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Quotations can be Illuminating and stimulate your life. Many books have quotes matching their subject at the beginning of chapters, heading or in the flow of the book. Others insert quotes in the margins when something is on point.

There are thousands of Great Quotes out there. If you have a favorite one, e-mail it to me and I may add it to my list.

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Surrendering to Your Higher Power and Wisdom

William Blake:

For I dance and drink & sing;
till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.

John Burroughs:

WAITING

Serene, I fold my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea;
I rave no more 'gainst Time or Fate,
For lo! My own shall come to me.

I stay my haste, I make delays,
For what avails this eager pace?
I stand amid the eternal ways
And what is mine shall know my face.

Asleep, awake, by night or day,
The friends I seek are seeking me;
No wind can drive my bark astray,
Nor change the tide of destiny.

What matter if I stand alone?
I wait with joy the coming years;
My heart shall reap where it hath sown,
And garner up its fruit of tears.

The waters know their own, and draw
The brook that springs in yonder heights;
So flows the good with equal law
Unto the soul of pure delights.

The stars come nightly to the sky;
The tidal wave comes to the sea;
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high,
Can keep my own away from me.

The Tao #48, translation by Stephen Mitchell, 1988:

In the pursuit of knowledge,

every day something is added.

In the practice of the Tao,

every day something is dropped.

Less and less do you need to force things,

until finally you arrive at non-action.

When nothing is done,

nothing is left undone.

True mastery can be gained

by letting things go their own way.

It can’t be gained by interfering.

SOME HEART QUOTES:

Lao Tzu

If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

Mother Teresa

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All the knowledge I possess everyone can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

William Shakespeare

A light heart lives long.

Charles Dickens

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Carl Jung

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

Benjamin Franklin

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

Albert Einstein

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

A. W. Tozer

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will.

William Shakespeare

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Norman Vincent Peale

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Dale Carnegie

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Woodrow T. Wilson

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.

Donald Laird

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

 

The Journey and Depth Poetry about it.

T.S. Elliot

[Spiritual Book, The Spirituality of Imperfection. (book) T.S. Elliot described this spiritual path of the via negativia in "East Coker"]

In order to arrive at what you do not know

In must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.

In order to possess what you do not possess

You must go by the way of dispossession.

In order to arrive at what you are not

You must go through the way in which you are not.

And what you do not know is the only thing you know

And what you own is what you do not own

And where you are is where you are not.

 

 

THE BUDDHA

Do not accept what you hear by report,

do not accept tradition,

do not accept a statement because it is found in your books,

nor because it is in accord with your belief,

nor because it is the saying of your teacher.

Be lamps unto yourselves.

Those who, either now or after I am dead,

shall rely upon themselves only and not look for assistance

to anyone besides themselves,

it is they who shall reach the topmost height.

 

Hatred never ceases by hatred
But by love alone is healed.
This is an ancient and eternal law.

 

Rumi

 

"Startle us back to the truth of who we are!"

1207 - ?

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,

Some momentary awareness comes

As an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all !

Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,

Who violently sweep your house empty if it's furniture,

Still, treat each guest honorably.

He may be clearing you out

For some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,

Meet them at the door laughing,

And invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,

Because each has been sent

As a guide from beyond.

Rumi

 

Quotations From Great Saints

BHAGAVAT GITA
He who has conquered himself by the self - he is the friend of himself, but he whose self is unconquered, his self acts as his own enemy.
He whose actions are all free a hankering of desires, whose actions have been burnt by the fire of knowledge, him the wise call a Sage.

BHAGAVATAM
As fire consumes all things, so does the fire of knowledge consume all evil and ignorance.

UPANISHAD
Another enjoys cast off the desires that arise in the heart, the thought of possessing what.
Joy comes by renunciation of desires.
Eye sees the outer world.
Mind sees the eye.
Inner soul perceives the working of the mind.

BIBLE
The fear (love & respect) of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
Love your enemies - do good to them that hate you. [Christ...the only "true work" any of us have to do on the planet if we wish to have a Happy Life.]

DHAMMAPADA
Many garlands can be made from a heap of flowers.
Many good deeds should be done by one born a mortal.
A mind freed from contamination of lust.
Whose thoughts are free from hate.
Who has conquered both merit and demerit.
To him who is wide awake, there is no fear.

TALMUD
Much Torah have I learnt, from my teachers, more from my colleagues, but from my students- most of all.
Greater is he who acts from love, than he who acts from fear.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA
There never was, there never will be, nor is there now a person, who is really blamed or wholly praised.
It is easy to see the faults of others, but not so easy to see one's own faults.

PROVERBS
An idealist is a person, who helps other people to be prosperous. Be sure to master yourself, before trying to master others.

TAO TE CHING
He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know.
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
He who conquers others has physical strength,
He who conquers himself is strong.

SWAMI CHINMAYANANDA
If you want to prove yourself to God, improve yourself. Words of guidance are so simple, yet so deep - anybody can win, if he be the soul entry.
Unfortunately, in every field, there are so many entries and so to win , one has to cultivate excellence.

SWAMI SHIVANAND
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest act.
This is the secret of success.
Silence is the language of God. It is also the language of heart.

SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHAMSA
A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion, allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Where is fate and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none else has the praise. We make our own destiny.
The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian.
Each must assimilate the spirit of other religion and yet preserve his individuality and follow his own law of growth.

SHIRDI SAI BABA
Let anyone speak hundreds of things against you, do not resent by giving a bitter reply.
If you tolerate such things, you will certainly be happy.
If anybody wants any money from you, and you are not inclined to give, do not give. But do not bark at him like a Dog.

DOCTOR ANNIE BESANT
Those who try to fulfil the maxim "know thyself" must not shrink from a little mental exertion, nor must expect mental food to drop ready cooked from the sky into a lazily opened mouth.
Each man is the person who most constantly affects his own body. Others affect it occasionally, but he always.
The speaker to whom he listens and the author of the book he reads affect his mental body, but, they are only incidents in his life. If a man thinks truth, a lie cannot make a lodgement in his mind.
If he thinks love, hate cannot disturb him. If he thinks wisdom, ignorance cannot paralyze him. Here alone is safety, here alone real power.

MAHATMA GANDHI
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

SHRI KRISHNA
The man doeth that which he hath to do without attachment to the result, obtaineth The Supreme.

 

 

 

 

 

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