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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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