Heroes:
Mahatma Gandhi
'No culture can survive if it attempts to be exclusive'
Nelson Mandela
'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us We ask ourselves: "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of the universe Your playing small doesn't serve the world There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people around you won't feel insecure We are all meant to shine as children do We are born to manifest the glory of the universe that is within us It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone And as we let our light shine We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.As we are liberated from our own fear Our presence automatically releases others' Taken from Nelson Mandela's Inaugural speech, by Marianna Williamson Mary Dunbar'We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and adventure to discover our own special light.'
Maya Angelou
'There are more similarities than than differences within the human race'
I rise
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Shabana Azmi'I'm not averse to doing anything as long as it's not at cross purposes with my values and I can make time for it'
Angela Davies 'We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. '
Amrit Wilson
'these voices remind us that we must acknowledge our battles and use them to reflect on the world we want'
Thich Nhat Hanh
"God is Black.
But God is not only Black.
God is also White,
God is also a Flower.
So when a lesbian thinks of
her relationship with God,
if she practices deeply,
she can find out that
God is also Lesbian.
And God is Gay, too.
God is no less.
God is Lesbian,
and also Gay,
Black, White,
a Chrysanthemum.
And when you
discriminate against
Black or White
or Flower or Lesbian,
you discriminate
against God,
which is the basic
Goodness in you."
Rabindranath Tagore"The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass, and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment." "
'The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough'
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. "
Unending love
'I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times... in life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs, that you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms, in life after life, in age after age, forever.'
Krishnamurti
'It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society'
'If you really faced the world as it is, and tackled it, you would find it something infinitely greater than any philosophy, greater than any book in the world, greater than any teaching, greater than any teacher.
Leonardo Da Vinci
'He turns not back who is bound to a star'
Dr. Joe Vitale"You are the masterpiece of your own life; you are the Michelangelo of your experience. The David that you are sculpting is you. And you do it with your thoughts."~
Rumi
'Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue.If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.'
Chang-Tzu
'That which fills the universeI regard as my body, And that which directs the universe,I see as my own nature.'
When your mind is empty of prejudices you can see the Tao. When your heart is empty of desires you can follow the Tao. (From Master Lu Teachings.)
Erik Erikson"Our civilisation does not really harbor a concept of the whole life"
'The latter years should be a time when life becomes whole, a knitting together of body, mind and spirit into a unity. The circle closes and life's purpose is fulfilled.' Deepak Chopra
Albert Schweitzer"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light."
Albert Einstein
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
Blackstone 'Human laws are invalid because they are contrary to human nature' Dr Sami Sunchild'I am more interested in what I can create
than in what i can consume
in what i can share
than in what i can own,
in living my own life
rather than viewing others on tv or the big screen
I think for myself and choose my own heroes
My goal is to be one of them'
'What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us' An Inspirational Video - The Law of Attraction
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The unconditional spirit exists in the silent spaces between your thoughts.My Mum
My mother taught me generosity of spirit and unconditional love.
