Saturday 24 April 2021

NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 388

 

  • ·       "Science vainly strives to create the brotherhood of culture; religion brings into being the brotherhood of the spirit."

    ·       Tell the truth, when it's the truth, only to the person(s) who can do the most good with it.

    ·       "The fetish of factualized truth, fossilized truth, the iron band of so-called unchanging truth, holds one blindly in a closed circle of cold fact. One can be technically right as to fact and everlastingly wrong in the truth."

    ·       "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

    ·       "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

    ·       "The life after death is no different in the essentials than the mortal existence. Everything we do in this life which is good contributes directly to the enhancement of the future life."

    ·       “I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace—a connection to what matters.” — Oprah Winfrey

    ·       "Love your neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighbor." - Louise Beal

    ·       "True goodness is like water in that it blesses everything and harms nothing. And like water, true goodness seeks the lowest places, even those levels which others avoid." – Taoism

    ·       “The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie

    ·       "I would if I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people throw me their wasted hours." - Bernard Berenson

    ·       "You are not to attack the old ways; you are skillfully to put the leaven of new truth in the midst of the old beliefs. Let the Spirit of Truth do his own work." - The Teachings of Jesus

    ·       “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” — Christopher McCandless


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