NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 333

 

• ·       “Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.” —Elizabeth Bibesco

  ·       "Intelligence may control the mechanism of civilization, wisdom may direct it, but spiritual idealism is the energy which really uplifts and advances human culture from one level of attainment to another."

  ·       "Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith." - Paul Tillich

  ·       "An almost endless variety of creature life and other living manifestations characterizes the countless
  worlds of space."

  ·       "Between you and God there is a tremendous distance (physical space) ... stop and ponder the solemn fact that God ... has in his own way already bridged the gulf. He has sent of himself, his spirit, to live in you."

  ·       "To teach us to live without certainty yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing philosophy can do." - Bertrand Russell

  ·       “The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” — Benjamin Disraeli

  ·       "Man ... can increasingly learn how to subordinate this physical-life machine to the directive wisdom of experience by the process of consecrating the human mind to the execution of the spiritual urges of the indwelling
  Thought Adjuster."

  ·       “The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder.” — Abraham Maslow