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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
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"follow your bliss" -
Joseph Campell
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" The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart"
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"hope is the bird that sings while the dawn is still dark"
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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
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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....... "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
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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
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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....... "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.
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Thought for the day....... "Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy... Why not choose joy?... Why not live in joy?" Leo Buscaglia
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Thought for the day....... ``How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?'' Satchel Paige
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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
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Thought for the day....... "All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.'' Henry Miller
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Thought for the day....... "Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you." Wayne Dyer
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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
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Thought for the day....... "No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in." Gail Sheehy
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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
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Thought for the day....... "Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons." Ruth Ann Schabacker
Thanks Fire and Betty!! Good stuff!
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Thought for the day....... "Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties." Sara Ban Breathnach
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Thought for the day....... "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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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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