People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may just never be enough;
Give the world the best you have anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it's all between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
According to the author, Mother Teresa was so moved by these commandments
that she hung them on a wall in her orphanage in Calcutta.
"Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth,
renewal, and transformation in our lives." -Mary Ann Brussat
A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. -Walt Whitman
The real mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, it is a reality to be experienced. - -J.J. Van der Leeuw
What is life? it is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-Crowfoot
My best Acquaintances are those
With Whom I spoke no Word—
The Stars that stated come to Town
Esteemed Me never rude
Although to their Celestial Call
I failed to make reply—
My constant—reverential Face
Sufficient Courtesy.
Oh Matchless
Earth, We
underrate the
chance to
dwell in thee.
-Emily Dickinson
If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else,
you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the Earth.
And this is the voice of the earth. -Joseph Campbell
We are surrounded by a rich and fertile mystery. -Henry David Thoreau
Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows.
The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world. -Jane Smiley
The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred. -N. Scott Momaday
The arch of sky and mightiness of storms
Have moved the spirit within me,
Till I am carried away
Trembling with joy.
-Uvavnuk, Inuit shaman
I, the fiery life of divine essence, am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows,
I gleam in the waters, and I burn in the sun, moon, and stars....I awaken everything to life.
-Hildergard of Bingen
Every natural object is a conductor of divinity.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. -Marie Curie
From wonder into wonder existence opens. -Lao-tzu
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.
African Proverb
I have noticed that as soon as you have soldiers the story is called history.
Before their arrival it is called myth, folktale, legend, fairy tale, oral poetry, ethnography.
After the soldiers arrive, it is called history.
Paula Gunn Allen
Better than a thousand hollow words,
Is one word that brings peace.
Buddha
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
Alice Walker
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
We must always take sides.
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Weisel
We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it.
Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness.
Tear out arrogance and seed humility.
Exchange love for hate --- thereby, making the present comfortable
and the future promising.
Maya Angelou
If you would preserve peace, then prepare for peace.
Barthelemy Enfantin
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we
belong to each other. ~ Mother Teresa
I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source.
I salute that Source in you.
Let us work together for unity and love.
~ Mahatma Gandhi's Prayer for Peace
The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply
rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. ~ Albert Schweitzer
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach off every
hand.
Anyone may gather it and no limit is set.
Everyone can reach
this love through meditation, spirit of prayer and sacrifice,
by an intense inner life. ~ Mother Teresa
Love one another but make not a bond of love,
let there be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.
Kahlil Gibran
There are no guarantees.
From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough.
From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Emmanuel
There is a sense of universal responsibility that touches every aspect of modern life.
Nowadays, important events which take place in one part of the world
end up having consequences all around the planet.
For this reason, we have to consider that every major local
problem is of global concern as soon as it appears.
It is no longer possible to invoke the national, racial or ideological barriers
which separate us, without destructive repercussions.
In this context of our new interdependence, taking care of the interests of others
is the best form of selfishness... H.H. the Dalai Lama
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is
only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it
even more fully in your heart.~ St. Francis Of Assisi
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
-- Martin Luther King
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Marianne Williamson
I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Howard Zinn
If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy
which uplifts those who are around you.
If you can maintain this habit, this energy will turn
into a steady flow of love. ~ Annamalai Swami
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one. -- John Lennon
All we are saying is give peace a chance... -- John Lennon
The way of peace is the way of love.
Love is the greatest power on earth.
It conquers all things. -- Peace Pilgrim
Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities
all come in communities.
The singular cannot in reality exist. ~ Paula Gunn Allen
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality
when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
Isabel Allende
We can create a world at peace, one person at a time.
Each person at peace brings more peace to the world.
Every personal encounter is a chance to bring peace to the world.
In every personal encounter, we can bring some peace to the world.
In every personal encounter, I will give only peace to the world.
Charles David Heineke
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed.
But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
The attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be
in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each.
Gandhi
Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them.
We must live by the love of what we will never see.
This is the secret discipline.
It is a refusal to let the creative act be dissolved away in immediate sense experience,
and a stubborn commitment to the future of our grandchildren.
Such disciplined love is what has given prophets, revolutionaries, and saints
the courage to die for the future they envisaged.
They make their own bodies the seed of their highest hope.
Ruben Alves Tomorrow’s Child
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
If an elephant has it’s foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral,
the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.
Joan Baez
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving. ~ Mary Catherine Bateson
It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian,
don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war:
to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism,
and most entertainingly, to "rid the world of evil-doers. ~ Arundhati Roy
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains
and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. ~ Arundhati Roy
One must care about a world one will never see.
Bertrand Russell
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
God grant me the courage to change the things I can,
the patience to accept the things I can't,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
The Serenity Prayer
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind,
a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa
World peace is us....
We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us.
Kathleen Vande Kieft
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. ~ Heda Bejar
Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God. ~ Leon Bloy
In India when we meet and part we often say, 'Namaste,'
which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides;
I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides;
I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace.
I honor the place within you where if you are in that place
in you and I am in that place in me,
there is only one of us..
Namaste. ~ Ram Dass
The young monk asked the master: How can I ever get emancipated?
The master answered: Who has ever put you in bondage?
A Zen Story
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we,
but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
The love of one's country is a splendid thing.
But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals
I am only one; but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.
I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller
If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers.
We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One
that they are responsible for their lives.
Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice.
We can make our choices built from love or from fear..
Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
There is no way to peace.
Peace is the way.
A.J. Muste
'You see things; and you say Why?'
But I dream things that never were;
and I say 'Why not?' -- George Bernard Shaw
If you live alone, whose feet will you wash?
The Mystery
Beauty is before me, and beauty behind me,
Above me and below me hovers the beautiful.
I am surrounded by it, I am immersed in it.
In my youth, I am aware of it,
And, in old age I shall walk quietly the beautiful trail.
In beauty it is begun.
In beauty it is ended.
-- Navajo Prayer
Who will hold my hand?
Who will send the energy on to weave a circle of light?
I call on the light,
I call to the Lord and the Lady, whatever you wish to call them,
I call to the four corners of the Earth,
Strengthen this circle and let the power grow,
Let the love flow!
--A Druidic Prayer
I am open to the guidance of synchronicity,
and do not let expectations hinder my path.
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
-- Dalai Lama, The Millennium prayer
Celtic Commandments
Give thou thine heart to the wild magic,
To the Lord and the Lady of Nature,
Beyond any consideration of this world.
Do not covet large or small,
Do not despise weakling or poor,
Semblance of evil allow not near thee,
Never give nor earn thou shame.
The Ancient Harmonies are given thee,
Understand them early and prove,
Be one with the power of the elements,
Put behind thee dishonour and lies.
Be loyal to the Lord of the Wild Wood,
Be true to the Lady of the Stars,
Be true to thine own self besides,
True to the magic of Nature above all else.
Do not thou curse anyone,
Lest thou threefold cursed shouldst be,
And shouldst thou travel ocean and earth,
Follow the very step of the ancient trackways.
--From the carmina gadelica, ancient celtic oral tradition
I am the Creator that Dreams
by Mystery School Initiate, Ember Flower
I am the Creator that dreams
I am the Creation
I am the atom, the molecule and the space in between
I am the trees and the forest, the wind and the air
The stars and the twinkle
I dance the cosmic dance , I am the dance
I am you and you are me
There is no separation only oneness
I am thought I am matter
I am love and I am joy
I am sadness and sorrow
I am he and I am she, and I am it
I am the flower and the stone
I am the heartbeat and the rain
The sorrow and the pain
The moon and the stars
I am all and all is me
Life is my thought and my dream
I am all there is and all there is, is me
I am now and becoming
Forever unfolding in the mist of time.
I dream and so it is
You are child of light, I am the Flame of Life
No separation exists, only union
The child lives within the flame
Feel my presence, feel my magic
All is magic, all is life, my beloved flower
Allow the joy and love to flow through you
And out there.
As you touch the word know that it is my hand and my voice
As the world touches you, know that it is I
Feel the exchange folding back into itself
As I touch your mind know that you are transformed
Never to be the same again
Transformed from darkness to light
From sleeping to wakefulness,
And so the world awakes, one cell at a time
One cell in happy awareness of union with the divine
Your time has come daughter of Light arise in your wakefulness
and help to create paradise, in love and joy
Be a conscious participant Live in the now.
Not tomorrow or yesterday but in the only time that is real, eternity.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
-- Seneca
Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word,
and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise.
Zoroaster
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