NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1184

 

• ·       Our successes and failures in life can be traced to how well or how badly we deal with the inevitable conflicts that confront us in society. - Robert Greene

  ·       "Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo." - Ambrose Bierce

  ·       Share words of wisdom with someone feeling lost. — Brooke

  ·       “Jesus often took his apostles away by themselves for short periods to engage in meditation and prayer, but for the most part he kept them in service-contact with the multitudes. The soul of man requires spiritual exercise as well as spiritual nourishment.”

  ·       It’s not what we have, but who we have. - Winnie The Pooh

  ·       Diversity is both beautiful and necessary. - Dalai Lama

  ·       Start that book you've been wanting to read. — Brooke

  ·       “The normal urges of animal beings and the natural appetites and impulses of the physical nature are not in conflict with even the highest spiritual attainment except in the minds of ignorant, mistaught, or unfortunately overconscientious persons.”

  ·       If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two. - Marcel Proust

  ·       “The single daily reminder that can transform our life entire, from a Buddhist point of view, is we meditate in the morning; we dedicate the merit; and then we say, ‘may it be of benefit.’ Meaning ‘may everything I do, no matter how dumb or humble, or great or wonderful, may all of it, even the mistakes, be of benefit to all sentient beings’—and all sentient beings includes myself.” ~ Waylon Lewis

  ·       "Any God I ever felt in Church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did, too. They come to Church to share God, not find God." - Alice Walker