Wisdom For The Day

I like this thread. I have no contribution at the moment, but I like this thread :)
 

The word dog
only appears 14 times in the bible
but a lot more if you read it backwards
 

The most people beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss and have found their way out of the depths.
These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding that fills them with compassion, gentleness and a deep loving concern.
Beautiful people do not just happen
- Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
 
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from
- Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
 
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything ...

I liked the silence and solitude of the woods and hills. I felt the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky

- Bede Griffiths
 
And how you ask are we to walk the spiritual path? We answer: say little, love much, give all, judge no-one, aspire to all that is pure and good - and keep on keeping on
- White Eagle
 
Knightofalbion said:
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything ...

I liked the silence and solitude of the woods and hills. I felt the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky

- Bede Griffiths
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Love that quote.
 
It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality.
It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical.
Yet I still cling to them, because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart
- Anne Frank
 
Her wisdom was well beyond her years. Her diary and essays still speak to us as we can only imagine what that child went through during her short life.
 
The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud.
In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud - the obstacles of life and its suffering ...
The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter our stations in life ...
Whether we have it all or have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death.
If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one
- Goldie Hawn
 
It ill behoves us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures
- Mahatma Gandhi
 
Knightofalbion said:
The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud.
In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud - the obstacles of life and its suffering ...
The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter our stations in life ...
Whether we have it all or have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death.
If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one
- Goldie Hawn
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Wow. Goldie said that? That is great and so very true.
 
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