Karma

How people treat you is their karma... how you react is yours. Wayne Dyer

Daily Life

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. Whenever you enter into it take with you your all. Kahlil Gibran

Prayers

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves.  This shows we are made to live by charity.  C.S.Lewis

Unsettled

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unity of Life

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. Bhagavad Gita

Mishaps

Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. Herman Melville 

Breathe

You breathe, Frosting mountains white, Exciting trees to verdant flame, Dancing sparrows on your wing, Swirling waves into long sighs. You breathe, And all things live. Tao

Important Encounters

Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Paulo Coelho

Mind

Mind is like a candle flame: unstable, flickering, constantly changing, fanned by the violent winds of our thoughts and emotions. The flame will only burn steadily when we can calm the air around it; so we can only begin to glimpse and rest in the nature of mind when we have stilled the turbulence of our thoughts and emotions. Sogyal Rinpoche

Enough

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anyone. Maya Angelou

You

Because you’re not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. Madeleine L’Engle 

Life

Life is the movie you see through your own unique eyes. It makes little difference what’s happening out there. It’s how you take it that counts. Dennis Waitley 

Talent

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong

Distinctions

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality. Thomas Aquinas

Discovery

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

Learning

Learning is the fountain of youth. No matter how old you are, You mustn’t stop growing. Tao

Heavenly Powers

If we want communion with heavenly powers, we need only attain the proper spiritual height. Then heaven will come to meet us as surely as lightning is attracted to a lightning rod. The effort is only in the becoming, in the purification of our characters, in the reaching upward. Once the situation is correct, union is inevitable. Tao

Silence

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. Thomas Carlyle

Character

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he could never be found out. Thomas Macaulay

Risks

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. Paulo Coelho

Important People

Spend unbroken chunks of time with the most important people in your life. Brian Tracy

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean. –  Dag Hammarskjold

Victim

This blaming and not taking responsibility keep a man in the role of victim. When we accept the difficult message that our feelings are ours to deal with and no one else’s, self-improvement begins. We begin to walk the difficult but self respecting path of spiritual awakening.  Unknown

Road Less Traveled

“I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence:  Two roads diverged in a wood and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost

Clarity

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

Anger

Let your anger set with the sun and not rise again. Irish Proverb

Spiritual Life

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire... man cannot live without a spiritual life. Buddha

Start

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. Mary Manin Morrissey

Heaven

Earth's crammed with heaven and every common bush, afire with God. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Private Door

God enters by a private door into each individual. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Foundations

The foundations of a person are not in matter, but in spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fears

Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure. Rainer Maria Rilke

Listening

You should not have your own idea when you listen to someone…. To have nothing in your mind is naturalness. Then you will understand what he says. Shunryu Suzuki

Freeing

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 feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Albert Einstein

Service

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. Leo Tolstoy

Friendship

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

Education

Education should not be the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats

Sayings and Words

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. Sir Arthur Helps

Blessing

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you....If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it. Emmet Fox

Preaching

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. Oliver Goldsmith

Compassion

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. Thomas Merton

Self Respect

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.  Joan Didion 

Living

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie 

Waiting

To wait for moments or places where no pain exists, no separation is felt and where all human restlessness has turned into inner peace is waiting for a dream world. Henri J. M. Nouwen

Tiny Pushes

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. Helen Keller

Humble Living

Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom. Rumi

Joy

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart. Jack Kornfield

Walls

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. Jim Rohn

Giving

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. Unknown 

The Way

The strength of man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going that way too. Henry Ward Beecher