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Shards of Truth |
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2022 |
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It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over. - Paulo Coelho Posted December 27, 2022
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending. - Fred Rogers Posted December 18, 2022
There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. - Aldous Huxley Posted December 11, 2022
Bees suck nectar from many different flowers, and then make honey. One drop of honey cannot claim to come from one flower, and another drop of honey from another flower. - The Upanishads Posted December 4, 2022
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. - Buddha Posted November 27, 2022
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. - W.T. Purkisera Posted November 20, 2022
Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it. - Osho Posted November 13, 2022
Damn the wars but bless the soldier. - T. L. Moffitt Posted November 6, 2022
One is rich in proportion to the number of things which they can afford to let loose. - Adapted from Henry David Thoreau Posted October 30, 2022
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. - Rabindranath Tagore Posted October 23, 2022
The mind is free to create its demons or its guardians. - Caine-ism Posted October 16, 2022
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. - Chief Joseph, Chief of the Nez Percé Tribe Lincoln Hall speech, Washington DC January 14, 1879 Posted October 9, 2022
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on the earth. - Thich Nhat Hanh Posted October 2, 2022
When Summer gathers up her robes of glory, And like a dream of beauty glides away. - Sarah Helen Whitman Posted September 23, 2022
We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world. - Laurie Anderson Live At Town Hall New York City September 19-20, 2001 Posted September 11, 2022
There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana Posted September 4, 2022
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? - Kahlil Gibran Posted August 28, 2022
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. - Maya Angelou Posted August 21, 2022
Together, even specs of dusts will make a mountain. - Japanese Saying Posted August 12, 2022
Let not the fruit of action be your motive to action. Your business is with action alone, not with the fruit of action. - The Bhagavad Gita Posted August 7, 2022
If there isn't long, then there isn't short. If there isn't front, then there isn't rear. If there isn't good, then there isn't bad. As long as one side exists, there is the other side. That's a natural law ... - Unknown Posted July 31, 2022
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. - Chadian Proverb Posted July 24. 2022
The purpose of training is to tighten the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit. - Morihei Ueshiba Posted July 17, 2022
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. - Walt Whitman Posted July 10, 2022
... freedom for some is freedom for none. - President Cyril Ramaposa South Africa (27 April 2020) Posted July 3, 2022
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. - Sam Keen Posted June 26, 2022
Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation. - Coretta Scott King Posted June 19,2022
Where you stand, where you are, that’s what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That’s what it is. - Taizin Maezumi Posted June 12, 2022
As a beautiful flower that is full of hue but lacks fragrance, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who does not practice it. - The Dhammapada Posted June 5, 2022
Oh, tell me not that they are dead — that generous host, that airy army of invisible heroes. They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this nation. - Henry Ward Beecher Posted May 29, 2022
… if one’s standards are not correct, then misfortune may come in the guise of what they desire, and they will construe it as good fortune, or good fortune may come in the guise of what they hate and they will mistake it for misfortune. In this way, one becomes deluded as to the true nature of good and bad fortune. - Hsun Tzu Posted May 22, 2022
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. - Thích Nhất Hạnh Posted May 15, 2022
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take. - Gaspard Mermillod Posted May 8, 2022
… and your very flesh shall be a great poem … - Walt Witman Posted May 1, 2022
Look after the land and the land will look after you, destroy the land and it will destroy you. - Aboriginal Proverb. Posted April 24,2022
A man of leisure will never taste the fruit of success. - Chinese Proverb Posted April 17, 2022
Experience is not a kind teacher, but it is always a truthful one. - Chinese Proverb Posted April 10, 2022
Do not hope to reach a destination without leaving the shore. - Chinese Proverb Posted March 30, 2022
To move a big mountain, begin by removing the small stones. - Chinese Proverb Posted March 27, 2022
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming. - Pablo Neruda Posted March 20,2022
Patience is wisdom in waiting. - Chinese Proverb Posted March 13, 2022
To abandon something halfway is to fail completely. - Chinese Proverb Posted March 6. 2022
War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse. - M*A*S*H Posted February 27, 2022
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. - Abraham Lincoln Posted February 20, 2022
Wisdom tells me I am nothing; love tells me I am everything. Between the two, my life flows. - Nisargadatta Maharaj Posted February 13, 2022
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - C. S. Lewis Posted February 6, 2022
In the struggle between the stone and the water, in time, the water wins. - Chinese Proverb Posted January 30, 2022
Being able to trust in others softens us and leaves us open not only to hurt and disappointment but to love and friendship. - Nancy Nyquist Potter Posted January 23, 2022
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Posted January 16, 2022
When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom. - Proverbs 11:2 Posted January 9, 2022
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself. - Neil Gaiman Posted January 1, 2022 |
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