Friday, May 1, 1998

If I were to wish for anything,

I should not wish for wealth and power,

but for the passionate sense of the potential,

for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible…

what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!

~ Soren Kierkegaard

 Sunday, May 3, 1998

It is through living

that we experience and communicate the spirit.

It is through life

that we learn to live in the spirit.

One in full quest of the spirit

knows the goal of life is death.

~      ~      ~       ~

As long as you move from a place of fear and desire,

you are self-excluded from immortality.

~   Joseph Campbell

Monday, May 4, 1998

A life of reaction is a life of slavery,

Intellectually and spiritually.

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

~ Rita Mae Brown

or as Henry David Thoreau puts it:

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,

and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,

he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

~hdt

Tuesday, May 5, 1998

You and I and everything in the universe

exist as a part of the endless flow of God's Love.

Realizing this, we recognize that all creation

is bound together with the same benevolence.

To harmonize with life is to come into accord

with that part of God which flows through all things.

To foster and protect all life

is both our mission and our prayer.

~ Morehei Ueshiba

Wednesday, May 6, 1998

I wanted only to live in accord

with the promptings which came from my true self.

Why was it so difficult?

~ Hermann Hesse

Thursday, May 7, 1998

The Four Reliances

First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings,

not on the words;

Second, rely on the teachings,

not on the personality of the teacher;

Third, rely on real wisdom,

not superficial interpretation;

And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind,

not on judgemental perceptions.

~  Traditional Buddhist teaching

Friday, May 8, 1998

He who knows others is wise;

He who knows himself is enlightened.

~  Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching

Saturday, May 9, 1998

Seek above all a game worth playing.

Play it as if your life and sanity depend on it,

Because they do!

~ Robert de Ropp

Sunday, May 10, 1998

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get from it,

But what they become by it.

~ John Ruskin

Monday, May 11, 1998

As long as we operate within this old paradigm,

we are separated from our heart and values and feel powerless.

We cannot suspend our values during the workday

and think we will have them back when we get home.

We're all interconnected.

There is a spiritual dimension to business just as there as individuals.

~ Ben & Jerry, [Cohen & Greenfield, The Ice Cream Guys]

Tuesday May 12, 1998

Spirit…is the point of human transcendence;

It is the point where the human is open to the divine,

   that is, to the infinite and the eternal.

It is also the point where human beings communicate.

At that point of the Spirit we are all open to one another.

~ Father Bede Griffiths

Wednesday, May 13, 1998

If there is righteousness in the heart,

   there will be beauty in the character.

If there is beauty in the character,

   there will be harmony in the home.

If there in harmony in the home,

   there will be order in the nation.

When there is order in the nation,

   there will be peace in the world.

~ Sathya Sai Baba

Thursday, May 14, 1998

There is a place in you where there is perfect peace.

There is a place in you where nothing is impossible.

There is a place in you where the strength of God abides.

~ A Course in Miracles

Friday, May 15, 1998

Life is like a game of cards.

The hand that is dealt you represents determinism.

The way you play it is free will.

~ Jawaharlal Nehru

Saturday, May 16, 1998

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart!

What jailer is as inexorable as one's self!

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sunday, May 17, 1998

Love is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families and nations."

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Monday, May 18, 1998

I have no money, no resources, no hopes.

I am the happiest man alive.

~ Henry Miller

Tuesday, May 19, 1998

               Psalm 1

Blessed are the man and the woman

   who have grown beyond their greed

   and who have put an end to their hatred

   and no longer nourish illusions.

But they delight in the way things are

   and keep their hearts open, day and night.

They are like trees planted near flowing rivers,

   which bear fruit when they are ready.

Their leaves will not fall or wither.

   Everything they do will succeed.

~ translated by Stephen Mitchell

Wednesday, May 20, 1998

Sunshine is delicious,

rain is refreshing,

wind braces us up,

snow is exihilerating;

there is really no such thing a bad weather,

only different kinds of good weather.

~ John Rushkin

Thursday, May 21, 1998

[what love teaches]

It takes no effort to love.

The state of being has its own innate joy.

Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough.

Life is safe.

Flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live.

Resistance never really succeeds.

Controlling the flow of life is impossible.

~ Deepak Chopra

    The Path to Love

Friday, May 22, 1998

You can't be a solitary human being.

We're all linked ...

Because of this deep sense of community,

    the harmony of the group is a prime attribute.

And so you realize that anything that undermines the harmony

    is to be avoided as much as possible.

Anger and jealousy and revenge are particularly corrosive,

    so you try... to enhance the humanity of the other,

    because in that process, you enhance your own.

~ Desmond Tutu

Saturday, May 23, 1998

A Man is the façade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, counting, planting man,

does not as we know him represent himself, but misrepresents himself.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

No messages May 24 & 25, 1998

Tuesday, May 26, 1998

The Great Spirit is the life that is in all things ~

all creatures and plants and even rocks and the minerals.

All things ~ and I mean all things ~

have their own will and their own way and their own purpose.

~ Rolling Thunder

Wednesday, May 27, 1998

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings,

by changing the inner attitudes of their minds,

can change the outer aspects of their lives.

~William James

&

The mind is its own place, and in itself,

can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

~John Milton

Thursday, May 28, 1998

If you look for the truth outside yourself,

It gets farther and farther away.

Today walking alone, I meet it everywhere I step.

It is the same as me, yet I am not it.

Only if you understand it in this way

will you merge with the way things are.

~ Tung-Shan

Friday, May 29, 1998

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.

It is the fundamental emotion which stands

at the cradle of true art and true science.

Whosoever does not know it and can no longer wonder,

No longer marvel, is as good as dead,

And his eyes are dimmed.

~ Albert Einstein

Saturday, May 30, 1998

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

~ Carl Jung

Sunday, May 31, 1998

The soul is a breath of living spirit that

with excellent sensitivity

permeates the entire body to give it life.

Just so,

The breath of the air makes the earth fruitful.

Thus the air is the soul of the earth,

Moistening it; greening it.

Hildegard von Bingen