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Buddha
“All
that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is
everything. What we think we become.”
"Peace
comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
"You
will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your
anger.”
“You
yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love
and affection.”
“You
cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself”
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no
matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and
your own common sense.”
“A dog
is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not
considered a good man because he is a good talker.”
“The
way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
“No one
saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must
walk the path.”
“The
secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past,
worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the
present moment wisely and earnestly.”
“Your
work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give
yourself to it.”
“Do not
believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe
in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not
believe in anything simply because it is found written in your
religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of
your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they
have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and
analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is
conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and
live up to it.”
“There
has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”
"It is a man's own
mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways".
"If we
could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would
change".
Mahatma
Gandhi
“Earth
provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's
greed”
“An eye
for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
“My
imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my
successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.”
“God has no
religion”
“The
best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of
others.”
"The
Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science
without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without
principles”
“The most heinous
and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been
committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives”
“Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause”
"An
error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor
does truth become error because nobody sees it.”
“Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it
dies.”
“The
greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way
its animals are treated”
“They
cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
"Prayer
is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of
one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.”
"I
believe in the fundamental Truth of all the great religions of the
world. I believe that they are all God given. I came to the conclusion
long ago... that all religions were true and also that all had some
error in them.”
“When I
admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul
expands in worship of the Creator”
Dalai
Lama
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful
stroke of luck.”
“Our
prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help
them, at least don't hurt them.”
“This is my
simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated
philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy
is kindness.”
“Open
your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.”
“Be kind
whenever possible. It is always possible.”
“I find
hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not
judge the universe.”
“Where
ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”
“In the
practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.”
Edmund
Burke
"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds".
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he
could only do a little"
"Facts are to the mind what food is to the body".
"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never
intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing".
"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact".
"Religion
is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is
not a finished creation".
"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind,
is curiosity".
"Mixed
Bag"
"If you take the
Christian bible and put it out in the wind and the rain, soon the
paper on which the words are printed will disintegrate and the words
will be gone. Our bible IS the wind and the rain." -
Herbalist Carol McGrath as told to her by a
Native-American woman
"To believe in God
or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of
stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With
our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our
intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must
puzzle it out for himself or herself".
-
Sophy Burnham
"Religion is about
creation, and for that reason religion should be about the earth. To
many people this comes as a surprise because modern religious thinking
emphasizes salvation over creation and focuses on heaven and hell
rather than earth. But Pagans believed that biological processes are
spiritual processes and that there is divine meaning in every natural
event". - Laurie Cabot (Power of the Witch, Penguin
books 1992)
"Some people claim
to have magical powers.
I certainly hope they don't consider themselves to be anything special"
"Spell Crafts" by Scott Cunningham and David Harrington
"Time and
space are modes by which we think, not conditions in which we live" -
Albert Einstein
"Know that your seeking and yearning will
avail you not, unless you know the mystery: for if that which you
seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it
without. For behold, I have been with you from the beginning, and
I am that which is attained at the end of desire." -
Doreen Valiente, The Charge of the
Goddess.
"Many spells are nothing more than the transfer of
positive and negative energies directed by consciousness. We are simply working
with the laws of nature in the most intense and intimate way". -
Laurie
Cabot, Power of the Witch.
"Mysticism is the basis of
all true science, and the person who can no longer stand rapt in awe is as good as dead" -
Albert Einstein
'Oh, I see. I am that. I come from that. That is
what I am. And that is what everything is." -
Elizabeth Gilbert
author of "Eat, pray, love" (Explaining the moment of contact with the divine during meditation
on the Oprah Winfery Show)
" I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I
understand". - Confucius
"Ignorance
is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star".
- Confucius
"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man
seeks is in others". -
Confucius
"When you know better, you do better"
- Maya Angelo
"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life".
- Sophia Loren
"Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe
with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or
mine".
-
Henry S. Haskins
"And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of
your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and
nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the
little part you play in the vast drama".
-
Real Live Preacher
"The
ability to transform energy into matter, and vice versa, is the way
the universe operates" - "Power of the Witch" -
Laurie Cabot 1989
"....Cultures
that develop around the notion of an authoritarian father god,
inevitably oppress those that do not fit the image of the
all-powerful, adult human male: children, women, homosexuals, and
the non human communities of animal, plant, and mineral life with
which we live and share our planet. In rigid patriarchal thinking
these have no value in themselves except as they serve the male
dominated institutions". - "Power of the Witch" -
Laurie Cabot 1989
"The
power of magick is ancient, and is yin-yang being both the spiritual
and the scientific. It is never wise to overlook or dismiss one for
the other, nor is it helpful. Understanding only comes in the
knowing, and knowledge has more than one source." -
Skyladona 2007
" Faith is a way of saying - Yes, I pre-accept
the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am
presently incapable of understanding" - "Eat, pray, love" - Elizabeth Gilbert 2006
"Don't waste time regretting decisions of the past, invest time in
formatting your future"
-
Skyladona 2009
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the
winds long to play with your hair" - Kahlil
Gibran.
When
life becomes too controlled, there becomes less of life to
control....
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