NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 54

• The ‘positive’ already contains within itself the as yet unmanifested ‘negative’. - Eckhart Tolle

• • Be kind! Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. – John Watson
• • Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement. — Albert Camus
• • “This one moment — Now — is the only thing you can never escape from, the one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens, no matter how much your life changes, one thing is certain: it’s always Now.”
• • The higher the mortal species, the greater the stress and the greater the capacity for humor as well as the necessity for it.
• • God is not hiding from any of his creatures. He is unapproachable to so many orders of beings only because he 'dwells in a light which no material creature can approach.'
• • You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. — Maya Angelou
• • “With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”
• • "The fruits of the spirit, your sincere and loving service, are the mighty social lever to uplift the races of darkness, and this Spirit of Truth will become your power-multiplying fulcrum."
• • The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. — Goldie Hawn
• • The universe is complete and perfect. There can be no mistakes. Nothing is random. The entire ‘onesong’ is exquisitely synchronized.
• • Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. — Rabindranath Tagore
• • You just can't beat the person who never gives up. — Babe Ruth
• • When men search for God, they are searching for everything. When they find God, they have found everything.
• • "One of the most amazing earmarks of religious living is that dynamic and sublime peace, that peace which passes all human understanding, that cosmic poise which betokens the absence of all doubt and turmoil."
• • The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.  We listen to reply.