NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 986

 

• ·       Maitri, the Buddhist concept of loving kindness, benevolence, and friendliness toward self and others.

  ·       “It’s going to be simple: Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind. Stop avoiding the tough conversations because you think you’re being polite or kind to people. That’s not kind.”

  ·       "Mindfulness can help you know what the body needs and help you make good lifestyle choices . . . mindfulness can help prevent choices . . . mindfulness can help prevent disease down the road." - Susan Bauer-Wu

  ·       “Achievement is the child of imaginative adventure. But inherent in this capacity for achievement is the responsibility of ethics, the necessity for recognizing that the world and the universe are filled with a multitude of differing types of beings.”

  ·       The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. - Michel de Montaigne

  ·       “If any man chooses to do the divine will, he shall know the way of truth. It is literally true, “Human things must be known in order to be loved, but divine things must be loved in order to be known.””

  ·       “Even a lighthouse needs TLC, and a caretaker.” ~ Cheri Bauer

  ·       At the gate of patience there is no crowding. - Moroccan saying

  ·       “The basis for true change is freedom from negativity. And that’s what acceptance implies: no negativity about what is. And then you see what this moment requires: what it is that is required now so that life can express itself more fully.” – Eckhart Tolle