Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
Quotes by O. Henry
- What 'raisins' could you contribute today?
- What did you experience on a recent adventure?
- What 'Art' do you like to share?
- What is inside of you which helps to shape your path?
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
#1050 When will you begin?
Be a lamp, a lifeboat, a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
Flow down and down in always
widening rings of being.
What in your life is calling you,
When all the noise is silenced,
The meetings adjourned...
The lists laid aside,
And the Wild Iris blooms
By itself
In the dark forest...
What still pulls on your soul?
Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.
And You? When will you begin that long journey into Yourself?
Quotes by Rumi
- To whom have you brought some healing?
- What hinders you from embracing love?
- How can you cultivate wider rings of being?
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
Flow down and down in always
widening rings of being.
What in your life is calling you,
When all the noise is silenced,
The meetings adjourned...
The lists laid aside,
And the Wild Iris blooms
By itself
In the dark forest...
What still pulls on your soul?
Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.
And You? When will you begin that long journey into Yourself?
Quotes by Rumi
- To whom have you brought some healing?
- What hinders you from embracing love?
- How can you cultivate wider rings of being?
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
#1049 A why to live
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Modern man has the means to live but often no meaning to live for.
What is to give light must endure burning.
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
Quotes by Viktor Frankl
-When did you feel discouraged in a situation?
-Where lies meaning in life?
- What intensity within has helped to create your light?
- What is your reason for life which has given you strength?
Modern man has the means to live but often no meaning to live for.
What is to give light must endure burning.
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
Quotes by Viktor Frankl
-When did you feel discouraged in a situation?
-Where lies meaning in life?
- What intensity within has helped to create your light?
- What is your reason for life which has given you strength?
Monday, August 5, 2013
#1048 The longer I live
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright
- What syntheses have you reached as you observe and inquire about life?
- To what extent is Nature part of your spiritual equation?
- In what have you been successful?
An idea is salvation by imagination.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright
- What syntheses have you reached as you observe and inquire about life?
- To what extent is Nature part of your spiritual equation?
- In what have you been successful?
Saturday, August 3, 2013
#1047 Always miracles
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
The end is nothing; the road is all.
Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
That is happiness, to be dissolved into something complete and great.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
Quotes by Willa Cather
- Which of the above quotes speak most to you?
- What is your perspective about happiness?
- When have you seen/experienced miracles?
The end is nothing; the road is all.
Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
That is happiness, to be dissolved into something complete and great.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
Quotes by Willa Cather
- Which of the above quotes speak most to you?
- What is your perspective about happiness?
- When have you seen/experienced miracles?
Friday, August 2, 2013
#1046 The eternel condition of success
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just
enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate - that's my philosophy.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good.
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Quotes by Thornton Wilder
-What 'ice cream' are you enjoying?
-What treasures do you cherish in your heart?
-What is one of your central purposes for life?
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good.
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Quotes by Thornton Wilder
-What 'ice cream' are you enjoying?
-What treasures do you cherish in your heart?
-What is one of your central purposes for life?
Thursday, August 1, 2013
#1045 A serviceable substitute
-Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
-Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
-The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
-Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
-Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- How much do you strive to be yourself?
- Where lies truth?
- What painful but valuable experience have you gained?
-Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
-The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
-Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
-Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- How much do you strive to be yourself?
- Where lies truth?
- What painful but valuable experience have you gained?
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