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Serenity

Joy

Spirit

God

Unity

 

SERENITY

 

The Great Way is available to him who holds no preference.

~ Chuang Tzu

 

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion

to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment.

And this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated

on achieving reform from within.

~ Mohandas K. Gandhi

 

The greatest discovery of any generation is that

human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.

~ Albert Schweitzer

 

First keep the peace within yourself,

then you can also bring peace to others.

~ Thomas A. Kempis

 

Be tolerant among the intolerant,

gentle among the violent,

and free from greed among the greedy.

~ Buddha

 

Learn to be silent.

Let your mind listen and absorb.

~ Pythgagorus

 

The way to do...is to be.

~ Lao Tzu

 

Patience is the greatest of all shock absorbers.

The only thing you can get in a hurry is trouble.

~ Lord Thomas R. Dewar

 

It's not easy taking my problems one at a time

    when they refuse to get in line.

~ Ashley Brilliant

 

All of us could take a lesson from the weather.

it pays no attention to criticism.

~ unknown

 

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age.

~ Plato

 

At the still point of the turning world.

Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards;

At the still point, there the dance is...

 

~ T. S. Eliot

 

The Serenity Prayer

 

GOD grant me the Serenity

to accept the things I cannot change

 

The Courage

to change the things I can

 

And the Wisdom

to know the difference.

 

~ Frederich Christoph

 

JOY

I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette the same day.

I have never had time for tobacco since.

~ Arturo Toscanini

 

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy,

and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs,

that is your success.

~ Henry David Thoreau

 

There is no meaning to life

except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

~ Erich Fromm

 

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder,

he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it,

rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and majesty of the world we live in.

~ Rachel Carson

 

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others

cannot keep it from themselves.

~ James M. Barrie

 

It is truly wonderful how the sight of the noose quickens the senses. [paraphrased]

~ La Rochefoucauld

 

SPIRIT

 

Nothing here below is profane

   for those who know how to see.

On the contrary,

   everything is sacred.

~ Teilhard de Chardin

 

There are only two ways to live your life.

One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle.

~ Albert Einstein

 

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit.

And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age

and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

~ George Santayana

 

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word,

that raises us above ourselves.

~ Arthur P. Stanley

 

Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science

  becomes convinced that a Spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe.

~ Albert Einstein

 

In the faces of men and women I see God,

and in my own face in the glass,

I find letters from God dropt in the street,

and everyone is sign'd by God's name.

And I leave them where they are,

for I know that wheresoe'er I go,

Others will punctually come for ever and ever.

~ Walt Whitman

 

The power of spiritual forces in the universe-

active it is everywhere!

Invsible to the eyes,

and impalpable to the senses,

it is inherent in all things,

and nothing escapes it.

~ Confucius

 

GOD

I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that

the pattern of God exists in every man and that

this pattern in the individual has at its disposal

the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable.

Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed.

~ Carl Gustav Jung

 

God is Love

~ Meher Baba

 

UNITY

 

To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves.

However small may be the world we live in,

if we can transform ourselves,

bring about a radically different point of view in our daily existence,

then perhaps we shall affect the world at large, the extended relationship with others.

~ Krishnamurti

 

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