NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1103

 

• ·       “Civilized man will not always look upon all that he controls as his personal and private possession.” - Jesus

  ·       The secret to success is retaining your child-like qualities. - Robert Greene

  ·       Choice, not chance, determines one's destiny. - Author Unknown

  ·       “With mortal man, only that mind which freely submits itself to the spirit direction can hope to survive the mortal time-space existence.”

  ·       It always makes me proud to love the world somehow – hate’s so easy compared. - Jack Kerouac

  ·       Loneliness stems from a lack of connection to oneself, which prevents you from forming strong connections to people. 

  ·       “The essence of life is that it’s challenging. Sometimes it is sweet, and sometimes it is bitter. Sometimes your body tenses, and sometimes it relaxes or opens. Sometimes you have a headache, and sometimes you feel 100 percent healthy. From an awakened perspective, trying to tie up all the loose ends and finally get it together is death, because it involves rejecting a lot of your basic experience. There is something aggressive about that approach to life, trying to flatten out all the rough spots and imperfections into a nice smooth ride.” - Pema Chödrön

  ·       Today I am trusting the urge to move ahead ... to grow ... to risk new directions. - Ruth Fishel

  ·       “In something more than a year after the return to Nazareth the boy Jesus arrived at the age of his first personal and wholehearted moral decision; and there came to abide with him a Thought Adjuster, a divine gift of the Paradise Father.”