NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1285

 

• ·       “Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we’re going to be more cheerful in the future, it’s because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.” – Pema Chodron

  ·       “There is an instinctive longing in the heart of evolutionary man for help from above and beyond.”

  ·       Hang a handmade or unique ornament in a public place (like a park tree) with a note encouraging others to take it or leave one in return.

  ·       The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not. - Albert Schweitzer

  ·       “What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.” ~ Agnes. M. Pahro

  ·       “Do not undertake to show men the beauties of the temple until you have first taken them into the temple.” - Jesus

  ·       Create treat bags for pets at a shelter or for pet owners you know and drop them off as a surprise.

  ·       Relax, you’ll live longer and perform better. - Naval Ravikant

  ·       "Without freedom, no one really has a name." - Milton Acorda

  ·       “Human mind, personal mind, has no survival qualities apart from spirit identification.”

  ·       Set up a mini mailbox in your front yard or at work for people to write wishes or acts of kindness they’ve done, then share the “kindness stats” later!

  ·       How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. - Sigmund Freud

  ·       “In the study of the religious life of Jesus, view him positively. Think not so much of his sinlessness as of his righteousness, his loving service. Jesus upstepped the passive love disclosed in the Hebrew concept of the heavenly Father to the higher active and creature-loving affection of a God who is the Father of every individual, even of the wrongdoer.”