The spiritual journey does not consist in arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance conc...
The artist creates something out of nothing! Without the thoughts and feelings of the artist, there would be no art. It’s their particular creative mind in contemplation that links to intention to giv...
Søren Kierkegaard, the famed Danish theologian, once put it, Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Stop waiting for others to change. Ask yourself why others should be different simply because you would like it better if they were. Recognize that every person has a right to be whatever they choose,...
Snatch a thought from the running ribbon of thoughts and contemplate it. As you toss it around, notice how you feel—sad, depressed, happy, frightened, and so on. Every thought going by has an imprint...
Shape clay into a vessel; it is the space within that makes it useful.
Remove all unloving thoughts from your mind, and practice kindness in all of your thoughts, words, and actions. Cultivate
Remind yourself daily that there is no way to happiness; rather, happiness is the way. You may have a long list of goals that you believe will provide you with contentment when they’re achieved, yet i...
Remember that every use of force, even the smallest, creates a counterforce.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in Literary Ethics in 1838,Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous...
Offer a prayer when you hear an ambulance’s or police car’s siren.
Nurturing things without possessing them,
My book is developing into a guide for cutting through a lifetime of emotional red tape. I’ve written it not because of my advanced educational training, but more in spite of it.
Make your future dream a present fact, by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled. This
Love and love alone dissolves all negativity, not by attacking it, but by bathing it in higher frequencies, much as light dissolves darkness by its mere presence.
Lembre-se que o que incomoda você não é o que as outras pessoas fazem, e sim sua reação a isso. Em vez de dizer Eles deviam fazer isso, diga: Queria saber por que me incomodo com o que eles estão faze...
It’s spirit that gives life.
In order to float an idea into your reality, you must be willing to do a somersault into the inconceivable and land on your feet, contemplating what you want instead of what you don’t have.
If you want to find deeper meaning in your life, you can’t find it in the opinions or the beliefs that have been handed to you. You have to go to that place within yourself.
If you spend a long period of time in study and self-cultivation, you will enter Tao. By doing so, you also enter a world of extraordinary perceptions. You experience unimaginable things, receive thou...