My work on myself cannot be completed in one lifetime.
In the course of your life’s journey it is most likely that your day-to-day companions or friends will change. This transition in traveling companions is a delicate and troubling matter. To find that someone you assumed shared all your values and interests over many years has no interests what-so-ever in enlightenment or in becoming more conscious or coming into the Spirit is a shock. You want to share this “trip†with him in the same way as you shared others in the past. That desire to proselytize, to turn him on, to show him, to bring him to the light…is a reflection of your lack of wisdom. For only some people can hear. Only some people can awaken in this lifetime. It’s a little like seeing a friend drowning and being unable to catch his hand. You want so badly to DO something. But in truth you can only BE…be as straight and as open and as HERE as you can be…and if your friend can hear, he will hear. And if he cannot hear, he will turn away from you. No blame. Ram Dass
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Two of the greatest:
MARK FARINA
LJT BUKEM
SIX MISTAKES OF MANAccording to Cicero:1. The delusion that individual advancement is made by crushing others2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences5. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind and not acquiring the habit of reading and studying6. Attempting to compel other persons to believe and live as we do.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.The Buddha
Authors:
Sheldon B. Kopp
Viktor Frankl
Wayne Dyer
Ram Dass
Hume
Kant
Proust
Ken Keyes
Friedrich Nietzsche
Jean-Paul Sartre
Henry David Thoreau
Bucky Fuller
Emerson
ETC.
A grown-up can be no man's disciple .
The ABC 's from Benny Frank
* A n empty bag cannot stand upright.
* B e always ashamed to catch thyself idle.
* C heese and salty meat should be sparingly eat.
*The D oors of wisdom are never shut.
* E arly to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
* F ull of courtesy, full of craft.
* G od helps them that help themselves.
* H unger never saw bad bread.
* I f you'd have a servant that you like, serve your self.
*If J ack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
* K eep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.
*A L ie stands on one leg, the truth on two.
*A M an without a wife is but half a man.
* N othing but money is sweeter than honey.
* O ne today is worth two tomorrows.
* P ay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.
*A Q uarrelsome man has no good neighbors.
*The R otten apple spoils his companion.
* S peak little, do much.
* T hree may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
* U p, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
* V isits should be short, like a winter's day.
* W ell done is better than well said.
*A good e X ample is the best sermon.
* Y ou may delay, but time will not.
*There are la Z y minds as well as lazy bodies.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked. -Mark Twain
One joy dispels a hundred cares. -Confucius
He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still -Lao-Tsu. Tao Teh King
There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. -Logan Pearsall Smith
There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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