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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

Collected by Dr. Judi Neal

Director of the Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace

This collection is meant for personal inspiration, and is not to be sold. You are invited to

use these quotes in your presentations, in your writing, and in your classes. These quotes

have been collected from books, emails, and the internet. While every effort has been

made to assure proper attribution, in some cases errors may have been made, or attribution

is missing. Please let us know if you have any corrections. We apologize for any

duplication.

“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die -

whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.”—Gilda Radner

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in

prayer." Gandhi

"It is I who must begin. without grand speeches …but rather living in harmony with the

voice inside myself. I am not the only one. I am not the first one. I am not the most

important one." Vaclav Havel

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

You lived first, and you are older than all need, older than all prayer. All things belong to

you - the two-legged, the four-legged, the wings of the air, and all green things that live.

You have set the powers of the four quarters of the earth to cross each other. You have

made me cross the good road, and the road of difficulties, and where they cross, the place is

holy. Day in, day out, forevermore, you are the life of things.

Black Elk

Oglala Sioux

"We have places of fear inside of us, but we have other places as well—places with names

like trust, and hope, and faith. We can choose to lead from one of those places, to stand on

ground that is not riddled with the fault lines of fear ....now we stand on ground that will

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support us, ground from which we can lead others toward a more trustworthy, more

hopeful, more faithful way of being in the world." Parker Palmer

“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.” -- Ralph Waldo

Emerson

The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and

perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around

us... The alternative consciousness to be nurtured, on the one hand, serves to criticise in

dismantling the dominant consciousness. To that extent, it attempts to do what the liberal

tendency has done, engage in a rejection and de-legitimatizing of the present ordering of

things. On the other hand, that alternative consciousness to be nurtured serves to energise

persons and communities by its promise of another time and situation toward which the

community of faith may move.

Brueggemann, Walter (1978). The Prophetic Imagination, Fortress Press (p.13).

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at

whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” – Arthur Ashe

At a university commence speech in 2001, Bogle said,

"But a spirit of cooperation and togetherness is today more important than ever, especially

in our urban areas where enormous wealth and grinding poverty exist side by side, and

where, paradoxically, both extremes seem to lead away from the kind of community spirit

that is at the core of the civility that makes community living so worthwhile. I am not at all

embarrassed to mention the constructive role of religion in fostering these higher values.

While I won't dwell now on the Christian values I cherish so deeply, I would note that

virtually all religions preach the existence of a supreme being, the virtues of a Golden Rule,

and standards of conduct that parallel the Ten Commandments. We thrive as human beings

and as families, not by what faith we happen to hold, but by having faith, faith in

something far greater than ourselves."

"Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world while

holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind

for you." Caroline Myss

"...the radical questions we most need to ask in times of transition (when our world is

burning) are those addressed to the solitary self, those concerning the intimate relationship

between I and thou, and those that have to do with the commonwealth within which we live

and move and have our being."

Sam Keene

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"At present, people create barriers between each other by their fragmentary thought. Each

one operates separately. When these barriers have dissolved, then there arises one mind,

where they are all one unit, but each person also retains his or her own individual

awareness. That one mind will still exist even when they separate, and when they come

together, it will be as if they hadn't separated. It's actually a single intelligence that works

with people who are moving in relationship with one another. . . . If you had a number of

people who really pulled together and worked together in this way, it would be remarkable.

They would stand out so much that everyone would know they were different."

~David Bohm (physicist, philosopher, & mystic)

"At the center of the universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best

for every person. Anything we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional

growth of our fellow human beings that is our job. Those of us who have this particular

vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service." - Fred Rogers

"We obviously cannot confront this tangled world alone.... It takes no great insight to

realize that we have no choice but to think together, ponder together, in groups and

communities. The question is how to do this. How to come together and think and hear

each other in order to touch, or be touched by, the intelligence we need." Jacob Needleman,

Centered on the Edge.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

-- Chinese Proverb

“I awake in the morning torn between the desire to save the world and savor the world.

It makes it hard to plan the day. “ E.H. White

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.” -- Pablo Picasso

The Blackwinged Night…..Creativity in Nature and Mind…by F. David Peat

An excerpt from the last page….

“Creativity is ever present. It streams through the firmament. It envelopes and nurtures

each moment of time, and, if we will but allow it to enter, it will flow through our lives and

embrace us. But, like any gift freely given, it will foster an obligation within us, for gifts

should be exchanged. And so, we must take that creativity that is offered to us, in whatever

form it comes, and try to use it wisely. We must use it with kindness, compassion (your

word…) and engagement. In this way, its fruits will grow and multiply, and so we can

return them to society, nature and the cosmos. The rest is up to us, for with intelligence and

love, we too can move the world by that millionth of an inch.”

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"May the time come when men, having been awakened to a sense of the close bond linking

all the movements of this world in the single, all-embracing work of the Incarnation, shall

be unable to give themselves to any one of their tasks without illuminating it with the clear

vision that their work - however elementary it may be - is received and put to good use by a

Centre of the universe. When that comes to pass, there will be little to separate life in the

cloister from the life of the world. And only then will the action of the children of heaven

(at the same time as the action of the children of the world) have attained the intended

plenitude of its humanity."

Teilhard de Chardin, P. (1960). Le Milieu Divin. London, Collins. (p. 40).

"The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human - these

are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of

all others. They will open only to an advance of all together, in a direction in which all

together (footnote in original: even if they do so only under the influence of a few, an elite)

can join and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth."

Teilhard de Chardin, P. (1966). The Phenomenon of Man. London, Collins. (pp. 244-245).

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental

emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a

stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out

candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our

minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is

religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man. Einstein

"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and

absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day;

begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old

nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations,

to waste a moment on yesterdays." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space

travel or the release of nuclear energy, but as the time when the peoples of the world first

came to take one another seriously.’

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Huston Smith, The World’s Religions

‘The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered in future centuries not as an age of

political conflict or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to

think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.’

Arnold Toynbee

"A new light is coming to the world. We are on the borderland of a new experience. The

veil between Spirit and matter is very thin. The invisible passes into visibility through our

faith in it. A new science, a new religion, and a new philosophy are rapidly being

developed. This is in line with the evolution of the great Presence and nothing can hinder

its progress. It is useless, as well as foolish, to make any attempts to cover this Principle, or

to hold It as a vested right of any religion, sect or order. The Truth will out; the Spirit will

make Itself known. Happy are we if we see these things which, from the foundation of the

human race, have been longed for by all aspiring souls." Ernest Holmes, Science of Mind

"The Power is Spirit, and It desires to express Itself through you with total clarity. It takes

some courage and effort to create a channel for that clear expression to unfold, but the

rewards are beyond measure. Not material rewards, although that may be a secondary

effect, but more importantly a deep and profound feeling of connection - that you

BELONG." ~ Sacred Thinking, page 102

"The Universal Human is, connected through the heart to the whole of life; attuning to the

deeper design of creation; experiencing a more cosmic consciousness; and desirous of

expressing unique creativity for the good of the self and the whole." ~ Barbara Marx

Hubbard describing the next stage of conscious evolution as quoted in Sacred Thinking,

page 75.

"The urge to link up in collaborative arrangements is perhaps the oldest, strongest, and

most fundamental force in Nature. There are no solitary creatures, every form of life is

dependent on other forms.”

Lewis Thomas

In times of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find

themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffer

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Ultimately, humanity is one, and this small planet is our only home. If we are to protect

this home of ours, each of us needs to feel a vivid sense of universal altruism. It is only this

feeling that can remove the self-centered motives that cause people to deceive and misuse

one another. If you have a sincere and open heart, you naturally feel self-worth and

confidence, and there is no need to be fearful of others. H.H. Dalai Lama

"Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues,

the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or

great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a

world that yields most painfully to change. And I believe that in this generation those with

the courage to enter the moral conflict will find themselves with companions in every

corner of the globe."

Eulogy of Bobby Kennedy by Ted Kennedy

Impossible is not a fact... it's an opinion. What's impossible only remains so until someone

finds a way to do what others are sure can't be done - Anthony Robbins

"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together." - Eugene Ionesco

(Romanian playwright)

When in any particular moment or period of your life —

where dynamic growth for any reason has just occurred —

the lack of the old familiar fit with all its patterns nestled neatly into your

accustomed environment will cause considerable angst.

Fitting back into the older patterns requires a refusal

to accommodate your new growth.

This refusal and then reversal of growth will instantly

take place through the 'groping' for familiarity.

Then you are left wondering what has gone wrong . . .

while slightly relieved that you are back to "normal."

If, on the other hand, you allow this angst to simply state its

case of uncertainty without accommodating or reacting to it,

and then relax your resistance to the unfamiliar;

the new growth will find its new patterns in your new

environment and ultimately become the new familiar.

In other words . . . Don't try to fit in . . . you fit perfectly in you.

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By allowing the discomfort of not fitting in to simply be what it is;

the arena around you is forced to comply with and verify you in your new form. This

requires great quantities of faith and trust,

and it is not so very easy, but it is ultimately extremely rewarding.

Remember: the only constant in this universe is change . . .

"become the change you want to see."

A leader is best

When people barely know he exists

Not so good when people obey and acclaim him

Worse when they despise him

But of a good leader, who talks little

When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,

They will say,

“We did it ourselves”

Lao-Tzu

Keepers of the Garden

Chris Sigillo

As great as learning is, it is important to realize that knowledge is meaningless unless we

apply what we have learned. The seeds of knowledge will blow away in the wind unless

they are planted in our everyday life. The seedlings must be tended regularly by watering

and weeding if they are to bloom. Then the Fall winds will blow the seeds of the blooms

to new areas in hopes of more widespread growth. We are merely keepers of the garden.

The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without

work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without

morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without

principles.

MK Gandhi, Young India, 22-10-1925

God doesn’t call the qualified, he qualifies the called.

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True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students

to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to

create their own. -Nikos Kazantzakis, poet and novelist (1883-1957)

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Lao Tzu

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an

encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who

rekindle the inner spirit. Albert Schweitzer

"Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our

understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our

sphere of usefulness"

Abdu'l Baha

“The problems we face today ~ violent conflicts, poverty, hunger ~ can be

resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense

of brotherhood and sisterhood.” Dali Lama

An Evolutionary Life

What motivates us to make the important choices that we make? Are these

choices informed by the deepest insights and the highest perspectives that we

have seen? Or are these choices driven by conditioned impulses or

unquestioned “shoulds” that we’ve unconsciously absorbed from the

unenlightened world around us? If the choices we make are motivated by

anything less than the very highest part of ourselves, we will always, at some

level, experience a sense of unease, as if something is wrong that we can’t

quite grasp. Unless the important choices that we make are in alignment with

the highest we have seen, reaching towards our own edge, we will always be

spiritually dissatisfied. We will not feel whole. But when this changes in a

dramatic way, when the important choices we make become a genuine

reflection of our own deepest and highest knowing, then we’re going to

experience what it means to be alive in a completely new way. We’ll be living

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at our own edge. In fact, we’re going to have to run just to keep up with that

edge. Once we’ve made the choice to align with our own higher but as yet

unmanifest potentials, undoubtedly we will become even more painfully

aware of the many parts of ourselves that are very far from that edge. So we

are going to have to spend most of our time doing all we can just to catch up

with our own extraordinary potential. But that’s what it means to live a truly

evolutionary life. It’s the ultimate challenge and the biggest thrill that there

is—always living on that edge.

Andrew Cohen

"The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who

knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt." ~Frederick

Buechner

Let us be united,

Let us speak in harmony,

Let our minds apprehend alike.

Common be our prayer,

Common be the end of our assembly,

Common be our resolution,

Common be our deliberations.

Alike be our feelings,

Unified be our hearts,

Common be our intentions,

Perfect be our unity.

- From the Rig Veda

(The Rig Veda is a collection of more than a thousand hymns written between 1200 and

900 B.C. by people known as Aryans, who came to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India from

the Eurasian steppes to the north. The Rig Veda is one of the earliest known writings

written in any Indo-European language. Additionally: Rigveda samhita is a vast book of

more than ten thousand verses in several metres in ancient Sanskrit. Rigveda is the only

scripture among those of all religions in which the wisdom was revealed to both women

and men sages.)

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"When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the

darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be

something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly." – Patrick Overton

When channeling the forces of heaven

The boundaries of your being create flow

As canyon walls transform lakes into rivers.

The soul free from dogma

Permits an unobstructed stream:

The freer the soul, the freer the flow.

Thus, use your limits as allies

That you may produce unlimited results.

Tao of Healing p. 59:

"These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life...

that great characters are formed. Great necessities call forth great leaders."

Abigail Adams (1744-1818) in a letter to Thomas Jefferson

"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if

there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if

there were no dark valleys to traverse."

Helen Keller; blind and deaf educator (1880-1968)

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo Da Vinci

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."

Chinese Proverb.

A pessimist never discovered the secrets of the stars, or uncharted land, or opened a new

heaven to the human spirit. – Helen Keller

"To change one's life: Start Immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions." - William

James

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The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

Paul Hawken

"Music is a higher revelation

than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music is the electrical soil

in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents."

~ Ludwig van Beethoven ~

"We each must become like fishermen, and go out onto the dark ocean of mind, and let

your nets down into that sea.

"And what you're after is not some behemoth that will tear through your nets, foul them,

and drag you and your little boat into the abyss. Nor are we looking for a bunch of sardines,

that can slip through your net and disappear, ideas like 'have you ever noticed that your

little finger exactly fits your nostril' and stuff like that.

"What we are looking for are middle-sized ideas that are not so small that they are trivial,

and not so large that they are incomprehensible, but middle-sized ideas that we can wrestle

into our boat and take back to the folks on shore, and have fish dinner.

"And every one of us, this is what we should be looking for. It's not for your elucidation,

it's not part of your self-directed psychotherapy; you are an explorer, and you represent our

species.

"And the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is

endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of

consciousness.

"And so, to whatever degree, any one of us can bring back a small piece of the picture, and

contribute it to the building of the new paradigm.

Then we participate in the redemption of the human spirit."

- Terence McKenna

“Matter is energy. In the universe, there are many energy fields which we cannot normally

perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person’s soul. However,

this soul does not exist ab initio, as orthodox Christianity teaches; it has to be brought into

existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved, owing

to man’s unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.”

– Harry of the Very Big Corporation of America

From Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life

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A Higher Perspective

We often hear spiritually oriented people say things like “We need to find a way to

integrate what we have realized in the experiences of higher states of consciousness into

our everyday lives.” But that doesn't make any sense to me. The whole notion of

integrating the higher into the lower, the profound into the mundane, the extraordinary into

the ordinary, is something that I have always found difficult to understand, hard to accept,

and quite unattractive. I have never been interested in integrating the higher into the lower.

I always wanted to realize that which was higher and then find a way to express that in the

most authentic way possible. I didn't want to have to bring anything back from a higher

place; I wanted to enter into that higher place and be able to stay there and see what the

world looked like from there. And most of all, I wanted to find out what it would mean to

create a completely new world from this higher perspective.

Andrew Cohen

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign

them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we

mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so

deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own

consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any

moment, and being love is a supreme creative act."

- Ram Dass

KEEP THE CHANNEL OPEN

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into

action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.

And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost.

The world will not have it.

It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how valuable, nor how it compares

with other expressions.

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It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work.

You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you.

Keep the channel open...

No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer

divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive

than the others.

Agnes de Mille, The Life and Work of Martha Graham, Random House, 1991, p. 264

"I do not want to talk about what you understand about this world. I want

to know what you will do about it. I do not want to know what you hope. I

want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the

needs of humanity. I want your muscle."

- Robert Fulgrum

...At the end of his talk someone from the audience asked the Dalai Lama,

"Why didn't you fight back against the Chinese?"

The Dalai Lama looked down, swung his feet just a bit, then looked back up at us and said

with a gentle smile,

"Well, war is obsolete you know. "

Then, after a few moments, his face grave, he said,

"Of course the mind can rationalize fighting back ... but the heart, the heart would never

understand. Then you would be divided in yourself, the heart and the mind, and the war

would be inside you."

"We can choose to make the success of all humanity our personal business. We can choose

to be audacious enough to take responsibility for the entire human family. We can choose

to make our love for the World what our lives are really about.

Each of us now has the opportunity, the privilege to make a difference in creating a

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World that works for all of us. It will require courage, audacity and heart. It is much more

radical than a revolution, it is the beginning of a transformation in the quality of life on our

planet. You have the power to fire a shot heard around the World.

If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?"

-- Werner Erhard, 1979

BE STILL

by Ann Lewin from "Watching for the Kingfisher"

You do not have to look for

anything,

Just look.

You do not have to listen for

specific sounds,

Just listen.

You do not have to accomplish

anything.

Just be.

And in the looking

And the listening

And the being,

Find

Me.

"God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out

of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond

your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me."

- Rainer Maria Rilke, *Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God,*

translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy

“Spiritual masters have warned for centuries that wisdom cannot be contained. If you try to

hold its powerful energy inside, it will destroy you. When we give freely of what we have

learned, we teach by example, and the creative exchange that results fills us again and

again with new understanding.

It has been said that you cannot give what you do not have, but it is also true that you

cannot keep what you have without giving it away. Together, teaching and learning are the

soul of creativity. Our creative vitality arises from our generosity as teachers coupled with

our humility as learners. The two cannot be separated; they are the very heartbeat of the

creative self. “

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The Artists Way at Work, Julia Cameron

"There is a quiet revolution going on in the hearts, chat rooms, and

board rooms of corporations the world over. People are talking about

things that count. About issues of meaning, of value, of caring for each

other. It springs from a longing to be more than our job. But it arises

also from our desire to do great work, and to be deeply proud of the

organization we're part of."--- Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer,

Heartmath.com and Heartmath.org

At a certain point you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, "now

I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive." You empty yourself and wait,

listening. After a time you hear it: there is nothing there. There is nothing but those

things only, those created objects, discrete, growing or holding, or swaying,, being

rained on or raining, held, flooding or ebbing, standing, or spreading. You feel the

world's word as a tension, a hum, a single chorused note everywhere the same. This

is it: this hum is the silence . . . The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the

omega. It is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blended note of the

ten thousand things, the whine of the wings. You take a step in the right direction to

pray to the silence, and even to address the prayer to the "World." Distinctions blur.

Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing. -- Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and

applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."

- Gandhi

"I can't understand why people are afraid of new ideas, I'm afraid of the

old ones."

- John Cage

"The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. _Without this

special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be

no music."

- Lewis Thomas, *Lives of a Cell*

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

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Albert Einstein

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent

about things that matter." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We call upon all those who have lived on this earth, our ancestors and our

friends, who dreamed the best for future generations, and upon whose lives

our lives are built, and with thanksgiving, we call upon them to teach us,

and show us the Way.”

- Chinook (Native American) blessing litany, quoted in ‘The Essential

Mystics’ by Andrew Harvey, Castle Books 1998, p. 5

"On the day when

The weight deadens

On your shoulders

And you stumble,

May the clay dance

To balance you.

And when your eyes

Freeze behind

The grey window

And the ghost of loss

Gets in to you,

May a flock of colours

Indigo, red, green

And azure blue

Come to awaken in you

A meadow of delight.

When the canvas frays

In the curach of thought

And a stain of ocean

Blackens beneath you,

May there come across the waters

A path of yellow moonlight

To bring you safely home.

May the nourishment of the earth be yours,

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May the clarity of light be yours,

May the fluency of the ocean be yours,

May the protection of the ancestors be yours.

And so may a slow

Wind work these words

Of love around you,

An invisible cloak

To mind your life."

John O'Donohue

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self. One day the house smells of

fresh bread, the next of smoke and blood. One day you faint because the gardener cuts his

finger off, within a week you're climbing over corpses of children bombed in a subway.

What hope can there be if that is so? I tried to die near the end of the war. The same dream

returned each night until I dared not to go to sleep and grew quite ill. I dreamed I had a

child, and even in the dream I saw it was my life, and it was an idiot, and I ran away. But it

always crept onto my lap again, clutched at my clothes. Until I thought, if I could kiss it,

whatever in it was my own, perhaps I could sleep. And I bent to its broken face, and it was

horrible...but I kissed it. I think one must finally take one's life in one's arms.

o After the Fall (1964)

"We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as

insoluble problems."

John W. Gardner

"This is not

the age of information.

This is not

The age of information.

Forget the news,

And the radio,

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And the blurred screen.

This is the time

Of loaves and fishes.

People are hungry,

And one good word is bread

For a thousand."

(from "The House of Belonging")

David Whyte, author, "The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of Soul in

Corporate America").

"The destiny of the caterpillar is not to take flying lessons, but to be transformed into a

butterfly"

Urs Winzenried

I thank you God for this most amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a

blue true dream of sky; and for everything, which is natural... which is infinite... which is

yes. -- e.e. cummings

“Business, the motor of our society, has the opportunity to be a new creative force on the

planet, a force which could contribute to the well-being of many. For that to occur, we

must all substantially increase our commitment to integrity and accountability, and

courageously make a quantum leap in consciousness: beyond conventional solutions;

beyond opposing forces, beyond fear and hope.” John Hormann, Creative Work

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments,

but what is woven into the lives of others."

" Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is

within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself. "

-- Chin-Ning Chu

"For one human being to love another is the most difficult task. It's the

work for which all other work is mere preparation."

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-Rilke

"Some day after we have mastered the winds, the waves and gravity, we

will harness for God the energies of love; and then for a second time in

the history of the world, humans will have discovered fire."

-Teillard de Chardin

"Everything I understand, I understand only because I love."

-Leo Tolstoy

"If you do not love too much, you do not love enough."

-Pascal

"Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself."

-Emily Dickinson

"He is not a lover who does not love forever."

-Euripides

"Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love."

-St. Francis of Assisi

Risks

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.

To reach out to another is to risk involvement.

To explore feeling is to risk exposing our true Self.

To place your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd is to risk loss.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

To live is to risk dying.

To hope is to risk despair.

To try is to risk failure.

But to risk we must,

Because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing,

the man, the woman, who risk nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.

(Author unknown)

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" All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come "

-- Victor Hugo

Spiritual people often speak glowingly of wholeness and pursue if as an ideal. But the soul

is present in disintegration as well . . To be spiritual is to be taken over by a mysterious,

divine compulsion to manifest some aspect of life's deepest force. We become most who

we are when we allow the spirit to dismember us, unsettling our plans and understandings,

remaking us from the very foundations of our existence. Nothing is more challenging,

nothing less sentimental, than the invitation of spirit to become who we are and not

who we think we ought to be. --Thomas Moore

We are spiritual beings first and foremost. Therefore our work naturally has a spiritual

dimension to it, whether we’re conscious of it or not.

For me, work exists for two spiritual reasons: (a) for developing spiritual awareness in

everyone, including shareholders, management, employees, customers, suppliers, and

society; and (b) for serving others as an expression of our spiritual growth.

Spirit At Work (in our company we call it HeartShip) environment promotes Human

Values. These universal human values do not need to be taught or learned since they are

inherent in our spiritual nature; rather, they can be evoked or unveiled, sometimes by

unlearning the ways we keep them hidden. When a company understand this golden Truth,

they can help create a remarkable culture for all stakeholders to help work from their

spiritual nature of living in harmony of thought, word, and deed. Therefore Spirit At Work

is a way of life at work, it is "Journey of The Heart At Work (HeartShip)", it is about

building s "Spiritual Muscle for Life" to help us change our selves and the world.

If I had to summarize it in one sentence it is "Journey of the Heart At Work".

Jatin Desai, Desai Learning

To be a prophet, it's child's play. To know the world, to find your own place in it, to be just,

although you see everything, that is something beyond the power of prophets.

Maria Jotuni (1880-1943), Finnish novelist and playwright, whose works are not (yet)

available in English, see Finnish Literary Reader

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HOW TO DEMONSTRATE

from a letter by Mary Baker Eddy

I have learned a great secret. I have learned how to demonstrate. I

have learned how to make my science a thing of life and not of words,

and I am going to tell you what the wonderful secret is, for it is

wonderful.

It is this: Not to see or hear or report any kind of imperfection.

It is seeing, hearing and reporting good, and good only at all times,

and under all circumstances and in spite of everything that appears

to the contrary.

I make that resolution every morning when I first open my eyes and I

renew it every hour of the day. I see perfection-a perfect cause and

a perfect effect; a perfect God and a perfect man, and I refuse to

make any kind of exception.

I refuse to admit the slightest imperfection in myself, my friends,

my so-called enemies, in my affairs and in the world's affairs. I

take my radical stand for perfection of God and of everything and

everybody He has created. I look out on the world with God eyes and

I see it just as He sees it and I refuse to see it in any other way.

I don't try except for one day at a time. I stop a dozen times a day

and renew the resolve to make sure that I am not repeating error, or

giving way to fear or criticism. I watch my thought about people,

the lame, the old, the unlovely (to sense), that I pass in the street

and even about inanimate things and stray animals, and I exempt

nothing. I have taken my radical stand for perfection and I will

not, absolutely will not, relax that standard. The result has been

simply marvelous.

Try it and you will find that you forget your glasses, they will be

unnecessary. You will be seeing with God's eyes-His perfect sight

and you will behold a perfect Universe-the outward condition of your

inward thinking.

To change the picture one must change the thought which produces the

picture.

This is a great formula for PEACE. And it goes along with

Philippians 4:8 "...whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things

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are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,

whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report;

if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these

things." MAY PEACE FILL EVERY HEART AND MIND.

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever

been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your

intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing

what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.

Alan Alda (1936- ), American actor, born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo

From where I am lying here on the sand I can look right to Seventh Heaven and envision

everything that is transpiring in the four planes of the spirit world and the three planes of

heaven.....

Ta Ruahine, an old Hawaiian fisherwoman, mentioned by Leinani Melville in her book

Children of the Rainbow: The Religions, Legends, and Gods of Pre-Christian Hawaii

I have seen the science I worshipped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I

expected them to serve.

Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. (1902–1974), famous as first pilot to fly solo, non-stop across the

Atlantic Ocean, from New York to Paris, in 1927

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question,

'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience

asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must

take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must

take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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One thorny questions remains unanswered: How can something as immaterial as

consciousness ever arise from something as unconscious as matter?…. I now believe that

rather than trying to explain consciousness in terms of the material world, we should be

developing a new worldview in which consciousness is a fundamental component of

reality. The key ingredients for this new metaparadigm are already in place. We need not

wait for any new discoveries. All we need do is put various pieces of our existing

knowledge together and explore the new picture of reality that emerges.

Peter Russell, From Science to God, pp. 28-29.

When the mind is devoid of all content, we not only find absolute serenity and peace, we

also discover the true nature of the self.

Peter Russell, From Science to God, p. 79.

Nothing has to be achieved in order to be at peace. All we have to do is stop doing – stop

wanting things to be different, stop worrying, stop getting upset when things don’t go as we

would wish, or when people don’t behave as we think they should. When we stop doing all

the things that obscure the peace that is there at our core, we find that what we have been

seeking all along is there, waiting silently for us.

Peter Russell, From Science to God, p. 94

The love of which mystics speak is a very different form of love. It is an unconditional

love, a love that does not depend on another’s attributes or actions. It is not based on our

wants, needs, hopes, fears, or any other aspect of the materialist mindset. Unconditional

love is the love that springs forth when the mind has fallen silent, and for once we are free

from fear, evaluation and judgment. Like the peace we seek, this unconditional love is

always there at our core.

Peter Russell, From Science to God, p. 98

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see

the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die.

Niels Bohr

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed.

In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the

Power of the World always works in circles…Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is

the same religion as ours…Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and

always come back again to where they were… and so it is in everything where power

moves.

Black Elk Oglala Sioux Holy Man (1863-1950)

"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I

regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the

field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The

will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and

get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one."

-Richard M DeVos, Founder of Amway, now known as Alticor

I Have Learned So Much

I have learned so much from God

That I can no longer call myself

a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.

The Truth has shared so much of itself with me

that I can no longer call myself

a man, a woman, an angel

or even pure soul.

Love has befriended me so completely

It has turned to ash and freed me

of every concept and image

my mind has ever known.

-Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky in the book

*The Gift: Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master*

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The physicist David Bohm wrote:

"It is possible now for a number of individuals who are in close relations and who can trust

each other to establish a one-mind of that whole set of individuals.

In other words, that that consciousness is one, acting as one. If you had as many as ten

people, or a hundred people, who could really be that way, they would have a power

immensely beyond one….that would begin to ignite this whole consciousness of

mankind….This is absolutely what has to be done."

(taken from R. Weber, "The enfolding – unfolding universe: a conversation with David

Bohm" in "The Holographic Paradigm,")

"One single tone, sounding from every possible angle, forms the music of the world. The

musician's role is to translate that sound into love, sing it from the heart, and offer it back

to the world, transforming chaos and conflict into peace." -- Michael Fitzpatrick

"One must have chaos within oneself if one is to be a dancing star." -

Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music." -John

Keats, Letters of John Keats

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." -Robin

Williams

"When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a

good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself."

--Shunryu Suzuki, *Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind*

In the old Sufi legend about Allah, he decided to drive everybody crazy.

He changed the water so that everybody who drank it would go crazy.

And then he decided there was one man he liked a lot so he told him

'Don't drink the water for the next month!' And after the first couple of

days of living among all these lunatics the guy couldn't stand it any more

and he went and drank the water too.

"The same kind of thing happens every day. People become aware that

we're living in a crazy world and then they realize they can't live with that

insight so they go crazy themselves so they can fit into that world."

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-Robert Anton Wilson

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can

do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your

seat belt. The most remarkable things follow."

~Julia Cameron

Author - "The Artist's Way"

"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones

that are unconquerable."

~Theodore N. Vail

first president of AT&T(American Telephone & Telegraph)

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Dorothy Bernard (1890-1955), popular South African born actress, whose long career

began in silent films

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so

rare.

Mark Twain

"Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with

what happens to him."

~Aldous Huxley

English Novelist

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form

of a readiness to die.

Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936) English writer

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There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but

there will never be a dream exactly like your own...For you are

unique and more wondrous than you know!"

~ Linda Staten

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage

enough to stand by his own convictions.

Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) American philosopher, lawyer & orator

"I have listened. And I have looked with open eyes. I have poured

my soul into the world, seeking the unknown within the known. And I

sing out loud in amazement."

~Rabindranath Tagore

Indian Philosopher and Nobel prize winning author

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice

any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing

consistently without courage.

Maya Angelou (born April 4, 1928) American author, many books including I Know Why

the Caged Bird Sings Wouldn't Take Nothing fo! r My Journey Now

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the

source of your joy.

-Thich Nhat Hanh

The greatest discover of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering

his attitudes.

- William James

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You cannot be truthful if you are not courageous.

You cannot be loving if you are not courageous.

You cannot be trusting if you are not courageous.

You cannot enter into reality if you are not courageous.

Hence courage comes first... and everything else follows.

Osho, 1931-1990 Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously

"The laws of physics appear 'fine tuned' for our existence. Even slight

deviations in the laws would result in a universe devoid of stars and life. If,

for instance, the force of gravity were just a few percent weaker it could

not squeeze and heat the matter inside stars to the millions of degrees

that are necessary to trigger sunlight generating nuclear reactions. If

gravity were only a few percent stronger, however, it would heat up stars,

causing them to consume their fuel faster. They would not exist for the

billions of years needed for evolution to produce intelligence. This kind of

fine tuning is widespread." -Marcus Chown, "Radical Science: Did Angels

Create the Universe?," *The Independent,* March 15, 2002

"We are experiencing the initiation of the human race into a new level of

consciousness, and that is a very terrifying experience. It does no good to

turn and run from the terror of our darkness into light; we must sit it out:

zazen. We must take our counsel from The Tibetan Book of the Dead and

realize that these frightening projections of famines, economic disasters,

ecological catastrophes, floods, earthquakes, and wars are all only the

malevolent aspects of beneficent deities. If we sit and observe them, do

not identify with them, but remember our Buddha-nature, we will not be

dragged down by them into an incarnation of the hell they prefigure. If we

run from them, we validate them; we give the projections the very

psychic energy they need to overtake us. Then, as Jung has pointed out,

the situation will happen outside as fate."

-William Irwin Thompson, *Evil and World Order*

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

--Jalaluddin Rumi

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Creativity, when all is said and done, may be the best thing our species has going for it. It is

also the most dangerous.

Matthew Fox, Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet

Creativity… is a track in the snow left by our wanderings in the Divine Imagination.

Terence McKenna, Chaos, Creativity & Cosmic Consciousness

"Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive Intelligence

that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to

tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would

be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us."

-Terence McKenna

Do not follow where the path may lead.

Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Harold R. McAlindon

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in

the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they

have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or

vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things.

They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we

see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world,

are the ones who do.

Jack Kerouac

From his book: On The Road

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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new

model that makes the existing model obsolete.

- Buckminster Fuller

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“Real revolutionaries are people who look with a deep sense of humor upon their

institutions.”

Ivan Illich

“Until you are committed, there is hesitancy...Whatever you can do, or dream you can,

begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.” Goethe

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him. The unreasonable

man adapts surrounding conditions to himself. All progress depends on the unreasonable

man.” - George Bernard Shaw

“We must welcome the future

Remembering that soon it will be the past;

We must respect the past

Remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible.”

- George Santayana

"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only

when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully

determined not to quit until he finds it." - Alexander Graham Bell

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"We have every reason to look forward into the future with hope and

excitement. Fear nothing and no one. Work honestly. Be good, be

happy. And remember that each of you is unique, your soul your own,

irreplaceable, and individual in the miracle of your mortal frame."

~Pearl S. Buck

“Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like

trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on

stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes."

-Sri Ramana Maharshi

Just Like Me – Compassion Exercise

•Just like me, this person is seeking some happiness for his/her life.

•Just like me, this person is trying to avoid suffering in his/her life.

•Just like me, this person has known sadness, loneliness, and despair.

•Just like me, this person is seeking to fulfill his/her needs.

•Just like me, this person is learning about life.

"The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before

it happens." Rilke

"Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise; risking

more than others think is safe; dreaming more than others think is practical;

and expecting more than others think is possible."

- Source Unknown

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project,

all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations,

your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a

new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents

become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than

you ever dreamed yourself to be."

-- Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC)

"Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus

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your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild."

- Dante

My Dear Friends,

After years of preparations for Y2K and watching the global celebration of the new

Millennium; realizing that we are technologically, ecologically and spiritually woven

together in a web, I am reminded of the following words which have been attributed to

Chief Seattle, and though they have been proven to be historically inaccurate and not his

words, I thought they are appropriate for this day.

"Every part of the earth is sacred. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist

in the dark woods, every meadow, every humming insect. All are holy in the memory and

experience of my people. We know the sap which courses through the trees as we know the

blood that courses through our veins. We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The

perfumed flowers are our sisters. The bear, the deer, the great eagle, these are our brothers.

The rocky crests, the dew in the meadow, the body heat of the pony, and man all belong to

the same family.

The shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water, but the blood of

our ancestors. If we sell you our land, you must remember that it is sacred. Each glossy

reflection in the clear waters of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my

people. The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our

children. So you must give the rivers the kindness that you would give any brother.

If we sell you our land, remember that the air is precious to us, that the air shares its spirit

with all the life that it supports. The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also

received his last sigh. The wind also gives our children the spirit of life. So if we sell our

land, you must keep it apart and sacred, as a place where man can go to taste the wind that

is sweetened by the meadow flowers.

Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our

mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.

This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are

connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely

a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. "

Attributed to Chief Seattle. (Contributed by Chris Heintz)

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"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking

a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he

cannot achieve."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Faith and doubt belong together,

they govern each other like inhaling and exhaling."

Hermann Hesse: Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game)

(Contributed by Nils Cornelissen)

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

"The Master does his job and then stops, he understands that the

universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the

current of the Tao." Lao Tzu

"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness

which becomes at times almost insupportable."

- Victor Hugo

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by

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those who dared believe that something inside them was

superior to circumstance."

- Bruce Barton

The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of

this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual

development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (submitted by Cynthia Kahan)

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.

It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another

human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the

inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

(Submitted by Ted Peters)

"A "NO" uttered from deepest conviction is better and

greater than a "YES" merely uttered to please, or what

is worse, to avoid trouble."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to

remember from time to time that nothing that is worth

knowing can be taught. "

- Oscar Wilde

"What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort

is also what can teach us most."

- Matthew Arnold

"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then

will our world know the blessings of peace."

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- William E. Gladstone

"It's never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

Let It Flow

No person is an island.

And that includes you.

Many of us forget this fact. We get so caught up in our day-to-day struggles and our

internal egos that the rest of the world often seems to drift away. We come to regard

differences as more important than similarities. Instead of seeing everything and everyone

as a relation, we see everything and everyone as a barrier to our goals and dreams.

Well, dreams are great. But the reality is that you are, like it or not, connected to every

other living and non-living thing in the universe. And really, you should learn to like it.

Because if you embrace your interconnectedness, you'll never again feel lonely, depressed,

angry, or vain.

Instead, you'll develop the strength to carry a permanent sense of calm contentment with

you wherever you go. You won't get so upset when everything isn't going you're way.

You'll be able to place all actions in context. You'll get better at predicting and dealing with

reactions. And you'll feel more at peace -- as if you're moving along on an even keel -- at

all times.

Much Buddhist teaching focuses on interconnectedness, though all religions stress it to

some extent. Luckily, you needn't cloister yourself in a Tibetan monastery to begin to feel

and understand the power and profundity of becoming and staying aware of your

interconnectedness.

This may seem simplistic, but if you try it you'll see that it's true.

Simply stop what you're doing from time to time, and have a good look around you. Listen,

also. Feel the energy of the world flowing around you and through you. Contemplate how

you are part of that energy, rippling through others. Think of the universe as a river, and

yourself as a drop of water flowing within it, surrounded by countless other drops. It's no so

farfetched an image to conjure.

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And once you do get a good grasp on this sense of interconnectedness, you'll find that those

old feelings of loneliness, depression, vanity, and anger have evaporated.

by Ruth Marcozzi

Make this A Positive Day...unless you have other plans!

Sent by James Wendling, wendling @wendling.com

My eyes already touch the sunny hill,

going far ahead of the road I have begun.

So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;

it has its inner light, even from a distance --

and changes us, even if we do not reach it,

into something else, which, hardly sensing it,

we already are;

a gesture waves us on, answering our own wave...

but what we feel is the wind in our faces.

Rilke

The most exciting breakthrough of the 21st century will occur not because of technology

but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human."

--John Naisbitt, Megatrends 2000

It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of

an individual.

The next Buddha may take the form of a community;

a community practicing understanding and loving kindness,

a community practicing mindful living. This may be

the most important thing we can do for the survival of the

Earth.

When you work you fulfill a part of Earth's furthest dream,

assigned to you

when that dream was born,

And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth

loving life,

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And to love life through labour is to be intimate with

life's inmost secret.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Longer version:

Then a plowman said, "Speak to us of work."

And he answered, saying:

You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth. For to be idle

is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession, that

marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to

music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in

unison? Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune.

But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned

to you when that dream was born, and in keeping yourself with labor you are in truth

loving life, and to love life through labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.

But if you in your pain call birth an affliction and the support of the flesh a curse written

upon your brow, then I answer that naught but the sweat of your brow shall wash away

that which is written.

You have been told also life is darkness, and in your weariness you echo what was said

by the weary. And I say that life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge

is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is

work, and all work is empty save when there is love;

And when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to

God. And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from

your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with

affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with

tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It

is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit,

And to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching. Often have I

heard you say, as if speaking in sleep, "he who works in marble, and finds the shape of

his own soul in the stone, is a nobler than he who plows the soil. And he who seizes the

rainbow to lay it on a cloth in the likeness of man, is more than he who makes the

sandals for our feet."

But I say, not in sleep but in the over-wakefulness of noontide, that the wind speaks not

more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all the blades of grass;

And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his

own loving. Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with

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distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and

take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake

a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the

grapes, your grudge distills a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and

love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the

night.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Knowing other people is intelligence; knowing yourself is wisdom.”

Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained

through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller.

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels. Nikos Kazantzakis

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when

adults are afraid of the light. Plato (ca. 400 B.C.)

From "Pearls of Wisdom" by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, 1987, Harper & Row.

ISBN 0-06-096200-3 Paperback

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often

find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to

share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. -Henri Nouwen

Lesson #317 - I follow in the way appointed me.

1. I have a special place to fill; a role for me alone. Salvation waits until I take this part as

what I choose to do. Until I make this choice, I am the slave of time and human destiny.

But when I willingly and gladly go the way my Father's plan appointed me to go, then will I

recognize salvation is already here, already given all my brothers and already mine as well.

2. Father, Your way is what I choose today. Where it would lead me do I choose to go;

what it would have me do I choose to do. Your way is certain, and the end secure. The

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memory of You awaits me there. And all my sorrows end in Your embrace, which You

have promised to Your Son, who thought mistakenly that he had wandered from the sure

protection of Your Loving Arms. (Course in Miracles)

The handbook of the strategist has said:

'Do not invite the fight, accept it instead,'

'Better a foot behind than an inch too far ahead,'

Which means:

Look a man straight in the face and make no move,

Roll up your sleeve and clench no fist,

Open your hand and show no weapon,

Bare your breast and find no foe.

But as long as there be a foe, value him,

Respect him, measure him, be humble toward him;

Let him not strip from you, however strong he be,

Compassion, the one wealth which can afford him.

"Serenity is not freedom from the storm but peace within the storm."

"What is now proved, was once only imagined"

------ William Blake

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?"

--Mary Oliver, Collected Works

“For anything new to emerge there must first be a dream, an imaginative view of

what might be. For something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Then

venturesome persons with faith in that dream will persevere to bring it to reality.”

Robert Greenleaf

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave the consequences

to Him who has disposal of them. – Thomas Jefferson

The ends don’t justify the means; the means determine the ends. – Robert Greenleaf

“To know is to comprehend.

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Do you know, do you comprehend,

In this moment, who or what you serve?

We must all be serving someone or something.

Whom or what are you choosing

to serve right now?

It takes courage to ask this question of yourself.

But without courage, you can’t practice

any other value consistently.”

Maya Angelou

"The stakes in good work are necessarily high. Our competence may be

at stake in ordinary, unthinking work, but in good work that is a heartfelt

expression of ourselves, we necessarily put our very identities to hazard.

Perhaps it is because we know in the end, we are our gift to others and the

world. Failure in truly creative work is not some mechanical breakdown but

the prospect of a failure in our very essence, a kind of living death.

Little wonder we often choose the less vulnerable, more familiar approach,

that places work mostly in terms of provision. If I can reduce my image of

work to just a job I have to do, then I keep myself safely away from the

losses to be endured in putting my heart's desires at stake." David Whyte, Crossing the

Unknown Sea: Work as a pilgrimage of identity.” (sent by Jeremy Nash

JeremyNash@aol.com)

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is bliss, taste it.

Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it.

Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.

Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.

Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Life is life, fight for it.

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---Mother Theresa

"It is not the easy or convenient life that I seek, but life lived to the edge of all my

possibility." -- M.A. Rachmacher-Hersey

What is faith worth if it is not translated into action?-Gandhi

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his

attitude of mind. ~William James

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." -

Mahatma Gandhi

Ruth Ross, in her book Prospering Woman, states nine laws of prosperity. I believe in

them so much, use them in my own life, and feel they are so related to personal success

that I am including them here.

Law of Self-Awareness: "When we know who we are and what we want, we can have

what we want in life."

Law of Wanting: "Experiencing choice means knowing what we want and why we want

it."

Law of Planning: "Without planning there is no consistent prosperity."

Law of Releasing: "We must get rid of what we don't want to make room for what we do

want."

Law of Compensation: "There is a price for everything and we must always pay."

Law of Attraction: "We attract what we are."

Law of Visualization: "We become what we imagine, positive or negative."

Law of Affirmation: "We become what we want to be by believing and affirming that we

already are."

Law of Loving: "Whatever we want for ourselves, we must also want for others."

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I have created seven steps which I feel will bring success into your life.

Step 1. Making your dream happen is no more than seeing and believing every part of

your dream daily.

Step 2. Winning business relationships happen when your purpose matches the needs of

the client.

Step 3. Telling your own truth without blame and listening to others "is what opens the

door to positive communication with your clients".

Step 4. Some of the best business decisions come from using your intuition . . . listening to

your own inner voice.

Step 5. It's important to find and use the marketing vehicles and tools that target your

market and, at the same time, meet your own needs.

Step 6. You carry your value system wherever you go. In order to achieve personal

fulfillment at work, it is necessary that your values are in alignment with those of your

company and organization.

Step 7. Placing yourself in winning environments reinforces your vision and moves you

closer to fulfilling your dream.

From: Success, Your Dream and You A Guide to Personal Marketing by Patricia Raskin

(From James Wendling site)

"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of

the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves

a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and

you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no

effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever

lost."

-- Helen Keller

"Each of us has the right to assess the roads which lie

ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the

future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads

back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and,

carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road

into another direction. If the new choice is unpalatable,

without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as

well."

-- Maya Angelou

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"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start

all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have

accomplished a purpose -- not the one you began with perhaps,

but one you'll be glad to remember."

-- Anne Sullivan

"In the battle of life it is not the critic who counts. Not

the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where

the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs

to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred

by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs

and comes short again and again; who knows the great

enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a

worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph

of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at

least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall

never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither

victory nor defeat."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

"This country has more problems than it should tolerate, and more solutions than it

uses....Our society has the resources and the skills to keep injustice at bay and to elevate

the human condition to a state of enduring compassion and creative fulfillment. How we

go about using resources and skills has consequences which extend well beyond our

national borders to all the earth's people."

Ralph Nader (submitted by Cynthia Kahan)

We need a nobler economics that is not afraid to discuss spirit and conscience, moral

purpose and the meaning of life, an economics that aims to educate and elevate people.

E.F. Schumacher

Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and

gravity,...we shall harness...the energies of love. Then, for the

second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered

fire." --Teilhard De Chardin

The work you do is a learning experienceThere is no difference between work and

play. It all blends into one totally integrated, balanced experience. Shakti Gawain.

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When you see yourself as connected rather than separate, you automatically begin to

cooperate. That is what the healing process is all about. Wayne Dyer.

You are here for a purpose. There is no duplicate of you in the whole world. There never

has been, there never will be. You were brought here now to fulfill a certain need. Take

time to think that over.

Religion is for people who are afraid of hell. Spirituality is for people who have been

there.

The Universe pays me for being who I am and doing what I love doing. Shakti Gawain.

Chinese proverb: If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of

prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.

Do those served grow as persons; do they while being served become healthier, wiser,

freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? Robert K.

Greenleaf

For reasons we cannot know

Happiness and inner peace

Depend on our relationship

To Beauty

To Gratitude

To Love

And to the Service

Of Something Greater

Than the self

Author Unknown

Excellence can be achieved, if we:

Care more than others think is wise

Risk more than others think is safe

Dream more than others think is practical

Expect more than others think is possible

Deborah Johnson-Ross

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it

becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Audre Lord

Where your talents meet the needs of the world, that is where God wants you.

Albert Schweitzer

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It is better to follow your own life’s mission (dharma), however imperfectly, than to

assume the life mission of another person, however successfully.

Bhagavad Gita

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t.

Richard Bach

The challenge is to be yourself in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else.

e.e.cummings

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three

things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need;

second, a decision to change - to fill the void or need; and third, a

conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful

act of making the change, doing something.

Leo Buscaglia

From The Tao

54. Do not be concerned that others do not follow the way or value it. The

way has endured since the beginning and will continue ever after, whether

cheered or jeered.

There is no need to reform the world.

Reform yourself, you reform your family.

Reform yourself, you reform your workplace.

Reform yourself, you reform your nation.

Reform yourself, you reform the world.

Thus by yourself you accomplish all change, in family, workplace, nation and

the world. Not by the power of the sword you wield but of the lens through

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which you view.

Symptoms of Inner Peace

Be on the lookout for symptoms of Inner Peace! The hearts of a great many have already

been exposed to Inner Peace and it is probable that people everywhere will come down

with it in epidemic proportions.

A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based in past experience.

An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.

A loss of interest in judging self.

A loss of interest in judging others.

A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.

A loss of interest in conflict.

Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation.

Contented feelings of connectedness with others and the Universe.

Frequent attacks of smiling through the eyes of the heart.

An increasing tendency to allow things to happen rather than to make them happen.

Increasing susceptibility to love offered by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to

reciprocate.

Servant-leaders lift people up and make the journey possibleThe change starts in here,

in the servant, and not out there. Robert K. Greenleaf

The key question for today’s managers and leaders are no longer issues of task and

structure but are questions of spirit. Jack Hawley, Reawakening the Spirit.

Do not check your soul at the door when you cross the threshold of your

workplace. Whether you are a custodian or a CEO, practice work as

sacred art. Respect comes not from the work you do, but the way you do

your work

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Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey

First is from Wayne Dyer. His theory is that when we run into disagreeable, hideous

nasty, exasperating people, we should kneel at their feet (I think he means

metaphorically!) because they are spiritual teachers -- masters -- come to test us to see if

we are really ready to respond to whatever happens

with unconditional love. In fact, he goes a little beyond this and suggests that there are

only a couple of dozen of these in the world and that if you find yourself running into a

series of individuals like that, you have been singled out for special attention and should

count yourself lucky. As someone who is a young soul, I find this conceit a wonderful one

and something I hadn't figured out before. It still brings smiles to my face sometimes

when I run into one of the masters and am lucky enough to be tested!

Second is a quote that has sustained me more than once. It's from a science fiction book

called Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold. Here's how it goes:

"I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a

misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more

irrevocable, than misfortune. If you think it's really wrong that's one thing. Maybe that's

the test. but if it's only fear of failure -- you have not the right to refuse the gift for that."

January 1998, The Sun

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. John Lennon

Some people think that they will practice the dharma once they have finished with their

worldly business. This is a mistaken attitude, because our work in the world never

finishes.The busywork with which we fill our lives is completed only at the time of our

death. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

That which hinders your task is your task. Sanford Meisner

If the hole in the ozone layer were caused by too much talking, would I talk less? What if

it were caused by too much worrying? Sy Safranksy

October 1997, The Sun

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

P.D. Ouspensky

To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. Chogyam Trungpa

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs -

ask yourself what makes you come alive,

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and then go do it.

Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

-- Howard Thurman

...we cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within

themselves. - Galileo Galilei

Chief Seattle stated, "Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of earth...the earth does

not belong to man, man belongs to the earth...all things are connected...man did not

weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it...whatever he does to the web, he does to

himself."

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

--Henry David Thoreau

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is

no hurt, but only more love.

--Mother Teresa

"Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time. I worship each

god, I praise each day splintered down, and wrapped in time like a husk, a husk of many

colors spreading, at dawn fast over the mountain split." (Found on

http://www.freewillastrology.com)

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. Dennis Diderot (Good

Earth tea bag)

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing

why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life,

however, there is one thing we do know - we are here for the sake of each other, above

all, for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for

the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy.

Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors

of others, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in

return as much as I have received and am still receiving.

--Albert Einstein

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Those who understand much may be wise, but those who

understand themselves are even wiser. Those who are master over many may be

powerful, but those who have mastered themselves are more powerful still.

* Lao Tzu, 700 AD

"Money is the visible sign of a universal force, and this force in it's manifestation on earth

works on the vital and physical planes and is indispensable to the fullness of the outer

life. In its origin and in its true action it belong to the Divine" --- Sri Aurobindo

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't

assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea." St Exupery

“Science proves beyond question that in the wellsprings of every man’s mind are

unplumbed depths – undiscovered deposits of energy, wisdom and ability. Sound these

depths – bring these treasures to the surface – and you gain an astounding wealth of new

power.” – Robert Collier’s The Secret of the Ages

Found on Life Coach Training website www.lifecoachtraining.com

“The only way to master love is to practice love. You don't need to justify your love, you

don't need to explain your love; you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the

master."

-- Don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Mastery of Love

Found on www.perfectcustomers.com

"In the world at present, there is not much concern for humane values; there is too much

dependence on money and power. If human society loses the value of justice, the value

of compassion, the value of honesty, we will face greater difficulties in the future. Some

people may think that these sorts of ethical attitudes are not much needed in the areas of

business or politics. I strongly disagree. The quality of our actions depends on our

motivation…What we must do is to balance external material progress with the sense of

responsibility that comes of education and inner development...." .... Spiritual practice

involves, on the one hand, acting out of concern for others' well-being. On the other hand,

it entails transforming ourselves so that we become more readily disposed to do so. To

speak of spiritual practice in any terms other than these is meaningless.

-- The Dalai Lama

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We Are The Decisive Element

"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element.

It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

It is my daily mood that makes the weather.

I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous.

I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.

I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.

In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-

escalated, and a

person is humanized or de-humanized.

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse.

If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of

becoming."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832

“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime;

Therefore we must be saved by hope.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate

context of history;

Therefore we must be saved by faith.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone;

Therefore we must be saved by love.”

Reinhold Niebuhr

Belonging is related to longing. If you hyphenate belonging, it yields a lovely axiom for

spiritual growth : be-your-longing. Longing is a precious instinct in the soul. Where you

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belong should always be worthy of your dignity. You should belong first in your own

interiority. If you belong there, and if you are in rhythm with yourself and connected to

that deep, unique source within, then you will never be vulnerable when

your outside belonging is qualified, relativised or taken away. You will still be able to

stand on your own ground, the ground of your soul where you are not a tenant, where you

are at home" (p182) John O’Donohue, Anam Cara

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the

strangeness that you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for

the hour, the birth of new clarity. -- Ranier Maria Rilke

"The heart is a leisurely muscle. It differs from all other muscles. How many pushups can

you make before the muscles in your arms and stomach get so tired that you have to stop?

But your heart muscle goes on working for as long as you live. It does not get tired,

because there is a phase of rest built into every single heartbeat. Our physical heart works

leisurely. And when we speak of the heart in a wider sense, the idea is implied that life-

giving leisure lies at the very center....Seen in this light, leisure is not the privilege of a

few who can afford to take time, but the virtue of all who are willing to give time to what

takes time -to give as much time as a task rightly takes."

-- Brother David Steindl-Rast

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference."

From "The Road Not Taken"

By Robert Frost

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with golden and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and the half-light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

"He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"

by William Butler Yeats

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No one keeps up his enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new

actions, new aspirations, new efforts, new vision. Compete with yourself; set your teeth

and dive into the job of breaking your own record. It is one's own fault if his enthusiasm

is gone; he has failed to feed it.

Papyrus

"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that

voice will be silenced."

Vincent Van Gogh

"Seldom does an individual exceed

his own expectations."

Unknown

"I used to sit on the banks with a raft and watch the water roll lazily by. One day I pushed

my raft into the shallows of the water and found the water moved swifter than I thought.

My raft was actually a boat. Then, after some time, I rowed my little boat into deeper

water. There were great storms, mighty winds, tremendous waves, and sometimes I felt so

alone. But I have noticed my little rowboat is now a mighty ship manned by my friends

and loved ones; and beautiful calm seas, warm sunny days, and nights filled with

comfortable dreams always double after a storm. Now, I could never go back and sit on

the bank. In fact, I search for deeper water. Such is life when lived."

B. D. Gulledge

And while it takes courage to achieve greatness, it takes more courage to find fulfillment

in being ordinary. For the joys that last have little relationship to achievement, to standing

one step higher on the victory platform. What is the adventure in being ordinary? It is

daring to love just for the pleasure of giving it away. It is venturing to give new life and to

nurture it to maturity. It is working hard for the pure joy of being tired at the end of the

day. It is caring and sharing and giving and loving…

Marilyn Thomsen

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There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

Marshall McLuhan

One of the best ways to worship God is simply to be happy.

Traditional Hindu Expression

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work

and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much

less competition.

Indira Gandhi

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and

give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Author Unknown

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may

have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

We look at some people as if they were special, gifted, divine. Nobody is special and

gifted and divine. No more than you are, no more than I am. The only difference, the very

only one, is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to

practice it.

Richard Bach

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a

brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every

atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function

of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall

use my time."

Jack London

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"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or

catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less

afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I

choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next

as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."

Dawna Markova

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you

die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Cherokee Expression

"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."

David Carradine

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is bliss, taste it.

Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it.

Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.

Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.

Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Life is life, fight for it.

Mother Teresa

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Catholic Nun, Missionary

Nobel Peace Prize Recipient

"There are only two ways to live your life.

One is as though nothing is a miracle.

The other is as if everything is."

Albert Einstein

German-born Theoretical Physicist

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

Mother Teresa

One cannot alter a condition with the same mind set that created it in the first place.

Albert Einstein

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather

from love and devotion toward men and toward objective things.

Albert Einstein

There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.

Albert Einstein

"There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a

dream exactly like your own...for you are unique and more wondrous than you know!"

Linda Staten

"Dream as if you'll live forever...

live as if you'll die today."

James Dean

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"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile

the moment a single man contemplates it,

bearing within him the image of a cathedral."

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

French Author, Aviator

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic

in it. Begin it now.

Goethe

German Poet, Novelist

"The future belongs to those

who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Eleanor Roosevelt

American First Lady

Some men see things as they are and ask why.

Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish Playwright and Critic

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.

Zadok Rabinwitz

A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream.

The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her

bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to

give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his good

fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But a

few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman.

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"I've been thinking," he said, "I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back in the

hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within

you that enabled you to give me the stone."

"The Wise Woman's Stone"

Author Unknown

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants

shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

D. Elton Trueblood

That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of

kindness and love.

William Wordsworth

English Poet

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and

because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.

Edward Everett Hale

American Author, Clergyman

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Robert M. Pirsig

Author of Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance

“By the accident of fortune

a man may rule the world for a time,

but by virtue of love and kindness

he may rule the world forever.”

Lao-Tse

Chinese Philosopher

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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

Moliere

French Playwright and Actor

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,

I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther

German Theologian

From what we get, we can make a living;

what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

American Tennis Player, Activist

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

Seneca

Roman Philosopher

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them

their own."

Disraeli

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any

kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or

neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

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Stephen Grellet

Quaker Missionary

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.

Japanese Proverb

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm

and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the

blossoms.

Ding Ling

Chinese Author

If there is light in the soul,

There will be beauty in the person.

If there is beauty in the person,

There will be harmony in the house.

If there is harmony in the house,

There will be order in the nation.

If there is order in the nation,

There will be peace in the world.

Chinese Proverb

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

The Book of Proverbs

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens

can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

American Anthropologist

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington

African American Educator

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate;

only love can do that.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

American Civil Rights Leader

Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing

them...he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do

nothing about them?"...God said, "I did do something. I made you."

Sufi Teaching

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do

than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.

Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

American Author

“Come to the edge.”

“We can't. We're afraid.”

“Come to the edge.”

“We can't. We will fall!”

“Come to the edge.”

And they came.

And he pushed them.

And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880-1918

French Poet, Philosopher

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the

approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul

perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach.

Check your road and the nature of your battle.

The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

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Ayn Rand

Russian-born American Author

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful

than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

American Author

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Eliot

American-British Poet

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that

they are difficult.”

Seneca

Roman Philosoper, Statesman

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first

step.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

American Civil Rights Leader

“If you want others to be happy,

practice compassion.

If you want to be happy,

practice compassion.”

The Dalai Lama

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should

be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

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Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

Buddha

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in

the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they

have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or

vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things.

They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we

see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world,

are the ones who do.

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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to

enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and

achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget

the errand."

Woodrow Wilson

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,

as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven,

we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but

we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look

for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You

never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the

other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the

lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason

and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just

understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and

the situation will change."

Thich Nhat Hanh

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"Try not to become a man of success.

Rather become a man of value."

Albert Einstein

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of

your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to

the best possible use."

Earl Nightingale

“Pay no attention to what the critics say;

no statue has ever been erected to a critic.”

Jean Sibelius

Finnish Composer

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do

nothing and succeed.

Lloyd Jones

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more

important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have

kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

American Author

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within

us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Poet

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“The journey of a thousand miles must begin

with a single step.”

Lao Tzu

Chinese Philosopher

"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 frightens us. We ask ourselves 'who

am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?'

Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve

the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel

insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us; its in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we

unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Marianne Williamson

From her book Return To Love

*Please note that this quote is oftentimes mistakenly attributed to

Nelson Mandela.

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken

with painstaking excellence."

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Use what talent you possess:

the woods would be very silent

if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

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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 reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

US Senator From Wisconsin

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more

important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than

circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is

more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a

church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the

attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the

fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing

we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is

10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you...

we are in charge of our attitudes.

Charles Swindoll

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside,

dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Jung

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

Albert Einstein

American Physicist

"It takes as much stress to be a success as it does to be a failure."

Emilio James Trujillo

Haight Street Armchair Philosopher

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"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

Unknown

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that,

but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Mark Twain

American Author

“Whether you think you can

or think you can't --

you are right.”

Henry Ford

Founder, Ford Motor Company

Your talent is God's gift to you.

What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Unknown

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing in the

world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded

genius is a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence

and determination alone are omnipotent..."

Calvin Coolidge

30th President of the United States

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagorus was misunderstood, and Socrates, and

Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise

spirit that ever took flesh.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of

character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the

cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you

have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you

cannot hope too much or dare too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events

profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wise man in a storm prays to God, not for safety from danger; but for deliverance

from fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and

perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many have taken the first step. But with every

additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If it is not truthful and not helpful, don't say it.

If it is truthful and not helpful, don't say it.

If it is not truthful and helpful, don't say it.

If it is truthful and helpful, wait for the right time.

Buddha

"If the only prayer you say in your whole life is 'thank you,'

that would suffice."

Meister Eckhart, 1260-1328

13th-Century Dominican Mystic

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing.

It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that

doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from

your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Mahatma Gandhi

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as

in being able to remake ourselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always

won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but

in the end they always fall. Think of it...always.

Mahatma Gandhi

I don't have a message. My message is my life.

Mahatma Gandhi

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Mahatma Gandhi

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that, in truth, you are

weeping for that which has been your delight.

Kahlil Gibran

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play

with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is

better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of

those who work with joy.

Kahlil Gibran

Love the earth and sun and animals,

Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,

Stand up for the stupid and crazy,

Devote your income and labor to others...

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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Walt Whitman

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.

Richard Bach

Whatever dreams you're dreaming,

May each one of them come true.

Whatever plans you're making,

May they all work out for you.

And may you have more happiness

Than any words can tell.

Not only on this day,

But all the year as well.

May you have a little sunlight

to guide you on your way.

May you discover, little by little,

happiness that's here to stay.

May you grow a little stronger

and a little wiser with each dawn

May you have a little time to

believe in dreams to dream upon

May all the joy your heart desires

find its way to you.

And may the blessings that brighten up your days

keep on shining through.

Author Unknown

Do not wait! The time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work with

whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go

along.

Napoleon Hill

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to

solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is

wrong.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to

look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more

money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually

works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do,

in order to have what you want.

Margaret Young

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is

better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of

those who work with joy.

You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference - to be of

genuine consequence in the world. We know that there is no satisfaction in merely going

through the motions, even if those motions make us successful, or even if we have

arranged to make those motions pleasant. We want to know we have made some impact

on the world. In fact, you and I want to contribute to the quality of life. We want to make

the world work.

Werner Erhard

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint

and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Robert Fulghum

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will

never be again And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two

make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what

they are?

We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are

unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you.

Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move.

You may become a Shakespeare, a Michaelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity

for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another

who is, like you, a marvel?

You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

Pablo Casals, Spanish Cellist

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Once there were three bricklayers busily working at their trade. When asked what they

were doing, the first man answered gruffly "I'm laying bricks," without ever taking his

eyes from his work. The second man replied, "I'm putting up a wall." But the third man

said enthusiastically and with obvious pride, "I'm building a cathedral!"

Author Unknown

Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some

work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if

you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.

Jacob M. Braude

Do you need Me ?

I am there.

You cannot see Me, yet I am the light you see by.

You cannot hear Me, yet I speak through your voice.

You cannot feel Me, yet I am the power at work in your hands...

I Am There

by James Dillet Freeman

For one human being to love another;

that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks;

the ultimate, the last test and proof;

the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my

God.

Helen Keller

Do more than belong: participate.

Do more than care: help.

Do more than believe: practice.

Do more than be fair: be kind.

Do more than forgive: forget.

Do more than dream: work.

William Arthur Ward

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Meditate.

Live purely. Be quiet.

Do your work with mastery.

Like the moon, come out

from behind the clouds!

Shine.

Buddha

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at

your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the

stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily

bread are the sweetest things in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence

you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness.

Only light can do that. Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead

with an audacious faith in the future. When our days become dreary with low-hovering

clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us

remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic

mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark

yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but

it bends toward justice.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do,

we have come to our real work,

and when we no longer know which way to go,

we have begun our real journey.

Wendell Berry

American Author and Poet

To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with

reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to

hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the ultimate purpose toward which

I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to

be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness

that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done - this is how I desire to

waste wisely my days.

Thomas Dekker

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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo

painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep

streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great

streetsweeper who did his job well.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Winner is always a part of the answer;

The Loser is always a part of the problem

The winner always has a plan

The loser always has an excuse

The Winner says "Let me do it for you"

The loser says "That's not my Job"

The winner sees an answer in every problem

The loser seeds a problem in every answer

The winner sees a Green near every sandtrap

The loser seeds a sandtrap near every green

The winner says "It may be difficult but its possible.

The loser says 'It may be possible but its difficult"

Author Unknown

Most people don't know

there are angels

whose only job is to make sure

you don't get too comfortable

and fall asleep and miss your life.

© Brian Andreas

American Artist and Storyteller

I love you my brother whoever you are whether you worship in your church, kneel in your

temple, or pray in your mosque.You and I are all children of one faith, for the diverse

paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of one Supreme Being, a hand extended to

all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all.

Kahlil Gibran

THE TOP 10 PRINCIPLES FOR ATTRACTING the THINGS YOU WANT IN LIFE

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1. Become incredibly selfish!

Yeah, it's ironic, but as you take care of yourself, manage your time, your space and your

life well, you have more to give and share with others. If you want more clients, take

extremely good care of Client #1.

2. Over-respond to every event!

This is the opposite of over-reacting. Respond immediately to phone calls, answer

questions in full, take time for others, thoughtfully and creatively go the extra mile.

3. Add value just for the joy of it!

Do more, provide more, go further than you are paid for. Caution: Don't just give more

stuff, give more stuff that people really want and appreciate.

4. Market your talents shamelessly!

Have fun, be proud of what you do and tell everybody! If you aren't excited, proud and

energized by what you do, do something else!

5. Affect others profoundly.

Get out of the roles and job descriptions we all have. Connect with people, question,

respond, be silly, get "outside the box." Whatever it takes, make an impact on your world.

6. Eliminate delay.

Time is expensive, and wasting it is unattractive and irritating. Think things through, plan

carefully, but in the end, actions count!

7. Thrive on the details.

Pay attention to the subtleties, the small things. It's the little extras that build you up, and

the little slips that bring you down.

8. Tolerate nothing!

Clean up all the irritations, the daily frustrations and predictable annoyances of your life

once and for all! Don't just fix the problem, re-design your routine so those predictable

irritations never bother you again!

9. Orient life around your values.

When you spend your days living in harmony with your values, you become incredibly

energized, peaceful, focused and attractive!

10. Develop more character than you need!

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Beyond being good at your job, and living with integrity, become very good at being

YOU! Be a "real character," the unique, gifted, complex and unforgettable individual that

you were born to be.

by Philip Humbert

“The communist type of totalitarian system has left both our nations,

Czechs and Slovaks...a legacy of countless dead, an infinite spectrum of

human suffering, profound economic decline,and above all, enormous human

humiliation....

(Yet) our experience and the knowledge that has come from it....The specific

experience I’m talking about has given me one more certainty; Consciousness

precedes Being, and not the other way around, as Marxists claim. For this

reason, the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the

human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human modesty, and in human

response-ability.

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human

consciousness, nothing will change for the better...and the catastrophe

toward which this world is headed, whether it be ecological,

social,demographic or a general breakdown of civilization, will be

unavoidable.”

Delivered to the joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.

From The Art of the Impossible by Vaclav Havel; trans.

Paul Wilson et al. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,

1997, pp 17-18.)

A leader....

is a person who has an unusual degree of power to project on other people his or her

shadow or his or her light. A leader is a person who has an unusual degree of power to

create the conditions under which other people must live and move and have their being-

conditions that can either be as illuminating as heaven or as shadowy as hell. A leader is a

person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside him or her self,

inside his or her consciousness, lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

The problem is that people rise to leadership in our society by a tendency towards

extroversion, which means a tendency to ignore what is going on inside themselves.

Leaders rise to power in our society by operating very competently and effectively in the

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external world, sometimes at the cost of internal awareness.

I've looked at some training programs for leaders. I'm discouraged by how often they

focus on the development of skills to manipulate the external world rather than the skills

necessary to go inward and make the inner journey."

--Parker Palmer

How much of our lives are...well...so daily. How often our hours are filled with the

mundane, seemingly unimportant things that have to be done, whether at home or work.

These very "daily" tasks could become a celebration of praise. "it is through

consecration" someone has said, "that drudgery is made divine." Gigi Graham

Tchividjian

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than

any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force

when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit

will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and

answer in extraordinary ways."

-- Mother Theresa

We work together

In a state of grace.

Our strengths are

The gifts we bring.

Our weaknesses are strengths, too.

My weakness invites

Your infusion of wisdom,

As yours does mine.

-- Marie Knapp

(From Craig Neal)

You are young. So you know everything. You leap

into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me.

Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without

any doubt, I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

Lift the oars from the water, let your arms rest, and

your heart, and heart's little intelligence, and listen to

me. There is life without love. It is not worth a bent

penny, or a scuffed shoe. It is not worth the body of a

dead dog nine days unburied. When you hear, a mile

away and still out of sight, the churn of the water

as it begins to swirl and roil, fretting around the

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sharp rocks - when you hear that unmistakable

pounding - when you feel the mist on your mouth

and sense ahead the embattlement, the long falls

plunging and steaming - then row, row for your life

toward it.

Mary Oliver West wind collection

(sent in by Craig Neal)

We shall not cease to explore

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot

-----

"Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name

them - work, family, health, friends and spirit, and you're keeping all of these in the air.

You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.

But the other four balls - family, health, friends and spirit are made of glass. If you drop

one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even

shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance

in your life." Brian Dyson, CEO - Coca Cola Enterprises

"THIS IS THE TRUE JOY IN LIFE".

This is the true joy in life

Being used for a purpose

Recognized by yourself

as a mighty one;

that being a force of nature

instead of a feverish little clod

of ailments and grievances,

complaining that the world

will not devote itself

to make you happy.

I am of the opinion

that my life belongs to the whole community

and as long as I live,

it is my privilege to do for it

whatever I can.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die,

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for the harder I work, the more I love.

I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Life is no brief candle for me.

It is a sort of splendid torch

which I have got to hold up for the moment

and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible

before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

From Heartland Institute Newsletter

www.heartlandinstitute.com

Poetry is being, not doing

If you would follow,

Even at a distance,

The poet's calling,

You've got to come out of the

Measurable doing universe

Into the immeasurable house of being.

Nobody can be alive for you.

Nor can you be alive for anyone else.

If you can take it, take it and be,

If you can't, cheer up and go about

Other people's business, and do and undo

Until you drop.

e.e. cummings

From Heartland Institute Newsletter

www.heartlandinstitute.com

"THE FORGOTTEN 10 OTHER COMMANDMENTS"

*Thou shall not worry, for worry is the most unproductive of all human activities.

*Thou shall not be fearful, for most of the things we fear never come to pass.

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*Thou shall not cross bridges before you come to them, for no one yet has succeeded in

accomplishing this.

*Thou shall face each problem as it comes. You can only handle one at a time anyway.

*Thou shall not take problems to bed with you, for they make very poor bedfellows.

*Thou shall not borrow other people's problems. They can better care for them than you

can.

*Thou shall not try to relive yesterday for good or ill, it is forever gone. Concentrate on

what is happening in your life and be happy now!

*Thou shall be a good listener, for only when you listen do you hear different ideas from

your own. It is hard to learn something new when you are talking, and some people do

know more than you do.

*Thou shall not become "bogged down" by frustration, for 90% of it is rooted in self-

pity and will only interfere with positive action.

*Thou shall count thy blessings, never overlooking the small ones, for a lot of small

blessings add up to a big one.

"There is a difference between a ‘job’ and ‘work.’ A job is what we do to satisfy our

financial and physical need: work satisfies our emotional, mental and spiritual needs and

gives us meaning in life. Our personalities think more in terms of doing a job and our

souls long for meaningful work; unfortunately, in today's world more people have a job

than have their true work. The desire for meaningful work which supports both

personality and soul needs is increasing in our society', throwing our entire concept of the

nature of work in question"

Taking Your Soul to Work, Tanis Helliwell

"The stories that rise up out of the group become, over time, both extremely

personal and quite eternal, for they take on a life of their own when told

over and over again"

The Gift of Story, C.P. Estes

“The spiritual quest is that part of life which is the path within the path. Spirituality is the

sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy

Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail.”

e. e. cummings

"The job crisis is something deeper: a crisis in our relationship to work and

the challenge put to our species to reinvent it...work comes from the inside

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out; work is the expression of our soul, our inner being. It is unique to the

individual; it is creative. Work is an expression of the Spirit at work in

the world through us.

Matthew Fox

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty.

I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have

finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

--Buckminster Fuller

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change

the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead

Do It Anyway

Mother Teresa

People are often unreasonable,

Illogical, and self-centred;

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,

Others may be jealous;

Be happy anyway.

The good you do today,

People will often forget tomorrow;

Do good anyway.

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Give the world the best you have,

And it may never be enough;

Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis,

It is between you and God;

It was never between you and them anyway.

TO BE OF USE

The people I love the best

jump into work head first

without dallying in the hallows

and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.

They seem to become natives of that element,

the black sleek heads of seals

bouncing like half-submerged balls.

I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,

who pull like water buffalo with massive patience,

who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,

who do what has to be done, again and again.

I want to be with people who submerge

in the task, who go into the fields to harvest

and work in a row and pass the bags along,

who are not parlor generals and field deserters

but move in a common rhythm

when the food must come in or the fire be put out.

The work of the world is common as mud.

Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.

But the thing worth doing well done

has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.

Greek amphoras for wine or oil,

Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums

but you know they were made to be used.

The pitcher cries for water to carry

And a person for work that is real.

Marge Piercy

What is clear is that the earth is mandating

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that the human community assume a responsibility

never assigned to any previous generation...

Our task at this critical moment is to awaken

the energies needed to create the new world

and to evoke a universal communion

of all parts of life - Thomas Berry

Anna Quindlen's Villanova Commencement Address

It's a great honor for me to be the third member of my family

to receive an honorary doctorate from this great university.

It's an honor to follow my great-uncle Jim, who was a gifted

physician, and my Uncle Jack, who is a remarkable businessman.

Both of them could have told you something important about

their professions, about medicine or commerce. I have no

specialized field of interest or expertise, which puts me at a

disadvantage, talking to you today. I'm a novelist. My work

is human nature. Real life is all I know.

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The

second is only part of the first. Don't ever forget what a friend once

wrote Senator Paul Tsongas when the senator decided not to run for

reelection because he'd been diagnosed with cancer:

"No man ever said on his deathbed I wish I had spent more time

in the office."

Don't ever forget the words my father sent me on a postcard

last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat." Or what John

Lennon wrote before he was gunned down in the driveway of the

Dakota: "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."

You walk out of here this afternoon with only one thing that

no one else has. There will be hundreds of people out there with

your same degree; there will be thousands of people doing what you

want to do for a living. But you will be the only person alive who has

sole custody of your life. Your particular life. Your entire life.

Not just your life at a desk, or your life on a bus, or in a car, or at

the computer. Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your

heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

People don't talk about the soul very much anymore. It's so much

easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit. But a resume is a

cold comfort on a winter night, or when you're sad, or broke, or

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lonely, or when you've gotten back the test results and they're not so

good.

Here is my resume.

I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my

profession stand in the way of being a good parent. I no longer

consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I

try to laugh.

I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage

vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without

them, there would be nothing to say to you today, because I would be

a cardboard cutout. But I call them on the phone, and I meet them for

lunch. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

I would be rotten, or at best mediocre at my job, if those other things

were not true. You cannot be really first rate at your work if your

work is all you are.

So here's what I wanted to tell you today: get a life. A real life,

not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck,

the larger house. Do you think you'd care so very much about those

things if you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your

breast?

Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself

on a breeze over Seaside Heights, a life in which you stop and watch

how a red-tailed hawk circles over the water gap or the way a baby

scowls with concentration when she tries to pick up a Cheerio

with her thumb and first finger.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and

who love you. And remember that love is not leisure; it is work.

Each time you look at your diploma, remember that you are still a

student, still learning how to best treasure your connection to

others.

Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. Kiss your

Mom. Hug your Dad.

Get a life in which you are generous. Look around at the azaleas

in the suburban neighborhood where you grew up; look at a full

moon hanging silver in a black, black sky on a cold night. And

realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no

business taking it for granted.

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Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it

around. Take money you would have spent on beers and give it to

charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a big brother or sister. All of

you want to do well. But if you do not do good, too, then doing

well will never be enough.

It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes.

It is so easy to take for granted the color of the azaleas, the sheen

of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the color of our kids' eyes,

the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears

and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live.

I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad

happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I

had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. And

what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson

of all.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it

is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you

get.

I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give

some of it back because I believed in it completely and utterly.

And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had

learned. By telling them this: Consider the lilies of the field.

Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear.

Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy.

And think of life as a terminal illness because if you do you will

live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.

Well, you can learn all those things, out there, if you get a real

life, a full life, a professional life, yes, but another life, too, a

life of love and laughs and a connection to other human beings.

Just keep you eyes and ears open. Here you could learn in the

classroom. There the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes

at the very end.

No man ever said on his deathbed I wish I had spent more time at

the office.

I found one of my best teachers on the boardwalk at Coney Island

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maybe 15 years ago. It was December, and I was doing a story

about how the homeless survive in the winter months. He and I

sat on the edge of the wooden supports, dangling our feet over the

side, and he told me about his schedule, panhandling the boulevard

when the summer crowds were gone, sleeping in a church when the

temperature went below freezing, hiding from the police amidst the

Tilt-a-Whirl and the Cyclone and some of the other seasonal rides.

But he told me that most of the time he stayed on the boardwalk,

facing the water, just the way we were sitting now, even when it got

cold and he had to wear his newspapers after he read them.

And I asked him why. Why didn't he go to one of the shelters?

Why didn't he check himself into the hospital for detox?

And he just stared out at the ocean and said, "Look at the view,

young lady. Look at the view."

And every day, in some little way, I try to do what he said.

I try to look at the view. And that's the last thing I have to tell

you today, words of wisdom from a man with not a dime in his

pocket, no place to go, nowhere to be.

Look at the view. You'll never be disappointed.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What Is Maturity

What is maturity ? Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without

violence or

destruction. Maturity is patience. It is the willingness to pass up immediate pleasure in

favor of the

long-term gain. Maturity is perseverance, the ability to sweat out a project or a situation

in spite of

heavy opposition and discouraging set-backs. Maturity is the capacity to face

unpleasantness and

frustration, discomfort and defeat, without complaint or collapse. Maturity is humility. It

is being big enough

to say, "I was wrong." And, when right, the mature person need not experience the

satisfaction of saying,

"I told you so."

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. The immature spend their lives

exploring endless

possibilities; then they do nothing.

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Maturity means dependability, keeping one's word, coming through in a crisis. The

immature are masters

of the alibi. They are the confused and the disorganized. Their lives are a maze of broken

promises,

former friends, unfinished business, and good intentions that somehow never materialize.

Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which we cannot change, the courage to

change that which

should be changed -- and the wisdom to know the difference.

From James Wendling, http://www.wendling.com

Happiness is when what you think, what you say,

and what you do are in harmony. - Mahatma Gandhi

FROM THE DALAI LAMA:

I N S T R U C T I O N S F O R L I F E

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

3. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self Respect for others and Responsibility for all your

actions.

4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

8. Spend some time alone every day.

9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

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11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to

enjoy it a second time.

12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up

the past.

14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

15. Be gentle with the earth.

16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.

17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds

your need for each other.

18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

19. Approach love and cooking (or, meal preparation - living foods) with reckless

abandon.

(From Patsy Seo)

In the early days of my interest in Buddhism and psychology,I was given a

particularly vivid demonstration of how difficult it was going to be

to forge an integration between the two. Some friends of mine had

arranged for an encounter between two prominent visiting Buddhist

teachers at the house of a Harvard University psychology professor.

These were teachers from two distinctly different Buddhist traditions

who had never met and whose traditions had in fact had very little contact over the past

thousand

years. Before the worlds of Buddhism and Western psychology could

come together, the various strands of Buddhism would have to encounter

one another. We were to witness the first such dialogue.

The teachers, seventy-year-old Kalu Rinpoche of Tibet, a veteran of years

of solitary retreat, and the Zen master Seung Sahn, the first Korean

Zen master to teach in the United States, were to test each other's

understanding of the Buddha's teachings for the benefit of the onlooking

Western students. This was to be a high form of what was being called

_dharma_ combat (the clashing of great minds sharpened by years of

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study and meditation), and we were waiting with all the anticipation that such a historic

encounter

deserved. The two monks entered with swirling robes -- maroon and

yellow for the Tibetan, austere grey and black for the Korean -- and

were followed by retinues of younger monks and translators with shaven

heads. They settled onto cushions in the familiar cross-legged

positions, and the host made it clear that the younger Zen master was to

begin. The Tibetan lama sat very still, fingering a wooden rosary

(_mala_) with one hand while murmuring, _"Om mani padme hum"_

continuously under his breath.

The Zen master, who was already gaining renown for his method of hurling

questions at his students until they were forced to admit their

ignorance and then bellowing, "Keep that don't know mind!" at them,

reached deep inside his robes and drew out an orange. "What is this?"

he demanded of the lama. "What is this?" This was a typical opening

question, and we could feel him ready to pounce on whatever

response he was given.

The Tibetan sat quietly fingering his mala and made no move to respond.

"What is this?" the Zen master insisted, holding the orange up to the

Tibetan's nose.

Kalu Rinpoche bent very slowly to the Tibetan monk near to him who was

serving as the translator, and they whispered back and forth for

several minutes. Finally the translator addressed the room: "Rinpoche

says, 'What is the matter with him? Don't they have oranges where he

comes from?"

The dialog progressed no further.

(From Jerry Hodges)

Subject: Think About It!!

The following is something to make us stop and think.

Take this quiz:

Name the five wealthiest people in the world.

Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.

Name the last five winners of the Miss America

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contest.

Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer

prize.

Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for

best actor and actress.

Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners.

How did you do?

The point is, none of us remember the headliners of

yesterday.

These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best

in their fields.

But the applause dies. Awards tarnish. Achievements

are forgotten.

Accolades and certificates are buried with their

owners.

Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:

List a few teachers who aided your journey through

school.

Name three friends who have helped you through a

difficult time.

Name five people who have taught you something

worthwhile.

Think of a few people who have made you feel

appreciated and special.

Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.

Name half a dozen heroes whose stories have inspired

you.

Easier?

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The lesson?

The people who make a difference in your life are not

the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or

the most awards. They are the ones that care.

(From Bill Ickinger)

"The harder you chase something, the faster you go --

and the less you're able to let life meet life. If

you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then

slow down ... Creativity exists in the present moment.

You can't find it anywhere else."

Natalie Goldberg, author

People say that what we're all seeking is the meaning of life... I think that

what we're really seeking is the experience of being alive. Rudyard Kipling.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.

If you can dream it, you can become it.

William Arthur Ward

"You cannot teach a man anything;

you can only help him to find it within himself."

Galileo

Until you are committed, there is hesitancy...Whatever you

can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,

power and magic in it. Begin it now.”

Goethe

"One who knows much about others may be learned,

but one who understands himself is more intelligent.

One who controls others may be powerful,

but one who has mastered himself is mightier still."

Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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Inside the great mystery that is,

We don't really own anything.

What is this competition we feel then,

Before we go, one at a time, through the same gate.

I asked for a kiss: You gave me six

Who was teacher was now student

Things good and generous take form

in me, and the air is clear.

Rumi

"Our workaday lives are filled with opportunities to

bless others. The power of a single glance or an

encouraging smile must never be underestimated."

--G. Richard Rieger

"Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon

a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really

commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul

into."

---Brian Tracy

Native American Story

My grandfather took me to the fish pond on the farm when I was about

seven, and he told me to throw a stone into the water. He told me to

watch the circles created by the stone. Then he asked me to think of

myself as that stone person.

"You may create lots of splashes in your life but the waves that come

from those splashes will disturb the peace of all your fellow

creatures," he said.

"Remember that you are responsible for what you put in your circle and

that circle will also touch many other circles. You will need to live

in a way that allows the good that comes from your circle to send the

peace of that goodness to others. The splash that comes from anger or

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jealousy will send those feelings to other circles. You are responsible

for both."

That was the first time I realized each person creates the inner peace

or discord that flows out into the world. We cannot create world peace

if we are riddled with inner conflict, hatred, doubt, or anger.

We radiate the feelings and thoughts that we hold inside, whether we

speak them or not. Whatever is splashing around inside of us is

spilling out into the world, creating beauty or discord with all other

circles of life.

Remember the eternal wisdom:

WHATEVER YOU FOCUS ON EXPANDS...

--- Jamie Sams

(Sent by Ed Litto)

"In the great scheme of things, what

matters is not how long you live, but why

you live, what you stand for, and what

you are willing to die for." -- Paul Watson

"In matters of taste, swim with the

current. In matters of principle, stand like

a rock." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Anyone can observe the Sabbath, but

making it holy surely takes the rest of the

week." -- Alice Walker

"I am because we are." -- African

aphorism

"Try not to become a man of success but

a man of value." -- Albert Einstein

"A hundred years from now it will not

matter what my bank account was, the

sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I

drove... but the world may be different

because I was important in the life of a

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child." -- Simone Weil

It is the spirit that motivates, that calls upon a man's reserves of dedication and effort, that

decides whether he will give his best or just enough to get by. - Peter Drucker

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine

can do the work of one extraordinary man."

- Elbert Hubbard

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change

for the better in the sphere of our being as humans, and the catastrophe toward which this

world is headed – be it ecological, social, demographic or a general breakdown of

civilization – will be unavoidable. Vaclav Havel.

The secret of success is changing the way you think. Jack Welch, WSJ 2/9/00, A1.

The world of the 1990s and beyond will not belong to "managers" or those who can

make the numbers dance. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders

-- people

who not only have enormous amounts of energy but who can energize those

whom they

lead.

Jack Welch

"Whatever I can imagine, I can accomplish. I am no

longer a vassal in a faceless bureaucracy. I am an

activist, not a drone ... I am a revolutionary."

Gary Hamel, author of "Leading the Revolution"

To know is to comprehend.

Do you know, do you comprehend,

In this moment, who or what

you serve?

We must all be serving

someone or something.

Whom or what are you choosing

to serve right now?

It takes courage

to ask this question of yourself.

But without courage, you can’t practice

any other value consistently.

Maya Angelou (from Mark Maier)

"It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it."

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- William M. Thackeray

-

"The test of a belief is the willingness to act upon it." William James

"Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is

because we do not dare that they are difficult."

-Seneca

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering

his attitude of mind. ~William James

“Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth.” Thich Nhat

Hanh

The wise leader is of service: receptive, yielding, following. The group member’s

vibration dominates and leads, while the leader follows. But, soon it is the member’s

consciousness which is transformed. It is the job of the leader to be aware of the group

member’s process; it is the need of the group member to be received and paid attention

to. Both get what they need, if the leader has the wisdom to serve and follow. John

Heider, The Tao of Leadership.

Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think

necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone… “Does this path have a heart?” If it

does, the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use.”

Carlos Casteneda

"All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said, has its origin in the Spirit." Thomas

Aquinas.

The work you do is a learning experience…There is no difference between work and

play. It all blends into one totally integrated, balanced experience. Shakti Gawain.

When you see yourself as connected rather than separate, you automatically begin to

cooperate. That is what the healing process is all about. Wayne Dyer.

You are here for a purpose. There is no duplicate of you in the whole world. There never

has been, there never will be. You were brought here now to fulfill a certain need. Take

time to think that over.

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Religion is for people who are afraid of hell. Spirituality is for people who have been

there.

The Universe pays me for being who I am and doing what I love doing. Shakti Gawain.

Chinese proverb: If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of

prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.

For reasons we cannot know

Happiness and inner peace

Depend on our relationship

To Beauty

To Gratitude

To Love

And to the Service

Of Something Greater

Than the self

Author Unknown

Excellence can be achieved, if we:

Care more than others think is wise…

Risk more than others think is safe…

Dream more than others think is practical…

Expect more than others think is possible…

Deborah Johnson-Ross

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it

becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Audre Lord

"I create my own environment. It does not create me. The highest level of trust is to

assume that the environment is benign and tractable, that it is susceptible to my creativity,

my projections, and my images. To trust is to believe in my unlimited powers to create

the world in which I live, and to transcend what is. The eternal paradox is to be where I

am, and to fully experience what is, in order to free myself to transcend what is and move

into ever-changing states of new being and awareness.”

Jack Gibb, Trust: A new view of Personal and Organizational Development, Guild of

Tutors Press, 1978. page 50

Where your talents meet the needs of the world, that is where God wants you.

Albert Schweitzer

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It is better to follow your own life’s mission (dharma), however imperfectly, than to

assume the life mission of another person, however successfully.

Bhagavad Gita

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t.

Richard Bach

The challenge is to be yourself in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else.

e.e.cummings

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three

things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need;

second, a decision to change - to fill the void or need; and third, a

conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful

act of making the change, doing something.

Leo Buscaglia

From The Tao

54. Do not be concerned that others do not follow the way or value it. The

way has endured since the beginning and will continue ever after, whether

cheered or jeered.

There is no need to reform the world.

Reform yourself, you reform your family.

Reform yourself, you reform your workplace.

Reform yourself, you reform your nation.

Reform yourself, you reform the world.

Thus by yourself you accomplish all change, in family, workplace, nation and

the world. Not by the power of the sword you wield but of the lens through

which you view.

Symptoms of Inner Peace

Be on the lookout for symptoms of Inner Peace! The hearts of a great many have already

been exposed to Inner Peace and it is probable that people everywhere will come down

with it in epidemic proportions.

A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based in past experience.

An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.

A loss of interest in judging self.

A loss of interest in judging others.

A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.

A loss of interest in conflict.

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Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation.

Contented feelings of connectedness with others and the Universe.

Frequent attacks of smiling through the eyes of the heart.

An increasing tendency to allow things to happen rather than to make them happen.

Increasing susceptibility to love offered by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to

reciprocate.

Servant-leaders lift people up and make the journey possible…The change starts in here,

in the servant, and not out there. Robert K. Greenleaf

Everything of importance in this world has been accomplished by the free inquiring spirit.

The preservation of that spirit is more important than any social system John Lewis,

founder of CIO (in AFL/CIO)

"Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name

them-work, family, health, friends, and spirit- and you're keeping all of these in the air.

You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.

But the other four balls-family, health, friends, and spirit-are made of glass. If you drop

one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered.

They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your

life." CEO of Coca Cola

Many things indicate that we are going through a transitional period when it seems that

something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born. It is as if

something were crumbling, decaying and exhausting itself, while something else, still

indistinct, were arising from the rubble. - Vaclav Havel

"The arms of consciousness reach out and grope,

and the longer they are, the better. Tentacles, not wings,

are Apollo's natural members."

-Vladimir Nabokov

Whatever you can do, or dream you can...begin it!

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it

Goethe

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Wild Geese

Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile, the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely...

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

True Freedom

Unknown

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk being

called sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement.

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To expose feelings is to risk showing your true self. To place

your ideas and your dreams before a crowd is to risk being

called naive. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is

to risk dying. To hope is to risk despair, and to try is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken, because the greatest risk in life is to

risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has

nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid

suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and

change and grow and love and live. Chained by things that are

certain, he is a slave. He has forfeited his freedom. Only the

person who risks is truly free.

"Life isn't about keeping score. It's not about how many people call you and it's not about

who you've dated, are dating, or haven't dated at all. It isn't about who you've kissed, what

sport you play, or which guy or girl likes you. It's not about your shoes or your hair or the

colour of your skin or where you live or go to school. In fact, it's not about grades, money,

clothes, or colleges that accept you or not. Life isn't about if you have lots of friends, or if

you are alone, and it's not about how accepted or unaccepted you are. Life just isn't about

that. But life is about who you love and who you hurt. It's about how you feel about

yourself. It's about trust, happiness, and compassion. It's about sticking up for your friends

and replacing inner hate with love. Life is about avoiding jealousy, overcoming

ignorance, and building confidence. It's about what you say and what you mean. It's about

seeing people for who they are and not what they have. Most of all, it is about choosing to

use your life to touch someone else's in a way that could never have been achieved

otherwise. These choices are what life's about."-- Nike ad

Make this A Positive Day...unless you have other plans!

www.wendling.com

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The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing

the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. William

James

The Principles of Attitudinal Healing

1.The essence of our being is love.

2.Health is inner peace; healing is letting go of fear.

3.Giving and receiving are the same.

4.We can let go of the past and of the future.

5.Now is the only time there is and each instant is for giving.

6.We can learn to love ourselves and others by forgiving rather than

judging.

7.We can become love finders rather than fault finders.

8.We can choose and direct ourselves to be peaceful inside regardless of

what is

happening outside.

9.We are students and teachers to each other.

10.We can focus on the whole of life rather than the fragments.

11.Since life is eternal, death need not be viewed as real.

12.We can always perceive ourselves and others as either extending love or

asking

for love.

A Human Being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and

space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the

rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,

restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our

task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to

embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

" Change is performed by an active agent on an object...Transformation is entirely

different. When it becomes a butterfly, a caterpillar consumes and recreates every part of

itself except its brain, heart and guts. Similarly, the information revolution is driving our

economy utterly to recreate itself. With transformation, you don't have actor and object.

A self-organizing system transforms itself. The alteration is systemic, from the inside

out. It's a unique organic procedure." p. 159 Corporate DNA: Learning From Life by

Ken Baskin

John O'Donohue wrote "Anam Cara"-Celtic for "Soul Friend." It is an

extraordinary book of Celtic Wisdom which by last count I've given to at

least five friends and family members. And it is his words from page 100

I wish to give to all our authors-and to anyone reading this who feels

dedicated to making work more sacred:

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"May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light and renewal

to those who work with you...

May your work never weary you, may it release within you

wellsprings of refreshment, inspiration excitement. May you be present in

what you do...may the day never burden."

Erma Bombeck is widely known as a syndicated columnist who made daily living into a

kind of running, humorous skit. But she sometimes showed a serious side, as when she

confided: "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not

have a single bit of talent left but could say, 'I used everything you gave me.' "

"You may not think that the world needs you, but it does. For you are

unique, like no one that has ever been before or will come after.

No one can speak with your voice, say your piece, smile your smile, or

shine your light. No one can take your place, for it is yours alone

to fill.

If you are not there to shine your light, who knows how many travelers

will lose their way as they try to pass by your empty place in

darkness."

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of art

and science.” Einstein

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

Einstein

Go beyond

You've just achieved a spectacular success. Now go beyond it. You've just had an

overwhelming obstacle thrown in your path. Now go beyond it. Whether your past has

been filled with triumph or disappointment, the thing to do now is to go beyond it. Failure

cannot hold you back unless you let it. And if you allow good fortune to hold you back,

it's not really a lasting success.

If you're not moving forward, where are you going? Whatever has happened is already

past. Now is your chance to go beyond it. No matter what has gone before, go beyond it.

Each day, each moment, is a fresh new opportunity. Go beyond, and unlimited

possibilities await you.

Ralph Marston

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Do not check your soul at the door when you cross the threshold of your

workplace. Whether you are a custodian or a CEO, practice work as

sacred art. Respect comes not from the work you do, but the way you do

your work.

- Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey

From Nabokov's memoir, _Speak, Memory._

"But then, in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's

position in regard to the universe, embraced by consciousness, is an

immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the

longer they are, the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural

members. Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine, in later years,

used to say that while the scientist sees everything that happens in one

point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of

time. Lost in thought, he taps his knee with his wandlike pencil, and at

the same instant a car (New York license plate) passes along the road, a

child bangs the screen door of a neighboring porch, an old man yawns in a

misty Turkestan orchard, a granule of cinder-gray sand is rolled by the

wind on Venus, a Docteur Jacques Hirsch in Grenoble puts on his reading

glasses, and trillions of other such trifles occur--all forming an

instantaneous and transparent organism of events, of which the poet

(sitting in a lawn chair, at Ithaca, N.Y.) is the nucleus."

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change

the world;

indeed it is the only thing that ever has."

(Margaret Mead)

The Truth About Failure

Author: Robert Schuller in Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it does mean you haven't

succeeded yet.

Failure doesn't mean you have accomplished nothing... it does mean you

have learned something.

Failure doesn't mean you have been a fool...it does mean you had a lot

of faith.

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Failure doesn't mean you have been disgraced...it does mean you were

willing to try.

Failure doesn't mean you don't have it...it does mean you have to do

something in a different way.

Failure doesn't mean you are inferior...it does mean you are not

perfect.

Failure doesn't mean you've wasted your life...it does mean you've a

reason to start afresh.

Failure doesn't mean you should give up...it does mean you should try

harder.

Failure doesn't mean you'll never make it...it does mean it will take a

little longer.

Failure doesn't mean God has abandoned you...it does mean God has a

better idea!

When you come to a stonewall in your life

And there is no way to go but forward, be

Peaceful and still, and go silently within.

Ask for strength to endure that your path

Will be made straight and sure and your

Arrival on the other side of the challenge

Will be successful for all concerned.

It is during the deepest and darkest crisis'

That our ability to stay connected to the higher,

Unseen forces of light are tested most.

For how are we to stand tall as beacons of light

And hope for others when the great storms of change

Come, unless it is known we will not falter.

Know that there is a wise and benevolent guide

Behind all the trials of life we face.

There is only one thing in this world which is worth dedicating all your life. This is

creating more love among people and destroying barriers which exist among them.

Leo Tolstoy.

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God seldom delivers…virtues all wrapped up in a package and ready for use. Rather He

puts us in situations where by His help we can develop those virtues.

C.R. Findley

The Truth About Failure

Author: Robert Schuller in Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it does mean you haven't

succeeded yet.

Failure doesn't mean you have accomplished nothing... it does mean you

have learned something.

Failure doesn't mean you have been a fool...it does mean you had a lot

of faith.

Failure doesn't mean you have been disgraced...it does mean you were

willing to try.

Failure doesn't mean you don't have it...it does mean you have to do

something in a different way.

Failure doesn't mean you are inferior...it does mean you are not

perfect.

Failure doesn't mean you've wasted your life...it does mean you've a

reason to start afresh.

Failure doesn't mean you should give up...it does mean you should try

harder.

Failure doesn't mean you'll never make it...it does mean it will take a

little longer.

Failure doesn't mean God has abandoned you...it does mean God has a

better idea!

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Business more than any other occupation is a

continual dealing with the future; it is a continual

calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

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-- Henry R. Luce

(Publishing Magnate, in Quotable Business)

You have to stop to change direction.

-- Eric Fromm

(in Forbes Book Of Business Quotations , 1998)

Self-learning comes from suspension of our existing

knowledge, which clutters our perspective of life and

prevents fresh learning. In organizations many

brilliant ideas are shot down by incompetent bosses

who seem to "know" that "this can't be done" or

"that is too impractical to be implemented." Nothing

acts as a greater block to organizational learning than

a know-all mentality.

-- Debashis Chatterjee

(Leading Consciously , 1998)

Out of clutter find simplicity.

From discord make harmony.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

-- Albert Einstein

(his "Three Rules Of Work," in Positive Thoughts)

I believe that it is only from such a basis of spiritual

servant leadership that really deep transformation can

come about in the corporate world. Without it, there

can be no fundamental rewiring of the corporate

brain.

-- Danah Zohar

(Rewiring The Corporate Brain, 1997)

The environment that the organization worries about

is put there by the organization ... if we acknowledge

the role we play in its creation, it changes the things

we talk and argue about.

-- Karl Weick

(@

http://www.likemindedpeople.com/orglearning.html)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly: what is

essential is invisible to the eye."

What is New Age to you?

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Its people who trust their intuitive insight

It’s people who learn that with compassion and guidance they will strengthen their

commitment to their values.

It’s people who recognise children’s need for acceptance and understanding when they

make mistakes because they are learning too.

It’s people who understand all people have the same feelings whether they are two or

ninety-two.

It’s people who recognise underneath the thread of many religions is a shared hearts

desired for spiritual harmony. It’s people who keep cheerful and know that such an

attitude expands their consciousness.

It’s people who realise each culture on earth has lessons to teach and gifts to share where

differences are celebrated.

It’s people who know what sunshine is to flowers and what smiles are to humanity.

It’s people who consciously care about the delicate balance of nature.

It’s people who have the strength to hold on and the wisdom to let go and trust in the ebb

and move with the flow.

It’s people who realise there is no time like the present moment.

Author unknown. On a card sent by Mary Ann Vlahac

This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty

one, being a force of nature instead of a feverous, selfish little clod of aiments and

grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am

of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as I live, it is my

privilege, my privilege, to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when

I die, for the harder I work, the more I love. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no

brief candle to me, it is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got a hold of for the moment

and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future

generations.

George Bernard Shaw

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM NOAH'S ARK

1. Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

2. Stay fit. When you're 600 years old, someone might ask you to do

something REALLY big.

3. Don't listen to critics-do what has to be done.

4. Build on high ground.

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5. For safety's sake, travel in pairs.

6. Two heads are better than one.

7. Speed isn't always an advantage. The cheetahs were on board, but so were

the snails.

8. If you can't fight or flee-float!

9. Take care of your animals as if they were the last ones on earth.

10. Don't forget that we're all in the same boat.

11. When the doo-doo gets really deep, don't sit there and

complain-shovel!!!

12. Stay below deck during the storm.

13. Remember that the ark was built by amateurs and the Titanic was built by

professionals.

14. If you have to start over, have a friend by your side.

15. Remember that the woodpeckers INSIDE are often a bigger threat than the

storm outside.

16. Don't miss the boat.

17. No matter how bleak it looks, there's always a rainbow on the other

side.

They say a person needs 3 things to be truly

happy in this world, someone to love, something

to do, and something to hope for."

Tom Bodett (from James Wendling)

Others become who you say they are, so say something great about them. Unknown

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Do Not Choose To Be Common

It is my right to be uncommon - if I can. I seek

opportunity - not security. I want to take the

calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and

to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I

prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed

existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm

of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence

nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower

before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my

heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to

think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my

creations and to face the world boldly saying, this

I have done. All this is what it means to be an

American. Author: Dean Alfange

(from James Wendling)

The Sense of a Goose

When you see geese flying along in "V" formation, you

might consider what science has discovered as to why they

fly that way. As each bird flaps its wings, it creates an

uplift for the bird immediately following. By flying in "V"

formation, the whole flock adds at least 71 percent greater

flying range than if each bird flew on its own.

People who share a common direction and sense of

community can get where they are going more quickly and

easily because they are traveling on the thrust of one

another.

When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels

the drag and resistance of trying to go it alone - and

quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of the

lifting power of the bird in front.

If we have as much sense as a goose, we will stay in

formation with those people who are headed the same way we

are.

When the head goose gets tired, it rotates back in the

wing and another goose flies point.

It is sensible to take turns doing demanding jobs,

whether with people or with geese flying south.

Geese honk from behind to encourage those up front to

keep up their speed.

What messages do we give when we honk from behind?

Finally - and this is important - when a goose gets

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sick or is wounded by gunshot, and falls out of formation,

two other geese fall out with that goose and follow it down

to lend help and protection. They stay with the fallen goose

until it is able to fly or until it dies, and only then do

they launch out on their own, or with another formation to

catch up with their group.

If we have the sense of a goose, we will stand by each

other like that. (David Banner)

The Wise Woman's Stone

A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a

precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another

traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her

bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the

precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She

did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his

good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give

him security for a lifetime. But a few days later he came

back to return the stone to the wise woman.

"I've been thinking," he said, "I know how valuable the

stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me

something even more precious. Give me what you have

within you that enabled you to give me the stone."

Author unknown (from James Wendling)

Happiness...

We convince ourselves that life will be better after

we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are

frustrated that the kids aren't old enough and we'll

be more content when they are. After that,we're

frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will

certainly be happy when they are out of that stage. We

tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our

spouse gets his or her act together, when we get a nicer

car, are able to go on a nice vacation, when we retire.

The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than

right now. If not now, when?

Your life will always be filled with challenges. It's

best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy

anyway. One of my favorite quotes comes from Alfred

D. Souza. He said, "For a long time it had seemed to me

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that life was about to begin - real life. But there

was always some obstacle in the way, something to be

gotten through first, some unfinished business, time

still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life

would begin. At last it dawned on me that these

obstacles were my life".

This perspective has helped me to see that there is no

way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So, treasure

every moment that you have and treasure it more because

you shared it with someone special, special enough

to spend your time...and remember that time waits for

no one.

So, stop waiting until you finish school, until you go

back to school, until you lose ten pounds, until you

gain ten pounds, until you have kids, until your kids

leave the house, until you start work, until you retire,

until you get married, until you get divorced, until

Friday night, until Sunday morning, until you get a new

car or home, until your car or home is paid off, until

spring, until summer, until fall, until winter, until

you are off welfare, until the first or fifteenth, until

your song comes on, until you've had a drink, until

you've sobered up, until you die, until you are born again

to decide that there is no better time than right now to

be happy.

Happiness is a journey, not a destination.

Thought for the day:

Work like you don't need money,

Love like you've never been hurt,

And dance like no one's watching.

(from David Banner)

Imagine.

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name

them: work, family, health, friends and spirit, and you're keeping all of these in the air.

You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.

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But the other four balls-family, health, friends and spirit-are made of glass. If you drop

one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked damaged or even shattered.

They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.

How? Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we

are different that each of us is special. Don't set your goals by what other people deem

important. Only you know what is best for you. Don't take for granted the things closest

in your life. Cling to them as they would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.

Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By

living your life one day at a time, you live ALL the days of your life. Don't give up when

you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

Don't be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us

to each together. Don't be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn

how to be brave. Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find. The

quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly;

and the best way to keep love is to give it wings. Don't run through life so fast that you

forget not only where you've been, but also where you are going. Don't forget, a person's

greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated. Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is

weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily. Don't use time or words carelessly.

Neither can be retrieved. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the

way. Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, and Today is a gift: that's why we call

it The Present.

Sent by David Banner

[Respectfully adapted from Rumi speaking of God's words to the Prophet Mohammad,

upon him peace.]

COMING OUT

Come out from under your fear, you so

fond of hiding and running away.

Don't cover your face.

The world is reeling,

Its heart so sick,

And you are one who can serve

as an influence of good.

Don't hide the candle of your clarity.

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Be with people.

Lead the way.

Be a teacher of souls by example.

-Rumi

From Kathryn Hall

Never doubt that small groups of committed people can change the world. Indeed, that’s

the only way it ever happens.

Margaret Mead

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Transformation is being there without getting there. Unknown

One day the hero sits down, afraid to take another step, and the old interior angel limps

slowly in, with her no-nonsense compassion and her old secret, and goes ahead.

‘Namaste,’ you say, and follow.

David Whyte, poet and author, The Heart Aroused : Poetry and the Preservation of the

Soul in Corporate America

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible

vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast… the wilderness with its living and its

decaying trees, the thunder cloud, and the rain… We need to witness our own limits

transgressed and some life pasturing freely where we will never wander....

Henry David Thoreau, Author, Poet & Philosopher (1817-1862)

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a

‘universal’ without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

Robert Henri, The Art Spirit

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“For anything that matters, the timing is never quite right, the resources are always a

little short, and the people who affect the outcome are always ambivalent. These

conditions offer proof that if we say yes, it was our own doing and it was important to us.

What a gift.” (p.29)

Peter Block, The Answer to How is Yes

“It’s the same for individuals as it is for institutions: The more we focus on what counts

to us, the more complicated we realize it is. There is no hurry, no place to go, no

destination we will reach in our lifetime. We are there the moment we begin. And each

time we strive to be recognized and rewarded we are reminded of the work we have left

to do.” P. 125

Peter Block, The Answer to How is Yes

I do not know what you are being called to do right now in your place of influence, but I

do know this: The power of renewal is in your hands. And the ultimate act of absolute

innocence, the most profound of all the ideals that if reclaimed stops cynicism right in its

tracks is this: We can change the world, and fires always begin with a tiny spark.

John Izzo, Second Innocence, p. 166.

One of my favorite sayings comes from the Native American tradition: “As you

go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump! It is not as far as you think.”

I have always liked the fact that it counsels: “you will see a great chasm.” Not

you might or you could – but you will!

Throughout my life, in my faith, my work, my relationships, and daily life, I am

aware that I have encountered a great many chasms. These chasms are often the very

things that challenge our ability to stay innocent and to keep cynicism from taking over.

But I have also experienced the second part of the saying. Whenever I have had

the courage to jump, it has never been as far as I thought it would be.

Innocence waits for us just on the other side of those chasms. So does joy,

purpose, hope, faith, wonder, and so many of the things we seek.

John Izzo, Second Innocence, p. 153

“In this speed culture, we now equate productivity with speed. If it can be done faster, we

assume it’s more productive. A recent trend in some companies is to hold meetings

standing up. These meetings (or perhaps they should be called “football huddles”), are

touted as more productive, but the only measure used is that they take less time. If people

are kept standing, the meeting ends sooner. No one measures the productivity of these

meetings by asking whether people have developed wiser solutions, better ideas, or more

trusting relationships.

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“If we can pause for a moment and see what we are losing in this speed-up, I can’t

imagine that we would continue with this bargain. We’re giving up the very things that

make us human. Our road to hell is being paved with hasty intentions. I hope we can

notice what we’re losing in our day-to-day lives, in our community, in our world. I hope

we’ll be brave enough to slow things down.

“But I don’t believe anybody is going to give us time to think. We have to reclaim it for

ourselves.” (Meg Wheatley, Finding Our Way, p. 214)

"All human motivations are based on self-interest. We are motivated to do something

only when it benefits us in some way. What about the common good? Are actions that

support the common good also based on self-interest? Yes, but the self that has the

interest is a different self. It is a self that transcends selfishness. It is a self with an

enlarged sense of identity. It is a self that identifies with family, community, the

organization it works for, and the planet. it is a self that recognizes that it is a part of a

web of interconnectedness that links all humanity and living systems. I n management

terminology, it is a self with a systems perspective. In spiritual terminology, it is a self in

touch with its soul."

Richard Barrett, Liberating the Corporate Soul, p. 40.

"Because of our obsession with how leaders behave and with the interactions of leaders

and followers, we forget that in its essence, leadership is about learning how to shape the

future... Leadership exists when people are no longer victims of circumstances but

participate in creating new circumstances. Leadership is about creating a domain in which

human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable

of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately leadership is about creating new

realities."

--Peter Senge, Founding Chair, SoL (Society of Organizational Learning) and author of

The Fifth Discipline, in his introduction to Synchronicity: the Inner Path of Leadership,

by Joseph Jaworski, Chairman of Generon.

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers,

wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more,

but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less

time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more

experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast,

get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and

pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk

too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

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We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to

years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street

to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger

things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.. We've conquered the atom, but not our

prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've

learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to

produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep

profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce,

fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers,

throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything

from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and

nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time

when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete.

Remember, spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be

around forever. Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe,

because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side. Remember, to give a

warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your

heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean

it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be

there again. Give time to love, give time to speak, and give time to share the precious

thoughts in your mind.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our

breath away.

HOW TO STAY YOUNG

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor

worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.

2. Keep only cheerful friends.. The grouches pull you down.

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let

the brain idle. " An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is

Alzheimer's.

4. Enjoy the simple things.

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5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our

entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music,

plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond

what you can improve, get help.

9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country,

but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,

but by the moments that take our breath away. If you don't send this to at least 8 people....

who cares?

-George Carlin

Life and livelihood ought not to be separated but to flow from the same source, which is

Spirit, for both life and livelihood are about Spirit. Spirit means life, and both life and

livelihood are about living in depth, living with meaning, purpose, joy, and a sense of

contributing to the greater community. A spirituality of work is about bringing life and

livelihood back together again, and Spirit with them.

Matthew Fox, Reinvention of Work, p. 1-2.

A re-spiritualization of society is taking place, but one more experiential and non-

institutionalized, less fundamentalist and sacerdotal, than most of the historically familiar

forms of religion. Such a change in the basic picture of reality must inevitably be

accompanied by a long-term shift in value emphases and priorities. As a result all

institutions can be expected to go through major changes, including particularly the

industrial, economic and financial ones.

Willis Harman

From Peter Roche:

In times of overwhelming challenges what often follows is a sense of resignation and

hopelessness - 'what can I do to make any difference in the face of ...?'

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Nkosi Johnson's mantra is especially inspiring at this time. As you probably know he was

born with AIDS, was an activist from the age of six, spoke to an audience of 10,000

people at an international AIDS conference at the age of eleven, and died from the disease

at the age of twelve. One person really can make a difference.

He would urge people on with his mantra: "Do all you can, with what you have, in the

time you have, in the place you are in."

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you

kept shouting their bad advice...but little by little as you left their voice behind, the stars

began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly

recognized as your own, as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do

the only thing you could do. – Mary Oliver, "The Journey"

"By saturating with Love, work can be transformed into worship. When the work is

offered to God, it gets santified into sacramental worship." Sai Baba

“Work in the spirit of Love; it leads you on to Worship. Work without any regard to the

proportion of benefits you derive from it. Work since you love to work.” Sai Baba

The Challenge of Authentic Leadership

In order to address the overwhelming global problems that are affecting all of us, we need

to get to a point where we all feel compelled to assume a much bigger, more all-

embracing emotional, philosophical, moral, and ultimately spiritual relationship to being

a human being and living in this world. And of course, if change is going to happen on a

scale that can truly make a difference, the individuals who are in positions of leadership

are going to have to become nothing less than heroes—moral, ethical, and spiritual

heroes—who are willing to take big risks for all of our sake. If our leaders were to

become real leaders in this way, to evolve at the level of consciousness and conscience,

they would truly be able to come together in new ways. This is the challenge of authentic

leadership and, from a certain point of view, nothing is more important. No matter how

many individuals awaken, unless those who are really in positions of power—which

means politicians and corporate leaders—evolve and awaken in dramatic ways, nothing is

really going to change.

From a speech by Andrew Cohen.

"You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the

strangeness that you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for

the hour, the birth of new clarity." -- Ranier Maria Rilke

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"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by

achieving your goals."

- Zig Ziglar

“The only possible alternative for us

is not to worry about the ideological non-issues,

but instead to make practical efforts-

here and now, whatever we are doing,

and wherever we are-

to change things for the better,

to try to win more freedom,

more respect for human dignity,

to work for an economy that functions better,

less destruction of the earth,

government by more sensible politicians,

the right to speak the truth-

and finally, to ensure that people

do not lose hope when confronted with the truth,

but instead try to draw lessons from it.”

Vaclav Havel, October 1987

OPEN LETTERS

There are two questions to ask about work. One, what joy does it give to you, the worker,

and what joy does your work give others? Number two, in what way does your work

relieve the pain and suffering of others? Matthew Fox, from an interview cited in Work

with Meaning, Work with Joy: Bringing Your Spirit to Any Job by Pat McHenry Sullivan

(Sheed & Ward, 2003).

It takes courage to carve out the life we say we want. Eliminate what you are

not...........what's left will be you.

THE PIANO MASTER

A mother, wishing to encourage her son's progress at the piano, bought tickets to a

Paderewski performance. When the evening arrived, they found their seats near the front

of the concert hall and eyed the majestic Steinway waiting on the stage. Soon the mother

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found a friend to talk to, and the boy slipped away. At eight o'clock, the lights in the

auditorium began to dim, the spotlights came on, and only then did they notice the boy --

up on the piano bench, innocently picking out "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." His mother

gasped, but before she could retrieve her son, the master appeared on the stage and

quickly moved to the keyboard.

He whispered to the boy, "Don't quit. Keep playing." Leaning over, Paderewski reached

down with his left hand and began filling in the bass part. Soon his right arm reached

around the other side and improvised a delightful obligato. Together, the old master and

the young novice held the crowd mesmerized.

In our lives, unpolished though we may be, it is the Master who surrounds us and

whispers in our ear time and time again, "Don't quit. Keep playing." And, as we do, He

augments and supplements until a work of amazing beauty is created.

A Community of Spirit

By Rumi

There is a community of the spirit.

Join it, and feel the delight

of walking in the noisy street,

and being the noise.

Drink all your passion,

and be a disgrace.

Close both eyes

to see to see with the other eye.

Open your hands, if you want to be held.

Sit down in this circle.

The Best Within You

Written By: Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged

In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to

those who are at its worst. In the name of the values that keep

you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly,

the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his

title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an

upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels

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unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by

irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate,

the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your

soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have

never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your

battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it's

yours.

ATTITUDE

Author Unknown

I woke up early today, excited over all I get to do before the clock strikes midnight. I have

responsibilities to fulfill today. I am important.

My job is to choose what kind of day I am going to have.

Today I can complain because the weather is rainy or I can be thankful that the grass is

getting watered for free.

Today I can feel sad that I don't have more money or I can be glad that my finances

encourage me to plan my purchases wisely and guide me away from waste.

Today I can grumble about my health or I can rejoice that I am alive.

Today I can lament over all that my parents didn't give me when I was growing up or I

can feel grateful that they allowed me to be born.

Today I can cry because roses have thorns or I can celebrate that thorns have roses.

Today I can mourn my lack of friends or I can excitedly embark upon a quest to discover

new relationships.

Today I can whine because I have to go to work or I can shout for joy because I have a job

to do. I can complain because I have to go to school or eagerly open my mind and fill it

with rich new tidbits of knowledge.

Today I can murmur dejectedly because I have to do housework or I can feel honored

because the Lord has provided shelter for my mind, body and soul. Today stretches ahead

of me, waiting to be shaped.

And here I am, the sculptor who gets to do the shaping. What today will be like is up to

me. I get to choose what kind of day I will have!..

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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting

discoveries. --A.A. Milne

When we love our work ... we don't have to be managed by force or fear. We can build

systems that facilitate creativity, rather than be preoccupied with checks and controls on

people who are motivated to beat or exploit the system. I believe that everyone wants to

find both quality and love in work.

Warren Bennis

I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I

have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that

after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are so many more

hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the

glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities,

and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.

---Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

The way to build self-confidence is to start doing things. Things you're

sure you can do, like walking to the icebox for another beer, won't improve

matters any, so the way to build self-confidence is to start doing things

you're not sure you can do. Like flirting with strangers. Like baking your

own bread. Like painting a picture. Like moving to the Yukon. Whatever it

is, the trick is: stop thinking about it. Do it. Seize the day and get

started and stay with it, and things will get easier and easier from here.

DAS ENERGI by Paul Williams

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"I can't" is a phrase uttered by gods who have forgotten their divinity.

John Haynes

If you really want to change the corporate soul you have to begin with self. You have to

reverberate with peace, joy, acceptance.

Milagros Philips

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the

impossible.

Arthur Clarke

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

PURPOSE

Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck.

Your profession is what you were put on earth to do.

With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

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Vincent Van Gogh

CHOICE

All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another

is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we

do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our

parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate

circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose

the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do

choose how we live.

Unknown

Sent by James Wendling

Anything Is Possible

If there was ever a time to dare, to make a difference, to embark on something worth

doing, IT IS NOW. Not for any grand cause, necessarily...but for something that tugs at

your heart, something that's your inspiration, something that's your dream.

You owe it to yourself to make your days here count. HAVE FUN.DIG DEEP.

STRETCH. DREAM BIG.

Know, though, that things worth doing seldom come easy. There will be good days. And

there will be bad days. There will be times when you want to turn around, pack it up, and

call it quits. Those times tell you that you are pushing yourself, that you are not afraid to

learn by trying.

PERSIST.

Because with an idea, determination, and the right tools, you can do great things. Let your

instincts, your intellect, and your heart, guide you.

TRUST.

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Believe in the incredible power of the human mind. Of doing something that makes a

difference. Of working hard. Of laughing and hoping. Of lazy afternoons. Of lasting

friends. Of all the things that will cross your path this year. The start of something new

brings the hope of something great,

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.

Author Unknown

Sent by James Wendling

Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding

than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a

changed person - not only changed, but for the

better. ~ Arthur Gordon ~

The Cocoon

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a

small opening appeared, he sat and watched the

butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its

body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop

making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten

as far as it could and it could go no farther. Then the

man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair

of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the

cocoon.

The butterfly then emerged easily, but it had a

swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man

continued to watch the butterfly because he

expected that, at any moment, the wings would

enlarge and expand, to be able to support the body,

which would contract in time. Neither happened!

In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling

around with a swollen body and shriveled wings.

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It was never able to fly.

What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not

understand was that the restricting cocoon and the

struggle required for the butterfly to get through the

tiny opening were God's way of forcing fluid from

the body of the butterfly into its wings, so that it

would be ready for flight once it achieved its

freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in

our life. If God allowed us to go through our life

without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We

would not be as strong as what we could have been.

And we could never fly.

Author Unknown

Sent by James Wendling

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

Carl G. Jung

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play

instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with objects it loves.

Carl G. Jung

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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the

circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't

seem so wonderful after all.

Michelangelo

A musician must make his music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to

ultimately be at peace with himself.

Abraham Maslow

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more

money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it

actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you

need to do, in order to have what you want.

Margaret Young

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

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Louis Armstrong

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by

failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,

because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: it is not to be waited for, it is a

thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

Arnold Toynbee

A ship in a safe harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship is built for.

William Shedd

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should

be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

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Have you ever watched a flock of geese flying in their traditional “V” formation? Two

engineers learned that each bird, by flapping its wings, creates an uplift for the bird that

follows. Together the whol flock gains about 70 percent greater flying range than if they

were journeying alone. As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be

down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Marian Anderson.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Unknown

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know

so it goes on flying anyway.

Mary Kay Ash

Keough’s Commandmants for Losing:

1. Quit taking risks.

2. Be content.

3. Before you make any move, always ask yourself, “What will the investors think?”

4. Avoid change.

5. Be totally inflexible - stay on the course, no matter what.

6. Rely totally on research and experts to make decisions for you.

7. Be more concerned with status than service.

8. Concentrate on your competitor instead of your customers.

9. Put yourself first in everything you do, ahead of your customers and suppliers.

10. Memorize the formula “TGE…That’s Good Enough” to set a ceiling on quality.

Then add a bonus rule:

1. Find a way to rationalize the slowing growth.

Don Keough, CEO, Coca-Cola, in “Business Week”

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Most people come to work well prepared, well motivated and wanting to reach their

potential. A primary issue today is helping managers understand that it’s not their job to

supervise or to motivate, but to liberate and enable. You have to look at leadership

through the eyes of followers. Lech Walesa told Congress that there is a declining world

market for words. He’s right. The only thing the world believes is behavior, because we

all see it instantaneously. None of us may preach anymore. We must behave.

Max DePree, retired CEO of Herman Miller, in “Fortune Magazine”

You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or

losing.

Arthur Ashe

Once you’ve done the mental work, there comes a point you have to throw yourself into

the action and put your heart on the line. That means not only being brave, but being

passionate towards yourself, your teammates and your opponents.

Phil Jackson

Humble people don’t think less of themselves – they just think about themselves less.

Unknown

May today there be peace within you.

May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.

May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given

to you.

May you be content knowing you are a child of God.

Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing and

dance, and to bask in the sun, it is there for each and every one of you.

Submitted by David Banner

"To be the greatest, be a servant."

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The Gospel According to St. Matthew

Live your life as though every act were to become a universal law.

Henry David Thoreau

All life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into

a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Han Suyin

All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Albert Schweitzer

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single

moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

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Scatter joy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a university commencement address several years ago, Robert Gozuieto, CEO of Coca

Cola Enterprises, spoke of the relation of work to one's other commitments:

"Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls

in the air. You name them - work, family, health, friends and spirit -

and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand

that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the

other four balls - family, health, friends and spirit - are made of

glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed,

marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same.

You must understand that and strive for balance in your life."

How?

Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is

because we are different that each of us is special.

Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know

what is best for you.

Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them

as they would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.

Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past

or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live ALL

the days of your life.

Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really

over until the moment you stop trying.

Don't be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this

fragile thread that binds us to each together.

Don't be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we

learn how to be brave.

Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find time.

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The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose

love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give

it wings.

Don't run through life so fast that you forget not only where you've

been, but also where you are going.

Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can

always carry easily.

Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved.

Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.

Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery and Today is a gift: that's

why we call it The Present.

What is Success?

"To laugh often and much;

To win the respect of intelligent people

And the affection of children;

To earn the appreciation of honest critics and

Endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty;

To find the best in others;

To leave the world a bit better, whether by

A healthy child, a garden

Patch or a redeemed social condition;

To know even one life has breathed

Easier because you have lived;

This is to have succeeded."

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- Emerson

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.

TALENT will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

GENIUS will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

EDUCATION will not; the world is full of educated failure.

Keep Believing. Keep Trying.

PERSISTENCE and DETERMINATION alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

Real revolutionaries are people

who look with a deep sense of humour

upon their institutions

Ivan Illich

REAL SUCCESS IS ACHIEVED WHEN YOU LIKE WHAT YOU DO.

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No one can succeed in any endeavor that they don't like.

If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Your chances of success are directly proportional

to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do.

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Do something that you have a deep personal interest in.

Do something you'd enjoy spending twelve to fifteen

hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Don't set compensation as your goal.

Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Work is not your punishment.

It's your reward, your strength and your pleasure.

Work is love made visible

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The best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth

doing. Teddy Roosevelt

Those who do not create the future they want must endure the future they get.

Draper L. Kaufman, Jr.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I want to build big biceps, I need to use every opportunity to

practice lifting weights. If I want to live in a way that is loving

and generous and fearless, then I need to practice overcoming any

tendency to be angry or greedy or confused. Life is a terrific gym.

Every situation is an opportunity to practice."

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Sylvia Boorstein

Nobody who ever gave their best regretted it.

George Halas

GAZING POLITELY

i have just

wandered back

into our conversation

and find

that you

are still

rattling on

about something

or other.

i think i must

have been gone

at least twenty minutes

and you

never missed me.

now this might say

something

about my acting ability

or it might say

something about

your sensitivity.

one thing

troubles me though.

when it

is my turn

to rattle on

for twenty minutes,

which i

have been known to do,

have you been missing too?

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Author: Ric Masten

From “The Listening Leader” by Rick Bommelje.

Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of

individuals is difficult, it is the only way.

Dalai Lama

Almost all great art has a strong charge of the negative in it, and

conversely, bland popular culture has little power for survival. Popular

culture is a smoothing of the collective ego. In order to break that

smoothness, the significant artist must step in and give it a one-two punch.

Almost always the great artist straight-arms the reader at the beginning of

his work; it is both a grabbing action and a statement of intent. This is

done in many ways, but it stems from a primary disposition of restlessness.

The great artist has a divine impatience with the way things are.

William Everson

Put everything at stake

Risk everything

Because the next moment

Is not certain.

So why bother?

Why be concerned?

Live dangerously, live joyously.

Live without fear

Live without guilt

Live without any fear of hell

Or any greed for heaven

Just live.

Osho