Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity
© Voltaire @quote
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you
© Nathaniel Hawthorne @quote
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned
© Buddha @quote
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
© Samuel Johnson @quote
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down
© Ray Bradbury @quote
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
© James Freeman Clarke @quote
Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship
© Benjamin Franklin @quote
Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun
© John Lennon @quote
By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better and we can prepare for a better future.
© Thich Nhat Hanh @quote
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers
© Orison Marden @quote
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
© Confucius @quote
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same
© Ralph Emerson @quote
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful
© Albert Schweitzer @quote
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm
© Winston Churchill @quote
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us
© Alexander Bell @quote
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
© Oscar Wilde @quote
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible
© Walter Lippmann @quote
Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible
© Mary Bethune @quote
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
© Joseph Campbell @quote
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself
© Eleanor Roosevelt @quote
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom
© Theodore Rubin @quote
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do
© Leonardo da Vinci @quote