NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1282

 

• ·       Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength. - Sigmund Freud

  ·       "I begin each day with the intention to be of service. Only by allowing our grief, outrage, longing, pain and tears can we discover the wise heart pain and that can contain them all." -An African elder

  ·       “The fact of Jesus’ earthly life provides a fixed point for the anchor of time, while the bestowal of the Spirit of Truth provides for the everlasting expansion and endless growth of the religion which he lived and the gospel which he proclaimed.”

  ·       Hide a tiny holiday treasure (like an ornament or small trinket) around town with clues for someone to find it.

  ·       “The pursuit of mere knowledge, without the attendant interpretation of wisdom and the spiritual insight of religious experience, eventually leads to pessimism and human despair. A little knowledge is truly disconcerting.”

  ·       Leave a small holiday tree (even a mini one) with lights or ornaments on someone’s doorstep as a surprise.

  ·       Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. - Buddha

  ·       Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. - Marie Curie

  ·       “In our everyday lives we have this impulse to shield ourselves and others from the truth. We’ve become impervious to obvious signs of decay. We encourage ourselves by ‘not dwelling on it’ and by employing positive affirmations. We celebrate our birthdays by blowing out candles, ignoring the fact that the extinguished candles could equally be seen as a reminder that we are a year closer to death. We celebrate the New Year with firecrackers and champagne, distracting ourselves from the fact that the old year will never come back and the new year is filled with uncertainty—anything can happen. When that ‘anything’ is displeasing, we deliberately divert our attention, like a mother distracting a child with rattles and toys.”