Thoughts
The most beautiful thing we can
experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
Albert Einstein
Look deep into nature, and then you
will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
Enlightenment:
The act of enlightening or the state of
being enlightened.
Enlighten:
Give greater knowledge and
understanding about a subject or situation.
Give spiritual knowledge or insight.
Enlightened:
Having or showing a rational, modern,
and well-informed outlook.
Spiritually aware.
Meditation and mindfulness are useful
tools in this process of creating a more accurate perception of
reality, a more focused life and a more joyful experience.
As we delve into our inner world the
study of the sciences, psychology, the brain and consciousness can
help us interpret our experiences.
Our enlightenment is effected by our
ego's need to see the world in a certain way and to maintain it's own
existence.
Meditation can help us see the world
more clearly, not as we as we think we need to see it.
When we remember we are all mad, the
mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
All this worldly wisdom was once the
unnameable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
Delusions are normal parts of
existence, assume that they are there even though you can not see
them.
Mindfulness helps us live in the
present without the demons of the past tearing at us or the desires
and fears of the future distracting us.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just
that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
We must let go of the life we have
planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
And the day came when the risk to
remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to
blossom.
Anais Nin
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of
the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to
live in joy.
Joseph Campbell
The best way to make your dreams come
true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
For all life is a dream, and dreams
themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Myths are public dreams, dreams are
private myths.
Joseph Campbell
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find
ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
Charles Lindbergh
One of the most tragic things I know
about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are
all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of
enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
The Universe is one great kindergarten
for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar
lesson.
Orison Swett Marden
There are always flowers for those who
want to see them.
Henri Matisse
Follow your bliss and the universe will
open doors where there were only walls.
Joseph Campbell
Most sets of values would give rise to
universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain
no one able to wonder at that beauty.
Stephen Hawking
The price of anything is the amount of
life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau
To live is so startling it leaves
little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
Who will tell whether one happy moment
of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and
smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort
which life implies.
Erich Fromm
It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
There is always some specific moment
when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we
know it was much later.
Mignon McLaughlin
An intellectual is someone whose mind
watches itself.
Albert Camus
Alas, after a certain age every man is
responsible for his face.
Albert Camus
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to
despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we
should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus
For if there is a sin against life, it
consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for
another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus
He who despairs of the human condition
is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus
How hard, how bitter it is to become a
man!
Albert Camus
That God does not exist, I cannot deny,
That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Jean-Paul Sartre
There is only one day left, always
starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at
dusk.
Jean-Paul Sartre
We do not judge the people we love.
Jean-Paul Sartre
When we love the world we do not judge
it, rather we make a choice in the moment.
Respond intelligently even to
unintelligent treatment.
Lao Tzu
Always respond intelligently to
unintelligent treatment even if to an outside observer it appears
that you are not responding intelligently.
Everything happens to everybody sooner
or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing
in.
Henry David Thoreau
Until you value yourself, you won't
value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything
with it.
M. Scott Peck
The more you value yourself the more
that you will be able to focus your efforts.
He that would live in peace and at ease
must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin
Our greatest glory is not in never
falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
Being deeply loved by someone gives you
strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
For in all adversity of fortune the
worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Boethius
The best and most beautiful things in
the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the
heart.
Helen Keller
All men are children, and of one
family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the
morning.
Henry David Thoreau
As a single footstep will not make a
path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the
mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make
a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts
we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau
A pathway starts with a single
footstep.
Friends... they cherish one another's
hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
Henry David Thoreau
It is a difficult decision to wake
someone from a delusional dream. Wake oneself first.
How can any man be weak who dares to be
at all?
Henry David Thoreau
If you can speak what you will never
hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare
things.
Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet
desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau
The greatest compliment that was ever
paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my
answer.
Henry David Thoreau
The squirrel that you kill in jest,
dies in earnest.
Henry David Thoreau
There is no remedy for love but to love
more.
Henry David Thoreau
There is no value in life except what
you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what
you bring to it yourself.
Henry David Thoreau
True friendship can afford true
knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
You must live in the present, launch
yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and
thou.
Omar Khayyam
Drink! for you know not whence you came
nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Omar Khayyam
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though
thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore,
not today in vain, For it will never come again.
Omar Khayyam
The moving finger writes, and having
written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half
a line of it.
Omar Khayyam
That though the radiance which was once
so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can
bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We
will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing.
That's voting.
Robert Frost
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is
nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells
Fame will go by and, so long, I've had
you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at
least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
Marilyn Monroe
For every person who has ever lived
there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in
the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown
Forget not that the earth delights to
feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
I've made an odd discovery. Every time
I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a
possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the
opposite.
Bertrand Russell
Let us learn to appreciate there will
be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time
when we may pick the fruit.
Anton Chekhov
Every religion is true one way or
another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets
stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are
in trouble.
Joseph Campbell
I, not events, have the power to make
me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday
is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and
I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx
A truly good book teaches me better
than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its
hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau