NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 87

·         “To strengthen the muscles of your heart, the best exercise is lifting someone else's spirit whenever you can.”—Dodinsky

• ·         "...every time you choose whether or not to fulfill your function, you are really choosing whether or not to be happy."
  ·         "When you experience ... a transformation of faith, you are no longer a slavish part of the mathematical cosmos but rather a liberated volitional son of
  the Universal Father.
  ·         Lead with compassion, think with forgiveness, act with kindness.
  ·         “The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man, it is to know that and to wonder at it.” ~Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  ·         “There is nothing to do. Just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains or sitting in caves. I do not even say “be yourself” since you do not know yourself. Just be.”
  — Nisargadatta Maharaj
  ·         “Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.”—Albert Schweitzer
  ·         “It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
  ·         "The religious revisions of Christian civilization would be drastic and revolutionary if the living religion of Jesus should suddenly supplant the theologic
  religion about Jesus."
  ·         “Each of us can look back upon someone who made a great difference in our lives, someone whose wisdom or simple acts of caring made an impression upon us. In all likelihood it was someone who sought no recognition for their deed other than the joy of knowing that, by their hand, another's life had been made better.”—Stephen M. Wolf
  ·         "While your religion is a matter of personal experience, it is most important that you should be exposed to the knowledge of a vast number of other religious experiences ... to the end that you may prevent your religious life from becoming egocentric - circumscribed, selfish, and unsocial."
  ·        "Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality." H. A. Overstreet
  ·        “We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”—Ronald Reagan
  ·        "The sincerity of any prayer is the assurance of its being heard; the spiritual wisdom and universe consistency of any petition is the determiner of the time, manner, and degree of the answer." - The Teachings of Jesus