NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1333

 

• ·       By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful — more free of interruptions — than your own soul. - Marcus Aurelius

  ·       Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it. - Mahatma Gandhi

  ·       “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” ~ {maybe, most likely not} Albert Einstein 

  ·       “What is born will die, what has been gathered will be dispersed, what has been accumulated will be exhausted, what has been built up will collapse and what has been high will be brought low.” ~ Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

  ·       “Everyone must die at some point; an estimated 250,000 human beings do so every day. People close to us have died and will die. Yet we are still shocked and saddened when a loved one passes away, and we continue to search for the fountain of youth or a secret formula for long life.” ~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, What Makes You not a Buddhist

  ·       “What Jesus is now about to do, submit to death on the cross, he does of his own free will. In foretelling this experience, he said: “The Father loves and sustains me because I am willing to lay down my life. But I will take it up again. No one takes my life away from me—I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up. I have received such a commandment from my Father.””

  ·       The past does not define you. Live in this moment. — Brooke

  ·       Life is short. That’s all there is to say. Get what you can from the present – thoughtfully, justly. - Marcus Aurelius

  ·       Discipline is remembering what you want. - David Campbell

  ·       Three to four hours a day, five days a week, of uninterrupted and carefully directed concentration, it turns out, can produce a lot of valuable output. - Cal Newport