day...."One is only as happy or as unhappy as one imagines." La Rochefoucauld Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad is logic." G. K. Chesterton
I like that one, farraday!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The meaning of life is found in openness to being and 'being present' in full awareness." Thomas Merton
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, venture, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion." Lorraine Anderson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things." Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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Thought for the day....... "Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Harold Whitman
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Thought for the day....... "I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not -- more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving." Beverly Sills
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Thought for the day....... "Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change." Wayne Dyer
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Thought for the day....... "We will be known forever by the tracks we leave." Lakota Proverb
I'm off to the mountains and streams for a few days....I'll 'see' you Monday 8-10-09
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Thought for the day....... ``Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.'' Lincoln
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Thought for the day....... "At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing." Ugo Betti
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Thought for the day....... "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather 'Hmm...that's funny...!'." Isaac Asimov (Physicist, scientist, science fiction author, 1920 - 1992)
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Thought for the day....... "When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover that they are not it." Bernard Bailey
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Thought for the day....... "Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise." George Washington Carver
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Thought for the day....... "Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you." Jerry Brown
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Thought for the day....... "We seek purpose when we are not in touch with who we really are. When an apple tree discovers who it is, the question 'what must I do?' disappears. When you discover who you are (at the deepest place of your being) you will find your purpose." Colleen-Joy Page
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Thought for the day....... ``Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.'' Louis Pasteur
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Thought for the day....... "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." Calvin Coolidge
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Thought for the day....... "He who forgives ends the argument." African Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "I forgive everyone and everyone forgives me. The gates swing open for my good." Florence Scovel Shinn
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Thought for the day....... "If you concentrate on finding whatever 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....... "Reality is always kinder than the story we tell about it." Byron Katie
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Thought for the day....... "Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil." David Sarnoff
Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :
Lightfoot? Is that really you?
Bless your heart!
Every time I see this post I think .. wow... there is lightfoot. She started this so long ago. I sure do miss her and wish she was still here.
Little did I know,
I also see the HIGH number of posts on it and get scared to open it because often time is tight and I don't have time to "catch up" on the post like I would like to.
Now that I took a peek and see you, you dear one.. and one of my favorite things... inspirational and other quotes.... I will be sure to visit.
Thanks for sharing these. I smiled.
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Thought for the day....... ``Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.'' Gilda Radner
Tincup!!
Thanks for your lovely post! Yup, I 'bin' here all along. Great to 'see' you too.
Glad you are enjoying the quotes.....they're great for maintaining sanity, whatever that is. Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Nothing is so strong as gentleness." Ralph W. Sockman
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Thought for the day....... ``If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part." Krishnamurti
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Thought for the day....... "The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. It has camaraderie. It has heroism. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon." Fred Lebow (New York City Marathon co-founder)
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Thought for the day....... "As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged on the shingly beach of a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens" Stephen Graham
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Thought for the day....... "The deeper we look into nature the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret, and we are all united to all this life." Albert Schweitzer
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Thought for the day....... "It takes a certain maturity of mind to accept that nature works as steadily in rust as in rose petals." Esther Warner Dendel
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Thought for the day....... "I am awed by the universe, puzzled by it, and sometimes angry at a natural order that brings such pain and suffering. Yet any emotion or feeling I have toward the cosmos seems to be reciprocated by neither benevolence nor hostility but just silence. The universe appears to be a perfectly neutral screen onto which I can project any passion or attitude, and it supports them all." Heinz R. Pagels
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Thought for the day....... "For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless." Haji Bektash Veli
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Thought for the day....... "Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. I just kept knocking on doors until the right one opened." H. Joseph Gerber
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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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9-4-09 Thought for the day....... "Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men." G.K. Chesterton
I'll see you when I return from a trip to the hills, 9-14-09.
Thought for the day....... "Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down." Eleanor Roosevelt
It was a beautiful trip. The aspen were in their glory as we drove back. Good to 'see' you all again! : ~ )))))
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Thought for the day....... "To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform." Theodore H. White
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Thought for the day....... "I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel." Florence Nightingale
(A dreidel {Yiddish: דרײדל dreydl, Hebrew: סביבון Sevivon} is a four-sided spinning top, played with during Hanukkah.)
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Thought for the day....... "It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are." e.e. cummings
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Thought for the day....... "If my mind doesn't go out to disturb the noise, the noise won't disturb me." Ajahn Chah
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Thought for the day....... "You are not what happens; you are the space in which it happens. You are not your thoughts; they come and go. You are the vastness in which these thoughts appear and disappear because underneath all your thinking there is the stillness of pure being, pure consciousness, the timeless dimension of yourself." Eckhart Tolle
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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....... "Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still." Dalai Lama
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Thought for the day....... "You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings." Anthony de Mello
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Thought for the day....... "There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it." Abraham Maslow
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Thought for you today....... "Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Thought for the day....... "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." Alan Watts
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Thought for the day....... "We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face....we must do that which we think we cannot." Eleanor Roosevelt
Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
These are nice - thank you - you are indeed light of foot.
One of my favorites:
Don't agonize; organize.
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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." Kahlil Gibran
Robin....thanks for the great quote!!!
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9-28-09 Thought for the day....... "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and the lightening bug." Mark Twain
9-29-09 Thought for the day....... "When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed to two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity." John F. Kennedy
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Thought for the day....... "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself." Gary Zukav & Linda Francis
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Thought for the day....... "I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that." Thomas Edison, 1931
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10-3-09 Thought for the day....... "In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." Lao Tzu
10-4-09 Thought for the day....... "The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him." Plutarch
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Thought for the day....... "Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand." Sue Patton Thoele
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Thought for the day....... "If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more." Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Thought for the day....... "If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it." Jackie Gleason
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Thought for the day....... "When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena 'signs', the skeptics 'coincidence', and psychologists 'concentrated focus', although I've yet to find out what term historians should use)." Paulo Coelho
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Thought for the day....... "All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible." George Santayana
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Thought for the day....... "We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it." Donald Horban
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Thought for the day....... "Experiences of truth have been given different names by different spiritual cultures. Heaven, nirvana, resurrection, enlightenment, satori, samadhi--all are names pointing to this supreme, un-nameable, divine beauty, empty of suffering and filled with grace." Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... "People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument." Will Rogers
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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....... "Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud
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Thought for the day....... "An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work." Charles F. Kettering
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Thought for the day....... "Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure." Brenda Ueland
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Thought for the day....... "We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want." Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... "And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being." Black Elk
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Thought for the day....... "Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again." Joseph Campbell
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Thought for the day....... "We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives." Robert Grudin
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Thought for the day....... "Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected." William Plomer
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Thought for the day....... "The path is made by walking." African Proverb
Posted by njlymemom (Member # 15088) on :
lightfoot- just an FYI - I love these posts thank you!
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Thought for the day....... "Civilization exists only with geologic consent subject to change without notice." Will Durant
Hi njlymemom! Thanks loads for your comment. I'm glad you are enjoying them. I'm hooked on quotes. Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress." Bruce Barton
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Thought for the day....... ''Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as this is all there is.'' Mary Ann Radmacher
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Thought for the day....... "I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable." Joseph Addison
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Thought for the day....... "If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up." Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... "Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Thought for the day....... "Few great men would have got past personnel." Paul Goodman
Or women : ~ ))))
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Thought for the day....... "If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent." Isaac Newton
Posted by daisyrlb (Member # 15686) on :
lightfoot, you sure are faithful.
I'm reading your posts, it'll take me a while to catch up.
So much wisdom. Where in the world do you find these gems?
Have a great weekend.
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Thought for the day....... "Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom." David Whyte
Hi daisyrlb! So glad that you share my love of quotes and the inspiration they provide! I am always on the lookout for quotes but my largest source is the internet. I spend time relaxing and gathering quotes. As I collect them I store them in categories. I have an immense inventory to choose from. Then I just go with the flow. Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person." Anais Nin
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Thought for the day....... "No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed." Madeleine L'Engle
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Thought for the day....... ``The first duty of love is to listen.'' Paul Tillich
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Thought for the day....... "Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand." Karl Menninger
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Thought for the day....... "Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." Booker T. Washington
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Thought for the day....... "We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt." William Ernest Hocking
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Thought for the day....... "Your soul doesn't care what you do for a living - and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you're being while you're doing whatever you're doing...." Neale Donald Walsch
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Thought for the day....... "The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring." F.H. Bradley
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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 also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it." Warren Bennis
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Thought for the day....... "Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind." Leonardo da Vinci
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Thought for the day....... "Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "There is a place for everyone in the big picture. To turn your back on any one person, for whatever reason, is to run the risk of losing the central piece of your jigsaw puzzle." Johnna Howell
Posted by Alana (Member # 14077) on :
Semper Fi (short for Semper Fidelis)
"Always faithful" is the meaning.
Semper Fi has been the motto of the USMC for many yers. Yes, dad was a marine.
And yes, we are "always faithful" especially now.
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Thought for the day....... "Despite our differences, we are all in this together. No act of kindness or compassion goes unnoticed. To change the world, take compassionate action within your immediate sphere of influence. To change yourself, start by being still and making time just to listen." Edmund Bourne
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Thought for the day....... "Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." Victor Hugo
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Thought for the day....... "Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its own unhurried pace." Brian Weiss
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Thought for the day....... "Patience expands your capacity to love and feel peace." Mevlana Rumi (1207-1273)
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Thought for the day....... "Everything is gestation and then birthing." Rainer Maria Rilke
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Thought for the day....... "Your perception is your reality." Matt Dunlop
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Thought for the day....... " I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint." Hesiod (8th century B.C.)
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Thought for the day....... "Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous." Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778)
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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 only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side." Frances Cardinal Spellman
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Thought for the day....... ``The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own." Benjamin Disraeli
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Thought for the day....... "A thankful heart is the parent of all virtues." Cicero
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Thought for the day....... "He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much." Elbert Hubbard
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Thought for the day....... "Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us." Orison Swett Marden
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Thought for the day....... You cannot travel the path until you have become the path." Buddha
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Thought for the day....... "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
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Thought for the day....... "The creative person is both; more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person." Frank Barron
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Thought for the day....... "Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have failed to realize that you are nothing. This feeling of self-importance is deeply hidden, but it controls the whole of our life. Its first demand is that everything should be as we wish it, and as soon as this is not so we complain to God and are annoyed with people." Saint Theophan the Recluse
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Thought for the day....... ``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....... "When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon." Francis Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778)
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Thought for the day....... "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of Wisdom." Thomas Jefferson
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Thought for the day....... "Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on." Bob Newhart
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Thought for the day....... "The little things? The little moments? They aren't little." Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Thought for the day....... "Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries." John Muir
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Thought for the day....... "You will rise by lifting others." Robert Green Ingersoll
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Thought for the day....... "Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." Mark Twain : ~ ))))
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Thought for the day....... "Your thoughts come automatically. It is to the extent you identify with them that they make you their slave. You become the mistress of your thoughts, not when you can control the machine, but when you do not identify with it." Dick Olney
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Thought for the day....... "If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are." Zen proverb
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Thought for the day....... "The first people had questions, and they were free. The second people had answers, and they became enslaved." The Earth Wisdom Teachings
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Thought for the day....... "The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil may care attitude toward responsibility, and their disinclination to earn an honest dollar." Robertson Davies
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Thought for the day....... "When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously." Shakti Gawain
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Thought for the day....... "Silence is the Mother of Truth." Benjamin Disraeli
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Thought for the day....... "The greatest gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you." Kendall Hailey
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Thought for the day....... "The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts, ever quite wish to." Dodie Smith
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Thought for the day....... "Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." Jane Howard
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Thought for the day....... "Happy is the man who has learned to hold the things of this world with a loose hand." Warren Wiersbe
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Thought for the day....... "If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem." Robert Anthony
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Hi All!! Yesterday our internet was down all day. Here are yesterday's and today's Thought.
Thought for the day....... "Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything." Frank Yerby
Thought for the day....... "To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes." Fritz Kunkel
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Thought for the day....... "Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness." Chuang-Tse
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Thought for the day....... "What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace." Agnes M. Pharo
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Thought for the day....... "The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood." Edwin Markham
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Thought for the day....... "The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth." Harry Emerson Fosdick (American religious leader 1878-1969)
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Thought for the day....... "I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world." Socrates
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Thought for the day........ "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." Hannah Arendt
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Lightfoot, this is just what I needed today! I came across this by accident and you have made my day! Thank you for taking the time to do this, so wonderful!! :-)
You are very much appreciated!
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Thought for the day....... "As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind." Isabelle Holland
Thanks, Jenny!! I love your signature.
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Thought for the day....... "A hero is on the side of life. The world for the hero is a place where things are engendered, brought to life. The hero is a person who says - this is where things happen, not somewhere else - who acts at home in the world." H. Miller
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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....... ``For the warrior, the experience of the sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness.'' Ch�gyam Trungpa
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Thought for the day....... "We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." Frank Tibolt
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Thought for the day....... "Anger blows out the lamp of the mind." Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
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Thought for the day....... "When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self." Bhagavad Gita
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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." Herman Hesse
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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........ "The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new." Pema Chodron
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Thought for the day....... "I am larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much goodness." Walt Whitman (Song of the Open Road)
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Thought for the day....... "You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it." Faith Baldwin
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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....... "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us." Proust
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Thought for the day....... ``If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.'' Joan Welsh
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Thought for the day....... "When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "Enter the day invigorated with the essence of possibility, go through it energized with a sense of purpose and joy and end it with the serenity of completion." Darina Stoyanova
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Thought for the day....... "Truth is that which does not contaminate you, but empowers you. Therefore, there are degrees of truth, but, generically, truth is that which can do no harm. It cannot harm." Gary Zukav
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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 (The Bhagavad Gita)
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Thought for the day....... "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain
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Good word lightfoot. And hope and believe all things are possible.
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Thought for the day....... "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." Eugene Ionesco Decouvertes
daisyrlb, we just have to look around to see the possibilities.....possibilities, by their very nature, lie waiting for us to discover. Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The important thing is to look honestly at what your need to control is designed to protect you from and whether it actually supports your well being." Susan Campbell, PhD
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Thought for the day....... "The ability to see yourself as a temporary expression of intention and to see yourself in all of humanity is a characteristic of the holy relationship. It's the ability to celebrate and honor in all others, the place where we're all one. ...establish a holy relationship with your Source, the world community, your neighbors, acquaintances, family, the animal kingdom, our planet, and yourself." Wayne Dyer
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Thought for the day....... "Quantum physics shows us the universe as a dynamic web of connection." Robert Moss
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Thought for the day....... "What is it that caused your great-grandmother on her meeting with your great-grandfather to recognize him as her future mate and the future father of her children? You can call it a mystery, but it is a mystery that does not imply doubt. We can presume she felt something definite. She felt affinity." Robert Aitken (1734-1802)
Posted by Alana (Member # 14077) on :
From my daughter's (really sick with LD/cos for 3 years) college essay:
Eleanor Roosevelt once said, ``The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.''
My daughter goes on to say: "This quote has inspired me greatly. I believe that experiences people go through make them who they are. Live life to the fullest and enjoy every minute of it. Even when life gets you down you have to find the good in it and always think positively. I am always optimistic and I never give up. You can't fear the future you just have to live day by day and embrace each experience."
And that's just the beginning. She's gone through so much and is still going through hell. Yet, she can still embrace the positive and look to the future. I am so incredibly proud of her.
God bless our children. They're the ones who will change everything in the years to come.
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Thought for the day....... "Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family." Abraham Maslow
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Thought for the day....... "It's the heart afraid of dying, that never learns to dance; It's the dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chance; It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give; And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live." Bette Midler
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Thought for the day....... "As you identify less and less with the 'me', you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer afraid of being hurt or not liked. You no longer desire to impress anyone. Can you imagine the relief when you don't have to impress anybody anymore? Oh, what a relief. Happiness at last!" Anthony de Mello
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Thought for the day....... "Remember that nothing has to change in the world for us to transform our own life experience." Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
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Thought for the day....... "It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference." Bear Bryant
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Thought for the day....... "United be your purpose, harmonious be your feelings, collected be your mind, in the same way as all the various aspects of the universe exist together in togetherness, wholeness." Rik Samhita, 10.194.4
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Thought for the day....... "Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it." Sylvia Boorstein
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Thought for the day....... "Mindfulness is a habit, it's something the more one does, the more likely one is to be in that mode with less and less effort.....it's a skill that can be learned. It's accessing something we already have. Mindfulness isn't difficult. What's difficult is to remember to be mindful." John Teasdale
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Thought for the day....... ``The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.'' Julia Cameron
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Thought for the day....... "The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds." R.D. Laing
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Slight variation today, in Medical Questions, in the thread about Pam Weintraub's article about Dr Jones' history and the difficult politics he's had to deal with -
Sizzled: Printing this out and leaving it here where the cretins in Connecticut, going after Dr Jones, can see:
"There are none so blind as those who will not see...."
Hi Lightfoot - thx for printing these day after day -
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Thought for the day....... "So, mindfulness will not conflict with any beliefs or traditions - religious or for that matter scientific - nor is it trying to sell you anything, especially not a new belief system or ideology. It is simply a practical way to be more in touch with the fullness of your being through a systematic process of self-observation, self-inquiry, and mindful action. There is nothing cold, analytical, or unfeeling about it. The overall tenor of mindfulness is gentle, appreciative, and nurturing. Another way to think of it would be 'heartfulness'.'' Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are
Robin.....enjoy, my pleasure. I find the collection and posting of quotes to be uplifting.
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Thought for the day....... ``I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.'' Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "Don't ponder: You don't need to figure everything out. Discursive thinking won't free you from the trap. In meditation, the mind is purified naturally by mindfulness, by wordless bare attention. Habitual deliberation is not necessary to eliminate those things that are keeping you in bondage. All that is necessary is a clear, non-conceptual perception of what they are and how they work. That alone is sufficient to dissolve them. Concepts and reasoning just get in the way. Don't think. See." Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English
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Thought for the day....... ``The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thought for the day....... "Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer." Barbara De Angelis
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Thought for the day....... "Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state." Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Thought for the day....... "The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves." Eric Hoffer
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Thought for the day....... "People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater." Ellen Langer
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Thought for the day....... "Try reminding yourself from time to time: 'This is it'. See if there is anything at all that it cannot be applied to. Remind yourself that acceptance of the present moment has nothing to do with resignation in the face of what is happening. It simply means a clear acknowledgment that 'what is happening is happening'." Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are
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Thought for the day....... "The art of living in this ``predicament'' is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past and the known on the other. It consists in being completely sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive." Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity
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Thought for the day....... "Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end." Jerry Seinfield
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Thought for the day....... "Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat." Ben Hecht
Happy Valentines Day!!
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Thought for the day....... "To be present here is to be rooted in yourself, in being. It's to feel that subtle sense of aliveness. There's absolutely nothing to work out in your mind; it's too simple." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise - you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind." Dalai Lama
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Thought for the day....... "Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way." Blackfoot Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?" Joan Halifax
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Thought for the day....... "It is like this....If you start really paying attention to your own thought process, you'll notice that the thoughts themselves don't go on continuously.....Most of us habitually fill these spaces with more thoughts as fast as we can....Try to look at the natural spaces between your thoughts. Learn what it feels like to stop generating more and more stuff for your brain to chew on. Now see if you can do that for longer and longer periods. A couple of seconds is fine. Voila!" Brad Warner (Author, Musician and Zen Monk)
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Thought for the day....... ``When the mind ceases its busy activity, all good and noble qualities blossom. There is peace and purity of heart. . . . When the darkness of ignorance is dispelled, the inner light shines brightly. Mental distractions and distress cease - just as the ocean becomes calm when the wind stops churning up the water. In stillness, only infinite consciousness shines.'' The Yoga Vasishtha
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Thought for the day....... "The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong." Carl Jung
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Thought for the day....... "If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing." W. Edwards Deming
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Thought for the day....... "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." Naguib Mahfouz
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Thought for the day....... "The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Thought for the day....... ``The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way." African Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "When the answer cannot be put into words, neither can the question be put into words. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be framed at all, it is also possible to answer it." Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
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Thought for the day....... ``One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.'' Lewis Carroll
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Thought for the day....... " Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice." William Jennings Bryon
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Thought for the day....... "He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end." Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Thought for the day....... "One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." Eleanor Roosevelt
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Thought for the day....... "The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that . . . Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing." John Lennon
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Thought for the day....... "The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them." Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... "It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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Thought for the day....... "If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees." Hal Borland
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Thought for the day....... "I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in." George Washington Carver
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Thought for the day....... ``When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.'' Aaron Copland
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Thought for the day....... "Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?" Fanny Brice
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Thought for the day....... "Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: He's free." Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves." A. H. Almaas
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Thought for the day....... "Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life." Eleanor Roosevelt
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Thought for the day....... ``If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!" Soren Kierkegaard
Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
Here's a short poem I saw recently that I find comforting:
A swallow flies in and out of the jailhouse.
-Issa
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Thought for the day....... "Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's Own Stories
Robin......I can relate to the swallow. Thanks for sharing.
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Thought for the day....... ``Self is what gives breath to Life. You need not search for It, It is Here. You are That through which you would search. You are what you are looking for! And That is All it is.'' Papaji
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Thought for the day....... "A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective." Edward Teller
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Thought for the day....... "The key to your universe is that you can choose." Frederick (Carl) Frieseke
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Thought for the day....... "If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing." W. Edwards Deming
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Thought for the day....... "Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "For every person who has ever lived there will come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours." Pam Brown
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Thought for the day....... "Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams." Douglas William Jerrold
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Thought for the day....... "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." Anne Bradstreet, Meditations Divine and Moral, 1655
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Thought for the day....... "We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty -- that is the test of living." Joseph Fort Newton
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Thought for the day....... "We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future." Anthony Robbins
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Thought for the day....... "The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship." Raul Armesto
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Thought for the day....... "The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different." John Dewey
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Thought for the day....... "After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains." Walt Whitman
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Thought for the day....... "It is everywhere." Chuang-tzu
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Thought for the day....... ``I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds around my neck.'' Emma Goldman
I will be in and out for the next five weeks and I'll be sending a Thought for the day....... whenever I can. Until the next time. Namaste!
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Thought for the day....... "Enter the day invigorated with the essence of possibility, go through it energized with a sense of purpose and joy and end it with the serenity of completion." Darina Stoyanova
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Thought for the day....... ``As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow." Arthur Christopher Benson (English Writer, 1862-1925)
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Thought for the day....... "Life itself is a pilgrimage. Every day is different, every day can have a magic moment." Paulo Coelho
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Thought for the day....... "The most beautiful music of all is the music of what happens." Old Irish Tale
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Thought for the day....... ``Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.'' Jalal ad-Din Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic. Ask stones and plants to reveal their powers - and listen." Scott Cunningham
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At this time of year the magic is in the blossoms that are bursting forth all around me-especially after the harsh winter we had. Superb.
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Thought for the day....... "The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up that are required if one is to travel very far on the journey of life." M. Scott Peck
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Thought for the day....... "Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward." Achan Chah
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Thought for the day....... ``The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.'' G. K. Chesterton
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Thought for the day....... "Everything is flowing -- going somewhere, animals and so- called lifeless rocks as well as water. Thus the snow flows fast or slow in grand beauty-making glaciers and avalanches; the air in majestic floods carrying minerals, plant leaves, seeds, spores, with streams of music and fragrance; water streams carrying rocks... While the stars go streaming through space pulsed on and on forever like blood...in Nature's warm heart." John Muir
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Thought for the day...... ``All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.'' Paul Fussell
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are healing lightfoot. Thank you for your faithfulness to bring encouragement and smiles.
Have a blessed day!
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Thought for the day....... ``Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.'' Robert Frost
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Thought for the day....... "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more." Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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Thought for the day....... "Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity." R. I. Fitzhenry
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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....... "Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight." Orison Swett Marden
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Thought for the day....... ``To live in an evolutionary spirit means to engage with full ambition and without any reserve in the structure of the present, and yet to let go and flow into a new structure when the right time has come.'' Eric Jantsch
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Thought for the day....... "We are more powerful than we even imagine." K.L. Bseagull
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Thought for the day....... "Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known." Garrison Keillor
Happy Mother's Day!!!!
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Thought for the day....... "We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity." Barbara de Angelis
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Thought for the day....... "The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice." John Dewey
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Thought for the day....... "The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them." Alan Watts
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Thought for the day....... "In fact, everything we encounter in this world with our six senses is an inkblot test. You see what you are thinking and feeling, seldom what you are looking at." Shiqin
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Thought for the day....... "Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise." Surangama Sutra
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Thought for the day....... "Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them." Epictetus
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Thought for the day....... "The mind is there to explain our behavior to us. It says, "Don't worry, there's a reason why you're doing this." But it doesn't care what the reason is. It will make up a reason if it has to. The mind protects us by fulfilling our deep need to believe that we are logical beings. We can thank it for doing it's job. But we don't have to believe it." Peter Levine, (Founder of Somatic Experiencing, Paraphrase)
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Thought for the day....... "The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living." Thomas Merton
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Thought for the day....... "You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle." Paulo Coelho
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Thought for the day....... "Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?" Calvin and Hobbes
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Thought for the day....... "The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it." Francis Bacon
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Thought for the day....... "Organismic awareness is what we - on the Ego Level - ordinarily, but clumsily, refer to as seeing, touching, tasting, smelling and hearing. But in its very purest form, this "sensual awareness" is non-symbolic, non-conceptual, momentary consciousness. Organismic awareness is awareness of the Present only - you can't taste the past, smell the past, see the past, touch the past, or hear the past. Neither can you taste, smell, see, touch or hear the future. In other words, organismic consciousness is properly timeless, and being timeless, it is essentially spaceless. Just as organismic awareness knows no past or future, it knows no inside or outside, no self or other. Thus pure organismic consciousness participates fully in the non-dual awareness called Absolute Subjectivity." Ken Wilber, Spectrum of Consciousness
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Thought for the day....... "There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fount of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being, welcoming me tenderly, saluting me with indescribable humility." Thomas Merton
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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....... "The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness." Eckhart Tolle (Stillness Speaks)
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Thought for the day....... "Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form." Eckhart Tolle (Stillness Speaks)
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Thought for the day....... ``Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.'' Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Thought for the day....... "Make divine choices. This is a matter of refusing to make a choice based upon the expectations of others. Instead, you decide to act in ways consistent with your purpose and who you really are." Dick Sutphen
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Thought for the day....... "If you call forth what is in you, it will save you. If you do not call forth what is in you, it will destroy you." Gospel of Saint Thomas
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Thought for the day....... "Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway." Mother Theresa
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Thought for the day....... "... that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion...that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people....should not perish from this earth." Abraham Lincoln
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Thought for the day....... "It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, 'my true self is free. I cannot be contained'." Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Thought for the day....... "At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time." Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... "Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it." William James (1842-1910)
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Thought for the day....... "That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something." Meredith Monk
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Thought for the day....... ``There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls." Howard Thurman
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Thought for the day....... "You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it." Pat Obuchowski
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Thought for the day....... "St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music is not a physical sound that vibrates the eardrum but something transcending the senses. Physical solitude and silence remove the distracting noises that prevent us from hearing on deeper levels." Charles Cummings
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Thought for the day....... "The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind." Carly Simon
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Thought for the day....... "You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices." Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... "Let the waters settle. You will see stars and moon mirrored in your being." Rumi
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lightfoot, thank you for being faithful to post this thread. I come from time to time and am always blessed.
I especially liked that quote by Carly Simon about birds. That is my experience with birds singing. Everyday I have a symphony of God's sounds happening right from my front porch...
God's creation calms me.
Blessings to you!
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Thought for the day....... "We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves." Fran�ois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
daisy....thanks for your comments. Continue to enjoy!!
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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.'' Dr. Seuss
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Thought for the day....... "Do not carry the burden of the past; do not live in the future. The only important thing is that one lives in the present authentically and fully. Whatever your current life is, be the most you can be by living in the moment." Chan Chih
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Thought for the day....... "Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another." John Muir
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Thought for the day....... "To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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....... "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....... "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....... "If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive." Eleonora Duse
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Thought for the day....... "My profession is to always find God in nature." Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... "Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere." Pascal
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Thought for the day....... "A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty." Max Frisch
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Thought for the day....... "You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here." Desiderata
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Thought for the day....... "That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe." John Berger, The Sense of Sight - 1980
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Thought for the day....... "The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful." e.e. cummings
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Thought for the day....... "A wee child toddling in a wonder world.... I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan." Zitkala-Sa
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Thought for the day....... "What else is nature but God?" Seneca
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Thought for the day....... "To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause within our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace." Terry Tempest Williams
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Thought for the day....... "Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons." James Russell Lowell
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Thought for the day....... "Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer." Edward R. Murrow
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Thought for the day....... "Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object." Henry Fuseli
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Thought for the day....... "Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans." Adlai E. Stevenson
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Thought for the day....... "The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself." Robert G. Ingersoll
Happy Independence Day!!!
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Thought for the day....... "Sooner or latter we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit, and simply never leave." Susan B. Anthony
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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....... "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." Carl Jung
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Thought for the day....... "And You? When will you begin that long journey into Yourself?" Mevlana Rumi (1207 - 1273)
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Thought for the day....... "Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart." Saint Augustine
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Thought for the day....... "Soul has no musical, geographical or racial boundaries." Roy Ayers
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Thought for the day....... "A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it." Jean de la Fontaine
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Thought for the day....... "life is a journey, not a home, a road, not a city of habitation; and the enjoyments and blessings we have are but little inns on the roadside of life, where we may be refreshed for a moment, that we may with new strength press on to the end..... " Horatious Bonar
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Thought for the day....... "There is another reality enfolding ours-as close as our breath!" Don Pendleton (1927-1995)
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Thought for the day....... "We are spirits clad in veils." Christopher P. Cranch
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Thought for the day....... "The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have no legitimacy." Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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Thought for the day....... "The map is not the territory." Alfred Korzybski
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Thought for the day....... "Opposites are not contradictory but complementary." Niels Bohr
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Thought for the day....... "The crisis all human beings face is a crisis of belief." Dane Rudhyar
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Thought for the day....... ``This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety. It becomes more and more imperative that the life of the spirit be avowed as the only firm basis upon which to establish happiness and peace." Dalai Lama
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Thought for the day....... ``I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.'' Kahlil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... "The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can not be reached, but because it is so intimately close, closer than anything that can be spoken. It is alive as the stillness in the core of your being, too close to be described, too close to be objectified, too close to be known in the usual way of knowledge. The truth of who you are is yours already. It is already present..." Gangaji
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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....... "Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known." Winnie the Pooh
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Thought for the day....... "The best things in life are nearest. Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right before you." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
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Thought for the day....... "All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last." Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
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Thought for the day....... "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything." Plato
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Thought for the day....... "A great teacher never strives to explain his vision - he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself." R. Inman
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Thought for the day....... "Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness." Chuang-Tse
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Thought for the day....... "I am a storyteller. The type that went from place to place, gathered people in the square and transported them, inspired them, woke them up, shook their insides around so that they could resettle in a new pattern, a new way of being. It is a tradition that believes that the story speaks to the soul, not the ego... to the heart, not the head. In today's world, we yearn so to 'understand', to conquer with our mind, but it is not in the mind that a mythic story dwells." Donna Jacobs Sife
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Friday Thought for the day....... ``Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations." Alfred Adler
Saturday Thought for the day....... "I am awed by the universe, puzzled by it, and sometimes angry at a natural order that brings such pain and suffering. Yet any emotion or feeling I have toward the cosmos seems to be reciprocated by neither benevolence nor hostility but just silence. The universe appears to be a perfectly neutral screen onto which I can project any passion or attitude, and it appears to support them all." Heinz R. Pagels
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Thought for the day....... "Kissing don't last: cookery do." George Meredith
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Thought for the day....... "The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition." William Van Horne
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Thought for the day....... "A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it." John Keats
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Thought for the day....... "Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness." Seneca (4 BC-65 AD)
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Thought for the day....... ``Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning." Chris Cavanaugh
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Thought for the day....... "There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories." Ursula K. LeGuin
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Thought for the day....... "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." Hannah Arendt
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Thought for the day....... "Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher..." Patti Davis
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Thursday Thought for the day....... "Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact." Robert McKee
Friday Thought for the day....... "Stories are how we learn. The progenitors of the world's religions understood this, handing down our great myths and legends from generation to generation." Bill Mooney and David Holt, The Storyteller's Guide
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Thought for the day....... "The language of the culture also reflects the stories of the culture. One word or simple phrasal labels often describe the story adequately enough in what we have termed culturally common stories. To some extent, the stories of a culture are observable by inspecting the vocabulary of that culture. Often entire stories are embodied in one very culture-specific word. The story words unique to a culture reveal cultural differences." Roger C. Shank, Tell Me A Story
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Thought for the day....... ```Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but `Once upon a time' lasts forever.'' Philip Pullman (1996 Carnegie Medal acceptance speech)
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Thought for the day....... "Because there is a natural storytelling urge and ability in all human beings, even just a little nurturing of this impulse can bring about astonishing and delightful results." Nancy Mellon, The Art of Storytelling
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Thought for the day....... "They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined." Alice Hoffman
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Thought for the day....... ``Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter." African Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in." Harold Goddard
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Thought for the day....... "Australian Aborigines say that the big stories--the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life--are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush." Robert Moss, Dreamgates
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Thought for the day....... "Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts for us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women." Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Thought for the day....... "If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive." Barry Lopez, Crow and Weasel
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Thought for the day....... "It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved." Irwin Edman
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Thought for the day....... "What is history but a fable agreed upon?" Napoleon Bonaparte
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Thought for the day....... "All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable." Paul Claudel
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Thought for the day....... "Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger." Ben Okri
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Thought for the day....... ``Stories tell us of what we already knew and forgot, and remind us of what we haven't yet imagined.'' Anne Watson
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Thought for the day....... "For those who immerse themselves in what the fairy tale has to communicate, it becomes a deep, quiet pool which at first seems to reflect only our own image; but behind it we soon discover the inner turmoils of our soul - its depth, and ways to gain peace within ourselves and with the world, which is the reward of our struggles." Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment
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Thought for the day....... "Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful." Joseph Addison
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Thought for the day....... "It's no coincidence that just at this point in our insight into our mysteriousness as human beings struggling towards compassion, we are also moving into an awakened interest in the language of myth and fairy tale. The language of logical arguments, of proofs, is the language of the limited self we know and can manipulate. But the language of parable and poetry, of storytelling, moves from the imprisoned language of the provable into the freed language of what I must, for lack of another word, continue to call faith." Madeleine L'Engle
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Thought for the day....... "We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say and to feel, 'Yes, that is the way it is, or at least that is the way I feel it.' You're not as alone as you thought." John Steinbeck
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Thought for the day....... "Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts." Salman Rushdie
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Thought for the day....... "The story was the bushman's most sacred possession. These people knew what we do not; that without a story you have not got a nation, or culture, or civilization. Without a story of your own, you haven't got a life of your own." Laurens Van der Post
I'm leaving civilization for a few days.....more thoughts when I return. : ~ ))
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Thought for the day....... "If you don't know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don't know the stories you may be lost in life." Siberian Elder
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Thought for the day....... "Sacred stories are those of transformation, they are stories that draw us closer to what I call the Lord Within The Heart, and they help us to see our connection to all things. There's a saying in the Jewish tradition that the shortest distance between a human and God is through a story. So if storytelling is a journey, sacred storytelling is a pilgrimage - a pilgrimage to a place called Hope." Andy Fraenkel
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Thought for the day....... "Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one pattern to another: a potential translation in which narrative becomes parable and the once upon a time comes to stand for some renascent truth. This approach applies to all the incidents of everyday life: the phrase in the newspaper, the endearing or infuriating game of a toddler, the misunderstanding at the office. Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories." Mary Catherine Bateson
I'll be away from my computer until Monday morning.....more to come. Have a great weekend! : ~ ))))
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Thought for the day....... "I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic pocketbooks on their laps, their knees apart, their skirts touching the ground... and cuentistas, old Latina women who stand, robust of breast, hips wide, and cry out the story ranchera style. Both clans storytell in the plain voice of women who have lived blood and babies, bread and bones. For them, story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community." Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Thought for the day....... "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten." Neil Gaiman
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Thought for the day....... "It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear." Italo Calvino
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Thought for the day....... ``Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." G. K. Chesterton
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Thought for the day....... "Storytelling is relating a tale to one or more listeners through voice and gesture. It is not the same as reading a story aloud or reciting a piece from memory or acting out a drama-though it shares common characteristics with these arts. The storyteller looks into the eyes of the audience and together they compose the tale. The storyteller begins to see and re-create, through voice and gesture, a series of mental images; the audience, from the first moment of listening, squints, stares, smiles, leans forward or falls asleep, letting the teller know whether to slow down, speed up, elaborate, or just finish. Each listener, as well as each teller, actually composes a unique set of story images derived from meanings associated with words, gestures, and sounds. The experience can be profound, exercising the thinking and touching emotions of both teller and listener." The National Council of Teachers of English (in support of storytelling)
Running a little late today. Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it." Jim Harrison
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Thought for the day....... "Stories have power.They delight, enchant, touch, teach, recall, inspire, motivate, challenge. They help us understand. They imprint a picture on our minds. Consequently, stories often pack more punch than sermons. Want to make a point or raise an issue? Tell a story. Jesus did it. He called his stories 'parables'." Janet Litherland
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Thought for the day....... "To be a person is to have a story to tell." Isak Dinesen
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Thought for the day....... "I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity." Gilda Radner
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Thought for the day....... "If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common." Maynard James Keenan
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Thought for the day....... "Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it." Marianne Williamson
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Thought for the day....... "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." Maya Angelou
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Thought for the day....... "The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows." Frank Zappa
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Thought for the day....... "The great miracle of our universe is that something is happening. Galaxies are evolving. Life is evolving. We are not just eternal potential - we are part of a great story." Joel Primack & Nancy Abrams, The View from the Center of the Universe
I never could access Lymenet yesterday.
Thought for the day....... "Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see." C. S. Lewis
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Thought for the day....... "The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question." Stephen jay Gould
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Thought for the day....... "The power of story is never stronger than when it lives on the breath of those from whom it came." Gayle Ross (Cherokee Storyteller)
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Thought for the day....... "It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass." Eudora Welty
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Thought for the day....... "Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "To breathe the air, how delicious!" Walt Whitman
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Thought for the day....... "My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together." Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Thought for the day....... ``Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists." Anita Brookner
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Thought for the day....... "When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing." Anonymous
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Thought for the day....... "It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear...It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to." Marilyn Ferguson
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Thought for the day....... "If I had known what it would be like to have it all, I might have settled for less." Lily Tomlin
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Thought for the day....... "Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elemental truth--the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the Providence moves, too." Goethe
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Thought for the day....... "Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds..... Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence..... It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, and every word." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "God's first language is silence. Everything else is a translation." Thomas Keating
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Thought for the day....... "Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished." Michael Strassfeld
Posted by fflutterby (Member # 28081) on :
Thank you lightfoot, these are wonderful I love smilys !!
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Thought for the day....... "My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is." Saint Augustine
Enjoy, fflutterby and smile, smile, smile!!
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Thought for the day....... "I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man." Zhuangzi (369-286 BC)
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Thought for the day....... "Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all." Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Thought for the day....... "Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." Rumi
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Saturday Thought for the day....... "Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries." Theodore Roethke
Sunday Thought for the day....... "The body is a sacred garment." Martha Graham
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Thought for the day....... "Stillness in stillness is not the real stillness. Only when there is stillness in movement can the spiritual rhythm appear which pervades heaven and earth." Taoist Saying
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Thought for the day....... "Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others." Jacob M. Braude
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Thought for the day....... "I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career." Gloria Steinem
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Thought for the day....... ``We should not think of our past as definitely settled. . . . My past changes every minute according to the meaning given it now, in this moment.'' Czelaw Milosz
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Thought for the day....... "Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either, we dispense with the need to think." Henri Poincar�
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Thought for the day....... "They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness." Louise Erdrich
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Thought for the day....... "To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and the psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use." Ana�s Nin (1903 - 1977)
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Thought for the day....... "Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do more than look backwards at the dead-end archives of our past. Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life." Caroline Myss
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Thought for the day....... "As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists." Joan Gussow
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Thought for the day....... "Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." Arthur Schopenhauer
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Thought for the day....... "When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, helps others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them." Jane Roberts
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Thought for the day....... ``Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.'' Vincent Van Gogh
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Saturday
Thought for the day....... For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed." Blaise Pascal
Sunday
Thought for the day....... "A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night." J.M. Barrie
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN
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NO SWEETS FOR US
STEVE
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Thought for the day....... "Tis not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Charles Darwin
steve......hope it was a good one even without SUGAR!!
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Thought for the day....... "Nirvana is the complete silencing of concepts." Thich Nhat Hanh
Posted by steve1906 (Member # 16206) on :
Thoughts of the Day:
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
Steve
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Thought for the day....... "As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you." Morihei Ueshiba
steve, shall we contemplate which category we fit! I'm speaking of the categories you mention who can laugh.
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Thought for the day....... "We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being." Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye." Miss Piggy
Posted by steve1906 (Member # 16206) on :
Hey Lightfoot, I think we both know which category we fall into!!!
Thought for the day>>>> On any important truth the devil tries to get you to stop too short, or go too far. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it
Don't be irreplaceable, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted
Never test the depth of the water with both feet
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Steve
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Thought for the day....... "There are no facts, only interpretations." Friedrich Nietzsche
Steve......super, super wisdom!!!! Posted by steve1906 (Member # 16206) on :
I think the guys will like this one...
Thought for the day>>>>
Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield. Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
Experience is the sinking feeling you have made this mistake before.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire.
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
Never mess up an apology with an excuse.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish,and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
Have a good Sunday Lightfoot, and all our lyme friends... Steve
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Thought for the day....... "Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." George Eliot
Steve, you've got quite a collection!!! I love the timing and rain dance....they're all good!
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Thought for the day....... "On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate." Buckminster Fuller
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Thought for the day....... "Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another." Eustace Budgell (1711)
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Thought for the day....... "Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself." Norman Cousins
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Thought for the day....... "We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts." David Merzel
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Thought for the day....... "The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths." William James
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Thought for the day....... "What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth." Benjamin Disraeli
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Thought for the day....... "All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit." Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Thought for the day....... "That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility." Mevlana Rumi
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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
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Thought for the day....... "Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Thought for the day....... "Those who seek the truth by means of intellect and learning only get further and further away from it. Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate." Huang Po
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Thought for the day....... "What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit." Ansel Adams
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Thought for the day....... "To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance." Eric Hoffer
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Thought for the day....... "Freedom is a state of mind that each of us must discover for ourselves. In so doing, we will find that there is nothing that anyone in authority can do to make our world more peaceful orderly, or free. There are no institutional reforms, or ideologies, or more fashionable gurus to save us: such thinking only continues our sense of irresponsibility." Butler Shaffer
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Thought for the day....... ``Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.'' Gail Sheehy
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Thought for the day....... "If you want to make a pumpkin pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." Carl Sagan
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Thought for the day....... "Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into." Wayne Dyer
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Thought for the day....... "He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Thought for the day....... "Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." Joseph Addison
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Thought for the day....... "Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble." Joseph Campbell
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Thought for the day....... "The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path." Jim Rohn
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Thought for the day....... "Moonlight is sculpture." Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Thought for the day....... "Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity." Lucius Seneca
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Thought for the day....... "Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture." Aldous Huxley
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Thought for the day....... "This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind stops. Outside, the world changes totally. It is no more the ordinary world you have known before. In fact, you have not known it at all. Your mind was distorting everything, your mind was creating fantasies. Your eyes were full of fantasies and you were looking though those fantasies. They never allowed you to see that which is. If the mind is gone, even for a moment, suddenly the whole existence explodes upon you." osho
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Thought for the day....... "We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which, if ...we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery of ourselves and allows us not only to escape... from physical and mental ills, but also to live in relative happiness." Emile Coue
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Thought for the day....... "language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence." George Steiner
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Thought for the day....... "To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves." Will Durant
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Thought for the day....... "I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong." Abraham Lincoln
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Thought for the day....... "What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate." Carl Jung
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Thought for the day....... "There is some kiss we want with our whole lives." Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "Getters generally don't get happiness; givers get it. You simply give to others a bit of yourself - a thoughtful act, a helpful idea, a word of appreciation, a lift over a rough spot, a sense of understanding, a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind, garnished in kindness out of your heart, and put it into the other fellow's mind and heart." Charles H. Burr
Posted by jlp38 (Member # 27221) on :
This is a great thread. Can't believe I've never looked at it before. I see you are in Colorado, as am I.
Here's my favorite quote for today. I seem to be able to relate to it quite a lot.
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." Charles R. Swindoll
Thanks for this thread.
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Thought for the day....... "A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people." Peter McArthur
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Thought for the day....... "Get this in mind early: We never grow up." Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... "I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer." Jim Carrey
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Thought for the day....... "Those who can't hear the music think the dancer is mad." Anonymous
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Thought for the day....... "How do you say yes to yourself? By allowing desire to be your compass and the wind that fills your sails and asking the mind to be the servant of the heart. In our culture we ask the heart to obey the mind, and it can't because it is something so vast the mind can't even comprehend it. Just let go, say Yes!" Doug Lesser
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Thought for the day....... "Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is." Mary Anne Hershey
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Thought for the day....... "Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere." Abdolkarim Soroush
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Thought for the day....... ``But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.'' James Thurber
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Thought for the day....... "Dwelling in every heart, it is beyond darkness. It is called the light of the lights, the object and goal of knowledge, and knowledge itself." Bhagavad Gita 13:15-17
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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....... "Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." John F. Kennedy.
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Thought for the day....... "One with The One, the singer knows no end. A beautiful example is found in in the book of Genesis 5:23: "And Enoch walked with God and Enoch was no more." Anthony de Mello, SJ
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Thought for the day....... "You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel." Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... "Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today." Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Thought for the day....... "...We, Angels and Mortals, Believers and Non-believers, Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at each other, then into ourselves, And we say without shyness or apology or hesitation: Peace, My Brother. Peace, My Sister. Peace, My Soul." Maya Angelou - Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem
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Thought for the day....... "We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?" John Ortberg
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Thought for the day....... "Spiritual awakening opens the door to a life beyond ego; a life lived directly from spirit rather than from the mind. In order to live this way we must stand alone not as an island or a defense, isolated within the structure of ideology, but as a free being. We must step completely out of the known, out of every conceptual box, every container that humanity has ever created, so that the freshness of spirit can flower ever new and free." Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... "The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence." Pierre Bourdieu
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way a car is driven." Edward de Bono (b.1933, British psychologist, writer and expert on thinking.)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers." Victor Hugo
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Thought for the day....... "Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us." Hal Borland
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain." Vivian Greene
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'." Sydney J. Harris
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The Golden Rule is of no use to you whatever unless you realize that it is your move." Frank Crane
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day........ "The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity." George Bernard Shaw
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day........ ``Let no man be sorry he has done good because others have done evil. If a man has acted right he has done well, though alone. If wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.'' Henry Fielding (English novelist, 1707-1754)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day........ "Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people." Welsh proverb
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day........ "We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years." Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day........ "We live in the midst of infinite existence; and widely as we can see, and vastly as we have discovered, we have but crossed the threshold, we have but entered the vestibule of the Creator's temple. In this temple there is an everlasting worship of life, an anthem of many choruses, a hymn of incense that goes up forever." Henry Giles
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day........ "Solitude has but one disadvantage - it is apt to give one too high an opinion of one's self. In the world we are sure to be often reminded of every known or supposed defect we may have." Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day........ "The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself." George Bernard Shaw
Posted by fflutterby (Member # 28081) on :
Beautiful Lightfoot, simply beautiful what you do !
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and your are the mirror." Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
My pleasure, fflutterby! Enjoy!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake." Marie B. Ray
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness." Chuang-Tse
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Thought for the day....... "In the hidden order of reality, there is no distinction between mind and matter. The split between inner and outer - subjective and objective - that we experience in ordinary life is unknown in the deeper reality." Robert Moss
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue.'' Carlos Castaneda
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all." Emerson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above you head. But in you is the presence that will be, when the stars are dead." Rainer Maria Rilke
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Just by listening with your eyes you can fold back on yourself and merge into that primal stream of awareness like a river is swallowed by the immensity of the ocean. Only then will you know the point to live from." Ji Aoi Isshi
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "We work with the stuff of the soul by means of the things of life." Thomas Moore
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Thought for the day....... "Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that I - or rather the blessed Not-I - cared to look at." Aldous Huxley
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
1-22 Thought for the day....... "Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me..." Gospel of Thomas (Translated by Marvin Meyer)
1-23 Thought for the day....... "You can't pray a lie." Mark Twain
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Silence is the mother of everything that has come out from the Depth. And Silence kept quiet about what she was unable to describe: the Unspeakable." Clement of Alexandria
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror." Byron Katie
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "No Mask can cover the Infinite Light of my Being. No dis-ease can interrupt the Eternal Flow of my Harmony. All that is and is not, an Endless Field of Magic. No limit to Possibilities of experience in this Miracle of Life. There is no Bottom to the Mystery...Infinity, I Am That." Darshan Baba
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often." Laura Palmer
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.'' Albert Einstein
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "It is both near and far, both within and without every creature; it moves and is unmoving. In its subtlety it is beyond comprehension. It is invisible, yet appears divided in separate creatures. Know it to be the creator, the preserver, and the destroyer." Bhagavad Gita
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is." Wendell Berry
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``He is neither manifest nor hidden, He is neither revealed nor unrevealed: there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.'' Rabindranath Tagore
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "What we're calling 'presencing' is possible because of this womb, where the absolute and the manifest interact. I think a Buddhist would say that presencing can arise to the extent that we develop the capacity, individually and collectively, to extend our conscious awareness in both domains." Betty Sue Flowers
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "If you could understand a single grain of wheat, you would die of wonder." Martin Luther
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." Stephen Hawking
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Spiritual birth is realizing your nothingness, everythingness and somebodyness." Adyashanti
Posted by HorseHelper (Member # 30255) on :
My little thought:
"My illness may wear me down, but my mind will always delight in silly and joyous behavior" HH Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The shell of ego has given way - It's a new birth." Eckhart Tolle
I love your attitude, Horsehelper!!!! Lyme/Co is not what we really are anyhoo. Posted by HorseHelper (Member # 30255) on :
Thanks lightfoot! What's /CO? I'm kinda not computer smart with the terminologies.
Bye...... Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in differing ways." Black Elk
Hi HH! Just an abbreviation for co-infections that often accompany Lyme.
Posted by HorseHelper (Member # 30255) on :
Light, "Light among the darkness" Ha, I like that , well, you are!!!!!! Your contributions are inspiring, uplifting, cheerful and we love ya!
HH
Posted by HorseHelper (Member # 30255) on :
"If we walk with a light foot, how then can any of us stomp out LYME?" HH
speaking up is not the problem, but the solution! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "There is only One Mind - and we are IT." Rev. O.M. Bastet
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Thought for the day....... "In deep sleep, we are all equal. Who is the king, who is the beggar, in deep sleep? What we call existence is really the waking state and the dreaming state.... Surely the deep sleep is somehow a clue to us." Mooji (Excerpt from London Satsang, 25 July 09)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself." Claude M. Bristol
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Thought for the day....... "The Buddha did not enter some new territory: he saw things the way they were. What was extinguished was the false view of self. What had always been illusory was understood as such. Nothing was changed but the perspective of the observer. When asked. 'What are you?' by an awestruck would be follower, the Buddha responded only, 'I am awake.'" Mark Epstein
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "..The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all." Carl Jung
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present." Ludwig Wittgenstein
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life." Thich Nat Hahn
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Love really is the answer to human problems: love of oneself, love of others, love of where one is, love of what one is doing, love of nature, love of life, love of the world, love of spirit in all its wonder and splendor. Love sets our energy free. It opens us and puts us in a flow with spirit and life on many levels. Love is the true secret behind manifestation." David Spangler
Happy Valentines Day!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.'' Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing." Pierre Bonnard
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The question is not what you look at, but what you see." Henry David Thoreau
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." Peter Ustinov
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Thought for the day....... "Love is granting another the space to be the way they are and the way they aren't." Werner Erhard
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Thought for the day....... "You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." Henry Drummond
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Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." Lao-Tzu
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Thought for the day....... "It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows." Epictetus
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Thought for the day....... "In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool." Rabbi Ben Azai
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.'' Gary Zukav
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance." Eckhart Tolle
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." Dalai Lama
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes." John Ruskin
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize." Elizabeth Harrison
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens." Louise L. Hay
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future." Fulton Oursler
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens." Wayne Dyer
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs, and cries.'' Theodore Isaac Rubin
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts." Denis Waitley
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Challenge your preconceptions, or they will challenge you" Vulcan Proverb
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived." Richard Bach
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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." Kahlil Gibran
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both." Horace Mann
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true." Demosthenes
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts." Edward George Earle Lytton
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it! " Sai Baba
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... "I like to think of the landscape not as a fixed place but as a path that is unwinding before my eyes, under my feet. To see and know a place is a contemplative act. It means emptying our minds and letting what is there, in all its multiplicity and endless variety, come in." Gretel Ehrlich
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Inventories from children's hiding places and from religious holy places bear remarkable similarity." Lynda Sexson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, May good luck pursue you each morning and night." Irish Blessing
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. People who can open to the web of life that called us into being." Joanna Macy
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it." Charles F. Kettering
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "God Transcends all conceptuality. Only ego presumes that the All Pervading Divine Presence could be reduced to words." Leland Lewis
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality. The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking and there is nothing you will not be able to know." Hsin Hsin Ming
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?" Winnie the Pooh
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "It would be marvelous for each one of us if we would abandon the inner speech and abide in silent awareness of the present moment long enough to realize how delightful it is. Silence is much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking." Ajahn Brahm
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you." Wayne Dyer
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be." Jim Britt
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results." Thomas Merton
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest - pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear - is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God." Brian Weiss
Posted by 4Seasons (Member # 14601) on :
Wow - I can't believe I just found this thread! Thank you, Lightfoot.
Can I add to it?
Posted by 4Seasons (Member # 14601) on :
My thought for the day:
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
Yup, I'm smiling Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?" Benny Hill
4Seasons......enjoy!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The ego is the single biggest obstruction to the achievement of anything. Between-ness is the act of acting without ego. You act, but you are not the actor. You do things, but you are not the doer--and you know you are not the doer. It's the ability to hold the head at a dead standstill in order to effect certain changes. You desire the change, but you do not care if it comes to pass." Richard Rose
Posted by 4Seasons (Member # 14601) on :
"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Allow yourself to see that your self-image is just an image - not reality, not the truth, not who we really are." Adyashanti (Falling into Grace)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.'' Sir L'Estrange
Posted by 4Seasons (Member # 14601) on :
Ooohhh, I like that one, Lightfoot!!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``When one flower blooms, spring awakens everywhere.'' John O'Donohue
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts." Samuel Johnson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Joy is the feeling of grinning inside." Dr. Melba Colgrove
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "This is the true joy in life...being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one... being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy" George Bernard Shaw
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life." Judith Viorst
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "True joy is that which gives us more energy and makes us feel more alive." Robert Puryear
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "I'd rather live with a good question than a bad answer." Aryeh Frimer
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss." Joseph Campbell
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss." Black Elk
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." Harry S Truman (Attributed)
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Thought for the day....... "People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations." Alexander Herzen
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time." C. S. Lewis
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "It may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey." Wendell Berry
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have." Abraham Lincoln
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained." Nathaniel Hawthorne
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men." G.K. Chesterton
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it." Fulton J. Sheen
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not." E. R. Beadle
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it." Bertrand Russell
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it." Jean de la Fontaine
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Thought for the day....... "The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." M. Scott Peck
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "You are what you want to become. Why search anymore? You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you. The kingdom of God, the Pure Land, nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you." Thich Nhat Hanh
Happy Easter!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``Commitment means moving through a door of change through which you do not intend to return.'' David Simon
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before." Erich Fromm
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." Albert Einstein
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder." Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... "There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do." Marquis De Vauvenargues
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Thought for the day....... "Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." Aesop
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Thought for the day....... "What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter." Peter F. Drucker
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Praise & blame, gain & loss, pleasure & sorrow come & go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a great tree in the midst of them all." The Buddha
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world." Eckhart Tolle (Stillness Speaks)
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Thought for the day....... "It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they "speak with the accent of natives" they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds." Ivan Illich
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Thought for the day....... "No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.." Lao Tzu (c.604-531 B.C.)
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Thought for the day....... "In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourself and be still. Wait upon God, and feel his good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day's business." William Penn
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5-7-2011 Thought for the day....... "The future ain't what it used to be." Yogi Berra
5-8-2011 Thought for the day....... "A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for a warrior is being alive. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. Therefore, one may say without being presumptuous that the experience of experiences is being alive." Carlos Castaneda
Happy Mother's Day!!
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Thought for the day....... "The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment in time. His elementary substance is stardust almost as old as the universe. " Loren Eiseley, The Lost Notebooks
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Thought for the day....... "When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." Ansel Adams
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Thought for the day....... "You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose." Indira Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... "Like the appearance of the silver in the mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized." Shankara
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Thought for the day....... "One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them." Tom Robbins (Even Cowgirls Get The Blues)
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Thought for the day....... "Seeing within changes one's outer vision." Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Thought for the day....... "close both eyes to see with the other eye." Rumi (Essential Rumi)
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Thought for the day....... "If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered." Stanley Kubrick
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Thought for the day....... "We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." Orson Welles
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Thought for the day....... "It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe." Thomas Paine
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Thought for the day....... "Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised." William Hale White
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Thought for the day....... ``When we surrender, we allow the universe to work its magic; we say yes to infinite possibilities; we trust that things will work out as they are meant to; and we give ourselves permission to let go of the outcome. The act of surrendering can be liberating, intimidating, blissful, scary, and a swirl of so many other emotions. But in the end, we accept that life will work its magic if our words, thoughts, and actions have integrity and are impeccable." Davidji
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Thought for the day....... "If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it." Toni Morrison
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Thought for the day....... "An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it." Mahatma Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." John F. Kennedy
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Thought for the day....... "Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion." Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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Thought for the day....... "The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation." Roger Bacon (1214?-94?) English philosopher, scientist.
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Thought for the day....... "All of us are watchers - of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway - but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing." Peter M. Leschak
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Thought for the day....... "There are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so." Soren Kierkegaard
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Thought for the day....... "Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself." Sydney J. Harris
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Thought for the day....... "It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious." Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947, English philosopher and mathematician)
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Thought for the day....... "How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!" Maya Angelou
The best to you on this Memorial Day, 2011!!!!
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Thought for the day....... "In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true." Buddha
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Thought for the day....... "I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you'' Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... "The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." Stephen Hawking
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Thought for the day....... "One truth out of context can prove very dangerous." Gregory Phillips
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Thought for the day....... "Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power if within, and it is available to you now." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "The truth is more important than the facts." Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
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RE: The 6-1 2011 Thought....... "I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you'' Friedrich Nietzsche
An astute reader picked up on the fact that this is not a quote from Nietzsche. Actually the language doesn't match others I've read. I always appreciate your input and comments. To see the complete history of the search, see this link.... The same reader also pointed out that most quotes are paraphrases (unless taken from actual written documents).
``Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me.'' Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... "Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public." Edgar Watson Howe
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Thought for the day....... "It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth." Werner Heisenberg (Physics and Philosophy)
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Thought for the day....... "There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment." Ramana Maharshi (attributed)
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Thought for the day....... "Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "The search for truth implies a duty. One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true." Yogi Berra
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Thought for the day....... "Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas." Shoseki
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Thought for the day....... "Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away." Elvis Presley
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Thought for the day....... "Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth." Thomas Henry Huxley
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Thought for the day....... Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity." Max Lerner (Actions and Passions - 1949)
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6-16 Thought for the day....... "Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable." Denis Waitley
6-17 Thought for the day....... "Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation." Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Thought for the day....... "Patience, forgiveness and joy are the three greatest characteristics of divine love. They are characteristics of all real love - if there is such a thing as real love outside of divine love. Without these three characteristics, love is not love. If you give the name 'love' to anything else, it is as though you were giving the name 'sheep' to a goat or a pig." Saint Nikolai Velimirovich
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6-19 Thought for the day....... "It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons." Johann Schiller
Today we honor fathers and everyone connected, that stretches out a long way, all of humanity. Reach out and enjoy the day!
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Thought for the day....... "I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me." Simone de Beauvoir
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Thought for the day....... "There is no god higher than truth." Mahatma Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... "Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold." Leo Tolstoy
Happy Solstice!!
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Thought for the day....... "If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?" Dogen
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Thought for the day....... "One bright day in the middle of night two dead boys rose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot one another. A deaf policeman heard the noise, and saved the lives of the two dead boys. If you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too." Author Unknown
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6-25 Thought for the day....... "Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things." Augustus Hare (English clergyman, 1792-1834)
6-26 Thought for the day....... "It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime....." Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)
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Thought for the day....... "By his own deeds the fool is consumed, as by a fire." Dhammapada
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Thought for the day....... "Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes." Thomas W. Higginson
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Thought for the day....... "There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius." Walt Whitman
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Thought for the day....... "The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... "If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers...Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear." Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Blank
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Thought for the day....... "See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little." Pope John XXIII
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7-3 Thought for the day....... "Emptiness is quite fertile: all thoughts, energy and perceptions arise out of the womb of emptiness." Karen Kissel Wegela (The Courage to Be Present)
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Thought for the day....... "We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies." Shirley Abbott
Happy Independence Day!
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Thought for the day....... Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season." Heraklietos of Ephesos
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Thought for the day....... "Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts." Author Unknown
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Thought for the day....... "If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct." Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Thought for the day....... "To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there." Barbara Bush
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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
Good to 'see' you! My journey took me off the grid sooner than I realized. Thoughts will be sporadic for the next week while we explore the hills and valleys. : ~ )))))
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lightfoot... God Bless you and your family, enjoy the hills and the valleys... perhaps I'll try my hand at your encouraging thoughts.. May the Light follow you in safty, wayne
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to be an AMERICAN is to be free... to be free is to be an American.. John Wayne,
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Thought for the day....... "In absolute darkness, hanging from a ledge with no hope of pulling ourselves up and no chance of outside rescue, it makes no difference if we are hanging over the edge of a bottomless pit or inches above solid ground. What does matter is giving up our death grip on that which doesn't serve us and never will." Anthony de Mello, S.J.
Thanks, Wayne!
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Thought for the day....... "Lie on your back and look at the stars." H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (Life's Little Instruction Book)
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Thought for the day....... "I am going to venture that the man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures, and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization." Chief Luther Standing Bear (Lakota Sioux)
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Thought for the day....... "Open yourself to the Tao, then trust your natural responses; and everything will fall into place." Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... "All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts." Ajahn Chah
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Thought for the day....... "I am of the Buddhists. The great Teacher comes periodically. He is followed by pupils who corrupt the texts and then a new Buddha must be born to re�stablish the truth." Martin H. Fischer
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Thought for the day....... "The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in." A.E. Housman
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Thought for the day....... "To be born again" means to identify oneself properly. It does not mean a chance to begin the misidentification process anew." Anthony de Mello, SJ
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Thought for the day....... "Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah." Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... "The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." Anais Nin
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Thought for the day.......``The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.'' John Naisbitt
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Thought for the day....... "The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new." Pema Chodron
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Thought for the day....... "Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." John F. Kennedy.
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Thanks for all the Thoughts, lightfoot! You are so faithful!
How's this thought?
"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another." George Eliot
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Thought for the day....... "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." Charles R. Swindoll
tutu, I love that one!! It rings true to me! Great to hear from you!
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Thought for the day....... "It's not the load that breaks you down; it's the way you carry it." Lena Horne
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Thought for the day....... "No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos." D.H. Lawrence
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Thought for the day....... "What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself." Abraham Lincoln
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Thought for the day....... "The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely." William Osler
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Thought for the day....... "What you do is of little significance; but it is very important that you do it." Mahatma Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now - when?" Hillel
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Thought for the day....... "Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are." Arthur Golden
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Thought for the day....... "We cannot discover the best inside ourselves while we are dwelling on the the worst in anyone else." Laura Teresa Marquez (Early Morning Conversation)
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Thought for the day....... "Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both." Leo Buscaglia
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Thought for the day....... "Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins." Veda Upanishads
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Thought for the day....... "There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." Willa Cather
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Thought for the day....... "Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process." Joseph Priestley
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Thought for the day....... "I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center." Kurt Vonnegut
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Thought for the day....... "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." John Andrew Holmes
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Thought for the day....... ``I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.'' Chief Crazy Horse (Oglala Sioux - 1877)
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Thought for the day....... "When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty." John Muir (Travels in Alaska - 1915)
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Thought for the day....... ``On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.'' Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "Therefore, if you want to discover nature's nakedness, you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there your soul must stay." Meister Eckhart (c.1260 - 1327)
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Thought for the day....... "If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead." Gelett Burgess
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Thought for the day....... "The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass." Albert Camus
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Thought for the day....... ``People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.`` Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid?" Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... "And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh." Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... "Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped." African Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you." Rumi
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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 (c.1260 - c.1327)
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Thought for the day....... "I am the rain coming from the dew that causes the grasses to laugh with the joy of life. I am the yearning for good." Hildegard of Bingen
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Thought for the day....... "Dhamma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don't believe others. Just listen to your mind. You don't have to go and look anywhere else. Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one." Ajahn Chah
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Thought for the day....... "The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it." Mary Catherine Bateson
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8-28 Thought for the day....... "For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time." Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
8-29 Thought for the day....... "Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." Dr. Seuss
Yesterday found me off the grid.
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Thought for the day....... "I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful." Bob Hope
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Thought for the day....... "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." Havelock Ellis
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Thank you for this.... Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... " Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth." Ludwig Borne
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Thought for the day....... ``Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.'' Robert Frost
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Thought for the day....... "And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." Roald Dahl
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Thought for the day....... "If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities." Maya Angelou
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Thought for the day....... "The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. 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
Enjoy Labor Day!
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Thought for the day....... "The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love." Francis Bacon
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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....... "It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block." Paul Gauguin
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Thought for the day....... "I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective." Joe Mays
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Thought for the day....... "Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence." Norman Podhoretz
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Thought for the day....... "The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them." Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry - 1939-1944 (Wartime Writings )
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Thought for the day....... "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." Albert Szent-Gy�rgyi
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Thought for the day....... "Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character." Robert Grudin
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Thought for the day....... ``We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry.'' Milton Glaser
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Thought for the day....... "People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind." William Butler Yeats
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Thought for the day....... "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Thought for the day....... ``Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.'' Henry Winkler
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Thought for the day....... "There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect." Auguste Rodin
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Thought for the day....... "The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him." Auguste Rodin
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Thought for the day....... "Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth." Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
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Thought for the day....... "Art always unites people − their hearts and nations around the world." Kizlarkhon Dustmuhamedova
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Thought for the day....... "Fortunately art is a community effort -a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh." Eric Gill
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Thought for the day....... "Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." George Eliot
The September equinox occurs at 09:04 (or 9:04am) Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the first day of fall.
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Thought for the day....... "The secret of art is love." Antoine Bourdelle
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Thought for the day....... "I see something - some conjunction of forms - which dominates all others. There is a sudden recognition that in what I have been looking at there is contained a unique series of rhythms... A shiver down the spine arrives to prove the validity of such an encounter." Graham Sutherland (English Artist)
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Thought for the day....... "Creativity in living is not without its attendant difficulties, for peculiarity breeds contempt. And the unfortunate thing about being ahead of your time when people finally realize you were right, they'll say it was obvious all along." Alan Ashley-Pitt
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Thought for the day....... "If you want to be one of the first into a new territory, you cannot wait for large amounts of evidence." Joel Barker
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Thought for the day....... "Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented." Eric Hoffer
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Thought for the day....... "The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men." Blaise Pascal
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Thought for the day....... "There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly." Kingman Brewster
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Thought for the day....... "Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress." Bruce Barton
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Thought for the day....... ``Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.'' Mary Shelley
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Thought for the day....... "I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see." Duane Michals (Real Dreams)
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Thought for the day....... "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." Henry Ward Beecher
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Thought for the day....... "Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art." Bliss Carman
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Thought for the day....... "All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities." Claes Oldenburg
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Thought for the day....... "Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day - one's own small actions, multiplied by everyone's small actions, and a tidal wave of change can occur! Lyme action, the Occupy movement - up to almost 1000 cities now, etc.
Thx for all your pithy statements - you are a nonstop Lymenet contributor!
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Thought for the day....... "From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation....." Carl Jung
Thanks, Robin! Thanks for your statement regarding tidal waves CAN occur!!
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Thought for the day....... "Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated." Auguste Rodin
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Thought for the day....... ``Absurdity and anti-absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.'' Karl Lagerfeld
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Thought for the day: from Stephane Hessel, WWII survivor, drafter of UN Charter on Human Rights,
in his recent book, "Time For Outrage," which has sold 3.5 million copies, currently being read by those involved in Occupy actions -
"Trust your strength. You have to be confident and brave."
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Thought for the day....... "One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways." Peter McWilliams (You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought [Rev. Ed.], 1995)
I love that one, Robin!!
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Thought for the day....... "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
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Thought for the day....... "Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging." Joseph Campbell
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Thought for the day....... "The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say." Kahlil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... "Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited." George Santayana
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Thought for the day....... "Out beyond the ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field, I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn't make sense." Rumi
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Thought for the day....... ``We communicate grace to one another by holding space for people when they are hurt or terrified, instead of trying to fix them, or manage their emotions for them. We offer ourselves as silent companionship, or gentle listening when someone feels very alone. We get people glasses of water when they are thirsty.'' Anne Lamott
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You're amazing, lightfoot! Thanks!! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it." John Adams
Thanks tutu and thank you for all you do, you are amazing!!!!
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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." J.W. von Goethe (Philosopher)
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Goethe was wise!!
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Thought for the day....... "True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." Socrates
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Thought for the day....... "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." Lin Yu Tang
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Thought for the day....... "Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness." Chuang-Tse
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Thought for the day....... "There is something about you brighter than the sun and more mysterious than the night sky." Adyashanti (Emptiness Dancing)
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Thought for the day....... "To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions." Marcus Aurelius
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Thought for the day....... "Learn to live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after." Ernest Hemingway
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Thought for the day....... ``The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible" Hannah Moore
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Thought for the day....... "Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Thought for the day....... "We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives: Inside ourselves." Albert Camus
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Thought for the day....... ``You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.'' Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "When you judge another, you do not define them. You define yourself." Wayne Dyer
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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....... "We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us." Rabindranath Tagore
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Thought for the day....... "A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." Johann Von Goethe
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Thought for the day....... "There is only one journey. Going inside yourself." Rainer Maria Rilke
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Thought for the day....... ``If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only just scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things.'' Daniel C. Dennett (Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon)
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Thought for the day....... "Who you are thunders so loud that I cannot hear your words." Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "The neural exchange between [people] has palpable virtues.....The practical lesson for us all comes down to: Nourish your social connections." Daniel Goleman
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Thought for the day....... "We are all Teachers, and what we teach is what we need to learn, and? so we teach it over and over again until we learn it." A Course in Miracles
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Thought for the day....... "The symbolic languages found in images, music and story all point to what it meaningful and to the hidden presence that awaits us in the spacious and empty place between thought and feeling, where our spirit resides." Angeles Arrien
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Thought for the day....... `` All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exists in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity.'' Joan Halifax
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Thought for the day....... "All the world is you and me; everything you hear, smell, see; all the world is everything; everything is you and me. " Liz Garton Seanton, All the World (children's book)
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Thought for the day....... "The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear." Felix Adler
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Thought for the day....... "When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering." Sri H. W. L. Poonja (Papaji)
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Thought for the day....... Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious." Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
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Thought for the day....... "Our enemy's opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own." Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
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Thought for the day....... "A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.'' Peter Cooper (American manufacturer and philanthropist, 1791-1883)
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Thought for the day....... "In our age...men seem more than ever prone to confuse wisdom with knowledge, and knowledge with information, and to try to solve problems of life in terms of engineering." T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
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Thought for the day....... "What is dignity.....what is appearance, if it keeps us from talking together?" Ray Hill
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Thought for the day....... ``Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.'' Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence above language." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
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Thought for the day....... "I looked for my soul but my soul I could not see. I looked for my God but my God eluded me. I looked for a friend and then I found all three." William Blake (1757-1827)
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Thought for the day....... "When a person has a real friend, he learns not only to appreciate another human being, but he also learns to understand himself better." Susan Polis Schutz
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Thought for the day....... "To listen is to lean in with a willingness to be changed by what you hear." Mark Nepo
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Thought for the day....... "Friendship is, strictly speaking, reciprocal benevolence, which inclines each party to be solicitous for the welfare of the other as for his own." Plato (428-348 BC)
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Thought for the day....... ``He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.'' Epictetus
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Thought for the day....... "Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts." Eddie Myers
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Thought for the day....... "There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation." James Nathan Miller
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Thought for the day....... "The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." Henri Nouwen
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Thought for the day....... "Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music." Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Thought for the day....... "One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention." Clifton Fadiman
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Thought for the day....... "Listening looks easy, but it's not simple. Every head is a world." Cuban Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable." David Augsburger
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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....... "Dogs never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation." Jerone K. Jerome
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Thought for the day....... "The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." Hubert H. Humphrey
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Thought for the day....... "The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship." Deborah Tannen
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Thought for the day....... "I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening." Larry King
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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....... "Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn." Babe Ruth
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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....... "Every friendship that lasts is built of certain durable materials. The first of these is truthfulness. If I can look into the eyes of my friend and speak out always the truthful thought and feeling with the simplicity of a little child, there will be a real friendship between us." Bertha Conde
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Thought for the day....... "You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening is described as compassionate listening. You listen only for the purpose of relieving suffering in the other person." Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thought for the day....... "The best mirror is an old friend." George Herbert (1593-1633)
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Thought for the day....... "True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." George Washington
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Thought for the day....... "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." William Arthur Ward
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Thought for the day....... "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." Oprah Winfrey
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Thought for the day....... "As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee my friend." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
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Thought for the day....... "A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with." Kenneth A. Wells
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Thought for the day........ "Deceiving someone for his own good is a responsibility that should be shouldered only by the gods." Henry S. Haskins
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Thought for the day........ "When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability - To be alive is to be vulnerable." Madeleine L'Engle
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Thought for the day........ "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent." Barbara Bush
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Thought for the day....... "When a person has a real friend, he learns not only to appreciate another human being, but he also learns to understand himself better." Susan Polis Schutz
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Thought for the day........ "Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another." Thomas Hughes
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Thought for the day........ "The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention." Richard Moss
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Thought for the day........ "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." Simone Weil
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Thought for the day........ "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." Charles Dickens
Merry Christmas!!
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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........ "The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say." Kahlil Gibran
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Thought for the day........ "The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are there." Yasutani Roshi
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Thought for the day........ ``All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.'' Jack Kerouac
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Thought for the day........ "The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them." Stephen King
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Thought for the day........ "We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young." Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Thought for the day........ "Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us." Hal Borland
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Thought for the day........ "A new year is unfolding - like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within." Anonymous
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Thought for the day........ "What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk." Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Thought for the day........ "One friend, one person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble to listen to us as we consider a problem, can change our whole outlook on the world." Dr. E. H. Mayo
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Thought for the day........ "If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business because we'd be cynical. Well that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." Ray Bradbury
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Thought for the day........ "A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip, and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow." Charlie Brower
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Thought for the day........ "Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two." Octavio Paz
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Thought for the day........ "We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source." Jim Rohn
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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........ "Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death." Colette Dowling
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Thought for the day........ "English is a funny language. A fat chance and a slim chance are the same thing." Jack Herbert
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Thought for the day........ "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire
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Thought for the day........ "Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?" Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day........ "There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other." Eric Hoffer
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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........ "We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest." Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Thought for the day........ "The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference." Audre Lorde
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Thought for the day........ "Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is." Carl Jung
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Thought for the day........ "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." Upton Sinclair
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Thought for the day........ "I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it." Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Thought for the day........ "You lose with potential. You win with performance." Bill Parcells(Pro Football Coach)
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Thought for the day........ "Gratitude is a love vibration. When we are grateful, we exude a feeling tone of acceptance and appreciation...It is when we move from our heads to our hearts that we open up to the sacred in all things and allow ourselves to feel a sense of oneness with all of life." Rev Diane Harmony
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Thought for the day........ "The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day........ "Do whatever most kindles love in you." Teresa of Avila
Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
Thought for the day: don't forget to Occupy your cause if it's the right thing to do!
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Thought for the day........ "I accept relationship as my primary teacher about myself, other people, and the mysteries of the universe." Gay Hendricks
Robin.....so true!
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Thought for the day........ "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is." Jim Morrison
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Thought for today: sign the petition to drop the IDSA guidelines from the NGC and make this an early Valentine's Day to all as we reach 5000 sigs in two days!!!
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Thought for the day........ "Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind." Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel (1821-81)
Ditto, ditto, ditto....thanks Robin!!
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Thought for the day........ "Love is more than just a feeling: it's a process requiring continual attention. Loving well takes laughter, loyalty, and wanting more to be able to say, 'I understand' than to hear, 'You're right.'" Molleen Matsumura (1999)
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Thought for the day........ ``We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.'' Sam Keen
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Thought for the day........ "Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." Carl Jung
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Thought for the day........ "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." Lao-Tzu
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Thought for the day........ "Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." Theodore Isaac Rubin
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Thought for the day........ "It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry." Joe Moore
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Thought for the day........ "In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends." James Ishmael Ford
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Thought for the day........ "Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it." Benjamin Franklin
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Thought for the day........ "What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, a license to be different from your mother and still be loved. . . . Freedom is . . . not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love. " Erica Jong
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Thought for the day........ "The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?" Tennessee Williams
Thought for the day........ "I better quit my talking 'cause I told you all I know / But please remember, pardner, wherever you may go / The people are building a peaceful world, and when the job is done, / That'll be the biggest thing that man has ever done." Woody Guthrie
Excuse the one day delay. Mountain internet tends to be a bit unpredictable. : ~ )))
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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." Gandhi (1869-1948)
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Thought for the day........ "Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day........ "Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that." Michael Leunig
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Thought for the day........ "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." Peter Ustinov
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Thought for the day........ "There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder." Charles Morgan
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Thought for the day........ "Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." Eric Fromm
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Thought for the day........ "Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame." Henry David Thoreau
Happy Valentines Day!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day........ "The art of love... is largely the art of persistence." Albert Ellis
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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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day........ "Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river." Malagasy Proverb
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Thought for the day........ "You can observe a lot just by watching." Yogi Berra
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day........ ``Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon?'' Rumi
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Thought for the day........ "Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare." Dale Carnegie
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Thought for the day........ "Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares." Daniel C. Dennett
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Thought for the day........ "To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved." George MacDonald
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Thought for the day........ "Unencumbered by our definitions we experience ourselves as conscious intelligence aware of itself as open, endless space. This instant of being storyless is an instant of freedom." Gangaji
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Thought for the day........ "There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them." Anthony de Mello SJ
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Thought for the day........ "Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know." Montaigne
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Thought for the day........ "The truth is your very nature. " A.H. Almaas
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Thought for the day........ "If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?" Dogen
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Thought for the day........ "Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit appear at the same time, full of refreshment for sense and for soul." Lucy Larcom
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Thought for the day........ "I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." Thomas Jefferson
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Thought for the day........ "Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world, all things are weighed by the false scale of custom." Byron
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3-2-2012
Thought for the day........ "We know, by intuition, that there is something beyond what we have so far consciously experienced in the world. . . This is the meaning of coming to one's self." Ernest Holmes
3-3-2012
Thought for the day........ "Nothing can disturb you unless you make it personal. The person always perceives personally, whereas Presence only perceives. Watch but don't panic or identify. Remember: you are the formless being. Remain here - timeless, empty and free!" Mooji
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Thought for the day........ "I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth." Alphonse de Lamartine (1841)
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Thought for the day........ "If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on." Stopford Brooke
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Thought for the day........ "When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? It is because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind." J. Krishnamurthi
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Thought for the day........ "Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness." Gustave Meyrink
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Thought for the day........ "Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending oneself to the universal delusion without becoming its dupe." Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
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Thought for the day........ "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day........ "Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness." Andr� Gide (L'immoraliste)
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Thought for the day....... "It is just as evil to silence an idea as it is to force a belief on someone." Duane Alan Hahn
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Thought for the day....... "The most sensible way to look after our own self-interest, to find freedom and be happy, is not to directly pursue these things but to give priority to the interests of others. Help others to become free of their fear and pain. Contribute to their happiness. Its all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. Its one and the same." Piero Ferrucci
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Thought for the day......."I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can." George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
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Those are ALL good, lightfoot! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "I used to be different. Now I'm the same." Werner Erhart
Hi tutu! Glad you are enjoying them!! Have a great day and thanks for all you do for the board and the folks on it!!! You are appreciated!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "If you open the door to the magnetic power of friendship, souls of like vibrations will be attracted to you." Paramahansa Yogananda
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
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Thought for the day....... "The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you." Carl Jung
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Thought for the day....... "Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher." William Wordsworth
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Thought for the day....... "The closer we get to uncovering ourselves, the more difficult it becomes to face the truth. Sooner or later we stop running, out of sheer exhaustion and desperation, and turn around to face our image. The pain that we go through during this revelation is negligible compared to the state of grace that we enter into when we have finally moved on." Dr. Christiane Northrup
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Thought for the day....... "Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power." Seneca
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Thought for the day....... "Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good." Lucy Larcom
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Thought for the day....... "Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are." Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me." Rabindranath Tagore
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Thought for the day....... "A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "We must measure our goodness, not by what we don't do, what we deny ourselves, what we resist, or who we exclude. Instead we should measure ourselves by what we embrace, what we create and who we include." Pere Henri
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Thought for the day....... "One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never even meet." Mary Kay Blakely (Wake Me When It's Over)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." Bertrand Russell
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Thought for the day....... "No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive." Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... "Act freely when you are tuned in, centered and loving. Avoid acting when you are upset." Ken Keyes, Jr.
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Thought for the day....... "Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds." Norman Vincent Peale
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Thought for the day....... "Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." Voltaire
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3-31 Thought for the day....... "Enduring habits I hate...... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits." Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... "When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful." Barbara Bloom
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Thought for the day....... "Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower." Jean Paul Richter
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Thought for the day....... "You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." Walt Disney
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4-4 Thought for the day....... "If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it." Oliver Wendell Holmes
4-5 Thought for the day....... "I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." Agatha Christie
Just a tad behind......been on the road again!! : ~ )))
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Adversity is the first path to truth." Lord Byron
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Thought for the day....... "Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way." Bernie S. Siegel
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Thought for the day....... "On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer." Douglas Horton
Happy Easter! Happy Spring!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into." Ram Dass
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I like that one, lightfoot, especially as this week we have radio and TV shows featuring Lyme - yay us!
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Thought for the day....... "The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed." J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986)
Thanks, Robin! Let's hope something wonderful comes out of the publicity!!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed." Carl Jung
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Thought for the day....... "Butterflies represent transformation. They evolve from a caterpillar into a beautiful, wondrous being - much like a woman finding her inner goddess; her personal power." Nicole Graham
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Thought for the day....... "The cultural transformation from the love of power to the power of love is the drama of our time." Anodea Judith
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Thought for the day....... "After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked -- as I am surprisingly often -- why I bother to get up in the mornings." Richard Dawkins
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Thought for the day....... "According to Hebblethwaite, the genius of Christian faith is its proclamation that nothing is beyond redemption. The gospel is not about integration of opposites but about their transformation and redemption." Romney Moseley
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Thought for the day:
"I would maintain that thanks is the highest form of thought and gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." G K Chesterton
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Thought for the day....... "We are locked in our suffering and our pleasure is the seal." Leonard Cohen
Good one, Marz!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... "Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he thinks you are a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels that you are afraid of him. And perhaps if he believed you are capable of loving him he would no longer be your enemy." Thomas Merton
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Thought for the day....... "The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices." Frederick II, the Great
Posted by angelp (Member # 36878) on :
Thank you lightfoot...wonderful to read during a very bad day..brought a smile to my face...thanks and look forward to more...
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Thought for the day....... "When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed." Chuang Tzu (360 BC- 275 BC)
Enjoy, angelp!!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world." Ramana Maharshi
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... What you are the world is. And without your transformation there can be no transformation of the world." J. Krishnamurti (1895 - 1986)
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Slipped off the grid again!
4-23 Thought for the day....... "Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs." Tama Kieves
4-24 Thought for the day........ "Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them." William James
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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. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being." George Elliot
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day........ "If we can transform ourselves, we have the potential to change the world." Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
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Thought for the day........ "Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without." Eckhart Tolle
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day........ "The sacred cycle of transformation begins by cultivating life experiences and embracing the evolving human spirit. Meaning, purpose and joy are our birthright and by dancing our sacred dream we create a richly woven tapestry of spiritual thought and action." Micheal Teal
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day........ "Developing harmony, authenticity, strength and the ability to transform oneself is possible only when you move beyond ego toward essence." Dr. Mitchell L. Gaynor, M.D.
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Thought for the day........ "Despite our differences, we are all in this together. No act of kindness or compassion goes unnoticed. To change the world, take compassionate action within your immediate sphere of influence. To change yourself, start by being still and making time just to listen." Edmund Bourne
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5-1 Thought for the day....... "It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action." Caroline Myss
5-2 Thought for the day....... "The purpose of life is for the individual to become greater than the definitions he has inherited." James Baldwin
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Thought for the day....... "I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal." Groucho Marx
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Thought for the day....... "Be persuaded that your only treasures are those which you carry in your heart." Demophilus
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Thought for the day....... "The heart must be at rest before the mind, like a quiet lake under an unclouded summer evening, can reflect the solemn starlight and the splendid mysteries of heaven." M'Donald Clarke (The Mad Poet)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "O to be self-balanced for contingencies, To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs as the trees and the animals do." Walt Whitman
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Thought for the day....... "Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig." Marcus Aurelius
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Thought for the day....... "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes." e.e. cummings
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Thought for the day....... "Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed... Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist dries, the parched becomes moist... It is in changing that things find repose." Heraclitus
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth." Christopher Morley
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Thought for the day....... "The spirit of the universe is at once creative and destructive.. it creates while it destroys and destroys while it creates, and therefore it remains to us a riddle. And we must inevitably resign ourselves to this." Albert Schweitzer
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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....... "Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering." Elaine Heffner
Happy Mother's Day!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood." Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Thought for the day....... "It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive." Ingrid Newkirk
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "A peaceful world is an inclusive world." Judith Umbach
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Thought for the day....... "Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it." Howard Winters
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Thought for the day....... "We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion." Max de Pree
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Inclusion creates a relationship and cultural context where peace can flourish." Judith Snow
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought the day....... "I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt." Virginia Satir
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "We are less when we don't include everyone." Stuart Milk
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Thought for the day....... "A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success." Cullen Hightower
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Thought for the day....... "All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!" Camille Paglia
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.'' Ryunosuke Satoro
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Thought for the day....... "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." Mother Teresa
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Thought for the day....... "Creator of heaven and earth, You are me, I am you." Prayer of a Navajo Girl (Early 20th Century)
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Ms Lightfoot... Your PM box is full!!! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
As we enjoy Memorial Day.....
Thought for the day....... "The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem." Aaron Kilbourn
I'll see to the box....thanks!
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5-29 Thought for the day....... "Be still and cool in thy own mind and spirit." George Fox (1624-1691)
5-30 Thought for the day....... "I saw that universality had got to be the ultimate objective." Scott Turow
Glad to get back on!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole." Murray Gell-Mann
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Thought for the day....... "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together." William Shakespeare
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Thought for the day....... "Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them." John Muir, 'The Story of My Boyhood and Youth'
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Thought for the day....... "After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains." Walt Whitman
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Thought for the day....... "A path without heart is never enjoyable. You have to work hard even to take it. on the other hand, a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it." Don Juan
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Thought for the day....... "True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together." Hugh Prather
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Thought for the day....... "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." Virginia Woolf
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Thought for the day....... "Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance." W. Clement Stone
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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....... ``Our greatest strength as a human race is our ability to acknowledge our differences, our greatest weakness is our failure to embrace them." Judith Henderson
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Thought for the day....... "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another." Lucretius
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Thought for the day: you, lightfoot, are amazing in your wisdom and sagacious gifts to us here!
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Thought for the day....... "The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other....We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt." Walter Scott
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Thought for the day....... "The sun is the epitome of benevolence - it is lifegiving and warmthgiving and happinessgiving, and to it we owe our thanksgiving." Jessi Lane Adams
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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....... "If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic." Hazel Henderson
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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....... "The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong.'" Sydney J. Harris
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Thought for the day....... "My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." Clarence Budington Kelland
Happy Father's Day!
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Thought for the day....... "The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder." Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)
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Thought for the day....... "When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind in itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." Proverbs 23:7
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Thought for the day....... "It is indeed the mind that is the cause of men's bondage and liberation. The mind that is attached to sense-objects leads to bondage, while dissociated from sense-objects it tends to lead to liberation." Amrita-Bindu Upanishad
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Thought for the day....... "We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart." Martin Luther King Jr.
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Thought for the day....... "The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can't really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought." Adyashanti
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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....... "Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat." Garfield the Cat
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Thought for the day....... "The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion." Alfred Montapert
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Thought for the day....... "To wait, to patiently sit in the dark without knowing what the outcome will be, to protect and respect that which has yet no clear form - all these are aspects of the womb." Jalaja Bonheim
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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....... ``We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that 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
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Thought for the day....... "History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." B. C. Forbes
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Thought for the day....... "It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired." Robert Strauss
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Thought for the day....... "It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired." Robert Strauss
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Thought for the day....... "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Thought for the day....... "Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing." Seneca
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Thought for the day....... "Yes, we did create a near-perfect republic. But will we keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction." Thomas Jefferson
Wishing you the best on this Independence Day!!!
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Thought for the day....... "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, 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....... "Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand." Neil Armstrong
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Thought for the day....... "The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image." Charles W. Chesnutt
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Thought for the day....... "All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation." George Eliot
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Thought for the day....... "Nothing is interesting, if you're not interested." Helen MacInnes
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Thought for the day....... "Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain." Ihab Hassan
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Thought for the day....... "Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient." Eugene S. Wilson
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Thought for the day....... "Stuff your eyes with wonder ... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories." Ray Bradbury
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Thought for the day....... "It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between." Diane Ackerman
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Thought for the day....... "Genius is eternal patience." Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Thought for the day....... "Your genius is in your very existence, awaiting the right circumstances to express it." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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Thought for the day....... "As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can." John Muir
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Thought for the day....... "I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup." Wendell Berry
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Thought for the day....... "In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe." David Bohm
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Thought for the day....... "Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resemble more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come...." Michelangelo (1475-1564)
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Thought for the day....... "My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky." William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Thought for the day....... "Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul." Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D.)
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Thought for the day....... "The soul should always stand ajar. Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience." Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
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Thought for the day....... "Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
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Thought for the day....... "The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven." William Channing
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7-25 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....... "Nature is my medicine." Sara Moss-Wolfe
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Thought for the day....... "Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do." Michel de Montaigne
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Thought for the day....... "Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries." Jimmy Carter
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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....... "All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion." Stephen Hawking
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Thought for the day....... "The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts." Aldo Leopold
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Thought for the day....... "Your descendants shall gather your fruits." Virgil
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Thought for the day....... ``In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.'' Charles A. Lindbergh
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Thought for the day....... "I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things...I play with leaves, I skip down the street and run against the wind." Leo Buscaglia
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Thought for the day - all of us Lyme patients are like Olympic athletes in our own way - handling constant obstacles, managing, figuring our strategies, staying the course, many of us with great doctor coaches, many with good support, sometimes triumphing when we find the right treatments.
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Thought for the day....... "Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!" Amory Lovins
Robin, Thanks for sharing that wonderful thought!!! It's so good to be reminded and applaud ourselves and each other. You made my day!
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Thought for the day....... "Live Large!" Don Pendleton (1927-1995)
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Thought for the day....... "We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows where the sun is. It is almost second nature to us to prefer explanations . . .with a large vocabulary. We are much more comfortable when we are assured that the sunflower turns because it is heliotropic. The trouble with that kind of talk is that it tempts us to think that we know what the sunflower is up to. But we don't. The sunflower is a mystery, just as every single thing in the universe is." Robert Farrer Capon
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Thought for the day....... "Science has promised us truth an understanding of such relationships as our minds can grasp; it has never promised us either peace or happiness." Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931)
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Thought for the day....... "If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature." Bruce Barton
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Thought for the day....... "All that men know is almost nothing in comparison to what remains to be known." Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
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Thought for the day....... "Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world." Joel Barker
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Thought for the day....... "We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice." Sogyal Rinpoche
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Thought for the day....... "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "We are presented all the time with a choice. Do we return to old destructive habits or do we take whatever we're experiencing as an opportunity and support for having a fresh relationship with life?" Pema Chodron (Taking the Leap)
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Thought for the day....... "The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." Carlos Castaneda
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Thought for the day....... "The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith." Bertrand Russell
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Thought for the day....... "If you want to know the past, to know what has caused you, look at yourself in the present, for that is the past's effect. If you want to know your future, then look at yourself in the present, for that is the cause of the future." Majjhima Nikaya
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Thought for the day....... "You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective." Denis Waitley
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Thought for the day....... "When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it." Horace Rutledge
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Thought for the day....... ``When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?'' Frank Borman
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Thought for the day....... "We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance." Warren Weaver
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Thought for the day....... "Through human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery." Daniel J. Boorsti
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Thought for the day....... "Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent." Will Durant
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Thought for the day....... ``The closest to being in control we'll ever be is in that moment when we realize we're not.'' Brian Kessler
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Thought for the day....... "There's no school that says, 'Cling'. Liberation is about cutting, or dissolving, or letting go of, or seeing through the attachment to anything. The description of the mind of no-clinging may be different in the different schools, but the experience of the mind of no-clinging is the same. How could it be different?" Joseph Goldstein, from How Amazing!
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Thought for the day....... "A different language is a different vision of life." Federico Fellini (film director and writer, 1920-1993)
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Thought for the day....... "I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion." Neil Armstrong, USC 2005 graduation
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Thought for the day....... "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." Galileo
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Thought for the day....... "You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite." Bertrand Russell
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Thought for the day....... "Hope has two beautiful daughters - their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are." St. Augustine
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August 31, 2012
Thought for the day....... "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant." Horace
September 1, 2012
Thought for the day....... "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed." Booker T. Washington
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Thought for the day....... "Choice of attention ... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. W. H. Auden
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Thought for the day....... "Love the earth and sun and animals,/ Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,/ Stand up for the stupid and crazy,/ Devote your income and labor to others.../ And your very flesh shall be a great poem." Walt Whitman
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Thought for the day....... "There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." Douglas Adams
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Thought for the day....... "All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance." Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... "Life is a series of sales situations, and the answer is no if you don't ask." Patricia Fripp
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Thought for the day....... "Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." Kahlil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... "Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise." Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
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Thought for the day....... "If two angels were sent down from heaven, one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street, they would feel no inclination to change employments." John Newton
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Thought for the day....... "Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced." Aldous Huxley
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Thought for the day....... "We have a long long way to go, so let us hasten along the road, the road to human tenderness and generosity. Groping, we may find one another's hands in the dark." Emily Greene Balch
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Thought for the day....... "Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness." Anonymous 18th Century Monk
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Thought for the day....... "There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of mind for wisdom." J. Donald Walters
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Thought for the day....... "One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them, whose garment and revelation they are - if he be such, I say, he will stand, for more than a moment, speechless with something akin to that which made the morning stars sing together." George MacDonald (What's Mine's Mine)
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Thought for the day....... "We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality." Walter Brueggemann
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9-16 Thought for the day....... "There is a secret love hiding in each problem." James Hillman
9-17 Thought for the day....... "People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing." John Porter
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Thought for the day....... "'Unreasonable', 'unrealistic', and 'impractical' are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards." Chris Guillebeau
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Thought for the day....... "When you awaken love and laughter in your life, your mind lets go of fear and anxiety, and your happy spirit becomes the healing balm that transforms every aspect of your human experience." Jesse Dylan
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Thought for the day....... "Comparison is the thief of joy" Theodore Roosevelt
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Thought for the day....... "Averages are composed of all abnormalities." C. VanDenBrink
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Thought for the day....... "Life is both nonsensical and significant. And when we do not laugh about one aspect and speculate about the other, life is exceedingly banal;..." Carl Jung
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Thought for the day....... "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution." Bertrand Russell
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Thought for the day....... ``There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.'' Arthur Erickson
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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 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....... "Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... ``If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.'' Sara Evans (Softly And Tenderly)
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Thought for the day....... ``The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.'' Charles Kettering
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Thought for the day....... ``Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.'' Robert H. Schuller
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Thought for the day....... ``Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.'' Colin Powell
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Thought for the day....... "The chief cause of problems is solutions." Eric Sevareid
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Thought for the day....... "An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way rapidly winning over and converting its opponents; it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning." Max Planck
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Thought for the day....... "Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought." Albert Szent-Gyoergi
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Thought for the day....... "The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out." Dee Hock, Founder of Visa
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Thought for the day....... "Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something." Steve Jobs
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Thought for the day....... "The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards." Arthur Koestler
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Thought for the day....... "Everything that can be invented has been invented." Charles H. Duell (1860-1920)
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Thought for the day....... "There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole." Bill Wulf
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Thought for the day....... "The power to question is the basis of all human progress." Indira Ghandi
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Thought for the day....... "He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans." Kahlil Kibran
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Thought for the day....... "If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic." Hazel Henderson
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Thought for the day....... "If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do." James Harvey Robinson
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Thought for the day....... "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "A new point of view is worth 80 IQ points." Alan Kay
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Thought for the day....... "Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress." Thomas Edison
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Thought for the day....... "Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring." Henri Frederic Amiel
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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....... "Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences." Sherwood Eddy
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Thought for the day....... "The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward." Ramakrishna
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Thought for the day....... "The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never hear anything. The inner conversation simply never stops. It can be our voice or whatever voices we want to supply, but it's a constant racket. In the same way we don't see, and in the same way we don't feel, we don't touch, we don't taste." Philip Glass
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Thought for the day....... "Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end pre-exists in the means, the fruit in the seed... You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong." Ralph W. Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "The love of truth lies at the root of much humor." Robertson Davies (1913-1995)
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Thought for the day....... "Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius." Isaac D'Israeli
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Thought for the day....... "Zeal without knowledge is fire without light." Thomas Fuller
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10-27 Thought for the day....... "Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now." P.T. Barnum
10-28 Thought for the day....... "Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." Watterson Lowe
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Thought for the day....... "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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Thought for the day....... "The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle." Anais Nin
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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
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Thought for the day....... "Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive." Vera Nazarian (The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration)
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Thought for the day....... "Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution." Edward Teller
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Thought for the day....... "Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity." Michael J. Gelb
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Thought for the day....... "A genius! For thirty-seven years I've practiced fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genus! Pablo Sarasate (1844-1908)
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Thought for the day....... "Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this: when I have a subject in mind, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it...the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought." Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804)
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Thought for the day....... "If people knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all." Michelangelo
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Thought for the day....... "To believe your own thought, to believe what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "The secret to genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm." Aldus Huxley (1894-1963)
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Thought for the day....... "As long as you live, keep learning how to live." Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)
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Thought for the day....... "Come into the light of things,/ Let Nature for your teacher." William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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Thought for the day....... "The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." William James
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Thought for the day....... "When I became ill, the years of pain and confusion loomed up like some primitive monster of the deep...I lived in fear of dying. The strange paradox is that by confronting my fear of death, I found myself and created a new life." Lucia Capacchione (American Art Therapist)
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Thought for the day....... "Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity." Alan Turing (June 23, 1912 - June 07, 1954)
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Thought for the day....... "All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!" Camille Paglia
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Thought for the Day......."It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not to worship what is known, but to question it." Jacob Chanowski
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Thought for the day....... "Your self-realization is the greatest gift you can render the world." Ramana Maharshi
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Thought for the day....... "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second." John Steinbeck
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Thought for the day......."The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality in this moment, and there is always only this moment." Gay Hendricks
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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."Herman Hesse
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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....... "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." John F. Kennedy
Happy Thanksgiving!!
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11-23-2012 Thought for the day......."If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation." Krishnamurti
11-24-2012 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.......``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.......``When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.'' Stephen Richards
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Thought for the day.......``It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!'' Robert Kiosaki
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Thought for the day.......``Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.'' Carl Jung
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Thought for the day.......``The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.'' Bob Moawad
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Thought for the day.......``You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. The more things change, the more they don't stay the same. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time.'' David Levithan, 'Wide Awake'
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Thought for the day....... "You Have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen." Paulo Coelho
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Thought for the day....... "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is." Oscar Wilde
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Thought for the day....... "Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom." Chip Bell
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Thought for the day....... "Effective listeners remember that 'words have no meaning - people have meaning.' The assignment of meaning to a term is an internal process; meaning comes from inside us. And although our experiences, knowledge and attitudes differ, we often misinterpret each other's messages while under the illusion that a common understanding has been achieved." Larry Barker
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Thought for the day....... "There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation." James Nathan Miller
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Thought for the day....... "The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust." Josh Billings
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Thought for the day....... "Big egos have little ears." Robert Schuller
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Lightfoot....thanks for the giggle. Love the post on the 6th.
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Thought for the day....... "To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind's hearing to your ears' natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning." Peter Senge
Faithful....seems when truth meets that bit of humor...it opens us up with a giggle. Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... ``Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.'' Virginia Satir
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Thought for the day....... "The sum total of each man's giving determines the standard of man's civilization." Walter Russell
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Thought for the day....... "Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past." Tryon Edwards
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Thought for the day......."Your longing for me is my message to you. All your attempts to reach me are in reality my attempts to reach you. " Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "Everything is governed by one law. A human being is a microcosmos, i.e. the laws prevailing in the cosmos also operate in the minutest space of the human being." Viktor Schauberger
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Thought for the day....... ``Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius.'' Isaac D'Israeli (1765-1848, English Literary Critic)
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Thought for the day....... ``Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.'' James Russell Lowell
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Thought for the day....... ``Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?'' Lao Tzu (c.604 - 531 B.C.)
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Thought for the day....... ``A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.'' Chinese Proverb
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Thought for the day....... ``You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving.'' Eileen Caddy
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Thought for the day....... ``You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.'' Kahil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... ``A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.'' Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Thought for the day....... ``The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.'' Martin Luther
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Thought for the day....... ``The whole gift is a portion of thyself.'' Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "A man's feeling of good-will towards others is the strongest magnet for drawing good-will towards himself.'' Lord Chesterfield.
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Thought for the day....... ``Not what we give but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare.'' James Russell Lowell
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Thought for the day....... ``Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.'' Melody Beattie
Merry Christmas!!
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Thought for the day....... ``Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.'' Nancy Long
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Thought for the day....... ''To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.'' Arne Garborg
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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.'' Fritz William
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Thought for the day....... ``If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.'' George MacDonald
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Thought for the day....... ``To live with an open heart means that pain is no stranger, but wonder will be a constant companion.'' David Oldfield
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Thought for the day....... "The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy." John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
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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
Happy New Year, 2013!!
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Thought for the day....... ``I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.'' Douglas Noel Adams (1952-2001)
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Thought for the day....... ``It's a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we're living through is yet another moment, in yet another day.'' Steve Yarbrough, 'Safe from the Neighbors'
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Thought for the day....... ``Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.'' Meister Eckhart
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Thought for the day....... ``All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game being the discovery of the totally unexpected.'' Hugh W. Nibley
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Thought for the day....... ``I am part of all that I have met.'' Lord Tennyson
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Thought for the day....... ``Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.'' Golda Meir
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Thought for the day....... "Being vulnerable doesn't have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives." Sara Paddison
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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
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Thought for the day....... "It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts." K.T. Jong
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Thought for the day....... "There is a world within - a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and beauty, and although invisible, its forces are mighty." Charles Haanel (1866-1949)
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Thought for the day....... "The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands." Robert M. Pirsig
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Thought for the day....... ``If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.'' Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... ``Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.'' Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Thought for the day....... ``Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.'' Blaise Pascal
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Thought for the day....... ``Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.'' Og Mandino
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Thought for the day....... ``Love draws forth love.'' Teresa of Avilla
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Thought for the day....... ``The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.'' Saint Paul
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Thought for the day....... ``Taking the first fooststep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise.'' Book of Arda Viraf (Circa 6th Century)
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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....... ``When we love unconditionally, with our hearts wide open, we feel joyfulness.'' Arnold Patent
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Thought for the day....... ``This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love.'' Charles Haanel
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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....... ``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....... ``People say that what we are seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think this is what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive.'' Joseph Campbell
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Thought for the day....... ``A mighty, eternal and incomprehensible force pushes us all forward. But while we are so being pushed, many linger and look backward. Unconsciously, they oppose this force.'' Prentice Mulford
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Thought for the day....... "Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life." Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
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Thought for the day.......``Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win.'' William Shakespeare
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Thought for the day....... ``Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.'' Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... ``All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you.'' Morihei Ueshiba
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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....... ``I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.'' Douglas Noel Adams (1952-2001)
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Thought for the day....... ``If you want to find the secrets of the Universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.'' Nichola Tesla
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Thought for the day....... ``Atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.'' Werner Weisenberg
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Thought for the day....... ``In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers turned up several billion years latter. The universe exists because we are aware of it.'' Martin Rees
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Thought for the day....... ``In our universe we are tuned in to the frequency that corresponds to physical reality. But there are an infinite number of parallel realities coexisting with us in the same room, although we cannot tune into them.'' Steven Weinberg (Nobel Prize-Winning Quantum Physicist)
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Thought for the day....... ``To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all; but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.'' Abraham Lincoln
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Thought for the day....... ``In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe.'' David Bohm
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Thought for the day....... ``Certainly, knowledge is a lock and its key is the question.'' Ja'far al-Sadiq (702-765)
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Thought for the day....... ``A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so (therefore) he escapes suffering.'' Gautama Buddha
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Thought for the day....... ``When you aren't run by reactions, you see things more clearly, and there is usually only one, possibly two courses of action that are actually viable. Freedom from the tyranny of reaction leads to a way of experiencing life that leaves you with little else to do but take the direction that life offers you in each moment. `` Ken McLeod
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Thought for the day....... ``Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes, your easy smile is your museum. `` Ansel Adams
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Thought for the day....... ``Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room. The inner body lies at the threshold between your form identity and your essence identity, your true nature. Never lose touch with it.'' Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... ``Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.'' Mahatma Gandi
Happy Valentines Day!
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Wondering what happened to "You might be a Lymey if..." column. A few popped into my head this morning....
You might be a Lymey if...
You get up in the morning, put on your bathrobe & realize you've been wearing the same outfit for 3 days.
You realize there are more choices... take a shower today, or clean up the house a little, or go to the store. Used to be able to do all 3 in just one day.
You find your mind wandering again in the realm of "Why am i still here?"
You might be a Lymey who believes in God if...
You feel blessed that you have taken notice of what you are wearing & are able to shower & put on clean clothes.
You feel blessed that you can still consider driving the car, going to the store & living independently.
You realize you're still here because God has something in mind for you & isn't ready for you to come to Heaven just yet.
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Thought for the day....... Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world.'' Nelville Goddard
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Thought for the day....... `` When you do something for your soul, you feel a river mving in you, a joy.......'' Rumi
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Thought for the day....... ``There are only two ways to live your live. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.'' Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... ``When empathy spontaneously arises, we sense the power of love as a blessing revealed by adversity. How embarrassing it is to see how preoccupied we have been with our own petty concerns! Seeing how affection stirs people to acts of selflessness inspires us to extend ourselves as well. With lovingkindness we see the needs of others and respond. `` Judith L. Lief (Welcome to the Real World)
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Thought for the day....... ``If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.'' Marcus Aurelius
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Thought for the day....... ``I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.'' Martha Washington
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Thought for the day....... ``Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.'' Saint Augustine
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Thought for the day....... ``The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.'' Leo Buscaglia
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Thought for the day....... ``We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others." Mignon McLaughlin
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Thought for the day....... ``The dew of compassion is a tear.'' Lord Byron
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Thought for the day....... ``To be able, under all circumstances, to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. `` Confucius (551-478 BCE)
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Thought for the day....... ``A realized soul is like a river or a tree, giving comfort and coolness to those who come to him.'' Ammachi (Her Holiness Sri Mata Amritanandamayi)
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Thought for the day....... ``When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving, and getting and giving again.'' Lewis Smedes
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Thought for the day....... ``Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.'' Rabindranath Tagor (1861-1941)
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Thought for the day.......''The source of forgiveness lies in the realization that we are not solely products of what was done to us, the realization that there is something essential within us that is not necessarily tarnished by calamitous experience." Mark Epstein, 'Beyond Blame'
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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'
Glad to be back. I've been off the grid, so to speak.
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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'
Your Thought....... delivery may be sporadic in the next week or two as my access is unpredictable.
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Thought for the day....... ``When empathy spontaneously arises, we sense the power of love as a blessing revealed by adversity. How embarrassing it is to see how preoccupied we have been with our own petty concerns! Seeing how affection stirs people to acts of selflessness inspires us to extend ourselves as well. With lovingkindness we see the needs of others and respond. `` Judith L. Lief (Welcome to the Real World)
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Thought for the day....... ``It's as if everyone who has ever been born has the same birthright, which is enormous potential of warm heart and clear mind. The ground of renunciation is realizing that we already have exactly what we need, that what we have already is good.'' Pema Chodron, ``Renunciation''
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Thought for the day......."There are years that ask questions and years that answer." Zora Neale Hurston (writer, 1891-1960)
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Thought for the day....... ``You can't change the music of your soul.'' Katherine Hepburn
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Thought for the day....... ``The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.'' Harriet Beecher Stowe
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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....... "To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution." Joe Cordare
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Thought for the day....... ``St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time -- a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic. `` Adrienne Cook
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
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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....... ``We are most alive when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.'' Thornton Wilder
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Thought for the day....... ``Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.'' Joshua J. Marine
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Thought for the day....... ``Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.'' Maxwell Maltz
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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....... "The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason." Hal Borland
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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....... "Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency." Natalie Goldberg
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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....... ``The ultimate challenge in life is to neither allow our fantasies to bring us too much suffering nor to prevent us from living fully.'' Earon Davis
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Thought for the day....... ``A life making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.'' George Bernard Shaw
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Thought for the day....... "I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief." Gerry Spence
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3-30 Thought for the day....... ``Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.'' Oscar Wilde
3-31 Thought for the day.......``The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.'' Robert Flatt Happy Easter
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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....... ``Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.'' James Russell Lowell
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Thought for the day....... "Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties." Gail Sheehy
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Thought for the day.......``If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It is lethal.'' Paulo Coehlo
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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....... ``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....... "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....... ``The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.'' Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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Thanks, lightfoot!!! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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 (1-30-1909 -- 6-12-1972)
You're so welcome, tutu!!!
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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 from (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by lightfoot: [QB] 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
Just checking in here tonite - I like this one! Only in our case, it's not so much a choice as a necessity.
Example - it's better if I go up hills backwards than forwards, for my back's sake. When I do this, people sometimes ask me what I'm doing and I tell them I can enjoy the view better this way. This is intriguing to people and sometimes they turn around and go up the hill backwards with me!
Another example - I have to lie down on the train, due to my back instability. When people ask me what I'm doing there, I tell them I'm going to levitate in X minutes. They're generally VERY impressed with my supposed levitation powers! I make sure to name a time that's after my train stop!
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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
Robin,
LOL! I like that quote too and I sure got a lot if comments on it! Whatever our peculiarities, they sure get a work out with Lyme/co!!
I love your peculiarities!! I might try going uphill backward too. ingenious for an unstable back!! As far as levitating.....I don't have an occasion to ride a train, darn!!
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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....... "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.......``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....... ``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....... ``There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.'' Buckminster Fuller
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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....... ``Sweet is a grief well ended.'' Aeschylus (525-456 BC)
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Thought for the day....... ``Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go'' Anais Nin
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Thought for the day....... ``Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.'' Carl Jung
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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....... ``Yesterday is ashes. Tomorrow is green wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.'' Eskimo Saying
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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....... ``Pragmatism is the art of walking across the quicksand of ideologies.'' Earon Davis
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Thought for the day....... "You can only lose what you cling to." Buddha
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Thought for the day....... ``'Reality is only a concept' - 'Life is only a Rorschach ink-blot''' Alan Watts
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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....... "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....... ``This world is but a canvas to our imagination.'' Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... ``Expectation is the root of all heartache.'' William Shakespeare
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Thought for the day....... "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." Richard Bach, "Illusion"
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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....... ""Good morning, this is God. I will be handling all of your problems today. I will not need your help, so have a miraculous day.''" Wayne Dyer, "The Power of Intention"
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I like this one!
I must remember to let God handle all my problems instead of trying to fix it myself.
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Thought for the day....... "Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights." Pauline R. Kezer
I'm with you, MannaMe!!!!
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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....... ``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....... ``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....... ``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....... ``If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years, how man would marvel and stare.'' Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one." Jill Churchill
Happy Mother's Day!
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Thought for the day....... "You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was." Irish Saying
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Thought for the day....... ``You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.'' Robert Adams
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Thought for the day....... "If you want to be sad, no one in this world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you." Paramhansa Yogananda
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Thought for the day....... "Lessons always arrive when you are ready for them, and if you read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step." Paulo Coelho
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Thought for the day....... "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." Henry David Thoreau
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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....... "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "A mind which is possesive will be possesed. To possess anything is to be posessed 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....... "There are no facts, only interpretations." Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... ``The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.'' Byron Katie
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Thought for the day....... "Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals." Charles Baudelaire
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Thought for the day....... ``I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.`` Edward Everett Hale
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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.'' Andre Lorde
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Thoughts for the day....... "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." George S. Patton
"On Memorial Day I don't want to only remember the combatants. There are also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace and men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.'' Eric Bourdon
Thanks to all of our veterans!
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Amen! I especially like Patton's quote. Saw it on FB today.
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Thought for the day....... ``The greatest thing you can do to cultivate true wisdom is to practice the consciousness of the world as a dream. If failure comes, say: 'It is a dream.' Then shut off the thought of failure from your mind. In the midst of negative conditions, practice 'opposition' by thinking and acting in a positive, constructive way.'' Paramahansa Yogananda
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Thought for the day....... ``Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important nonevil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.'' Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality
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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....... ``The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.'' Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
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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....... "Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.'' S�bastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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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....... "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." Havelock Ellis
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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....... ``Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable.'' Anthony De Mello
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Thought for the day....... ``The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.'' Maurice Chapelain
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Thought for the day....... ``When you argue with reality, you lose - but only always.'' Byron Katie
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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....... ``If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.'' The Bhagavad Gita
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THANK YOU lIGHT FOOT FOR THE CONTINUED SUPPORT AS YOUR FINDS ARE LIFE IN A WORD... Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
You're soooo welcome, payne!!!
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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....... ``The present moment dies every moment to become the past, is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.'' Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... ``Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.'' Khalil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... "My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges." Helen Keller
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Thought for the day....... ``There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth -- not going all the way, and not starting.'' Buddha
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Thought for the day....... ``Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.'' Meister Eckhart
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Thought for the day....... ``All great ideas and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.'' Albert Camus
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6-19-2013 Thought for the day....... ``Each one sees what he carries in his heart.'' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6-20-2013 Thought for the day....... ``Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never broken, and dance like no one is watching.'' Aurora Greenway
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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....... ``The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.'' Mignon McLaughlin
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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
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Thought for the day....... ``Peace in the world starts with peace in your heart.'' Marta Davidovich Ockuly
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Hello from Lake Meziadin, BC! I have been on and off the grid, mostly off. This will probably continue for the next several weeks. I'll be sending a Thought every chance I get. Namaste......Nancy
Thought for the day....... ``So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land! `` Peter Pan
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Thought for the day....... ``Take away love and our earth is a tomb.'' Robert Browning
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Thought for the day....... ``When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world - no matter how imperfect - becomes rich and beautiful - it consists solely of opportunities for love'' Loren Abye Kierkegarrd
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Thought for the day....... ``Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring! Samuel F. Smith (America)
Happy Fourth of July!!!
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Thought for the day....... ``If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.'' Carlos Castaneda
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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
Back on the grid for a little bit!!
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Thought for the day....... ``If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.'' Carlos Castaneda
On the grid again, Valdez, AK.
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Thought for the day....... ``Imagination confronts desire directly, in all its discomfort and intensity, deepening the world right where we are. Fantasy and reality are opposing forces, but imagination and reality are not in opposition: Imagination goes toward reality, shapes and evokes it.`` Norman Fischer, ``Saved from Freezing''
On the grid in Palmer, AK.
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Thought for the day....... "Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering." Abraham Maslow
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Thought for the day....... "Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man." Albert Einstein
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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." Herman Hesse
On the grid once again at Denali!
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Thought for the day....... "Paradise Cove, Beauty Bay, Beautiful Island, Surprise Bay, and Delight Lake. These names reflected the impression made on early explorers by the inside waters of Alaska's Kenai Fjords. The impressions of the outer coast sang another song: Wildcat Pass, Thunder Bay, Cloudy Cape, and Roaring Cove." M. Woodbridge Williams
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Thought for the day....... "The environment is not tailored to man; it is itself, for itself. All its creatures fit in. They know how from ages past. Man fits in or fights it. Fitting in, living in it, carries challenge, exhilaration, peace." Mardy Murie
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Yea! On the grid again in Denali!!!
Thought for the day....... "One impulse from a vernal wood, Will teach you more of man, Of moral evil and good, Than all the sages can." William Wordsworth
Thought for the day....... "The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask." Nancy Newhall
Thought for the day...... "The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit." Joseph Wood Krutch (Writer, Critic and Naturalist)
Thought for the day....... "There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign." Robert Louis Stevenson
Thought for the day....... "Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to open up the still largely unexplored human mind." David Rains Wallace
Thought for the day....... "If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. ... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future." Terry Tempest Williams
Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
Thought for the day: what does "on the grid again in Denali" mean?
Nice to see you back here after vacation!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see. . . . No, wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, as vital to our lives as water and good bread." Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
Hi Robin, thanks! We are visiting our son in Denali National Park, Alaska. We have been on the road since June 21st and some of the time we haven't had access to the internet. So, happily, we are on the 'grid' here. We have internet until we start the long road trip back to CO, our connections will vary a lot again while on the road.
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “And this, our life exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” William Shakespeare
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Thought for the day....... "Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals." Aldo Leopold
Posted by GretaM (Member # 40917) on :
These are wonderful, lightfoot, thank you
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Thought for the day....... "What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O Let them be left, wildness and wet: Long live the weeds and wilderness yet." Gerard Manley Hopkins
Thanks, GretaMe! Enjoy!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause within our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace.” Terry Williams
The wilderness took me off the grid yesterday....
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "In wildness is the preservation of the world." Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... "Best friend, my wellspring in the wilderness!" George Eliot (1819 �`` 1880)
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Thought for the day....... "Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." John Muir (1838 - 1914)
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Thought for the day....... "At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences." R. G. Ingersoll
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Thought for the day....... "The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water’s edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks." Ernest Thompson Seton
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Thought for the day....... "My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires." Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Thought for the day....... "Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of sunlit lakelets and black expanses of forest, has become aware of a certain giddy sensation that there are no distances, no measures, simply unrelated matter rising and falling without any analogy to the banal geometry of breadth, thickness, and height." Bob Marshall
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Thought for the day....... "Nothing is less known; nothing more neglected. The forest is a gift of nature which it is sufficient to except just as it calms from her hands." Georges-Louis Leclerc (French naturalist, biologist, mathematician and author)
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Thought for the day....... “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” Henry David Thoreau
I have been away from the computer due to my travels. Contact may be sporadic until the end of the month.
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.” S. I. Hayakawa
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for." Louis L’Amour
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep." Robert Frost
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "There is no right path. Only the one that allows you to sleep soundly and wake up excited." Jennifer Louden
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination." Don Williams, Jr.
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The great lesson…is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's back yard." Abraham Maslow
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow." Douglas Pagels (These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You)
Have a wonderful Labor Day!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never traveled at all! It was a journey from here to Here." Meher Baba
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... “Our lives reflect the pictures we create in our minds, and therefore we should pay close attention to our mental doodling” Mary Manin Morrissey
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.” Hosea Ballou
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning." Joseph Campbell
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Surprises are the joy of living. Surprises directly touch the soul. Good surprises energize and bad surprises teach." Alev Oguz
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.” Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
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Thought for the day....... "Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom." Viktor Frankl
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution." Khalil Gibran
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable.” Anthony De Mello
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Thought for the day....... "It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “When we do face the difficult times, we need to remember that circumstances don’t make a person, they reveal a person. ” Emma Jameson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “All through your life you are building an intellectual and emotional framework and it gets bigger and bigger and the more there are places where books and experiences can latch.” Sherwin B. Nuland
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." Stephen Hawking
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.” Dan Millman
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal." Arthur Schopenhauer
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Thought for the day....... “When we face the worst that can happen in any situation, we grow. When circumstances are at their worst, we can find our best.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "A good laugh is sunshine in the house." William Makepeace Thackeray
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values" Dalai Lama
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open." Ralph Marston
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty." Leo F. Buscaglia
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever “the old” means for you." Sarah Ban Breathnach
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go." Jessica Hatchigan
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress." Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself." Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... "People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on." Bill Cosby
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Forgiveness means letting go of the past." Gerald Jampolsky
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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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond winning.” Lao Tzu
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.” Goldie Hawn
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... "At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you." Elizabeth Gilbert
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free." Thich Nhat Hanh
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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....... “True genius without heart is a thing of naught – for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together make genius. Love! Love! Love! That is the soul of genius." Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The practice of generosity is the practice of freedom, and it carries with it all the joy and pleasure that are associated with liberation. Indeed, there may be no greater sense of fulfillment in life than the simultaneous feelings of human interconnection and pure freedom that arise from an authentic act of selfless generosity.” Dale S. Wright
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.” Joan Didion on Keeping a Notebook
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Nothing releases like forgive. Nothing renews like forget.” Ray Davis
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Thought for the day....... “Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.” Shunryu Suzuki
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another, which both attracts and heals.” J. Isham
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen." Winnie the Pooh
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “You change your life by changing your heart.” Max Lucado
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day...... “Being is our original condition, prior to all egoic antics, prior to all thought, prior to all description, prior to past, present and future.” Adyashanti
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are part of this power.” Prentice Mulford
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. " Havelock Ellis
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "May you live every day of your life." Jonathan Swift
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting." William Arthur Ward
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “God is a pure no-thing concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.” Angelus Silesius
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the promise and all four of them to me? And me to you?” Gregory Bateson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Why go off to the dusty realms of foreign lands when there is a seat right in your very own home? Sit down there and the way will open before you.” Eihei Dogen
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The man who knows something knows that he knows nothing at all.” Erykah Badu
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it,or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face.” Edward Morgan
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” Joseph Campbell
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Travelers, there is no path. Paths are made by walking.” Antonio Machado
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Thought for the day....... “Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Life is continually living on life. Life appears in all sorts of forms and shapes. But it is still the same life, the same intelligence-energy. And you are that life.” Sailor Bob Adamson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don't pay so much attention to the words. In Love's country, language doesn't have its place. Love is mute.” Shams Tabrig
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "We can want peace, but unless we are spiritually at peace ourselves, we don't mean it. It is our thoughts which keep that part of the universe where each of us stand out of or in balance." Little Crow (7/8/1990)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” Thich Nhat Hanh
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “What you resist persists. What you look at disappears. You cannot experience yourself as what you are until you've encountered what you are not." Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... “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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending – including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense." Jennifer M. Granholm, Former Governor of Michigan
Enjoy Veterans Day: A day to acknowledge and pay homage to every single veteran from every single war!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “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.” Hermann Hesse
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day...... "Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment." Rumi
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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....... “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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.” The Bhagavad Gita
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Love is the absence of judgment.” Dalai Lama
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Thought for the day....... “Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.“ John W. Gardner
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” Paul Brandt
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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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “There are no choices that are really a detour that will take you far from where you're wanting to be -- because your Inner Being is always guiding you to the next, and the next, and the next. So don't be concerned that you may make a fatal choice, because there aren't any of those. You are always finding your balance. It's a never ending process.” Abraham Hicks
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.” J.K. Rowling
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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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... “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....... “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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.” Denis Waitley
Happy Thanksgiving 2013
Posted by Pocono Lyme (Member # 5939) on :
Really nice Lightfoot.
Happy Thanksgiving friend.
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Thanks, Pocono!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.” Marcus Aurelius
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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.” Sarah Ban Breathnach
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “If you concentrate on finding whatever 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....... “Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. We need to literally “count our blessings,” give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have.” Shakti Gawain
Posted by Pocono Lyme (Member # 5939) on :
Amen! Thank you lightfoot. Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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.” Abraham Maslow
You're so welcome, Pocono!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees … [the] silence and the peace that is ‘heard’ when the rain wanders freely among the hills and forests." Thomas Merton, “Seven Storey Mountain”
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day...... “There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.” Robert Browning
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... “To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” Gandhi
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.” Dalai Lama
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.” Terry Tempest Williams
Posted by payne (Member # 26248) on :
know you are prayed for and your constant following shares are appriciated... mf
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” Dr. Suess
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thanks, payne! Likewise! All here are close to my heart....
Posted by payne (Member # 26248) on :
"All here are close to my heart...." lightfoot Gottcha (: ho ho ho
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” William Shakespeare
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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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.” George MacDonald
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.” George Eliot
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.” Lenore Hershey
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day.......“How would your life be different if...You decided to give freely, love fully, and play feverously? Let today be the day...You free yourself from the conditioned rules that limit your happiness and dilute the beautiful life experience. Have fun. Give - Love - Play!” Steve Maraboli
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.” Brene Brown ("The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are")
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “It's easier to take than to give. It's nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime.” Joan Marques
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The paradox of gifts: I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.” Dr. SunWolf
Posted by Carmen (Member # 42391) on :
"and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make"
John Lennon
Posted by Carmen (Member # 42391) on :
quote:Originally posted by lightfoot: Thought for the day....... “Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.” Brene Brown ("The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are")
I love this one! My grandmother had such a hard time recieving the gifts we worked so hard to select for her. There was always somthing wrong with it. It crushed us and hurt our hearts. As I got older I came to see that she did this not only with material gifts but gifts of the spirit that we tried to shine her way.
this is what I learned:
Always accept a gift with an open heart and gratitude! In accepting a gift graceously and with gratitude it gives the sender the opportunity to shine their love and teaches them the rewards of giving... it matters not what the gift is.
and: to give your gift without attachment for any kind of reward, even that of a thankyou.
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.” Barry Lopez
Carmen, beautiful comments and so true! This is a wonderful season to practice. Thanks!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.” Dale Evans Rogers
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Mankind is a great, an immense family… This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.” Pope John Paul XXIII
Every blessing of this wonderful season for you and yours!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.” Bob Hope
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.” Buddha
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Re-examine all that you have been told....dismiss that which insults your soul.” Walt Whitman
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Amidst the worldly comings and goings, observe how endings become beginnings.” Lao Tzu
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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!!
Wishing you a year filled with love, laughter, discovery, joy, friendship, gratitude, health and an open heart.
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.” George Eliot
Posted by Pocono Lyme (Member # 5939) on :
Happy New Year lightfoot.
I love reading thought for the day. You are appreciated. Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.” David Russell
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.” George Eliot (Silas Marner)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.“ Teddy Roosevelt
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.” Madame Anne Sophia Swetchine (Mystic 1782-1857)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” Deepak Chopra
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.” Bono
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “A paradigm shift occurs when a question is asked inside the current paradigm that can only be answered from outside it.” Unknown
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “When your mind is made up, there's no point trying to change it, but YOU still have a choice.” Reuben Lowe
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.” Paul Hawken
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?” Chuang- tzu
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.” Paul Simon
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Enjoy the little things and the big things will take care of themselves." Garfield
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.“ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” Carl Jung
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder', and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.” Salma Hayek
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves…” Vauvenargues
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating your own emergencies. Life will usually go on if things don't go according to plan. It's helpful to keep reminding yourself and repeating the sentence, 'Life isn't an emergency'.” Richard Carlson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately.” Albert Einstein's Teacher
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.” Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.” Ellen Goodman
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day.......”Why fit in when you were born to stand out? Dr Suess
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.” Hafiz
Posted by desertwind (Member # 25256) on :
Can I add one?
"It's never too late to be what you might have been" George Eliot
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The full measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him.” Albert Schweitzer
desertwind, I love George Eliot!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.” Robert Cecil Day-Lewis
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” Zora Neale Hurston (“Their Eyes Were Watching God”)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “When all is said and done, more is said than done.” Lou Holtz
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning…for by doubting we come to inquiry, and by inquiry we arrive at truth.” Peter Abelard
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “A great silence overcomes me, and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.” Rumi
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Wherever you are is the entry point.” Kabir
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” Raymond Lindquist
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “True love stories never have endings.” Richard Bach
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “We are born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.” Benjamin Disraeli
Happy Valentines Day!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.“ Dan Millman
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Whatever enchants, also guides and protects. Passionately obsessed by anything we love - sailboats, airplanes, ideas - an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts." Richard Bach
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “To attach oneself to a guru, an avatar, one religion, one creed, is to see the stars only. To put one´s faith in the Infinite Being and in its presence within the heart is to see the vast empty sky itself. The stars will come and go, will disintegrate and vanish, but the sky remains.” Paul Brunton
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road." Stephen Hawking
Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :
You are very amazing and enlightening, lightfoot. Thank you.
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw
Thanks, Tincup!! Enjoy!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Our challenge isn’t so much to teach children about the natural world, but to find ways to nurture and sustain the instinctive connections they already carry.” Terry Krautwurst
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day...... “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” Willa Cather
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “In the depth of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.” Albert Camus
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.” Natalie Angier
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.” e.e. cummings
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day.......”The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.” Paul Valery
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.” Navajo Song
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.” Bertrand Russell
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.” R. Buckminister Fuller
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.” Henry David Thoreau (Journal, 2 April 1852)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding” Thich Nhat Hanh.
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!” Robert Burns
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.“ Barbara Sher
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Thought for the day....... “The essence of education is not to stuff you full of facts, but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then show you how to give it away.” Leo Buscaglia
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.” Nikos Kazantzakis
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “We're all in this alone.” Lily Tomlin
Posted by randibear (Member # 11290) on :
kindness is something the blind can see and the deaf can hear.
death doesnt change a person. it only makes them more of what they really are.
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.” Paulo Coelho
So true randibear!!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Happy Saint Paddy's Day!!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “If you live the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.” Great Zen Master Lin Chi
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Whatever separates man from man is not of God, but of ego.” Pleiades Griffin
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?” Neltje Blanchan
Happy First Day of Spring! Happy Vernal Equinox!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “How can we ever lose interest in life? Spring has come again - And cherry trees bloom in the mountains.” Ryokan
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.” Eberhard Arnold
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.” Andy Rooney
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” Mark Twain
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Laughter is the language of the gods" Buddhist Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." Albert Einstein
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “'Well,' said Pooh, 'what I like best,' and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.” Winnie-the-Pooh
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.” Lucy Maud Montgomery
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "One's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes." Arthur Schopenhauer
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “No mind is much employed upon the present: recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.” Samuel Johnson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow, and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave.” Mark Rutherford
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.” Edwin Elliot
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: Let there be truth between us two forevermore.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Our Earth relies on a balance in which every being has a role to play and exists only through the existence of another being – a subtle, fragile harmony that is easily shattered." M. Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” Ryunosuke Satoro
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.” Maurice Chapelain
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves." La Rouchefoucauld
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “A different language is a different vision of life.” Federico Fellini
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps, as you walk the tightrope of life.” William Arthur Ward
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.” Mother Teresa
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like.” Joko Beck
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.” John Muir
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day.......“You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while.” Eckhart Tolle
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “There is a fire inside. Sit down beside it. Watch the flames, the ancient, flickering dance of yourself.” John MacEnulty
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.” Alan Cohen
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Thanks for all of your posts, lightfoot!
John 3:16
Living Bible (TLB)
16 For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life - and a commitment to action.” Nathaniel Branden
Thanks, tutu!! have a wonderful season.....
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn’t feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.” Beverly Sills
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “The goal of childhood is to become an individual; the goal of adulthood is to give that individuality away. The task of childhood is to separate; the task of adulthood is to connect.” James W. Jones
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Dignity and respect has to do with - your personal power to make a difference by being true to the best within you and letting that truth shine through your words and actions.” Gail Pursell Elliott
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day...... “When you see what you’re here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It’s almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you.” Betty Sue Flowers
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.” Saint Augustine
Happy Easter, Happy Spring!!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day.......“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” Richard Bach
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Love stays open, even when things seem closed. Love is possibility.” Jeff Foster
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.” Barbara Cook
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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....... “The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.” Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... “Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.” Heraclitus
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Thought for the day....... “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy that is translated through you; and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.” Martha Graham
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Thought for the day....... “Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know - that man is here for the sake of other men.” Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... “Everything you see happening is the consequence of that which you are.” Dr. David Hawkins
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Thought for the day....... “You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.” Janis Joplin
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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....... "Regret is the longing to change the past. Fear is the desire to control the future. Peace is the surrender to Now." Jeff Foster
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Thought for the day....... “Although all phenomena are going through the various appearances of birth, abiding, changing, and dying, the true person doesn't become a victim of sadness, happiness, love, or hate. She lives in awareness as an ordinary person, whether standing, walking, lying down, or sitting.” Thich Nhat Hanh, “Simply Stop”
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Thought for the day....... “The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.” Alan Cohen
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Thought for the day....... “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” Lao Tzo
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Thought for the day....... “Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.” Rudolph Steiner
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Thought for the day...... “In all the great spiritual traditions, at their heart is tenderness - just to be kind inside, and then everything rights itself. Fear rests, confusion rests, everything that was perturbing the system rests, because they know that when you are tender inside you no longer need their services, because you have returned to your true nature.” Pamela Wilson
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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....... “The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.” Joseph Campbell
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Thought for the day....... “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” Honoré de Balzac
Happy Mother's Day! A great day for memories, appreciation and celebration!
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Thought for the day....... “To change who you are, change who you think you are.” Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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 on to future generations.” George Bernard Shaw
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Thought for the day....... “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” John Quincy Adams
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Thought for the day...... “Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon's reflection. To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness. We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless. You think the shadow is the substance.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “Any time you're angry at anything outside you, question it, because to be angry at a mirror is insane.” Byron Katie
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Saturday...
Thought for the day...... “There is a joy and a love for all of creation that is there when you fall out of your head into the stillness of your pure heart. It permeates everything with the nectar of Self. When everything is welcome here, your life begins to flow and flower with well being, ease and an intimacy with all of life.” Solane Verraine
Sunday...
Thought for the day....... “Observe without thinking, without conceptualizing. Pure observing where there is nothing to see – it is this that is at the core of the I AM state.” Jac O'Keeffe
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Thought for the day....... “When the best leader’s work is done the people say: We did it ourselves.” Lao Tzo
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Thought for the day....... “When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” Patanjali
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Thought for the day....... “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame someone else.” John Burroughs
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Thought for the day....... "Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears." Unknown
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Thought for the day....... “Love is not a mere sentiment. Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.” Rabindranath Tagore
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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 best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality-conforming, life-promoting values.” Andrew Bernstein
Have a safe and happy Memorial Day!
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Thought for the day....... “It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own views, so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold.” Peter Singer
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Thought for the day....... "Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am." Thomas Merton
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Thought for the day....... “Regret is the longing to change the past. Fear is the desire to control the future. Peace is the surrender to Now.” Jeff Foster
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Thought for the day....... “Life is continually living on life. Life appears in all sorts of forms and shapes. But it is still the same life, the same intelligence-energy. You are that life.” Sailor Bob Adamson
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Thought for the day....... “No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.” Viktor Frankl
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Thought for the day....... “Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.” John Keats
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Thought for the day....... “We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.” Frank Tibolt
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Thought for the day....... “Our entire life consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.” Jean Anouilh
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Thought for the day....... “Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.” Longchenpa
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Thought for the day....... “Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.” Leo Buscaglia
Communications may be intermittent in the next 10 days due to computer glitches, travel and camping.
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Thought for the day....... “It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!” Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day...... "Wilderness is the bank for genetic variability of the earth." David Brower
Our adventure finds us without Internet much of the time. We are taking a short break from our beautiful camp spot today and have an chance to connect.
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Thought for the day....... “To see things in the seed, that is genius.” Lao Tzu
Happy Solstice!!!
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Thought for the day....... “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.” Edward Abbey
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Thought for the day....... "A healthy lifestyle is a series of small, good decisions." James Gregory
We'll be off the grid again for a couple days....
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Thought for the day....... "Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people." Garrison Keillor
Back to civilization again after a wonderful family camping trip in WA.
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Thought for the day....... “It becomes more and more simple. You begin to know that just the fact that you're alive is prayer.” Maggie Ross
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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....... “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....... "And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything." William Shakespeare
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Thought for the day....... "There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it." Minnie Aumonier
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Thought for the day....... "It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees." Wilson Flagg
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Thought for the day....... “Summertime is always the best of what might be.” Charles Bowden
Home sweet home once again!
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Thought for the day....... "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." William J. Clinton
Happy Birthday, America!!!
Happy Fourth of July!!!
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Thought for the day....... “The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.” W. H. Auden
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Thought for the day....... "For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner.....on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies...... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that." Carl Sagan
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Thought for the day....... “We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.” Wernher von Braun
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Thought for the day....... “You only are free when you realize you belong no place – you belong every place – no place at all." Maya Angelou
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Thought for the day....... “The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction must be credible.” Mark Twain
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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....... "You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night." Denise Levertov, "Threat"
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Thought for the day....... "Just think of the trees: they let the birds perch and fly, with no intention to call them when they come and no longing for their return when they fly away. If people's hearts can be like the trees, they will not be off the Way." Langya
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Thought for the day....... "It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit." Robert Louis Stevenson
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Thought for the day...... “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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Thought for the day....... "Man is nature as much as the trees." Dan Kiley, American landscape designer
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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....... "The talking oak / To the ancient spoke. But any tree / Will talk to me." Mary Carolyn Davies
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Thought for the day....... "They are beautiful in their peace, they are wise in their silence. They will stand after we are dust. They teach us, and we tend them." Galeain ip Altiem MacDunelmor
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Thought for the day....... “For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree." Hermann Hesse
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Thought for the day....... "But I'll tell you what hermits realize. 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 forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity; it provides protection to all beings, offering shade even to the axeman who destroys it." Gautama Buddha
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Thought for the day....... "The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Thought for the day....... "Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does." George Bernard Shaw
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Thought for the day....... "Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a songbird will come." Chinese Proverb
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Thought for the day....... “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” Nelson Henderson
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Thought for the day....... ”A grove of giant redwoods or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great or beautiful cathedral.” Theodore Roosevelt
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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. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life." Hermann Hesse
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Thought for the day....... “We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe…Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.” Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "If what I say resonates with you, it is merely because we are both branches on the same tree." W. B. Yeats
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Thought for the day....... "By gathering seed from trees which are close to our homes and close to our hearts, helping them to germinate and grow, and then planting them back into their original landscapes, we can all make a living link between this millennium and the next, a natural bridge from the past to the future." Chris Baines
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Thought for the day....... “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” Jack Kerouac
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Thought for the day....... "Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.” Dr. Seuss
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Thought for the day....... “Summertime is always the best of what might be.” Charles Bowden
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Thought for the day....... “Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” Max Planck
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Thought for the day....... “It is safer to wander in God’s woods than to travel on black highways or to stay at home.” John Muir, Our National Parks, 1901
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Thought for the day....... "The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration." Claude Monet
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Thought for the day....... "Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life." Myron S. Kaufman
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Thought for the day....... "Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden self." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "The goal of life is living in agreement with nature." Zeno 335BC
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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 soul." Luther Burbank
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Thought for the day....... "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas A. Edison
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Thought for the day....... "A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust." Gertrude Jekyll
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Thought for th.e day...... "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." Mahatma Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... “At the core of your being, in this very moment, there is freedom. Not a concept, but the living mystery, already alive in you.” Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... “You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.” Jerry Gillies
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Thought for the day....... “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "It does not require many words to speak the truth." Chief Joseph
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Thought for the day....... “Why go off to the dusty realms of foreign lands when there is a seat right in your very own home? Sit down there and the way will open before you.” Eihei Dogen
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Thought for the day....... “What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all four of them to me? And me to you?” Gregory Bateson
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Thought for the day....... “The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.” Thich Nhat Hanh
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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....... “At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” Lao Tzo
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Thought for the day....... "It's very simple. It's difficult only for the 'I', but it's totally natural to return to what you are, to what's underneath the 'I' story." Jac O'Keeffe
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Thought for the day....... “Stop trying to still the mind. Be still, and let the mind roam free. That is true stillness. You are not the mind.” Jeff Foster
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Thought for the day....... "Just as a moth never touches the flame it seeks but rather dies in it, so the apparently separate self never finds the peace or happiness for which it longs, but rather dissolves in it." Rupert Spira
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Thought for the day....... "One of the worst mistakes you can make as a gardener is to think you're in charge." Janet Gillespie
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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....... "Don’t let go too soon and don’t hang on too long.” Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
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Thought for the day......."I think the trick is knowing when you’re where you’re supposed to be, and letting go of everything else long enough to be there.” Todd Johnson, The Sweet By and By
Sorry out of reach yesterday....
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Thought for the day....... “There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.” Robert Frost
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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....... "My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition." Indira Gandhi
have a wonderful Labor Day!!
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Thought for the day....... "The process of letting go is like taking a journey to the center of your being." Darren L. Johnson
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Thought for the day....... “Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible—controlling that which we cannot—and instead, focus on what is possible—which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible.” Melody Beattie
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Thought for the day....... “When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you’ll come to realize what you were dragging around with you. And for that, no one else other than you was responsible.” Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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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 Guile
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Thought for the day....... "The mental and physical space we create by letting go of things that belong in our past gives us…the option to fill the space with something new." Susan Fay West
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Thought for the day....... "Forgiveness essentially means giving up your right to make other people pay for the wrongs they have committed against you.” Dr. Steve Stephens & Alice Gray
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Thought for the day....... “Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?” Leo Buscaglia, Loving Each Other
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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....... "For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad." Edwin Way Teale
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Thought for the day....... "One only sees what one looks for, one only looks for what one knows." Goethe
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Thought for the day....... "Apprentice yourself to nature. Not a day will pass without her opening a new and wondrous world of experience to learn from and enjoy." Richard W. Langer
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Thought for the day....... "There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go." Jessica Hatchigan
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Thought for the day....... "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one." Voltaire
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Thought for the day....... “The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore?” Dan Pearce, "Single Dad laughing"
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Thought for the day....... “Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.” Elbert Hubbard
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Thought for the day....... "Being interested makes one interesting," Erich Fromm
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Thought for the day....... "We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find out." Roger Ebert
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Thought for the day....... "'This is my way; where is yours?' – Thus I answered those who asked me 'the way.' For the way – that does not exist.'" Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, 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....... "What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid, boundless, colored mutability! - Life in the making? David Grayson
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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....... "Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view." Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Thought for the day....... “I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Thought for the day....... "All great changes are preceded by chaos." Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... "Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs." Abraham Meyerson
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Thought for the day....... “The Tao (Ocean, God) that can be told is not the eternal Tao.” Tao Te Ching
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Thought for the day....... “Beware of over-concern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.” Rudyard Kipling
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Thought for the day....... “Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.” Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.“ Aldous Huxley
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Thought for the day....... “My guru is this moment. My lineage is this moment. My spiritual path is this moment. And my home is this moment.” Jeff Foster
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Thought for the day....... "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... “There are having flowers in Spring, breezes in Summer, moon in Autumn, snows in Winter. If there is nothing worrying over you, it will be the best seasons at all times.” Buddha
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Thought for the day....... "Love is not a mere sentiment. Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation." Rabindranath Tagore
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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....... "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
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Thought for the day....... "October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter." Nova Bair
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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....... "If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret." Jim Carrey
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Thought for the day....... "A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps, as you walk the tightrope of life." William Arthur Ward
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Thought for the day....... "The leaves lay like hands upon the ground. When the wind rustles them, they applaud softly." Laura E. Stevens (NPS/Ranger Smith)
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Thought for the day....... "In the end, everything is a gag." Charlie Chaplin
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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....... "Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.” Norman Cousins
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Thought for the day....... "What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.” Benjamin Disraeli
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Thought for the day....... “The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves." John Dryden
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Thought for the day....... “We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe…Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.” Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "The most useful piece of learning......is to unlearn what is untrue." Antisthenes
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Thought for the day....... "Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them." Elizabeth Gilbert
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Thought for the day....... "Stress is trying to get to the next moment, without really living this one." Jeff Foster
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Thought for the day....... "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen." Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
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Thought for the day....... "Inquiry is fatal to certainty." Will Durant
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Thought for the day...... "Nature does not deceive us; it is we who deceive ourselves." Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Emile, 1762)
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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....... “I believe we have a profound fundamental need for areas of the earth where we stand without our mechanisms that make us immediate masters over our environment.” Howard Zahniser
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Thought for the day....... “Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.” Aldo Leopold
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Thought for the day....... "Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. Food and drink is not all. There is the spiritual. In some it is only a germ, of course, but the germ will grow." John Muir
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Thought for the day....... "For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad." Edwin Way Teale
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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....... “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain." Henry David Thoreau
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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....... “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - That principle is contempt prior to investigation.” Herbert Spencer
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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....... “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 the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make our inquires. We all have the answers within ourselves, we just have not got in touch with them yet. The potential of finding the truth within requires faith in ourselves.” Ayya Khema
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Thought for the day....... "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." Albert Einstein
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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....... "Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love." St. Francis of Assisi
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Thought for the day....... “The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction must be credible.” Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... “The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and/or defense of reality-conforming, life-promoting values.” Andrew Bernstein
Thanks to all of our veterans!! Happy Veterans Day!!
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Thought for the day....... "Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." Ryunosuke Satoro
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Thought for the day....... “We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (Writer & Physician 1809-1894)
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Thought for the day....... "Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs." Dick Raymond
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Thought for the day....... "The mental and physical space we create by letting go of things that belong in our past gives us…the option to fill the space with something new." Susan Fay West
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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, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value." Ellen Goodman
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Thought for the day....... “You got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, Know when to walk away and know when to run.” Kenny Rogers
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Thought for the day....... “Don't let your struggle become your identity.” Ralston Bowles
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Thought for the day....... "All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." Paul Simon
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Thought for the day........ “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.” Bruce Lee
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Thought for the day....... “Acceptance means that you stop hanging on to things as they were or as you wish they would be. Things are what they are.” Susan Carrell
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Thought for the day....... “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” Epictetus
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Thought for the day....... “Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.” M.J. Ryan
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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." Rueben Lowe
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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......."I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." G.K. Chesterton
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
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Thought for the day....... "Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am." Thomas Merton
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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
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Thought for the day......."One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us." Michael Cibenko
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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....... "To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey." Eckhart Tolle
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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....... “To understand a new idea, break an old habit.” Jean Toomer
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Thought for the day....... "There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love." Bryant H. McGill
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Thought for the day....... "As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design." Margaret Sanger (1879 - 1966)
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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....... "Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." Thomas Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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Thought for the day....... "Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation. They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well prepared by labour, both conscious and subconscious." Jules Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)
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Thought for the day....... “A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.“ Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... "Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known." Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)
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Thought for the day....... "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "The question is not what you look at, but what you see." Henry David Thoreau
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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....... "Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built." James Allen
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Thought for the day....... "Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity." Plato
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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
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Thought for the day....... "There’s no better way to energize your body, mind, and spirit than by taking care of yourself." Stephanie Tourles
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Thought for the day....... "Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too." Voltaire
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Thought for the day....... "May You Always Dance Lightly With Life." Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thought for the day....... "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." African Proverb
Happy Winter Solstice!!!
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Thought for the day....... "The golden rule is that there are no golden rules." George Bernard Shaw
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Thought for the day....... “A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine.” Talmud
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Thought for the day....... “The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!" Charles Dickens (The Pickwick Papers)
Have a glorious day however you celebrate it!!
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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....... “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....... "In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future." Alex Haley
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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....... "Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts." Kjell Magne Bondevik, Statesman
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Thought for the day....... "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven." Thomas Fuller
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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
Happy New Year!!!
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Thought for the day....... "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." James Thurber
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Thought for the day - many thanks, and happy new year to you, lightfoot, for your dedicated posting of daily wisdom here! I like the one you chose for January 1.
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Thought for the day....... “What we do comes out of who we believe we are.” Rob Bell
Thanks, Robin!! Wishing you a happy, healthy and prosperous year ahead!!!
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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 present moment dies every moment to become the past, is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.” Deepak Chopra
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Thought for the day....... "Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. A great transformation happens – in innocence you transcend the mind, and to transcend the mind is to become the awakened one, the enlightened one." Osho
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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....... "There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.” Cynthia Hand, "Hallowed"
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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....... “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.” Herman Hesse
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Thought for the day....... “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” William Blake
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Thought for the day....... “To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim–the rocks–the motion of the waves–the ships, with men in them, What stranger miracles are there?” Walt Whitman
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Thought for the day....... “The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.” Beyoncé Knowles
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Thought for the day....... "You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.” Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... “The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t.” Christopher Paolini
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Thought for the day....... "Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are." Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... “We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.” Paul Tillich
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Thought for the day....... “If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.” St John Of The Cross
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Thought for the day....... “After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.” Pam Shaw
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Thought for the day....... “We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came…” John F. Kennedy
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Thought for the day....... "In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends." Kozuko Okakura
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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 like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.” Ritu Ghatourey
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Thought for the day....... "Taking joy in life is a woman’s best cosmetic." Rosalind Russell
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Thought for the day....... “Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.” Bruno Mars
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Thought for the day....... "Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest." Robert Montgomery
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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....... “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.” Edward Abbey
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Thought for the day....... "It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem." G.K. Chesterton
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Thought for the day....... “...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.” Rabih Alameddine, The Hakawati
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Thought for the day....... "Each moment is a place you've never been." Mark Strand
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Thought for the day....... "Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you." Andre Gide
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Thought for the day....... “Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” J.M. Barrie
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Thought for the day....... “Look at everything as though you are seeing it either for the first or last time, then your time on earth will be filled with glory” Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Thought for the day....... "When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." Khalil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... "Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation." Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... "The one true measure of the things that matter in life is that they can't be insured against loss." Robert Brault
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Thought for the day....... "I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received." Antonio Porchia
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Thought for the day....... "Sometimes we must unfocus our way to clarity." Terri Guillemets
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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....... "Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room." William Hazlitt, (Sketches and Essays, 1839)
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Thought for the day....... "In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds." Robert Green Ingersoll
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Thought for the day....... "When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "There is unlimited capacity to be who you are. There is very limited capacity to be who you think you are." Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” Peter Ustinov
Happy Valentines Day!
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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....... "Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself." Samuel Butler
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Thought for the day....... "Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... "The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress." Joseph Joubert (Pensées, 1842)
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Thought for the day....... "And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree.... [F]our dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours, with chestnuts on the plate and a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius." Pietro Aretino, translated from Italian
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Thought for the day....... "There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself." Ruth Stout
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Thought for the day....... "The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and austere, is not lost either upon the head or the heart. It is the philosopher coming back from the banquet and the wine to a cup of water and a crust of bread." John Burroughs, "The Snow-Walkers," 1866
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Thought for the day....... “The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.” Rebecca West
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Thought for the day....... “Weather is a great metaphor for life — sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, and there’s nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella or choose to dance in the rain!” Terri Guillemets
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Thought for the day....... “Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... "Not... what opinions are held, but... how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment." Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950
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Thought for the day....... "Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief." Arthur Schweitzer
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Thought for the day....... "Belief is a deception you play upon yourself...." Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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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....... "The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way." Grace Hopper
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Thought for the day....... "I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right." Henry Bessemer (discovered new method of producing steel)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "How glorious it is — and also how painful — to be an exception." Alfred de Musset
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Thought for the day....... "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." John Cage
Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
Thought for the day: a lime a day keeps ticks away. (just trying to be relevant to #lymediseasechallenge - hope you don't mind!)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it." John Ruskin
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Thought for the day....... "People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them." Condorcet, Progress of the Human Mind, 1794
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Thought for the day....... "The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions." Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871
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Thought for the day....... "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." Herman Melville
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Thought for the day....... "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is." Francis Bacon
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done." Thomas Jefferson
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Thought for the day....... "Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it." Paul Vixie
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Thought for the day....... "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain
Posted by TNT (Member # 42349) on :
Thanks for all the great quotes lightfoot!! You do a great job with this.
The truth in the last one made me chuckle in a sad sort of way. Isn't that the truth?!
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Thought for the day....... “In ignorance, I am something; in understanding, I am nothing; in love, I am everything.” Rupert Spira
TNT, thanks for your kind words! I agree on that last one!! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush." Doug Larson
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Thought for the day....... "Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day." W. Earl Hall
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Thought for the day....... "Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity." Christopher Morley
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Thought for the day....... "I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding." John O'Donohue, Irish Poet
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question." Orson Scott Card
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3-19-2015 Thought for the day....... "An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it." Robert Brault
3-20-2015 Thought for the day....... “There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me, it’d be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how it has emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why.” Jane Goodall
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Thought for the day....... "Whatever you do, you must remain nimble in your thinking. Do not become so attached to any one belief that you cannot see past it to another possibility." Christopher Paolini, Brisingr
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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....... "Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. Some minds are incapable of skepticism." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world." Max Born, Quoted in Judith Sherven's The New Intimacy
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Thought for the day....... "A belief is not true because it is useful." Henri Frederic Ariel
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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....... "Another word for life is change. Two words for suffering are resisting change.” Michael Jeffreys
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Thought for the day....... "It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potentia." Sam Harris
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day......."Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas." Ray Bradbury
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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....... "It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor." Seneca
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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....... "Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself." Samuel Butler
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Thought for the day....... “An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.” Anatole France
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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……. ”True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything." Paul Pearsall
Wishing you a joyful Easter!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day……. “After all, in private we’re all misfits.” Lily Tomlin
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Thought for the day……. “There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don’t.” Robert Benchley
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day……. “Standing on the bare ground…..a mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the universal being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.” Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole." J. Allen Boone
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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....... "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....... "Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with truth." Thich Nhat Hanh
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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....... "It's a beautiful thing, the blossoming of Wisdom. Like a flower in spring." Michael Rudd
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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 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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4-17-2015 Thought for the day....... "Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." William Cowper (The Task)
4-18-2015 Thought for the day....... "I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception, but religious wars have been fought over such." Robert Brault
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest." Bob Hawke
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Thought for the day....... "An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it." William Bernbach
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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....... “The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.” Vilayat Inayat Khan
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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....... "Wisdom grows in quiet places." Austin O'Malley
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Thought for the day……. “Quiet people have the loudest minds.” Stephen Hawking
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Thought for the day……. “Life is the dancer and you are the dance.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "The words of truth are always paradoxical.” Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one." C.S. Lewis
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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……. “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.” Roald Dahl
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day……. “The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire.” Mama Indigo
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Thought for the day……. “I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.” Anaïs Nin
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Thought for the day....... "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind. The answer is blowin' in the wind." Bob Dylan
Happy Sunday!!!!
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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....... “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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day……. “A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.” Henry Ward Beecher
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Galileo Galilei
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Thought for the day....... “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” James Arthur Baldwin
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Thought for the day....... "Be outrageous! People who achieve mastery have the ability to be outrageous." Gita Bellin
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Thought for the day....... "Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved." Erich Fromm
Happy Mother's Day!!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all." Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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
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Thought for the day....... “Mind makes a man of God.” Emmanuel Diogu
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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....... “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” Stephen Hawking
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Thought for the day……. “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” Aldous Huxley
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Thought for the day……. “Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . “ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day……. “…What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.” Rabih Alameddine
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Thought for the day....... “To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.” Stephen R. Covey
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Thought for the day……. “While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.” Dorothea Lange
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Thought for the day....... "Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time." Jean Paul Richter
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Thought for the day....... "Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds." George Santayana
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Thought for the day....... "It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Thought for the day....... "The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation - he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment." Pearl Bailey (1918 - 1990)
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Thought for the day....... "I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did." Benjamin Harrison
Best wishes for Memorial Day, 2015...
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Thought for the day....... "Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it or everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin." Wendell Lewis Wilkie (1892 - 1944)
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Thought for the day....... “Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.” Leo Buscaglia
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Thought for the day……. “High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its nearness ... A new day has begun on the crane marsh. A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place ... Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.” Aldo Leopold
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Thought for the day....... "If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. ... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future." Terry Tempest Williams
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Thought for the day....... “When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.” Dalai Lama
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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.” Mister Eckhart
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Thought for the day....... “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” Albert Schweitzer
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Thought for the day....... "At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our live, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us." Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
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Thought for the day....... "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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day……. “In this very breath that we now take lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.” Peter Matthiessen
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Thought for the day……. “Learn how to exhale, the inhale will take care of itself.” Carla Melucci Ardito
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there’s another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity." Rumi
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Thought for the day……. “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” Thích Nhất Hạnh
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Thought for the day……. “Fear is excitement without the breath.” Fritz Perls
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Thought for the day……. ”A central part of spiritual awakening is recognizing and befriending fear, and in the tender intensity of fear, discovering the awakened heart." Tara Brach
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Thought for the day....... "What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit." John Updike
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Thought for the day....... "Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting." Edmund Burke
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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....... "No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head." Terry Josephson
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Thought for the day....... "The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there." George Bernard Shaw
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Thought for the day....... "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... "Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future." Daphne Rose Kingma
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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....... "Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself." Deborah Reber
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Thought for the day....... "Worry is a misuse of imagination." Dan Zadra
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Thought for the day....... "If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones." Don Herold
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Thought for the day....... "Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free." Wendell Berry, The Peace of Wild Things
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Thought for the day....... "You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time." Pat Schroeder
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Thought for the day....... "Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination." Christian Nevell Bovee
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Thought for the day....... "Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion." Deng Ming-Dao
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Thought for the day....... "As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey." Thomas A. Edison
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Thought for the day....... "Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." Swedish Proverb
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Thought for the day……. “We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.” Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have." Edward Everett Hale
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Thought for the day....... "Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist." Edgar Watson Howe
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Thought for the day……. “If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.” Calvin Coolidge
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Thought for the day....... "Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained." Arthur Somers Roche
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Thought for the day....... "Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due." William Ralph Inge
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Thought for the day....... “I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.” John F. Kennedy
Happy Fourth of July!! Stay safe and have a memorable day!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Everyone shines, given the right lighting." Susan Cain
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Thought for the day....... "I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." Pablo Picasso
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Thought for the day....... "Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first." Frederick B. Wilcox
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Thought for the day....... "The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations." Deepak Chopra
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Love these quotes!
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Thought for the day....... "To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." Søren Kierkegaard
Enjoy, Brian66!! Thanks!!
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Thought for the day....... "Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome." Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, 1759
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Thought for the day...... "It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves." André Gide
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Thought for the day....... "Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for there day....... "What is more mortifying than to feel you’ve missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree?" Logan Pearsall Smith
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Thought for the day....... "You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." Wayne Gretzky
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Thought for the day....... "Dare to be naive." Buckminster Fuller
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Thought for the day....... "If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one." Cavett Robert
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Thought for the day....... "We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon." Konrad Adenauer
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Thought for the day....... "Say 'Yes' to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say 'Yes' to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say 'Yes' to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia." Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
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Thought for the day....... "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." George Bernard Shaw
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Thought for the day....... "He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts." Samuel Johnson
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Thought for the day....... "If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it." Michel de Montaigne
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Decided to sing a hymn at end of my quiet time and "Be Still My Soul" seemed appropriate flipping through my hymn book. Started singing it every day and yesterday found this version on youtube.
Brings beautiful tears.
I've been going through a very rough time for a while now--this helps.
Thought for the day....... "There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you." Carol Matthau
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Thought for the day....... "We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." Michel de Montaigne
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Thought for the day....... "I don't like that man. I must get to know him better." Abraham Lincoln
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Thought for the day....... "Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day." Zen Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Thought for the day....... "The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into human shape, lasts a moment, and scatters." Czeslaw Milosz
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Thought for the day....... "Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification." Martin H. Fischer
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Thought for the day....... "My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants." J. Brotherton
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Thought for the day....... "There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly." Publius Terentius Afer
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August 1, 2015
Thought for the day....... "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twighlight that knows not victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt
August 2, 2015
Thought for the day....... "To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring." George Santayana
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Thought for the day....... "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
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Thought for the day....... "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988
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Thought for the day....... "He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom." James Gibbons Huneker
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Thought for the day....... "The years teach much which the days never knew." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "Wisdom comes by disillusionment." George Santayana
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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, Art Is a Way of Knowing
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Thought for the day....... "Whether your beliefs are true or totally insane, if you accept them, then that's what your life will be about." Robert Anthony
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Thought for the day....... "It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science." Carl Sagan
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Thought for the day....... "Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity." Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah
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Thought for the day....... “Nature is not human hearted.” Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... "What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor." Thích Nhất Hạnh
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Thought for the day....... "I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." Agatha Christie
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Thought for the day....... "We find comfort among those who agree with us — growth among those who don't." Frank A. Clark
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Thought for the day....... "Praise the bridge that carried you over." George Colman
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Thought for the day....... "Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things." Horace
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Thought for the day....... "We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't." Frank A. Clark
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Thought for the day....... "Change of scene has no effect upon unconcious conflicts." Edmund Bergler MD
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Thought for the day....... "We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it." François VI de la Rochefoucault
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Thought for the day....... "The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends and family, in one's backyard." Abraham Maslow
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Thought for the day……. “Whatever happens, there is only Being. You can't put a foot wrong, because nothing and no one is going anywhere. 'You' are not a character on a journey to self-realisation. It's all a play of appearances.” Nathan Gill
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Thought for the day....... "Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it." Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day……. “In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.” Robert Green Ingersoll
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Thought for the day....... "To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get there there's only one river." Mathew Fox
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Thought for the day....... "To attach oneself to a guru, an avatar, one religion, one creed, is to see the stars only. To put one´s faith in the Infinite Being and in its presence within the heart is to see the vast empty sky itself. The stars will come and go, will disintegrate and vanish, but the sky remains." Paul Brunton
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Thought for the day....... "One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have." Albert Einstein
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8-31-2015 Thought for the day....... "You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing." Arthur Ashe
9-1-2015 Thought for the day....... "It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning." P.D. Ouspensky
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Thought for the day....... "Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy. The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it." Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... "There is a purifying power in laughter. It is truth in palatable form. It is instant vacation. Seeing the comical side of many situations makes life a great deal easier. It's like riding through life on sensitive springs that ease every jolt." Eugene P. Bertin
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Thought for the day....... "What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!" Agnes Repplier
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Thought for the day....... "Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects." Arnold Glasow
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Thought for the day....... "With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die." Abraham Lincoln
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Thought for the day....... "Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow." Douglas Pagels
What color do you choose today? Have a super Labor Day!!!
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9-8-2015 Thought for the day....... "It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the poser to choose either." Wayne Dyer
9-9-2015 Thought for the day....... "A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles." Washington Irving
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Thought for the day....... "The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, 'tender loving care' has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing." Larry Dossey
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Thought for the day....... "Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." Mother Teresa
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Thought for the day....... "A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain." Llewelyn Powers
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Thought for the day....... "What the mind has forgotten, the body remembers long after." Lilias Folan
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Thought for the day....... "Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other." Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... "Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are." Jack Kornfield
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Thought for the day....... "Failure opens an unguarded, vulnerable, and wide open space. And from that space the best part of ourselves come out." Pema Chodron
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Thought for the day....... "I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me." Herman Hesse
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Thought for the day....... "Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos—the trees, the clouds, everything." Thích Nhất Hạnh
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Thought for the day....... "Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other." Candace Pert
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Thought for the day....... "Mindfulness of the body is awareness of... the taste and smell of this moment." Steve Hagen
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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....... "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 in Shining in Plain View
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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....... "Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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....... "How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them." Eckart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the poser to choose either." Wayne Dyer
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Thought for the day....... "Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on." Bob Newhart
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Thought for the day....... "Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient." Eugene S. Wilson
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9-30-2015 Thought for the day....... “Curiosity is a willing, a proud, and eager confession of ignorance.” S.Leonard Rubinstein
10-1-2015 Thought for the day....... “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers” Voltaire
10-2-2015 Thought for the day....... “Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last” Samuel Johnson
10-3-2015 Thought for the day....... “I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.” Albert Einstein
10-4-2015 Thought for the day....... "My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary." Martin Luther
10-5-2015 Thought for the day....... “The more we are removed from nature, the more we are denied our birthright to play in forests, climb mountains, follow streams, and fall in love with meadows, to become creative, self-actualized, deeply intuitive.” Kim Heacox
10-6-2015 Thought for the day....... "We float effortlessly in the ethereal tide of the movement of the rhythms of nature and the vibrations of the pulse of life." Ian Factor
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Thought for the day....... "Water is so mercurial - fragmented reflections that are always changing. It contains so many levels to capture above and below each surface.... like a human personality, water is always fresh." W. David Ward
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Thought for the day....... “Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.” Aldous Huxley
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Thought for the day....... “Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.” Richard Whately
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Thought for the day....... "Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control." Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... “You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.” Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Thought for the day....... “A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.” Frederick Seitz
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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 capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention." Julia Cameron
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Thought for the day....... “Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.” Mahatma Gandhi
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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....... "When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence." Marcel Proust
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Thought for the day....... "The noblest works, like the temple of Solomon, are brought to perfection in silence." Arthur Helps
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Thought for the day....... "Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence." Walter Lippmann
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Thought for the day....... "There are some things best contemplated in silence. Their proportions are so vast that speech cannot get around them." Christian Nestle Bovee
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Thought for the day....... “I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.” Chaim Potok, 'The Chosen'
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Thought for the day....... “We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.” Leonora Carrington
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Thought for the day....... "Silence is the only language god speaks." Charles Simic
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Thought for the day....... "Nothing was more conducive to the development of observation than compulsory silence." F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Thought for the day....... "When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.” Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
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Thought for the day....... "Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence." John Lahr
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Thought for the day……. "Learn to be silent. Let your mind listen and absorb.” Pythagoras
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Thought for the day....... “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” Ansel Adams
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Thought for the day....... “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” Elbert Hubbard
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Thought for the day....... “My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.” Edith Sitwell
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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....... "It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is the space between the bars that holds the tiger." An Old Zen Saying
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Thought for the day....... "Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom." Chip Bell
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Thought for the day....... "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." Victor Hugo
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Thought for the day....... "Stop seeking something more or better or different, and... turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are." Adyashanti
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Thought for the day....... "You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind." Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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Thought for the day....... "Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence." Max Ehrmann, Desiderata
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Thought for the day....... "So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born." Emily Carr
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Thought for the day....... "A pause in speech is silence. Silence is one of the most profound ways to connect with your inner voice, with nature. Silence is the best part of speech." Leo Babauta
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Thought for the day....... "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks." Plutarch
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Thought for the day....... "The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares." Henri Nouwen
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Thought for the day....... "It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast.” W.J. Cameron
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Thought for the day....... “Gratitude and love are always multiplied when you give freely. It is an infinite source of contentment and prosperous energy.” Jim Fargiano
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Thought for the day....... “Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” William Faulkner
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Thought for the day....... “Gratitude shifts your focus from what your life lacks to the abundance that is already present.” Marelisa Fábrega
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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....... “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....... “In the moments we are awake to the wonder of simply being alive, gratitude flows, no matter our circumstances.” M.J. Ryan
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Thought for the day....... “Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” Massieu
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Thought for the day....... “Let us be grateful to the 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....... “Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” Winnie-the-Pooh (A. A. Milne)
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Thought for the day....... “Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.” Maya Angelo
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Thought for the day....... “In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.” Elizabeth Gilbert
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Thought for the day....... "Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live." Jackie Windspear
Blessings to all for a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!
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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....... "Praise the bridge that carried you over." George Colman
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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 is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." Henry Ward Beecher
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Thought for the day....... "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy." Leo Buscaglia
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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....... "To expound and propagate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare." Nisargadatta Maharaj
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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 if unhappiness." Rupert Spira
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Thought for the day....... “We might begin by scanning our body . . . and then asking, 'What is happening?' We might also ask, 'What wants my attention right now?' or, 'What is asking for acceptance?'” Tara Brach
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Thought for the day....... “We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.” J. Allen Boone
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Thought for the day....... "Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands or expectations." Gerald Jampolsky
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Thought for the day....... "We learn wisdom from failure much more than success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery." Samuel Smiles
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Thought for the day....... "Of a certaintly the man who can see all creatures in himself, himself in all creatures, knows no sorrow." Eesha Upanishad
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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....... “The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore?” Dan Pearce, Single Dad laughing
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12-12-2015 Thought for the day....... "Generosity's aim is twofold: we give to free others, and we give to free ourselves.” Sharon Salzberg
12-13-2015 Thought for the day....... “The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?” J. B. Priestley
12-14-2015Thought for the day....... “To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired” Israelmore Ayivor
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Thought for the day....... “The practice of generosity is the practice of freedom, and it carries with it all the joy and pleasure that are associated with liberation. Indeed, there may be no greater sense of fulfillment in life than the simultaneous feelings of human interconnection and pure freedom that arise from an authentic act of selfless generosity.” Dale S. Wright
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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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peace is good
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Thought for the day....... "I have always tried to live by the 'awe principle". That is: Can I find awe, wonder and enchantment in the most mundane things conceivable?" Craig Hatkoff
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Thought for the day……. “Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred.” A Course in Miracles
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Thought for the day....... "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action." James Russell Lowell
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Thought for the day....... “Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.” Aldous Huxley
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Thought for the day....... “Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.” Richard Whately
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Thought for the day....... "The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder." Ralph W. Sockman
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Thought for the day....... “Gentleness, self-sacrifice, and generosity are the excusive possession of no one race or religion.” Mahatma Gandhi
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I love quotes, and I love your thoughts for the day, lightfoot. Thank you so much for sticking to this. Happy Holidays!
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Thought for the day....... “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” Simone Weil
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Thought for the day....... “I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wishing you and yours the joy of the season!!!
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Thought for the day....... "We are all brothers and sisters of this mystery....I bow to you all." Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... “You often say, ‘I would give, but only to the deserving.’ The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.” Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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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....... "Through generosity, we cultivate a generous spirit. Generosity of spirit will usually lead to generosity of action, but being a generous person is more important than any particular act of giving. After all, it is possible to give without its being a generous act." Gil Fronsdal
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Thought for the day....... "The most reliable way to anticipate the future is by understanding the present." John Naisbitt (Megatrends)
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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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Thought for the day....... "Be willing to be a beginner every single morning." Mister Eckhart
Happy New Year!
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Thought for the day....... “Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a 'foregone conclusion.' Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes.” Diane F. Halpren
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Thought for the day……. “You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.” Barbara Sher
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Thought for the day....... “We're all just walking each other home.” Ram Dass
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Thought for the day....... "Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." Gilda Radner
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Thought for the day....... “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "Life is an adventure in forgiveness." Norman Cousins
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Thought for the day....... “I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.” Franklin P. Adams
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Thought for the day....... "Dance with a Light Heart - play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin." Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thought for the day....... "In God there is no duality. In that Presence 'I' and 'we' and 'you' do not exist. 'I' and 'you' and 'we' and 'He' become one…. Since in the Unity there is no distinction, the Quest and the Way and the Seeker become one." Mahmud Shabistari
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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....... “When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hynotization; coming to your senses. But of course to do that you have to go out of your mind.” Alan Watts
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1-13-2016 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
1-14-2016 Thought for the day....... "IT is not some-thing to be known by someone. IT is the knowing that cannot be known. In essence you are that Knowing." Leo Hartong
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1-15-2016 Thought for the day....... “Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.” Tennessee Williams
1-16-2016 Thought for the day....... "As far as the Moon is concerned, he is always full." Terri Guillemets
1-17-2016 Thought for the day……. “A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.” Robertson Davies
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Thought for the day....... "A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space." Gloria Steinem
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Thought for the day....... "Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see." Dorthea Lange
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Thought for the day....... "What we see depends mainly on what we look for." John Lubbock
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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....... "The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest." Bob Hawke
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1-23-2016 Thought for the day....... "Each moment is a place you've never been." Mark Strand SD
1-24-2016 Thought for the day....... “God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.“ Meister Eckhart
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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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1-26-2016 Thought for the day....... "False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment." Richard Dawkins
1-27-2016 Thought for the day....... "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well." Elias Canetti
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Thought for the day....... "Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom." Chip Bell
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Thought for the day....... "In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth." Mahatma Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... "The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. 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....... "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties." Eric Fromm
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Thought for the day....... “To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.” Johannes A. Gaertner
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Thought for the day...... "What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?" John Steinbeck
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Thought for the day....... "Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you." Andre Gide
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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.” Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Thought for the day....... "Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!" Confucius
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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....... "Through generosity, we cultivate a generous spirit. Generosity of spirit will usually lead to generosity of action, but being a generous person is more important than any particular act of giving. After all, it is possible to give without its being a generous act." Gil Fronsdal
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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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Thought for the day....... "Be willing to be a beginner every single morning." Meister Eckhart
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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 activities you spent your time on yesterday were the things that were important to you. Calendars don't lie." Scott Ginsberg
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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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Thought for the day....... "In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing." Antonio Porchia
Happy Valentine's Day!
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Thought for the day....... "Presence is more than just being there." Malcolm S. Forbes
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Thought for the day....... “What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?” Toni Morrison
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Thought for the day....... "Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought." Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... “Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.” Og Mandino
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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 Keynes
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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....... "My advice to you is that you find a community, whether in a church or not, that will allow you to walk beyond the boundaries of religion into an exploration of the ultimate mystery of life that we call God and then enjoy the journey." Bishop John Shelby Spong
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Thought for the day....... “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” Carl Rogers
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Thought for the day....... "After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains." Walt Whitman
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Thought for the day....... "When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you’ll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you.“ Osho
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Thought for the day....... "You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever “the old” means for you." Sarah Ban Breathnach
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2-26-2016 Thought for the day....... "Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness." Cullen Hightower
2-27-2016 Thought for the day....... "A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value." Isaac Asimov
2-28-2016 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
2-29-2016 Thought for the day....... "Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment." Henry David Thoreau Happy Leap Day!!!!!
3-1-2016 Thought for the day....... "Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep." Edward Hoagland
3-2-2016 Thought for the day....... "Silence is more musical than any song." Christina Rossetti
3-3-2016 Thought for the day....... "Tears are the silent language of grief." Voltaire
3-4-2016 Thought for the day....... "Inner silence promotes clarity of mind. It makes us value the inner world. It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges." Deepak Chopra
3-5-2016 Thought for the day....... "We're fascinated by the words - but where we meet is in the silence behind them." Ram Dass
3-6-2016 Thought for the day....... "The human heart has hidden treasures, / In secret kept, in silence sealed; / The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, / Whose charms were broken if revealed." Charlotte Bronte
3-7-2016 Thought for the day....... "Solitude can be sought and found in the routine of the simple world, in which one can be alone in one's heart.” Henri Nouwen
3-8-2016 Thought for the day....... "Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary." Peter Minard
3-9-2016 Thought for the day....... "We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing. Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for—sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive, or quiet and calm... As a matter of fact, one of the greatest sounds of them all—and to me it is a sound—is utter, complete silence." André Kostelanetz
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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....... "Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom." David Whyte
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Thought for the day....... "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day……. "There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.” Gaston Bachelard (1884 - 1962)
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Thought for the day....... "In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us." Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
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Thought for the day....... "A place of solitude offers a retreat from the opposing forces and diverse demands of living, an entry into a state of peace and unity. Mind and body can retire from confusion and conflict to a sanctuary of clarity and harmony." Anthony Lawlor
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Thought for the day....... "Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of seperateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. Lonliness is small, solitude is large. Lonliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. Lonliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity." Kent Nerburn
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Thought for the day....... "Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, . . . but delight to be alone and single with Omnipresency. . . ." Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
Happy Saint Patricks's Day!!!
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Thought for the day....... "Quietness with thoughtful reflection and relaxation can be empowering." Cynthia Wright
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Thought for the day....... "The quieter you become, the more you can hear." Baba Ram Dass
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Thought for the day....... "A pause in speech is silence. Silence is one of the most profound ways to connect with your inner voice, with nature. Silence is the best part of speech." Leo Babauta
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Thought for the day....... "There are some things best contemplated in silence. Their proportions are so vast that speech cannot get around them." Christian Nestell Bovee
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Thought for the day....... "Solitude can be sought and found in the routine of the simple world, in which one can be alone in one's heart.” Henri Nouwen
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Thought for the day....... “Silence is the soul's break for freedom.” David Whyte
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Thought for the day....... "The human heart has hidden treasures, / In secret kept, in silence sealed; / The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, / Whose charms were broken if revealed." Charlotte Bronte
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Thought for the day....... "Silence is a great peacemaker." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Thought for the day....... "Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow." German Proverb
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Thought for the day....... "Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life." S.D. Gordon
Happy Easter!
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3-28-2016 Thought for the day....... "One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by the usual three meals. One finds out what an astonishing amount of time is spent in the planning, purchasing, preparing, eating, and cleaning up of meals." Elisabeth Elliot
3-29-2016 Thought for the day....... “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.” John Dewey
3-30-2016 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....... "Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge." Carl Sagan
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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....... "We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty." Leo Buscaglia
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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....... “Serving the emerging whole means paying attention to what's right here within my awareness, what's completely local, and surrendering to what's being asked of me now.” Betty Sue Flowers
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Thought for the day....... "The creative process is a process of surrender, not control." Julia Cameron
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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....... "If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments." Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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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." Gandhi (1869 – 1948)
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Thought for the day....... " They are the chosen ones who have surrendered." Mevlana Rumi (1207-1273)
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Thought for the day....... "How did you get here? Close your eyes and surrender." Mevlana Rumi (1207 – 1273)
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Thought for the day....... “Lying to others might be wrong, but lying to yourself is just a tragedy.” Mary Allison
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Thought for the day....... "Noticing the space around people and things provides a different way of looking at them, and developing this spacious view is a way of opening oneself. When one has a spacious mind, there is room for everything. When one has a narrow mind, there is room for only a few things." Ajahn Sumedho
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Thought for the day....... "You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time." M. Scott Peck
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Thought for the day....... “A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.” Kenneth A. Wells
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Thought for the day....... "We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of our unchanging centre, which is pure consciousness. When we return to our true nature, our thoughts and perceptions no longer appear as modifications of a single substance, they come into being and subside like waves of the ocean." Jean Klein
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Thought for the day....... "As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that; then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things." Meister Eckhart
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Thought for the day....... "But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also." Kahlil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... "I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it." Charles Schulz
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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....... “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....... "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 Maharaj
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Thought for the day....... "We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action." Learned Hand
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Thought for the day....... “The naked earth is warm with Spring, and with green grass and bursting trees leans to the sun’s kiss glorying, and quivers in the sunny breeze.” Julian Grenfell
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Thought for the day....... “Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment.” Ellis Peters
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Thought for the day....... "Serving the emerging whole means paying attention to what's right here within my awareness, what's completely local, and surrendering to what's being asked of me now." Betty Sue Flowers
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Thought for the day....... "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." Eugene Ionesco Decouvertes
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Thought for the day....... “From the habit of speaking truthfully confidence is acquired, since there is no need then to dissemble or conceal the truth. Moreover, the speaker of truth inspires confidence in others who come to know that they may rely implicitly on his words.” Hammalawa Saddatissa, 'Right Speech'
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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
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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....... "Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness." Lama Surya Das
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Thought for the day....... “When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.” John Kenneth Galbraith
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Thought for the day....... "Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" Dr. Seuss
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Thought for the day....... "There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don’t." Robert Benchley
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like 'What about lunch?'" Winnie the Pooh
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Thought for the day....... “Our true identity is in our identity and unity with all life.” Joseph Campbell
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Thought for the day....... “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle
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Thought for the day....... "The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." Honoré de Balzac
Happy Mothers Day!!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
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Thought for the day....... "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." Albert Einstein
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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....... "Where there is great love, there are always miracles." Willa Cather
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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....... "If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles." Benjamin Franklin
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Thought for the day....... "Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known." Garrison Keillor
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Thought for the day....... “Experience takes place only in the present, and beyond and apart from experience nothing exists.” Ramana Maharshi
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Thought for the day....... “Life is continually living on life. Life appears in all sorts of forms and shapes. But it is still the same life, the same intelligence-energy. And you are that life.” Sailor Bob Adamson
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Thought for the day....... “ Love is the ability to see every circumstance and every being as perfect just as they are.” Anam Thubten
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Thought for the day……. “Walking through the house at night is wonderful to me; a symphony of breath, each person a separate instrument as they collectively breathe in time to the metronome of life itself.” Edwin Leap
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Thought for the day....... "Whether success or failure: the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention." May Sarton
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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....... “Celebrate what you want to see more of.” Tom Peters
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Thought for the day....... “To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause within our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace.” Terry Williams
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5-24-2016 Thought for the day....... "Best friend, my wellspring in the wilderness!" George Eliot (1819-1880)
5-25-2016 Thought for the day....... "Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man." Stewart Udall (1920-2010)
5-26-2016 Thought for the day....... "What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O Let them be left, wildness and wet: Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet." Gerald Manley Hopkins
5-27-2016 Thought for the day....... "Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to open up the still largely unexplored human mind." David Rains Wallace
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Thought for the day..... nice to see you back on the board again!! Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness; and drew the hearts of kings and moved them from their thrones." Kahlil Gibran (1883-1031)
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Thought for the day....... “It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honour nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.” Jimmy Carter
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Thought for the day....... "And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave." Joseph Rodman Drake, To the Defenders of New Orleans (1795-1820)
Wishing you a satisfying Memorial Day. Whether enjoying solitude the company of family and friends, have a memorable day!!
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Thought for the day....... "Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by regular contact with outdoor growths — animals, trees, sun warmth and free skies — or it will dwindle and pale." Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
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Thought for the day....... “What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb into riotous gladness!” Helen Keller
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Thought for the day....... "The more civilized man becomes, the more he needs and craves a great background of forest wildness, to which he may return like a contrite prodigal from the husks of an artificial life." Ellen Burns Sherman (1824-1888)
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Thought for the day....... "Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs." Abraham Meyerson
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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....... “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” Aristotle
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Thought for the day....... "Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives." Charles Cook
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Thought for the day....... "Nature neither gives nor expects mercy." Diane Ackerman (1948 -)
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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 (1902-1984)
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Thought for the day....... "The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit." Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
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Thought for the day....... "Touch the earth, love the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. For the gifts of life are the earth’s and they are given to all, and they are the songs of birds at daybreak, Orion and the Bear, and the dawn seen over the ocean from the beach." Henry Beston (1888-1968)
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Thought for the day....... "Your every step leads not away from it." Dogen
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Thought for the day....... “Everything is possible for the person who believes.” Jesus of Nazareth
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Thought for the day....... "I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be." Joseph Campbell
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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....... "I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
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Thought for the day....... "The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man." Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
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Thought for the day....... "Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws." John Burroughs (1837-1921)
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Thought for the day....... "The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach." Henry Beston (1888-1968)
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Thought for the day....... "I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom." Umberto Eco
Happy Father's Day!!!!
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Thought for the day....... "I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children; who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children." Wendell Berry (1934- )
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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)
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Lightfoot! Good to see you back!!
Here's an extra thought for the day:
Psalm 37:8-10New International Version (NIV)
8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret—it leads only to evil. 9 For those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.
10 A little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.
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Thought for the day....... "Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs re-adjustment." Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Thought for the day....... "Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason." Hal Borland (1900-1978)
Thanks, Lymetoo!!!!
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Thought for the day....... "Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral." John Burroughs (1837-1921)
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Thought for the day....... "Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living." Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
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Thought for the day....... "More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us." George Wahington Carver (1864-1943)
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Thought for the day....... "The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven." William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)
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Galatians 5:22-26New International Version (NIV)
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
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Thought for the day....... "Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding." Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974)
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Thought for the day....... "All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will may see and know. She conveys her truths only to those who are passive and receptive." Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
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Thought for the day....... "Awareness, this presence that we are, is truly the saving grace. It's always here to support us, however we feel or whatever we happen to be going through." Jon Bernie
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Thought for the day....... "The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions." Maurice Chapelain
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Thought for the day....... “Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.” Sylvia Plath
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Thought for the day....... ". . . the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race." Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
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Thought for the day....... "The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men." John F. Kennedy
Happy Independence Day!! Stay safe and enjoy!!!
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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....... "There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the morning glory, will quickly choke its competitors to death, and the fence row rose will just as quietly crowd out any other plant that tried to share its roothold. Idealism and mercy are human terms and human concepts." Hal Borland (1900-1978)
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Thought for the day....... "Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do." Wendell Berry (1934-)
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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....... "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... "When you turn toward this supposed entity called I, you will find only silent awareness. Take refuge in that." Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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Thought for the day....... "In nature there are neither rewards not punishments--there are consequences." Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899, American politician and lecturer)
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Thought for the day....... “The end is always happening. We think of Apocalypse as a moment – a flash of light, then you're gone – but if we study the earth's history, we find that it's not one moment. It's actually a long process. In fact, it's hard to see where it begins or ends.” Craig Childs (Writer, Naturalist, Explorer) From his interview in June issue of The Sun.
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Thought for the day....... "When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness and integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity." Henry Beston (1888-1968)
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Thought for the day....... "You forgive if you stop the interpretations and descriptions." Manuel Schoch
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Thought for the day....... "Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions." Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921)
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Thought for the day....... “To glimpse one’s own true nature is a kind of homegoing, to a place East of the Sun, West of the Moon—the homegoing that needs no home, like that waterfall on the upper Suli Gad that turns to mist before touching the earth and rises once again into the sky.” Peter Mattiessen, The Snow Leopard
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Thought for the day....... "He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice." Washington Irving (1783-1859)
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Thought for the day....... "Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal." Elizabeth Aston
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Thought for the day....... "Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.” Josh Billings
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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....... "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....... “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
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Thought for the day....... "...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants. " Vaclav Smil
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Thought for the day....... "We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body." Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thought for the day....... "Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys." Mary Austin
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Thought for the day....... "Look! Look! Look deep into nature and you will understand everything." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God." Mahatma Gandhi
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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....... "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....... "The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,--of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter, ----- such health, such cheer, they afford forever!" Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... "The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." Thomas Edison
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Thought for the day....... "Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man." Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)
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Thought for the day....... "Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll." Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)
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Thought for the day....... "Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art." Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
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Thought for the day....... "Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet." Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
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Thought for the day....... "As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them, so inexhaustibly rich is nature in the innermost diversity of her treasures of beauty, order and intelligence." Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)
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Thought for the day....... "If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way." Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)
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Thought for the day....... "Man, being servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he as observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything." Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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Thought for the day....... "God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December." J.M. Barrie
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Back to technology today......
August 10, 2016 Thought for the day....... "The idea that the earth was created just for us engenders a dangerous sense of entitlement. We need to acknowledge the damage we are doing. Other species managed to exist for millions of years without causing mass extinction.” Carl Safina
August 11, 2016 Thought for the day....... “We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.” Brian Cox
August 12, 2016 Thought for the day....... “Each person you meet is an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.” Eric Micha'el Leventhal
August 13, 2016 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
August 14, 2016 Thought for the day....... "Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept." Saint Francis de Sales
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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....... "Wanting to find a place where everything’s OK is just what keeps us miserable. Always looking for a way to have pleasure and avoid pain is how we keep ourselves in samsara. (the vicious cycle of suffering) As long as we believe there is something that will permanently satisfy our hunger for security, suffering is inevitable. The truth is that things are always in transition. ‘Nothing to hold on to’ is the root of all happiness." Pema Chodron
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Thought for the day....... "A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space." Gloria Steinem
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Thought for the day....... "At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants." Egon Schiele
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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....... "Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us." Bill Viola
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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....... "Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm." Jack Kornfield
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Thought for the day....... "If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural join in earthly living is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture. It has given us conveniences (often most uncomfortable) and comforts (often most inconvenient) but human happiness was never on its tray of wares." Henry Beston (1888-1968)
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Thought for the day....... "The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand." Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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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....... "Attention is an intentional, unapologetic discriminator. It asks what is relevant right now, and gears us up to notice only that." Alexandra Horowitz
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Thought for the day....... "When you argue with reality, you lose - but only always." Byron Katie
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Thought for the day....... “You can never find the actual object “self” or “ego.” You only find the movement that seems to refer to an ego.” Scott Kiloby
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Thought for the day....... “What a relief to not have to be right! How much more interesting it is to change the dialogue, from one of exclusion to one of inclusion, where other viewpoints are welcomed and respected." Jonathan Lareau
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Thought for the day....... “What we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” Werner Heisenberg (1958)
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Thought for the day....... “Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that, for a moment, our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there around us always.” Willa Cather
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Thought for the day....... “The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” Black Elk
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Thought for the day....... "I may be furious, pacing the room up and down; at the same time I know what I am, a centre of wisdom and love, an atom of pure existence. All subsides and the mind merges into silence. " Nisargadatta
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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 Valeri
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Thought for the day....... “Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.” Jack Kornfield
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Thought for the day....... “Labor Day differs in every essential from other holidays of the year in any country. All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflict and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.” Samual Gempers
Celebrating the workers of the world, a day to contemplate every blessing we enjoy and how many hands and hearts make it all possible! Have a first rate day!!!
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Thought for the day....... "Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results." James Allen
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9-7-2016 Thought for the day....... "There are no choices that are really a detour that will take you far from where you're wanting to be - because your Inner Being is always guiding you to the next, and the next, and the next. So don't be concerned that you may make a fatal choice, because there aren't any of those. You are always finding your balance. It's a never ending process." Abraham Hicks
9-8-2016 Thought for the day....... "Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion." Lorraine Anderson (1952- )
9-9-2016 Thought for the day....... “[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be.” Stephen Levine
9-10-2016 Thought for the day....... “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Albert Einstein
9-11-2016 Thought for the day....... “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Thought for the day....... "Commitment to the truth…means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and to continually challenge our theories of why things are the way they are. It means continually broadening our awareness. It also means continually deepening our understanding of the structures underlying current events." Peter Senge
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Thought for the day....... "We've got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other's only hope." James Baldwin
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Thought for the day.......“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.” Cesar Chavez
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Thought for the day....... “Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of "us" and "them" creates a false picture and is responsible for much suffering. It is part of the in-group/out-group mentality that leads to human oppression of the weak by the strong as in ethic, religious, political, and social conflicts.” Marc Bekoff
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Thought for the day....... "When walking or resting in nature, honor that realm by being there fully. Be still. Look. Listen. See how every animal and every plant is completely itself. Unlike humans, they have not split themselves in two. They do not live through mental images of themselves, so they do not need to be concerned with trying to protect and enhance those images. The deer is itself. The daffodil is itself. Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land." Sitting Bull
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Thought for the day....... "Watch an animal, a flower, a tree, and see how it rests in Being. It is itself. It has enormous dignity, innocence, and holiness. However, for you to see that, you need to go beyond the mental habit of naming and labeling. The moment you look beyond mental labels, you feel that ineffable dimension of nature that cannot be understood by thought or perceived through the senses. It is a harmony, a sacredness that permeates not only the whole of nature but is also within you." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain." Saint Augustine
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Thought for the day....... "Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature." Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
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Thought for the day....... "One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy." Jane Austen (1775-1817)
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Thought for the day....... "A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "It was in the forest that I found 'the peace that passeth understanding'." Jane Goodall
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Thought for the day....... "I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings." John Burroughs
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Thought for the day....... “In order to enter the path of forgiveness, we have to lose our feeling of both superiority and inferiority. Each of us has hurt another, each of us has been hurt.” Jean Vanier
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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....... "Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish." John Muir (1838-1914)
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Thought for the day....... “Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.” Adyashanti
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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....... "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." Gina Sharpe, "The Power of Forgiveness"
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Thought for the day....... "We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion." William Hazlit (1778-1830)
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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....... "Then summer fades and passes, and October comes. Will smell smoke then, and feel an unsuspected sharpness, a thrill of nervous, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure." Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938)
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Thought for the day....... "Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!" Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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Thought for the day....... "Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul... but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October." Peggy Toney Horton
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Thought for the day....... "October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again." Hal Borland (1900–1978)
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Thought for the day....... "October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts, and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke." Ken Weber (Providence Journal-Bulletin)
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Thought for the day....... "Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.” Paulo Coelho
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Thought for the day....... "To know when you have enough is to be rich beyond measure." Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... "This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification." Herman Hesse
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Thought for the day....... "The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.” Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... “For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” Vincent van Gogh
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Thought for the day....... "Thinking is a stage in the evolution of life. Nature exists in innocent stillness that is prior to the arising of thought. The tree, the flower, the bird, the rock are unaware of their own beauty and sacredness. When human beings become still, they go beyond thought. There is an added dimension of knowing, of awareness, in the stillness that is beyond thought." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "Look for an answer inside your question.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment — giving to that word its exact significance." Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
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10-17-2016 Thought for the day....... "Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking." Rumi
10-18-2016 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....... “When your heart speaks, take good notes." Judith Campbell
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Thought for the day....... "If I had a prayer, it would be this: God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen" Byron Katie
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Thought for the day....... “You're never more essentially yourself than when you are still” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
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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....... "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....... “You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.” Lou Holtz
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Thought for the day....... “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Thought for the day....... “Love is the absence of judgment.” Dalai Lama XIV
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Thought for the day....... “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” Paulo Coelho
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Thought for the day....... “Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.” L.M. Montgomery, Ann of Green Gables
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Thought for the day....... “Just sit there now. Don't do a thing. Just rest. For your separation from God is the hardest work in the world.” Hafiz (Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, translated by Daniel Ladinsky)
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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....... “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.” Andy Rooney
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Thought for the day....... “Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.” J. K. Rowling
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Thought for the day....... “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
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Thought for the day....... “Take a moment to be still, to be here, regardless of what is passing through you. Recognize that you are the hereness that all is passing through ... the ever-present stillness that is here now in the core of your being.” Gangaji
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Thought for the day....... "How many merits one sees in those one likes! how many faults in those one dislikes! Yet people fancy they see with their eyes." Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
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Thought for the day....... "When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it." Horace Rutledge
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Thought for the day....... “We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.” Kamand Kojouri
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Thought for the day....... "Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." Arthur Schopenhauer
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Thought for the day....... “No theory, scripture or philosophical understanding, contrived upon our current knowledge and understanding of the world, can credibly and completely encompass the infinite nature of primordial beingness, the Absolute.” Joseph Rain
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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....... “The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment." Pema Chodron
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Thought for the day....... “Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is. End of story.” Adyashanti, Emptiness Dancing
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Thought for the day....... "Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart." Thich Nhat Hanh
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Thought for the day....... "We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance." Paul Boese
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Thought for the day....... “When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hynotization; coming to your senses. But of course to do that you have to go out of your mind.” Alan Watts
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Thought for the day....... "A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "The bluebird carries the sky on his back." Henry David Thoreau
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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....... "In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity." Meister Eckhart
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Thought for the day....... “God has no religion.” Mahatma Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” Nicolas Chamfort
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Thought for the day....... “I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: 'Go down again - I dwell among the people.'" John Henry Newman
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Thought for the day....... “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.” Seneca
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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, Simple Abundance
Happy Thanksgiving!!
“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....... “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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Thought for the day....... "The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge." Aldous Huxley
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Thought for the day....... " Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter." Longchenpa
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Thought for the day....... "A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday." Alexander Pope
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Thought for the day....... “Be aware of yourself without thinking or looking in the mirror” Bert McCoy
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Thought for the day....... "In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself." Deepak Chopra
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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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"Even though I go through the deepest darkness, I will not be afraid, Lord, for You are with me. Help me to feel Your presence in times of need."
Amen
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Thought for the day....... "Certain thoughts are prayers. There are certain moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees." Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
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"Glorify the Lord with me; let us exalt His name together."
Psalm 34:3
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Thought for the day....... “I just realized that I don't have to have an opinion about everything--what a relief!” David R Hawkins, M.D. Ph.d.
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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....... “Your opinion is your opinion, your perception is your perception--do not confuse them with "facts" or "truth". Wars have been fought and millions have been killed because of the inability of men to understand the idea that everybody has a different viewpoint.” John Moore
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Thought for the day....... “Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.” Tennessee Williams
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Thought for the day....... "When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.” Albert Einstein
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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....... "Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains." Ramana Marharshi
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Thought for the day....... "Attempting to identify with the source is an idea. You are already that." Mooji
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Thought for the day....... “While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.” Dorothea Lange
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Thought for the day....... “There must be more to life than having everything.” Maurice Sendak
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Thought for the day....... “Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.” Irving Berlin
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Thought for the day....... "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." Albert Einstein
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Thank you, lightfoot!!
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Luke 2:4-7New International Version (NIV)
4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.
6 While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.
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Thought for the day....... “Remember there is no small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” Scott Adams
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Thought for the day....... “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” Edith Stillwell
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Luke 2:7-12 New International Version (NIV)
8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.
10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.
12 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
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Thought for the day....... "There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." Louis L'Amour
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Luke 2:13-18 New International Version (NIV)
13 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
14 “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”
16 So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. 17 When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, 18 and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.
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Thought for the day....... “Generosity is not giving me that which I need that you do, but it is giving me that which you need more that I do.” Kahlil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... “To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” Gandhi
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Luke 2:19-24 New International Version (NIV)
19 But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. 20 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.
21 On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived.
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Thought for the day....... “Kindness is like snow — it beautifies everything it covers.” Kahlil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... "May love and laughter light your days, and warm your heart and home. May good and faithful friends be yours wherever you may roam." Irish Blessing
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Thought for the day....... "Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion." Barry Lopez
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Thought for the day....... "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." Charles Dickens.
Every blessing of the season! Wishing you a heart full of Christmas the whole year through!
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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....... “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life." William Arthur Ward
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Thought for the day....... “Gratitude means thankfulness, counting your blessings, noticing simple pleasures, and acknowledging everything that you receive. It means learning to live your life as if everything were a miracle, and being aware on a continuous basis of how much you’ve been given.” Marelisa Fábrega
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Thought for the day....... “For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” Vincent van Gogh
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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, The Zahir
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Thought for the day....... "Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us." Hal Borland
Happy New Year to you and yours!!!!
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Thought for the day....... “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... “The older I get, the less I know. It's wonderful--it makes the world so spacious.” Swami Chetanananda
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Thought for the day....... “Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.” Ausonius
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Thought for the day....... “A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?” Confucius
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Thought for the day....... "You are the universe in ecstatic motion." Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “Ring the bells that still can ring / Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack in everything / That's how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen
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Thought for the day....... "What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... “I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.” Joseph Campbell
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Thought for the day....... “That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good ground for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones." Bertrand Russell
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Thought for the day....... “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.” George Or
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Thought for the day....... “To what shall I compare this world? To the white wake behind a ship that has rowed away at dawn?” Priest Manset
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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....... “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Leonardo Da Vinci
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Thought for the day....... “If you want inner peace find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.” Stewart L. Udall
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Thought for the day....... “I am the Light that is above them all, I am the All, the All came forth from Me and the All attained to Me. Cleave a piece of wood, I am there; Lift up the stone and you will find Me there.” The Gospel of Saint Thomas
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Thought for the day....... "Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness." Cullen Hightower
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Thought for the day....... “If we try too hard to force other to live in our world, because we think it is the real world, we are doomed to disappointment.” William Glasser, M.D.
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Thought for the day....... "Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life." Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
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Thought for the day.......”Together is a road traveled by the brave.” George Betts
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Thought for the day....... “The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.” Thomas Moore
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Thought for the day....... “A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations.” Allan Lokos
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Thought for the day....... “If you’re afraid of butter, use cream. “ Julia Child
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Thought for the day....... "To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June." Jean-Paul Sartre
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Thought for the day....... “Adventure is something you seek for pleasure...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.” Katherine Anne Porter
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Thought for the day....... “In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadows follow the body.” Ruth Benedict
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Thought for the day....... “It is not the things that we accomplish that are important, it is the very act of living that is truly important.” Dr. Bill Jackson
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Thought for the day....... “...you don't get to decide how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.” Joan Baez
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Thought for the day....... “All of our resolves and decisions are made in a mood or frame of mind which is certain to change.” Marcel Proust
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Thought for the day....... “He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.” Abraham Lincoln
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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....... “A soft answer turneth away wrath but grievous words stir up anger.” Proverbs
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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
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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....... "Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.” Mooji
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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....... “The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.” Henri Nouwen
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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....... “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....... "There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met." William Butler Yeats
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Thought for the day....... “One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.” Jacqueline Leo
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Thought for the day.......”Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln
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Thought for the day....... “It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.” Confucius
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Thought for the day....... “Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.” Washington Irving
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Thought for the day....... "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly." Amos Bronson Alcott
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Thought for the day....... "If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love." Michel de Montaigne
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Thought for the day....... "The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights." Giotto di Bondone
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Thought for the day....... “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” Mark Twain
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Love the thoughts. Thank you!
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Thought for the day....... “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thought for the day....... “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” Linda Grayson
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Thought for the day....... “The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” Eleanor Roosevelt
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Thought for the day....... “The best mirror is an old friend.” George Herbert
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Thought for the day....... “Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?” Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... “Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.” Oscar Wilde
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Thought for the day....... “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” Aristotle
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Thought for the day....... “Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.” Vincent Van Gogh
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Thought for the day....... “I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” Plutarch
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Thought for the day....... “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” Bernard Meltzer
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Thought for the day....... “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... “One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.” John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
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Thought for the day....... “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Thought for the day....... “We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.” C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
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Thought for the day....... “The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.” Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... "Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength." Betty Frieden
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Thought for the day....... “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” Henri Nouwen
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Thought for the day....... "The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind." William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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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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Thought for the day....... "He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden." Plato (427-346 B.C.)
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Thought for the day....... "At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all." Ann Landers (1918-2002)
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Thought for the day....... "By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it." George Burns (1896-1996)
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Thought for the day....... “The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.” Doug Larson
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Thought for the day....... “You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” Douglas MacArthur
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Thought for the day....... "To remain always young, we need only do at every age what harmonises with it." Max Nordau (1849–1923), "The Art of Growing Old," How Women Love and Other Tales (Soul Analysis), translated from the German by an unnamed translator, 1896
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Thought for the day....... “Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “I said I did not have time, but to what did I give the time, and was it a fair exchange?" Muriel Strode (1875–1964), My Little Book of Life, 1912
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Thought for the day....... “The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.” Pema Chodron
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Thought for the day....... “I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.” Ken Wilbur
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Progress does not need to be typical to be celebrated. Clarissa Stratton (a friend.)
Celebrate the small victories.... Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film.” Ansel Adams
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HW88, so true!!!!!Your friend is wise!!!
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Thought for the day.......”If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.” Benjamin Franklin
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Thought for the day....... “The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours.” Eric Berne
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Thought for the day....... “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Thought for the day....... “Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” William James
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Thought for the day....... “Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. it's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie." Gloria Steinem
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Thought for the day....... “It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.” Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” Rabindranath Tagore
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Thought for the day....... “May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.” Harley King
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Thought for the day....... “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” Aldous Huxley
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Thought for the day....... “Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.” Theodore Isaac Rubin
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Thought for the day....... “People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.” Andy Rooney
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Thought for the day....... “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... “Noticing the space around people and things provides a different way of looking at them, and developing this spacious view is a way of opening oneself. When one has a spacious mind, there is room for everything. When one has a narrow mind, there is room for only a few things.” Ajahn Sumedho
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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....... “Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.” Bo Bennet
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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....... “Every flower blooms at a different pace.” Suzy Kassem
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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 saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
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Thought for the day....... “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.” Stephen Hawking
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Thought for the day....... "And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest." Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Thought for the day....... “The mind doesn't want to know about 'Stop! Let there just be the seeing of this'. The mind can't do that. Let there just be the seeing of this – just standing on the ground, or hearing the car, or laughing....That is what is.” Tony Parsons
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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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4-19-2017 Thought for the day....... “For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. ” William Blake
4-20-2017Thought for the day....... “Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received” Antonio Porchia
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Thought for the day....... “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
Science March Slogan, "United by nature, guided by science!"
Happy Earth Day!!!
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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....... “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” George Bernard Shaw
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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....... “Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.” Ann Landers
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Thought for the day....... “Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.” Barbara Hurd, “On Silence”
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Thought for the day....... “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” Angela Schwindt
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Thought for the day....... “Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.” Robert Greenleaf
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Thought for the day....... "You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality.” Steve Maraboli (Life, the Truth, and Being Free)
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Thought for the day....... “While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.” Dorothea Lange
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Thought for the day....... “Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” J.M. Barrie
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Thought for the day....... “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” Soren Kierkegaard
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Thought for the day....... “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” Vincent van Gogh
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Thought for the day....... "When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted." Margaret Cho
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Thought for the day....... “Still the most magical day of my life was the day I became a mom.” Linda Becker
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Thought for the day....... “Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “Past, present, future: a collusion to perpetuate a delusion for the sake of an illusion.” The Covert Comic
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Thought for the day....... “If you've made mistakes in the past but have now learned not to repeat them, you brighten the world like a moon when released from a cloud.” Thanissaro Bhikkhu, "Why Shame Gets a Bad Rap (But Shouldn't)", Summer 2017 Tricycle
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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....... "How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown." Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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Thought for the day....... “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” Robert Browning
Happy Mother's Day!!!!
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Thought for the day....... "A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts." Washington Irving
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Thought for the day....... "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." From Mary Poppins
Happy Tuesday!!
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Thought for the day....... "The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation." Bertrand Russel (1872-1970)
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Thought for the day....... “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.” Mother Teresa
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Thought for the day....... “The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” William Wordsworth
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Thought for the day....... “Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.” Rabindranath Tagore
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Thought for the day....... “Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.” David Byrne
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Thought for the day....... “I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” Paulo Coelho
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Thought for the day....... "Come out of the circle of time. And into the circle of love." Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making." Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Thought for the day....... "Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Thought for the day....... "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.'' Zora Neale Hurston
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Thought for the day....... "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul." John Muir
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Thought for the day....... "If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning!" Chuang Tzu (360 BC - 275 BC)
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Thought for the day....... “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.” President Bill Clinton
Enjoy a safe and friendly Memorial Day!
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Thought for the day....... "The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world." H H The Dalai Lama
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Thought for the day....... “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” Marcus Aurelius
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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....... “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” Arthur Schopenhauer, 'Studies in Pessimism', Psychological Observations, 1851
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Thought for the day....... “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” Zora Neale Hurston
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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....... “The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.” Peter Drucker
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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....... "Silence is one of the great arts of conversation." Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Thought for the day....... "A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "Kind words, kind looks, kind acts and warm handshakes, these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles." John Hall
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Thought for the day....... "It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not." James Gordon, M.D.
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6-11-2017
Thought for the day....... “Don't seek God in temples. He is close to youHe is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.” Leo Tolstoy
6-12-2017
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....... "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....... “Celebrate what you want to see more of.” Tom Peters
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Thought for the day....... “Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.” Aberjhani
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Thought for the day....... “Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Thought for the day....... "Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is you. Remember that all is in motion, is growing, is you." Joy Harjo
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Thought for the day....... “The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy Father's Day!!
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Thought for the day....... “A friendship that can end never really began.” Publilius Syrus
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Thought for the day....... “The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.” Barbara Kingsolver
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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....... “To expound and propagate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare.” Nisargadatta
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Thought for the day....... "The language of friendship is not words but meanings." Henry David Thoreau
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6-25-2017 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
6-26-2017 Thought for the day....... “Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the small uncaring ways.” Stephen Vincent Benet
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Thought for the day....... “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?" Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)
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Thought for the day....... "Rest and unrest derive from illusion. In enlightenment there is no liking or unliking, just the realization of your eternal singularity." Seng T'San, Third Patriarch of Zen
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Thought for the day....... "Remember that you don't have to like or admire someone to feel compassion for that person. All you have to do is wish for that person to be happy." Thanissaro Bhikku
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Thought for the day....... “Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (Journals, 1836)
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Thought for the day....... "The fact is that because no one thing or feature of this universe is separable from the whole, the only real You, or Self, is the whole." Alan Watts
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Thought for the day....... "Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men." John F. Kennedy
Happy Fourth of July!!!
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Thought for the day....... “You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.” Khalil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Thought for the day...... They say, "Hurting people hurt people."
How about: "It's not cool to lose your cool." (If you hurt, don't create any for others, especially us w/ Lyme.) <3
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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
Whew, keeping cool for sure. With Lyme/Co we need a lot of that with ourselves and those around us.
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Thought for the day....... "Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.'' Carlos Castaneda
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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....... “It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” Mark Twain
I'll be off the grid for several days. Thoughts will resume when I get back. Have a great summer!!!
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Tuesday - August 1, 2017 Thought for the day....... “Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.” Mark Twain
Wednesday - August 2, 2017 Thought for the day....... "A man's private thought can never be a lie; what he thinks, is to him the truth, always." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "It is good to obey all the rules when you're young, so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "Name the greatest of all the inventors. Accident." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... “Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "Drag your thoughts away from your troubles - by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion." Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... "Bad things are not the worst thing that can happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us." Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... "When you are through changing, you are through." Bruce Barton
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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....... “I would say that consciousness is the common factor in every experience—the undeniable knowingness of being here now, the bare sense of presence.” Joan Tollifson
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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....... "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." Maya Angelo
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Thought for the day....... "We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams." Jimmy Carter
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Thought for the day....... “Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.” Kahlil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... "Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority." Vince Lombardi
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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 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....... “How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.” Eckhart Tolle
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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....... “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....... “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....... “We design our lives through the power of choices." Richard Bach
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Thought for the day....... “The Seven Social Sins are:
Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle."
From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.
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Thought for the day....... “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... “The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to the” Ralph Nichols
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Thought for the day....... "Talk as much philosophy as you please, worship as many gods as you like, observe all ceremonies, sing devoted praises to any number of divine beings -- liberation never comes, even at the end of a hundred aeons, without the realization of the Oneness of Self." Shankara
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Thought for the day....... “Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.” William Shakespeare
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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....... “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....... "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....... “There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind - you are the one who hears it.” Michael A. Singer, (The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself)
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Thought for the day....... “Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could mean different meanings to the same people at different times.” Roy T. Bennet
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Thought for the day....... “All problems are illusions of the mind.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "Joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed." Kahil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.” Krishnamurti
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Thought for the day....... “To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.” Geraldine Brooks
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Thought for the day....... “Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.” Bodhidharma
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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....... “Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.” Gary Zukav
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Thought for the day....... “There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.” Isaac Asimov
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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....... “ONE BUT MANY One God, many faces. One family, many races. One truth, many paths. One heart, many complexions. One light, many reflections. One world, many imperfections. ONE. We are all one, But many.” Suzy Kassem (Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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Thought for the day....... “'Tis the great art of life to manage well / The restless mind." John Armstrong (1709–1779)
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Thought for the day....... “No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.” Arnold Bennett
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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 mind can never be satisfied.” Wallace Stevens
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Thought for the day....... “A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of the truth.” Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... “What you're calling 'mind' is only the apparent stream of thoughts.” Nathan Gill, Already Awake
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Thought for the day....... “Share, hug, take naps. Find the Joy in the Little Things. Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable.” Anthony de Mello
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Thought for the day....... “The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” Black Elk
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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....... “All knowledge and experience are a colouring of awareness, but awareness itself has no colour.” Rupert Spira
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Thought for the day....... “If you create a system where you make it impossible, politically, for people to change [their] mind, then you’re in trouble.” Malcolm Gladwell
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Thought for the day....... "Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering." Paula Coelho
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Thought for the day....... "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course powerful muscles, but no personality." Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... "In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... “The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.” Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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Thought for the day....... “Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.” Colin Powell
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Thought for the day....... “That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.” Ramana Maharshi
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Thought for the day....... “No one has ever been angry at another human being - we're only angry at our story of them.” Byron Katie
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Thought for the day........ “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” Aldous Huxley
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Thought for the day....... “Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.” Irving Berlin
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Thought for the day....... “Just as the essence of all thought is understanding and the essence of all relationship or friendship is love, so the essence of all perception is beauty.” Rupert Spira
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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....... "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....... “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....... “What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?” Toni Morrison
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Thought for the day....... “Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “Don’t mistake activity for achievement.” John Wooden
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Thought for the day....... “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Thought for the day....... “To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” Gandhi
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Thought for the day....... “The soul is healed by being with children.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Thought for the day....... “Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.” Susan Sontag
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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....... “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” Maya Angelou
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Lightfoot, thank you for giving inspiration. Your words greatly encourage me, and your faithful sharing even in your own busyness and difficulties encourages me even more!
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Thought for the day....... “Happiness is a function of accepting what is.” Werner Erhard
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Adding on - happiness is a function of what we influence for the better! - Robin123
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Thought for the day....... “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.” Bertrand Russell
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Thought for the day....... “I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception, but religious wars have been fought over such.” Robert Brault
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Thought for the day....... “We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.” H. L. Mencken
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Thought for the day....... “Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,— For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.” William Shakespeare
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Thought for the day....... "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." Alan Watts
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Thought for the day....... “There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.” Walt Whitman
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Thought for the day....... “I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.” Louisa May Alcott
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Thought for the day....... “Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.” Dr. Seuss
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Thought for the day....... “The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends and family, in one's backyard.” Abraham Maslow
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Thought for the day....... “When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another and ourselves.” Jack Kornfield
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Thought for the day....... "Laughter really is good medicine. It reduces stress, relieves pain, lowers blood pressure and boosts the immune system. It puts people at ease and can lower the tension level in your relationships. Frequent laughter may even reduce your risk for heart disease" Craig Hassed, MBBS. (senior lecturer, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.)
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Thought for the day....... "When I allow it, it is, when I avoid it, it is. It requires no effort, demands no standards and holds no preferences. Being timeless it sees no path to tread, no debt to pay. Because it acknowledges no right or wrong, neither does it recognise judgement or guilt. Its love is absolutely unconditional. It simply watches with clarity, compassion and delight as I move out for my return. It is my birthright. It is my home. It is already that which I am." Tony Parsons
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11-9-2017 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
11-10-2017Thought for the day....... “But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.” Kahlil Gibran
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Thought for the day....... "Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow." Luigi Pirandello
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Thought for the day....... "Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. " Antonio Porchia
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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....... “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....... “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....... “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” Brene Brown
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Thought for the day....... "One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life." Anatole France (1844-1924)
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Thought for the day....... “Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.” Thomas L. Friedman
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Thought for the day....... “Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.” Jacques Maritain
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Thought for the day....... "Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.” Dalai Lama
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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 Thanksgiving!!!
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Thought for the day....... “Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.” Rumi
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Thought for the day....... “Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. We need to literally “count our blessings,” give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have.” Shakti Gawain
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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....... "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....... “This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.” Terry Tempest Williams, Leap
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Thought for the day....... “Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.” Alan Turing
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Thought for the day....... “Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.” Jean Rostand
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Thought for the day....... “The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.” Carl Rogers
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Thought for the day....... “Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.” Paula Coelho, The Alchemist
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Thought for the day....... “Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.” Dick Raymond
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Thought for the day....... “Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.” Epictetus
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Thought for the day....... "Emotions consist of Energy plus a Story. If we let go of the story, only the energy is left." Trumpa Rimpoche
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Thought for the day....... "It seems to me that we learn the most not when we look for a certain answer, but when we allow questions to naturally guide us to an outcome, often an outcome that we have not planned or predicted. My goal...is to live the questions." Michael Sweeney
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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....... "Peace originates with the flow of things -- its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is like the veins that circulate blood through our bodies, following the natural flow of the life force. If you are separated in the slightest from that divine essence, you are far off the path." Morihei Uyeshiba (1883-1969)
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Thought for the day....... “There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.” Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” Annie Dillard
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Thought for the day....... “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... “Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.” Victor Hugo
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Thought for the day....... “Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.” Red Skelton
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” Willa Cather
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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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Friendship is a sheltering tree." Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
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Thought for the day....... "God is the essence of all that appears, God is not what appears." Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for the day....... "I see you as you are, for I see that you are as I am, and I have seen myself." Daniel Waite
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Thought for the day....... "Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth." Albert Einstein
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Thought for the day....... "Christmas is a spirit that flows from one heart to another. It is more precious than rubies and better than gold." Agnes M. Pharo, What Is Christmas
Merry Christmas!
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Thought for the day....... “So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.” Gordon W. Allport
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Thought for the day....... “Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.” Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)
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Thought for the day....... “What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.” Ken Wilber
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Thought for the day....... "Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it." Rumi
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Thought for the day....... "There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again." Rumi
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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 (The Zahir)
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Thought for the day....... "You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake...This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time." Chuck Palahniuk
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Thought for the day....... "Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing." Thich Nhat Hanh
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "There is a way between voice and presence where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens. With wandering talk it closes." Rumi
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." Carl Jung
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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....... “An integral being knows without knowing, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing" Lao Tzu
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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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Comparison is the death of joy.” Mark Twain
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Thought for the day....... “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” Rabindranath Tagore
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Often one is more attached to the journey than to the discovery... because the journey happens in the mind... the discovery happens in the heart...” Mooji
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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....... “Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.” Henry Miller
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Thought for the day....... “Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.” Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day. Trust your intuition...
"Intuition is always right in at least two important ways;
It is always in response to something. it always has your best interest at heart”. Gavin de Becker
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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....... "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....... "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....... “Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” Albert Camus
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Thought for the day....... “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” Margaret Mead
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Thought for the day....... “I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.” Alan Watts
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... “Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it.” Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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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....... “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......... “Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.” Joseph Campbell.
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Thought for the day....... “The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.” Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” Winnie The Pooh (A.A. Milne)
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Thought for the day....... “We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” Seneca
1-30-2018 Thought for the day....... “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” George Kneller
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Thought for the day....... “It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.” Paul Gauguin
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Thought for the day....... “When late morning rolls around and you’re feeling a bit out of sorts, don’t worry; you’re probably just a little eleven o’clockish.” Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)
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Thought for the day....... “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” Albert Einstein
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Thought for the day....... “Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” Jessamyn West
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2-5-2018 Thought for the day....... “It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” Henry David Thoreau
2-6-2018 Thought for the day....... “The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.” Frank Barron, Think
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.” Norman Podhoretz
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... "When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity." Linda Naiman
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Thought for the day....... "We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty." William Deresiewicz
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Thought for the day....... "A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought for the day....... "Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way." William James
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Thought for the day....... "Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun." Mary Lou Cook
Happy Tuesday!!
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Thought for the day....... “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?” Rumi
Happy Valentine's Day!!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination." Dr. Rollo May
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Thought for the day....... “To the people who love you, you are beautiful already.This is not because they're blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul.” Victoria Moran
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2-17-2018 Thought for the day....... "History can’t give attention to what’s been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success." Scott Berkun
2-18-2018 Thought for the day....... “It's not what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know for sure that ain't true.” Mark Twain
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... "A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing." Kurt Hanks and Jay Parry
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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
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... “There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.” Maya Angelou
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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....... “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.” George Lucas
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Thought for the day....... “Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.” A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” Seneca
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... "Observe what is with undivided awareness." Bruce Lee
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Thought for the day....... “As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows; your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.” Osho
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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....... “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt
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Thought for the day....... “To expound and propagate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare.” Nisargadatta
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Thought for the day....... “The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things, if you look at it right.” Richard Feynman
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Thought for the day....... “Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.” Lao Tzu
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Thought for the day....... “Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.” Cullen Hightower
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Thought for the day....... "You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was." Abraham Lincoln
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Thought for the day....... "Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life." Epictetus, Encheiridion, VIII
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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....... "The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity." Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Thought for the day....... "Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces." Colin Neenan
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Thought for the day....... "Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain." Henry David Thoreau
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Thought for the day....... "The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing." Pierre Bonnard
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Thought for the day....... “A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.” Kenneth A. Wells
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Thought for the day....... "May your blessings outnumber The shamrocks that grow, And may trouble avoid you Wherever you go." Irish Blessing
Happy Saint Paddy's Day!
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Thought for the day....... "The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness." Robert Delaunay
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Thought for the day....... “Education is a social process . . . education is growth . . . education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.” John Dewey (1859-1952)
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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....... “Ideas come from everything” Alfred Hitchcock
Happy Vernal Equinox, Welcome Spring!!!!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
LIGHTFOOT!!! Tom found it!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Wow!!! Thanks you Tom! You are tops!!!!
Thanks again!
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
If you'll transfer the other ones, I will remove the other thread .. or you can remove it.
Tom is the best!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
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
thanks
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