Finally at the farthest corner of the room, the soul stopped at the last section. To the surprise of the soul, only one angel stayed there idly, doing nothing. "This is the Acknowledging Section," St. Peter told the soul. "How is it that, there is no work here?" "That's sad thing," St. Peter answered. "After the people received the blessings they asked for, very few send their acknowledgements." How does one acknowledge God's blessing?"
"This is your wake-up call! You may not have even realized you were sleep-walking. Most of us are most of the time. Awareness is an eye-opener. It's Anthony de Mello telling you gently but firmly, 'It's time to get up now.'" --Charles Osgood of "CBS Sunday Morning" and "The Osgood File"
"Awareness will be the critical test of American business in the next decade. I call it the 'business of awareness.'" --F.X. Maguire, Hearth Communications Group
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Hecato says, 'I can teach you a love potion made without any drugs, herbs, or special spell — if you would be loved, love. — Seneca, Moral Letters, 9.6
8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
February 27th: Cultivating indifference where other grow passion
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Of all the things that are, some are good, others bad, and yet others indifferent. The good are virtues and all that share in them; the bad are the vices and all that indulge them; the indifferent lie in between virtue and vice and include wealth, health, life, death, pleasure and pain. — Epictetus, Discourses, 2.19.12b-13
