NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 88

·        "It is the mission of religion to prepare man for bravely, even heroically, facing the vicissitudes of life."

• ·        "Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them." -Leo Rosten
  ·        Time as he grows old teaches all things. – Aeschylus
  ·        The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. – W.E.B. DuBois
  ·        "Genuine spiritual faith (true moral consciousness) is revealed in that it: Produces a sublime trust in the goodness of God even in the face of bitter disappointment and crushing defeat."
  ·        "Each of us is the light of the world, and by joining our minds in this light we proclaim the Kingdom of God together and as one."
  ·        Veni, Vidi, Velcro - I came, I saw, I stuck around
  ·        “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” - T.S. Eliot
  ·        “Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others.”  ~ Brene Brown
  ·        "A new and fuller revelation of the religion of Jesus is destined to conquer an empire of materialistic secularism and to overthrow a world sway of mechanistic naturalism."
  ·        “It is not beauty that endears, it’s love that makes us see beauty.”—Leo Tolstoy
  ·        “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”—Thich Nhat Hanh
  ·        "Religion is ever and always rooted and grounded in personal experience."
  ·        “I send you love and all green lights.”— Nisargadatta Maharaj
  ·        "This new gospel of the kingdom ... presents a new and exalted goal of destiny, a supreme life purpose." - Teachings of Rodan of Alexandria
  ·        “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”—Roald Dahl
  ·         “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” ~ Rumi 
  ·        "Your short sojourn on Urantia, on this sphere of mortal infancy, is only a single link, the very first in the long chain that is to stretch across universes and through the eternal ages. It is not so much what you learn in this first life; it is the experience of living this life that is important."