NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 968

 

• ·       Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. - Charles Dickens

  ·       "The real problem is in the hearts and minds of humankind." - Albert Einstein

  ·       “You cannot conceive of religion without ideas, but when religion once becomes reduced only to an idea, it is no longer religion; it has become merely a species of human philosophy.”

  ·       Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility. - Osho

  ·       BALANCING YOUR MIND, EMOTIONS, AND REACTIONS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT SKILL TO DEVELOP. And suspending one's ego is a delicate, ongoing dance, not a onetime occurrence, which is why Mindfulness is the ability to suspend the ego in order to see how best to apply our mind and conduct for the greatest good. More simply put, it is the ability to get out of ourselves and into service to others, with faith and confidence. That this is why we're here.

  ·       “I have called upon you to be born again, to be born of the spirit. I have called you out of the darkness of authority and the lethargy of tradition into the transcendent light of the realization of the possibility of making for yourselves the greatest discovery possible for the human soul to make—the supernal experience of finding God for yourself, in yourself, and of yourself, and of doing all this as a fact in your own personal experience.” – Jesus

  ·       “The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it." ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

  ·        Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. - James Allen

  ·       “Within the atom the electrons revolve about the central proton with about the same comparative room the planets have as they revolve about the sun in the space of the solar system.”