NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 485

 

• ·       "When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning in the present moment. This is the beginning and end of spiritual practice." -Jack Kornfield

  ·       "Loyalties are not exercised in behalf of the great, the good, the true, and the noble without a struggle. Effort is attendant upon clarification of spiritual vision and enhancement of cosmic insight."

  ·       "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear- not absence of fear." - Mark Twain

  ·       "He constantly talks about God as an ever-present associate in all that he does. He goes about doing good, for God seems to be in him."

  ·       “If something is all you’ve ever known, you mistakenly believe that’s just how it is.”

  ·       “Only a free person can be a happy person. The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom that you have in your heart. Freedom here is not political freedom. Freedom here is freedom from regret, freedom from fear, from anxiety and sorrow.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh 

  ·       "Every person, on the foundation of his or her own sufferings and joys, builds for all." Albert Camus

  ·       "Those who avoid evil by seeing things as they are gain joy by thus embracing the truth" – Buddhism

  ·       Intentionally find the lessons in seemingly random occurrences.

  ·       "The eye of the material mind perceives a world of factual knowledge; the eye of the spiritualized intellect discerns a world of true values. These two views, synchronized and harmonized, reveal the world of reality, wherein wisdom interprets the phenomena of the universe in terms of progressive personal experience."