NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 55

• You never regret what you do in life. You only regret what you don’t do.” – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

• • Religion is destined to become the reality of the spiritual unification of all that is good, beautiful, and true in human experience.
• • If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness. — Lao Tzu
• • “To know harmony is to know the changeless; to know the changeless is to have insight.”
• • Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human. — Henri Nouwen
• • God answers man's prayer by giving him an increased revelation of truth, an enhanced appreciation of beauty, and an augmented concept of goodness.
• • Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. — Frederick Buechner
• • When the flood tides of human adversity, selfishness, cruelty, hate, malice, and jealousy beat about the mortal soul, you may rest in the assurance that there is one inner bastion, the citadel of the spirit, which is absolutely unassailable ...
• • Hurt people, hurt people. That's how pain patterns get passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion and cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future. — Yehuda Berg
• • Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now. - Eckhart Tolle
• • The mature human being soon begins to look upon all other mortals with feelings of tenderness and with emotions of tolerance. Mature men view immature folks with the love and consideration that parents bear their children.
• • Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. — Pema Chödrön
• • Energy is liberated matter; matter is energy waiting to happen. – Bill Bryson
• • Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more and all good things are yours.
• • True religion is a meaningful way of living dynamically face to face with the commonplace realities of everyday life.
• • God is the sure refuge of every good man when in need; the Immortal One cares for all mankind. God's salvation is strong and his kindness is gracious ...