NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 59

• “If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that’s just more ego.” - Eckhart Tolle

• • “I sustain myself with the love of family.”—Maya Angelou
• • "Do not undertake to show men the beauties of the temple until you have first taken them into the temple." – Jesus
• • “You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.”—Trenton Lee Stewart
• • "There is an instinctive longing in the heart of evolutionary man for help from above and beyond."
• • "Jesus introduced the evening's conference by saying, 'My beloved, you must always make a difference in teaching so as to suit your presentation of truth to the minds and hearts before you.' "
• • "The pursuit of mere knowledge, without the attendant interpretation of wisdom and the spiritual insight of religious experience, eventually leads to pessimism and human despair. A little knowledge is truly disconcerting." “Where there is love there is life.”—Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
• • “I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love…it is the common fiber of life, the flame that heats our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives.”—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross“Love is always bestowed as a gift—freely, willingly, and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved, we love to love.”—Dr. Leo Buscaglia
• • “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”—John Lennon
• • "The carpenter's son never taught character building; he taught character growth, declaring that the kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed."
• • "You must not forget the great law of human fairness which I have taught you in positive form: Whatsoever you would that men should do to you, 
• do even so to them."
• • “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”—David Viscott
• • "As natural religious experience continues to progress, periodic revelations of truth punctuate the otherwise slow moving course of planetary evolution."
• • Until the lion learns hoe to write, every story will glorify the hunter. – African proverb
• • “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”—Plato
• • "No being in all the universe has the rightful liberty to deprive any other being of true liberty, the right to love and be loved, the privilege of worshiping God and of serving his fellows."
• • “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”—Elizabeth Foley
• • "Until you attain Paradise levels, goodness will always be more of a quest than a possession, more of a goal than an experience of attainment. But even as you hunger and thirst for righteousness, you experience increasing satisfaction in the partial attainment of goodness."