Meant is not said
said is not heard
heard is not understood
understood is not understood properly
properly understood is not agreed to
agreed to is not carried out
carried out is not carried out properly
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If you plan to build a ship don't call the men to collect wood and organize work
but teach them a longing for the endlessly wide sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.
All the images we have for God come from our understanding of ourselves.
Meister Eckhart
You may not get what you want, but God always gives you what you
need.
Live so that you don't look back and regret that you've wasted your
life.
Live so you don't regret the things you have done or wish that you had
acted differently.
Live life honestly and fully.
Live.
Our only purpose in life is growth. There are no accidents.
The greatest gift God has given us is free choice.
The ultimate lesson is learning to love and be loved unconditionally.
Elisabeth
Kübler-Ross: The Wheel of Life
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
Because we can reflect on our own thought processes, and thus to
some degrees remove ourselves from them, we become capable of
imagining all sorts of other possibilities;
we become dreamers in the true sense of the word.
Other perspectives, other beliefs, other horizons open before the
mind's eye, and the soul can take flight in the worlds of the
not-yet-seen. Rationality is the great doorway to the invisible,
through which, and then beyond which, lie so many secrets not given to
the senses or to conventions (which is why all true mysticism is
transrational and never antirational;
"right thought" always precedes "right meditation").
Thus, the idea that rationality is somehow "dry and abstract," or that
it has "no feelings," is way off the mark. Rationality creates a
deeper space of possibilities through which deeper and wider feelings
can run, feelings not bound to one's isolated desires or the narrow
confines of official conventional reality. ... It is the pathological
expression of rationality that has given rationality a bad name ("dry
and abstract"), but that is definitely not characteristic of the
structure as a whole.
Ken
Wilber
Philosophy is to be studied,
not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions,
since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true,
but rather for the sake of the questions themselves,
because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible,
enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic
assurance
which doses the mind against speculation;
but above all because,
through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates,
the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union
with the universe
which constitutes its highest good.
Bertrand
Russell
What we are, that only can
we see.
Emerson
Better light a candle than lament the darkness.
Chinese
proverb
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen: Anthem (1992)
There are no boundaries. Not for thoughts, not for feelings. Fear
creates the boundaries.
Ingmar
Bergman
[We are required] to die unto one story, one myth, in order to be
reborn to a larger one. ... Development involves giving up a smaller
story in order to wake up to a larger story.
Jean
Huston
Always we hope someone else has the answer,
some other place will be better,
some other time it will all turn out.
This is it.
No one else has the answer,
no other place will be better,
and it has already turned out.
Lao
Tse: Tao Te Ching