NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 638

 

• ·       Creator, let me have a realistic appreciation of myself that leads to achievement.

  ·       "Jesus taught a living religion that impelled its believers to engage in the doing of loving service."

  ·       Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way. - Dogen

  ·       “When the Lover is Everywhere, Life is like through a Veil;  But when Living Itself becomes the Friend, lovers disappear.” - Rumi

  ·       “When the lover is everywhere” >>> when we are so in need of love and search for someone to complete us; “Life is like through a veil” >>> our lives become secondhand stories.;  “But when living itself becomes the Friend” >>> when we can open and let go of our painful attachments;  “Lovers disappear” >>> those who we think complete us become facets of our own being.

  ·       "The secret of survival is wrapped up in the supreme human desire to be Godlike and in the associated willingness to do and be any and all things which are essential to the final attainment of that overmastering desire." 

  ·       "We are none of us infallible-not even the youngest among us." - W. H. Thompson

  ·       God, teach me to listen with the ear of understanding and patience.

  ·       "Willingness to appropriate truth from any and all sources is indeed a commendable tendency to appear among religious believers during the first half of the twentieth century after Christ."