NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 58

• For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. — T.S. Eliot

• • "Religious peace - brotherhood - can never exist unless all religions are willing to completely divest themselves of all ecclesiastical authority and fully surrender all concept of spiritual sovereignty. God alone is spirit sovereign."
• • The religion of the spirit means effort, struggle, conflict, faith, determination, love, loyalty, and progress. The religion of the mind - the theology of authority - requires little or none of these exertions from its formal believers. - The Teachings of Jesus
• • As prayer may be likened to recharging the spiritual batteries of the soul, so worship may be compared to the act of tuning in the soul to catch the universe broadcasts of the infinite spirit of the Universal Father. - The Teachings of Jesus
• • When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you. — Lao Tzu
• • “Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. ” —Mother Teresa
• • Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. — Ramana Maharshi
• • Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. — Seneca
• • "The spiritual forward urge is the most powerful driving force present in this world; the truth-learning believer is the one progressive and aggressive soul on earth."
• • “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake…” — Sir Frances Bacon
• • "Man must become hungry for truth as a result of the experiences of living, or he must desire to know God as the result of contact with the lives of those who are acquainted with the divine Father." – Jesus
• • "When a personal duplication or divine extension of this Original Son starts on a bestowal mission of mortal incarnation, it becomes literally true that the divine 'Word is made flesh,' and that the Word thus dwells among the lowly beings of animal origin."
• • “You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.” — Frederick Buechner
• • "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."
• • “Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.” — Robin Hobb
• • "Human mind, personal mind, has no survival qualities apart from spirit identification."