COMPASSION

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life
with reverence in order to give it true value.
— Albert Schweitzer

8/11/2014

Quotes


“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books.” - Chinese proverb

“You lose it if you talk about it.” - Ernest Hemingway

“You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.” - John Knox

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts” - Richard Feynman

“Things are only impossible until they’re not.” - Jean-Luc Picard

“Jump and the net will appear.” - Mick Ebeling

“Where is peace to be found? The answer is surprising but clear. In weakness. Why there? Because in our weakness, our familiar ways of controlling and manipulating our world are being stripped away, and we are forced to let go from doing much, thinking much, and relying on our self-sufficiency. Right there where we are most vulnerable, the peace that is not of this world is mysteriously hidden.” - Henri Nouwen

“The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.” - Ram Dass

“The first step in conflict is to shift from agree/disagree to trying to understand, what is the experience of the person saying this?” - MK (Miki Kashtan?)

“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” - Lindquist

“The stories we tell ourselves can serve as straitjackets for stagnation, or scaffolding for transformation.” - Seb Paquet

“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.” - Hardy D. Jackson

“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them” - Seth Godin

“The intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.” - B.K.S. Iyengar

“Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.” - Deepak Chopra

“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.” - Naguib Mahfouz

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” - Joseph Chilton Pearce



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