“For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to–a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.” - Helen Keller-
“We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.”-- Jean Houston
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As with any addiction or bad habit, your goal is not to control anger, or to channel it or moderate it, your goal is to eliminate it. That is my goal and I will try to persuade you it should be your goal too.
- Terry Clayton in “A do it yourself manual for anger junkies”
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger - buddha
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The Surest Sign That Intelligent Life Exists Elsewhere In The Universe;
Is The Fact That It Has Never Tried To Contact Us!
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“My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.” - Brennan Manning-
“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.” -Brennan Manning- ( Abba’s Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging)
“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.” - Brennan Manning-
“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.”-- Rosa Parks
“We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.”-- Roderick Thorp
Once you accept life as an opportunity to manifest what according to you is the most beautiful expression, then work diligently as a good gardener or farmer and take care of the soil, it’s natural fertility, not allowing weeds to eat away the essence and putting the best seeds to germinate and grow into the most awesome garden with flowers and fruits and biodiversity. Don’t own the garden. Be a gardener and enjoy the garden of life. It is all your creation. It is how you interpret Life! ~~Bodhi
“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.”-- Carl Schurz
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“I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.” -Brennan Manning-
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens."- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”-- Edward De Bono
“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen.” - J.B. Phillips-
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.”-- Georgia O’Keeffe
Moods are our emotional states. They swing, they droop, they drive us nuts. We may be pretty intelligent and smart but emotionally very susceptible to unpredictability. Meditation, pure observation, being in the present without being gripped by old memories and future fears, are simple ways to grow emotionally smart too!
It is not enough to be high in IQ (intelligence quotient) today, it could fan the curse of ego; meditate and turn that into blessings by being equally high in emotional intelligence (EQ).
~~Bodhi
“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.”-- Pema Chedron
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“The nature of Christ’s salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.” -A. W. Pink-
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That’s a keeper, FL!
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent."-- Sir Isaac Newton
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”-John Bunyan-
“What we perceive as a failure may simply be our inner being’s way of telling us that we are ready to move to a new level of growth.”-- Anne Wilson Schaef
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“I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor a sappy spirituality that portrays God as such a benign teddy bear that there is no aberrant behavior or desire of mine that he will not condone. I want a relationship with the Abba of Jesus, who is infinitely compassionate with my brokenness and at the same time an awesome, incomprehensible, and unwieldy Mystery. ” - Brennan Manning-