there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd.
The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
Don’t search for heaven and hell in the future.
Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.
I have come to drag you out of yourself, and take you in my heart.
I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had and lift you like a prayer to the sky.
I came back to You
because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.
Your longing for me is my message to you.
All your attempts to reach me are in reality my attempts to reach you.
Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road,
not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.
Ego says, “Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace.”
Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place."
...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself,
whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.
For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors.
The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another’s life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who cannot provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.
Most people do not really want freedom,
because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sunday, January 4, 2015
I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer.
I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted
as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.
Knowledge exists in two forms
lifeless, stored in books,
and alive, in the consciousness of men.
The second form of existence is after all the essential one;
the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.
and alive, in the consciousness of men.
The second form of existence is after all the essential one;
the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.
Although I am a typical loner in my daily life,
my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end,
by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Friday, January 2, 2015
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