NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 160

·        “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

• ·        “We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
  ·        “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” ~ Dalai Lama
  ·        “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” ~ Dalai Lama
  ·        “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” ~ Dalai Lama
  ·        “If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence
  provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience, and understanding.” ~ Dalai Lama
  ·        “The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.” ~ Dalai Lama
  ·        "A major contribution of miracles is their strength in releasing you from your false sense of isolation, deprivation and lack."
  ·        "On the evolutionary worlds, selfhood is material; it is a thing in the universe and as such is subject to the laws of material existence. It is a fact in time and is responsive to the vicissitudes thereof. Survival decisions must
  here be formulated."
  ·        “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of your life is to give it away.” ~ Pablo Picasso
  ·        “You weren’t born just to pay bills and die.“ ~ Unknown
  ·        "Religion is the efficient scourge of evolution which ruthlessly drives indolent and suffering humanity from its natural state of intellectual inertia forward and upward to the higher levels of reason and wisdom."
  ·        “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”—Benjamin Franklin
  ·        "Spiritual values and spirit forces are real. From the viewpoint of personality, spirit is the soul of creation; matter is the shadowy physical body."