NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1365

 

• ·       Irrigators direct the water,  Fletchers fashion the shaft,  Carpenters bend the wood,  The wise control themselves.

  ·       Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  ·       “Greater love no man can have than this: that he would be willing to lay down his life for his friends—and Jesus had such a love that he was willing to lay down his life for his enemies, a love greater than any which had hitherto been known on earth.”

  ·       Let your creativity run wild today! — Brooke

  ·       A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great. Naval Ravikant

  ·       Stepping out of the busyness is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit. Tara Brach

  ·       The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex. Yvon Chouinard

  ·       What if we stopped celebrating being busy as a measurement of importance? What if instead we celebrated how much time we had spent listening, pondering, meditating, and enjoying time with the most important people in our lives. Greg McKeown

  ·       Hurry, and all that it involves, is fatal. Alan Watts

  ·       Most people struggle to comprehend how many things don't need to be done, if they would just start doing the right thing. Gary Keller

  ·       Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping. Thich Nhat Hanh

  ·       “One of the most amazing earmarks of religious living is that dynamic and sublime peace, that peace which passes all human understanding, that cosmic poise which betokens the absence of all doubt and turmoil. Such levels of spiritual stability are immune to disappointment.”