NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1039

 

• ·       “The practice of mindfulness, of meditation, consists of coming back to ourselves to restore peace and harmony. The energy that enables us to do this is mindfulness, an energy that also carries with it concentration, understanding, and love. Caring for yourself, reestablishing peace in yourself, is the basic condition for helping someone else. To be able to help, we need to have at least a little calm, a little joy, a little compassion in us. We get these from practicing mindfulness in everyday life. Being there with what is beautiful and healing inside us and around us is something we should do each day.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

  ·       “Neither science, philosophy, nor theology can validate the personality of God. Only the personal experience of the faith sons of the heavenly Father can effect the actual spiritual realization of the personality of God.”

  ·       It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it. - Seneca

  ·       The only beautiful path is the one you create. - Maxime Lagacé

  ·       “As long as we are not living in harmony with nature and our constitution, we cannot expect ourselves to be really healed. Ayurveda gives us the means.” ~ David Frawley

  ·       “One of the basic principles of every single art form has to do not with what’s there—the music, the words, the movement, the dialogue, the paint—but with what isn’t. In the visual arts it’s called the “negative space”—the blank parts around and between objects, which is, of course, every bit as crucial as the objects themselves. The negative space allows us to see the nonnegative space in all its glory and gloom, its color and mystery and light. What isn’t there gives what’s there meaning. Imagine that.” – Cheryl Strayed