NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 35

• • He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• • Spirit identification constitutes the secret of personal survival and determines the destiny of spiritual ascension.
• • We can only give away to others what we have inside ourselves. –  Wayne Dyer
• • When you are inspired…dormant forces, faculties, and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. —Patanjali
• • People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. — George Bernard Shaw
• • Religion does not grow unless it is disciplined by constructive criticism, amplified by philosophy, purified by science, and nourished by loyal fellowship.
• • 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 is it that is required now so that life can express itself more fully? - Eckhart Tolle
• • The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
• • Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the atitiude you bring to life. – John Homer Miller
• • If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. – Yugoslavian proverb.
• • Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. — August Wilson
• • Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living. — Buddha
• • Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be. — B.K.S. Iyengar
• • The metamorphosis of death constitutes the only possible procedure whereby [human beings] may escape the fetters of time and the bonds of material creation, thereby being enabled to strike spiritual step with the progressive procession of eternity.