Keep constant guard over your perceptions, for it is no small thing you are protecting, but your respect, trustworthiness and steadiness, peace of mind, freedom from pain and fear, in a word your freedom. For what would you sell these things?
Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
The source of all creation is pure consciousness, pure potentiality seeking expression from the unmanifest to the manifest.
And when we realize that our true Self is one of pure potentiality, we align with the power that manifests everything in the universe.
In the beginning there was neither existence nor non existence. All this world was unmanifest energy. The One breathed, without breath, by Its own power Nothing else was there ~ Hymn of Creation, The Rig Veda
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
You could enjoy this very moment all the things you are praying to reach by taking the long way around —if you'd stop depriving yourself of them. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 12.1
To live without Self-Respect is to lie awake some night, beyond the reach of warm milk, the phenobarbital, and the sleeping hand on the coverlet, counting the sins of commission and omission, the trusts betrayed the promises subtly broken, the gifts irrevocably wasted through sloth or cowardice or carelessness.
Paulo Coelho, Stories for Parents, Children and Grandchildren
It was a beautiful Sunday morning. People were filing the church to its full capacity! As they entered, each were given a bulletin filled with announcements, topic of today's sermon, what songs they would sing and who to pray for. At the end of the line stood an older man. His clothes were filthy and you could tell that he had not bathed in days. His face was covered with whiskers, for her had not shaved for a very long time. When he reached the usher,
Be careful with your heroes: Don't put any of them on a pedestal Ernie Zelinski, 101 Really Important Things You Already Know but keep forgetting
"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."
quipped American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The ultimate tragedy, is the vast majority of modern hero- worshipers in the Western world who revere false heroes. So much so, that hero is one of the most misused words in English language.
