Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. Henry David Thoreau
“It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J. K. Rowling
“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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From John Donne, when he thought he was sick from the Plague in 1625:
“Since I am coming to that holy room,
Where, with thy choir of saints for evermore,
I shall be made thy music; as I come
I tune the instrument here at the door,
And what I must do then, think here before.”
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“I have no idea what’s awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”― Albert Camus
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“Lord, when I feel that what I’m doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.” -Brennan Manning-
“In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.” -Brennan Manning-
“No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.” -Frederic William Farrar-
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”-- Maya Angelou
“When you say yes to God unconditionally, you have no idea how far this yes is going to take you. Certainly farther than you can guess and calculate beforehand… but just how far and in what form? At the same time, this yes is the sole, non-negotiable prerequisite of all Christian understanding, of all theology and ecclesial wisdom.” -Hans Urs von Balthasar-
If only we could have a mindset not to get affected by what others are doing that we don’t want to see. How others are living that we don’t want to live. Worrying about the future we are only losing sight of God’s infinite grace manifested moment to moment, available to those who are aware and conscious of the Moment, the present. Let us first find our inner anchor and then set out to set right the world.
We have done enough damage it is time we realise our innate divinity and heal Mother Earth.
~~Bodhi
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“If God gave me His power, I’d make a lot of changes. But if He gave me His wisdom ,I’d leave everything as it is.” -Chas. S. Peirce-
“It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.” -Charles Sanders Peirce
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If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap. If you want happiness for a day - go fishing. If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else."-- Chinese Proverb
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It is not expedient that all truths be indiscriminately communicated to every student regardless of age or temperament. Premature truths can do more harm than good; for just as it is criminal to anticipate the age of puberty with indiscrete revelations, similarly, intellectual irresponsibility on the part of the teacher can be vicious. Between the desire to tell all and to tell nothing, the educator must find a middle path. For example, if there is a real value to be realized in educating elementary school children in love of country, it is questionable whether the teacher should make it his or her business to make a parade of all the skeletons in the history of American or French diplomacy or military enterprises on the grounds that the child has the right to know all. Again, while the instructor may himself be passing through a phase of disillusionment, he is not really carrying out his trust if he seeks to poison other minds because of his own momentary personal problems.
James M. Somerville, Total Commitment: Blondel’s L’Action (Washington, D.C.: Corpus Books, 1968), pp. 161-162.
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“Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.” -Brennan Manning-
“When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.” -Brennan Manning-
Oh! Lord, what am I to ask you?
At the root of my existence you are, fulfilling every wish of mine, taking care of me when I am lost in unconsciousness in deep sleep. You are my Mother and Father in One. Everytime I am faced with the toughest challenge, when my faith in you trembled, You came to me and whispered your silent Presence and I felt safe and secure in your lap.
Oh my Beloved! You are Love. You are Peace. You are the eternal Light!
~~Bodhi
“Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life and is prophetic of eternal good.”-- Petrarch
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