Words to Remember…
Below are the ones I will keep with me and always remember. The posts after are the new ones that I must use to reflect. Every word there has led to a door opened in my soul.
The unnumbered quotes were just what I needed to hear.
Allow them to operate peacefully together. And wherever you fall short practice self forgiveness and begin again Eventually your focus will be on internal unity rather than the current battle in which you now perceive They want to get along Remove your ego which loves to look at dualistic measures (good or bad/right or wrong) and observe the silence that awaits your observation You will see that there was never a battle at all outside of your own imagination. – Timothy J Glenn (The battle between mind, body and spirit)
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. — Eleanor Roosevelt
When you get clear on who you are & what you stand for – and refuse to compromise that – the people who do not hold those values will disappear from your life & the people who do will show up & join you. This means you will have the team you want surrounding you. Do you think perhaps that this might be a powerful …way …to bring a deeper ease to your living? – Calvin Hawn
True humility involves the willingness and open-mindedness to accept help and insight from all sources. When we pretend that “nothing is wrong” or “we are already enlightened” there leaves no room for growth and we inadvertently shut off insights and opportunities for further expansion. One of the keys to growth is recognizing that there is always room for improvement…just my two cents: – Connie Mink
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls. – Howard Thurman
How can the beauty and wisdom of Change be revealed if you remain a slave to Complaining? – Timothy J Glenn
If I must err in this world, let it be on the side of loving too deeply, trusting too many, giving too much, expressing too fully and living too great a life. Let it be said I miscalculated the greatness within us all, rather than that I failed to notice the beauty inside …of another…. – Eileen Workman
The minute that you stop creating the life you want……is the minute someone else less qualified creates it for you. Take responsibility for your life NOW. Life is awaiting your courageous creativity, not your victim mentality. – Timothy J Glenn
Never react in emotion. – Aaron
- “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”~— Siddhārtha Gautama….Words can never take the place of Spiritual Practice.
- Use of knowledge is power.
- The most dangerous weapon is a focused mind.
- There is no problem that can withstand the bombardment of sustained thinking.
- We become what we think about.
- Do or Do not! There is no try.
- Just Do it!
- Do it now! Today will be yesterday tomorrow.
- Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.
- Attitude out does Aptitude.
- Great souls have always experienced violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Those who prescribe the diameter of your knowledge also control the circumference of your activities.
- African Proverb – Only when Lions have historians will the hunters cease being heroes.
- Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate but powerful beyond measure.
- Our words may hide our thoughts but our actions reveal them.
- Watch your “Thoughts,” they become actions;
Watch your “Actions,” they become habits;
Watch your “Habits,” they become character;
Watch your “Character”, for it becomes your “Destiny” - I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means. – Clarence Darrow
- What you seek is seeking you. — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
- The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love. — Meister Eckhart
- We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change. — Katharine Hepburn
- Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others…By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves. — Gordon B. Hinckley
- Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself… You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. — Khalil Gibran
- You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. — Charles Buxton
- If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success. — Malcolm X
- You cannot change the world by yourself. You need to have two or three other people. — Spenser Havlick
- One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibrán
- Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. — Mark Twain
- In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong. — Carl Gustav Jung
- Look in the mirror. What’s there is not you, but an image projected by the ego. Like a movie. Know that, apply it to your whole life, and things will begin to look different. Very different…… Better — by Stefan Nadzo
- Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. — Mark Twain
“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.” — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi April 20 at 6:05pm ·
“A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.” — Maya Angelou April 20 at 6:06pm ·
“God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith. ” — Kahlil Gibrán April 20 at 6:06pm ·
Many people today are looking for an “Experience” with God…. When was the last time you had an “Insperience”?……Namaste…Timothy J Glenn April 20 at 6:07pm ·
“Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden…” — Marcus Garvey April 20 at 6:07pm ·
“The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.” Benjamin L. Hooks April 20 at 6:07pm ·
“Two there are who are never satisfied — the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.” — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi April 20 at 6:07pm ·
“silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.” — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi April 20 at 6:07pm ·
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe April 20 at 6:08pm ·
Give advice; if people don’t listen, let adversity teach them. ~African Wisdom April 20 at 6:08pm ·
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ” — Mother Teresa April 20 at 6:09pm ·
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” — Mahatma Gandhi April 20 at 6:09pm ·
“Are you looking for ME? I am in the next seat. MY shoulder is against yours. you will not find ME in the Indian shrine rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals: not in masses, nor in eating nothing but vegetables. When you really look for ME, you will see ME instantly — you will find ME in the tiniest house of time. — Kabir April 20 at 6:10pm ·
You can’t lead the people if you dont love the people. You can’t save the people if you won’t serve the people.~ Dr. Cornel West April 20 at 6:10pm ·
Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.” — Martin Luther King Jr. April 20 at 6:11pm ·
” Until the color of a mans skin is of no more importance than the color of his eyes .. There will always be War ! .. What we need is Love .. To guide and protect us all ” — Bob Marley April 20 at 6:12pm ·
“When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.” — Kahlil Gibrán April 20 at 6:12pm ·
“Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.” — Dale Carnegie April 20 at 6:13pm ·
“I don’t care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations…I don’t think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren’t there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?” — Graham Greene April 20 at 6:13pm ·
Happiness – Timothy J Glenn April 20 at 6:13pm ·
“The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom” — Kahil Gibran April 20 at 6:13pm ·
“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.” — Michael Jackson April 20 at 6:14pm ·
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” — Winston S. Churchill April 20 at 6:14pm ·
“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.” — Martin Luther King Jr. April 20 at 6:15pm ·
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” — Martin Luther King Jr.April 20 at 6:15pm·
“And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: “Your seeds shall live in my body, “And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, “And your fragrance shall be my breath, “And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.”” — Kahlil Gibrán April 20 at 6:16pm ·
“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.” — Kahlil Gibrán April 20 at 6:16pm ·
“The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.” — Booker T. Washington April 20 at 6:16pm ·
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson April 20 at 6:16pm ·
“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.” — Henry David Thoreau April 20 at 6:17pm ·
“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras 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 April 20 at 6:17pm ·
“The earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson April 20 at 6:17pm ·
“The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman April 20 at 6:17pm ·
“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.” — Philip Pullman April 20 at 6:18pm ·
“There is only one thing every religion insists: that a direct relationship with God is not possible. They don’t give any reasons why. I have seen trees praying directly to God; the rivers and the mountains and the stars don’t have any priests, the flowers and the birds don’t have any priests. Do you think this whole existence except man is not related to God?”~ Osho April 20 at 6:19pm ·
“God has no religion.” — Mahatma Gandhi April 20 at 6:19pm ·
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” — Albert Einstein April 20 at 6:19pm ·
“If you are still breathing maybe it is not such a bad day after all…” — Darren E Laws April 20 at 6:19pm ·
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” — Kahlil Gibrán April 20 at 6:20pm ·
“Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’ Say not, ‘ I have found the path of the soul.’ Say rather, ‘I have met the soul walking upon my path.’ For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.” — Kahlil Gibrán April 20 at 6:22pm ·
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion.” — Kahlil Gibrán April 20 at 6:23pm ·
“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.” — Jack KerouacApril 20 at 6:24pm ·”Love is the energy of life.” — Robert BrowningApril 20 at 6:24pm ·”With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?” — Oscar Wilde April 20 at 6:24pm ·
“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.” — Siddhartha Gautama April 20 at 6:25pm ·
“Be wise not only in words but in deeds; mere knowledge is not the goal but action.” — The Talmud April 20 at 6:25pm ·
“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.” — Confucius April 20 at 6:26pm ·
“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.” — John Henry Newman April 20 at 6:28pm ·
“God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.” — Woody Allen April 20 at 6:28pm ·
“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.” — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi April 20 at 6:31pm ·
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” — Malcolm XApril 20 at 6:33pm ·
“…why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible” — Eric Butterworth April 20 at 6:36pm ·
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.” — Carl Gustav Jung April 20 at 6:36pm ·
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” — Carl Gustav Jung April 20 at 6:36pm ·
“The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.” — Napoleon Hill, Pioneer of Personal Achievement Philosophy April 20 at 6:37pm ·
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.~Andre Gide April 20 at 6:37pm ·
“I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers” ~Kahlil Gibran April 20 at 6:38pm ·
“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” Epictetus April 20 at 6:38pm ·
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. — Albert Einstein. April 20 at 6:39pm ·
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”~Winston Churchill April 20 at 6:40pm ·
“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 April 20 at 6:41pm ·
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.”~ August Wilson April 20 at 6:41pm ·
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.~Emmet Fox April 20 at 6:42pm ·
“Create a set of great personal values and surround yourself with the right people that can form your support system. Have an optimistic spirit and develop a strong purpose that you completely believe in and everything you can imagine is possible, for you.” Andrew Horton April 20 at 6:43pm ·
Fear not the path of truth, but the lack of people walking on it.” ~ Robert F. Kennedy April 20 at 6:44pm ·
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things… Eric Butterworth April 20 at 6:47pm ·
Without illumination, we struggle with the forces of the world; we labor for a living; we struggle to maintain our power and position; we compete for riches or honors. Often we war with our own friends and even find ourselves at war with ourselves. There is no security in personal possessions even after the battle to acquire them has been won.~Joel Goldsmith April 20 at 6:48pm ·
The (word) of a friend makes you cry; the (word) of an enemy makes you laugh. ~African Wisdom April 20 at 6:48pm ·
“We have been taught to think in limited, shame-producing ways since we were children. This is the work of religion, not spirituality. Religion is comprised of concrete dogmas, while spirituality is comprised of direct realization of the Real.” – Michael Beckwith April 20 at 6:49pm ·
Freedom = Losing all attachments that create the illusion of separation. – Timothy J Glenn April 20 at 6:51pm ·
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” — Frederick Douglass April 20 at 6:52pm ·
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ~Dalai Lama April 20 at 6:53pm ·
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…. We need silence to be able to touch souls. ~Mother Teresa April 20 at 6:58pm ·
“We evolve at a rate consistent with the group that we are “plugged into.” ~ Carolyn Myss April 20 at 6:58pm ·
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. ~Author Unknown April 20 at 6:58pm ·
Not all religion is to be found in the church, any more than all knowledge is found in the classroom. ~Author Unknown April 20 at 6:59pm ·
You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. ~Anne LamottApril 20 at 6:59pm ·
is enjoying stillness and silence, two of my best friends. : ) – Timothy J Glenn (mines too brother…mines too) April 20 at 6:59pm ·
Strive to discover the mystery before life is taken from you. If while living you fail to find yourself, to know yourself, how will you be able to understand the secret of your existence when you die? ~ Farid ud Din Attar. April 20 at 7:00pm ·
God has entrusted me with myself. ~Epictetus April 20 at 7:01pm ·
Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it’s uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing — resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.~Joanna Macy April 20 at 7:02pm ·
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. Confucius April 20 at 7:02pm ·
Pain is never permanent. ~ Teresa of Avila April 20 at 7:02pm ·
It is your turn now, you waited, you were patient. The time has come, for us to polish you. We will transform your inner pearl into a house of fire. You’re a gold mine. Did you know that, hidden in the dirt of the earth? It is your turn now, to be placed in fire. Let us cremate your impurities. Rumi April 20 at 7:03pm ·
“Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.” ~~Henry Ward Beecher April 20 at 7:03pm ·
Those who don’t feel this Love pulling them like a river,those who don’t drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in sunset like supper, THOSE WHO DON’T WANT TO CHANGE, LET THEM SLEEP ~~Rumi April 20 at 7:03pm ·
YOU’VE no idea how hard I’ve looked for a gift to bring YOU. Nothing seemed right. What’s the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the Ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It’s no good giving my heart and my soul because YOU already have these. So- I’ve brought YOU …a mirror. Look at YOURSELF and remember me. ~Jalaluddin Rumi(imma have to use this line on my King one day lol) April 20 at 7:04pm ·
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.” — Herman HesseApril 20 at 7:05pm ·Allow yourself to witness the Inner Presence that holds the key t…o our existence rather than seeking validation from external experiences. – Timothy J GlennApril 20 at 7:05pm ·
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. ~Marcus Garvey April 20 at 7:06pm ·
If you can’t smell the fragrance Don’t come into the garden of Love. If you’re unwilling to undress Don’t enter into the stream of Truth. Stay where you are. Don’t come our way. ~Rumi April 20 at 7:07pm
·A true Lover doesn’t follow any one religion, be sure of that. Since in the religion of Love, there is no irreverence or faith. When in Love, body, mind, heart and soul don’t even exist. Become this, fall in Love, and you will not be separated again. ~Rumi April 20 at 7:08pm ·
The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ~Joan Didion April 20 at 7:08pm ·
Love and God are one…..I’m cool with this. – Timothy J Glenn April 20 at 7:08pm ·
“The worst thing is holding on 2 someone who doesn’t want 2 b held on 2. Dont fall 4 someone unless they’re willing 2 catch u. The thing about falling in love is that if u do it right, you’ll never hit the ground. Life is 2 short 2 b anything but happy. So kiss slowly, love deeply and forgive quickly.Take chances & never have regrets.” – Carnishia Pines April 21 at 8:32am ·
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” repost Nyaesia Campbell April 22 at 7:35am ·
No more standing in the back of the line cause I’m invisible for the last time– Jennifer HudsonNo matter how many times the gardner waters the seed, it will only bloom in its season.– The KeysKnowledge is not the destiny but the journey– The KeysMy heart is my virtue and I’ll never put her in the way of harm. When you handle it, treat it as your own.– Jennifer Hudson