NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 60

·         "You are not to attack the old ways; you are skillfully to put the leaven of new truth in the midst of the old beliefs. Let the Spirit of Truth do his own work." - The Teachings of Jesus

• ·         “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”—William Shakespeare
  ·         "True goodness is like water in that it blesses everything and harms nothing. And like water, true goodness seeks the lowest places, even those levels
  which others avoid." – Taoism
  ·         “There are good ships and wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, may they always be!”—Irish Proverb
  ·         "The life after death is no different in the essentials than the mortal existence. Everything we do in this life which is good contributes directly to the enhancement of the future life."
  ·         “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”—C.S. Lewis
  ·         "The fetish of factualized truth, fossilized truth, the iron band of so-called unchanging truth, holds one blindly in a closed circle of cold fact. One can be technically right as to fact and everlastingly wrong in the truth."
  ·         "[It is] the quality of unselfishness revealed in disinterested labor for the welfare of one's earthly fellows, particularly worthy beings in need and in distress, that is the real measure of planetary greatness. And the manifestation of greatness on a world like Urantia is the exhibition of self-control."
  ·         “Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.”—Etty Hillesum
  ·         “Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.”—Albert Schweitzer
  ·         "Spiritual assurance is the equivalent of your personal religious experience in the eternal realities of divine truth and is otherwise equal to your intelligent understanding of truth realities plus your spiritual faith and minus
  your honest doubts." – Jesus
  ·         “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.”—Dr. Wayne Dyer
  ·         "Every mortal who thinks righteously, speaks nobly, and acts unselfishly shall not only enjoy virtue here during this brief life but shall also, after the dissolution of the body, continue to enjoy the delights of heaven."  - Buddhism
  ·         “We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessing of peace.”—William Gladstone
  ·         “It is our purpose and destiny to bring a new dimension into this world by living in conscious oneness with the totality and conscious alignment with universal intelligence.” - Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
  ·         “I am the reflection of my Source, which is magnificent in all ways.”