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We cannot live only for ourselves.
A thousand fibers connect us
with our fellow men;
and among those fibers,
ss sympathetic threads,
our actions run as causes,
and they come back to us as effects.
My religion is very simple.
My religion is kindness.
~The Dalai Lama
Act upon your present blessings...
Of which every man has many...
Not on your past misfortunes...
Of which all men have some."
~Charles Dickens
Living with integrity means:
Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others.
Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal
values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.
~ Barbara De Angelis
Our real self, the soul, is immortal. We may sleep for a little while in that change called death, but we can never be
destroyed. We exist, and that existence is eternal. This body has come, and it will vanish; but the soul essence within it
will never cease to exist. Nothing can terminate that eternal consciousness.
~ From "Autobiography of a Yogi," by Yogananda
Consider the difference between fact and truth. Facts are just circumstances in our lives, events happening around us.
The truth is much greater than that which we experience with our senses. The truth is that God is moving to us and through
us in every moment and when we open to that Presence and that Power, our experience of our circumstances begins to expand.
~Mary Manin Morrissey
The truth indeed has never been preached by the Buddha, seeing that one has to realize it within oneself.
-Lamkara Sutra
From "Buddha Speaks," edited by Anne Bancroft, 2000. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Boston,
www.shambhala.com.
What could you want
that forgiveness cannot give?
Do you want peace? Forgiveness offers it.
Do you want happiness, a quiet mind,
a certainty of purpose,
and a sense of worth and beauty
that transcends the world?
Do you want care and safety,
and the warmth of sure protection always?
Do you want a quietness that cannot be disturbed,
a gentleness that never can be hurt,
a deep, abiding comfort,
and a rest so perfect it can never be upset?
All this forgiveness offers you.
~~~A Course in Miracles
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if
they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to
them all the care, kindness, and understanding you
can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward.
Your life will never be the same again.
~Og Mandino
Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint...
Plant a pint and you reap a bushel...
Always the law works to give you back...
More than you give."
Anthony Norvell
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of
containing God's gift of Himself.
~Mother Teresa
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