NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 38

·         To enjoy privilege without abuse, to have liberty without license, to possess power and steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement-these are the marks of high civilization.

• ·         Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. – Henry Ford
  ·         Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. — Leo Buscaglia
  ·         Moral evolution is not wholly dependent on revelation ... Man can even evolve spiritual values and derive cosmic insight from his personal experiential living because a divine spirit indwells him.
  ·         If you could understand the downfall of Lucifer, the iniquitous one, you would solemnly shun all forms of spiritual pride.
  ·         “You have the power to become anything that you want. Set your expectations for yourself, and know that you will become whatever you think about.”
  ·         Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible. — Ronnie Oldham
  ·         Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells. — Richard Paul Evans
  ·         If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out. — The 14th Dalai Lama
  ·         The religion of the spirit leaves you forever free to follow the truth wherever the leadings of the spirit may take you.
  ·         Learn to love without condition. Talk without bad intention. Give without any reason. And most of all, care for people without any expectation. — Unknown
  ·         The feeling of religious assurance is more than an emotional feeling. The assurance of religion transcends the reason of the mind, even the logic of philosophy.
  ·         When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence. - Eckhart Tolle
  ·         “Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!” – Louis Tomlinson
  ·         Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. — Marianne Williamson
  ·         Religions have arisen as a result of man's variable intellectual response to his identical spiritual leading. They can never hope to attain a uniformity of creeds, dogmas, and rituals-these are intellectual; but they can, and some day will, realize a unity in true worship of the Father of all, for this is spiritual, and it is forever true, in the spirit all men are equal.