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Words of Wisdom

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Your thoughts guide you to your destiny. If you always think the same - you will always get to the same place. If you think in a new way - you'll become a new person and arrive at a wondrous destination of limitless possibilities.

Think In A New Way

Create peace in your mind and you will create a world of peace around you. Try it, and find a world of difference.

 


 

Enlightenment

Enlightenment is a continuous process of expanding our experience of who and what we are.

 

Attraction


Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes, the subconscious identically creates.

 

Growing Up

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've
never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back. Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.

 

Happiness

It isn't addition of possessions, but subtraction of desires which promotes happiness. The basis of happiness is contentment.

 

Manners

A person of wisdom and spirituality has very beautiful manners that have grown from genuine respect and love for the whole of humanity. Manners in this sense have nothing to do with culture or education: it is simply a question of humility. When we are at the receiving end of such manners, we feel that some deeper part of us has been honoured. In fact, none of us deserves anything less.

 

Courage

Silent heroism brings brightness to the world.

 

Heart of a Butterfly

"...the caterpillar has the heart of a butterfly!” It is true that if we know within our hearts what we want to become, then we will become that.

 

Contentment

To make good use of what you have and to let go of what you do not use is to live in a contented way.

 

Response Able

We now know that the true meaning of responsibility is response able or ability to respond. Whatever we may think, say, do, or feel - these are our responses for which we, and no one else, are responsible. This is easy to see but hard to live, for we have been taught to believe and think the opposite. So we don't consciously choose our response, we react instead, and then we blame others for our reaction. No wonder we feel imprisoned by others and our circumstances. The enlightened, on the other hand, have broken the spell, they see the illusion. They take full responsibility for their response abilities and as a consequence, they always hold their own destiny in their own hands. They are free spirits.

 

Anger

Harbored anger destroys the beauty of the heart as well as the beauty of the face.

 

Character

If a problem arises with someone, and the problem is not yours, humility removes the need for you to comment.

 

Lucky Day

Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

 

Good Feelings

Good feelings for others are like ointments that heal wounds and re-establish friendships and relationships. Good feelings are generated in the mind, are transmitted through your attitude and are reflected in your eyes and smile. Smiling opens the heart and a glance can make miracles happen.

 

Talking to the Self

When you talk to yourself in your mind, which self do you address? And how? Usually people do not talk to their divinity, but to the most superficial aspects of their everyday personality. And often its a stream of fears, complaints and mindless repetition of old things. If we talked that way to another human being, we would have to apologise. Learning to talk properly to the self is a spiritual endeavour. Thoughts from the past and worries about the future do not create good conversation. Instead learn to talk to your mind as if it were a child. Talk to it with love. If you just force a child to sit down, he won't. A good mother knows how to prompt her child into doing what she wants. Be a good mother to your mind, teach it good, positive thoughts so that when you tell it to sit quietly, it will. Love your mind. Stay happy.

 


The Secret Power of Thought

  1. You imagine what you desire.
  2. You will what you imagine.
  3. You create what you will.

These magickal principles should always be applied with caution. One must never use them to manipulate another or for evildoing. What you give out will return to you threefold, or with awareness - sevenfold. However, if you use these principles for good, then the brightest of blessings will return to you!

 


More Wisdom...

  • The wise seek wisdom, a fool has found it.
  • Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. - Dr Seuss
  • Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
  • Once we have found the true path, destiny unfolds before us like a red carpet.
  • No one outside myself can rule me inwardly. Knowing this I become wholly free.
  • Believe that you have it, and you have it.
  • Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
  • They can because they think they can.
  • The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
  • You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
  • It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
  • Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand.
  • The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill.
  • Conscience is God's presence in man.
  • Don't find fault. Find a remedy.
  • Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
  • It's better to be silent and be considered a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
  • Nearly all men can stand adversity... but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
  • Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
  • A wise man sometimes changes his mind, a fool never.
  • Parenthood is the art of bringing up children without putting them down.
  • The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
  • The only way to have a friend is to be one.
  • The soul is healed by being with children.
  • There's nothing wrong with drinking like a fish...providing you drink what a fish drinks.
  • To err is human. To forgive, divine.
  • We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
  • We are such little men when the stars come out. - Herman Hagedorn
  • We each have a choice: to approach life as a creator or a critic, a lover or a hater, a giver or a taker.
  • When we come face to face with God, we are going to be judged on how much we loved. - Mother Teresa
  • When you help someone up a hill, you get that much closer to the top yourself.
  • Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times... it's the only time you've got.
  • You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Ghandi
  • Gratitude makes a person modest. A sense of gratitude expands the heart.
  • If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out.
  • Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
  • Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue.
  • If you lend someone £20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
  • We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill
  • And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln
  • Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
  • We can't stop the waves, but we can learn to surf. - Jonathan Kabat-Zinn
  • The best things in life are not things.
  • If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. - Jonathan Winters
  • It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up. - Vince Lombardi
  • If you are going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill
  • Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
  • When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. - Thomas Jefferson
  • If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin
  • Success doesn't come to you... you go to it. - Marva Collins
  • The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
  • Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
  • Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
  • The road to success is always under construction.
  • Leap and the net will appear. - Zen Saying
  • 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
  • What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. - Richard Bach
  • Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb
  • Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us.
  • Good friends are like stars - you don't always see them, but you know they are always there.
  • Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. - Sicilian Proverb
  • Holding resentment is like eating poison and waiting for the other person to keel over.
  • Insist on yourself. Never imitate. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. - Winston Churchill
  • I have not failed. I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work. - Thomas Edison
  • Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. - Wendell Johnson
  • Where there's a will, there's a way.
  • Progress is like a wheelbarrow, if you stop pushing the wheelbarrow it stops.
  • No one has ever hurt their eyes by looking at the brighter side of life.
  • Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
  • There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. - Bryant H. McGill
  • Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them more.
  • We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.
  • What you love, you empower. And what you fear, you empower. And what you empower, you attract. - The Talmud
  • A hostile person lives in a hostile world. A loving person lives in a loving world.
  • You grow to heaven. You don't go to heaven.
  • If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Marcel Proust
  • You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
  • The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
  • The measure of love is to love without measure. - Mother Teresa
  • Remember you are unique, just like everybody else.
  • Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. - Paul Boese
  • Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. - William Ward
  • He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. - Epictetus
  • Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live. - Jackie Windspear
  • Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. - Bil Keane
  • Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild
  • Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. - André Gide
  • The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
  • Positive attitudes create a chain reaction of positive thoughts.
  • We tend to live up to our expectations. - Earl Nightingale
  • Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. - William Shakespeare
  • We can't stop the waves, but we can learn to surf. - Jonathan Kabat-Zinn
  • Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
  • The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think. - James Beattie
  • The wealthiest of all are those who are pure hearted.
  • The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. - William Hazlitt
  • The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Chinese Proverb
  • There are two ways of spreading light... To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it. - Saint Augustine

 

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