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Thursday, July 11, 2019

Courage finds a way





Fear says 'no chance', Instinct says 'run', Courage says 'try', I say 'can't you all agree on anything?'



Courage finds a way


8 Really Effective Tricks to Boost Your Courage

Ask yourself: Should I take action to solve this fear? ...
Remind yourself that fear can harm you. ...
Remember that fear is just chemicals. ...
Enlarge your comfort zone. ...
Do something to engage your cognition. ...
Name your fears. ...
Meditate, or at least stop and breathe.
Embrace your fear, then let it go.




Monday, July 8, 2019

Jethro Tull - Living In The Past,1976





Jethro Tull performing "Living In The Past" on British TV Show "Supersonic" in March 1976.





Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Be Happ[y



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Is happiness a skill? Modern neuroscientific research and the wisdom of ancient contemplative traditions converge in suggesting that happiness is the product of skills that can be enhanced through training and such training exemplifies how transforming the mind can change the brain. 

Kent Berridge, Richie Davidson, and Daniel Gilbert speak at the Aspen Ideas Festival
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Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah


Leonard Cohen Credit Dominique Issermann

  Leonard Cohen: Darkness and Praise

The email from the boy began: “Did anything inspire you to create Hallelujah?"

Later that same winter day the reply arrived: 
“I wanted to stand with those who clearly see God’s holy broken world for what it is, and still find the courage or the heart to praise it. You don’t always get what you want. You’re not always up for the challenge. But in this case — it was given to me. For which I am deeply grateful.”
The question came from the author's son, who was preparing to present the hymn to his fifth-grade class. The boy required a clarification about its meaning. The answer came from the author of the song, Leonard Cohen.
Cohen lived in a weather of wisdom, which he created by seeking it rather than by finding it. He swam in beauty, because in its transience he aspired to discern a glimpse of eternity.
There was always a trace of philosophy in his sensuality.
He managed to combine a sense of absurdity with a sense of significance, a genuine feat.
He was a friend of melancholy but an enemy of gloom, and a renegade enamored of tradition.
Leonard was, above all, in his music and in his poems and in his tone of life, the lyrical advocate of the finite and the flawed.
Leonard sang always as a sinner. He refused to describe sin as a failure or a disqualification. Sin was a condition of life. 

“Even though it all went wrong/ I’ll stand before the Lord of song/ With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah!”
The singer’s faults do not expel him from the divine presence. Instead they confer a mortal integrity upon his exclamation of praise. 

He is the inadequate man, the lowly man, the hurt man who has given hurt, insisting modestly but stubbornly upon his right to a sacred exaltation.

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”  

He once told an interviewer that those words were the closest he came to a credo.  

The teaching could not be more plain: fix the crack, lose the light.
  
Here is a passage on frivolity by a great rabbi in Prague at the end of the 16th century:

“Man was born for toil, since his perfection is always being actualized but is never actual,” 
he observed in an essay on frivolity.
“And insofar as he attains perfection, something is missing in him.  In such a being, 
perfection is a shortcoming and a lack.”

Leonard Cohen was the poet laureate of the lack, the psalmist of the privation, who made imperfection gorgeous.



Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/opinion/my-friend-leonard-cohen-darkness-and-praise.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&src=trending



Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Living with a sense of purpose in life




Conclusion:

A sense of purpose in life also gives you this considerable advantage:
"People with a sense of purpose in life have a lower risk of death and cardiovascular disease."

The conclusions come from over 136,000 people who took part in 10 different studies.

Participants in the studies were mostly from the US and Japan.


The US studies asked people:
  • how useful they felt to others,
  • about their sense of purpose, and
  • the meaning they got out of life.


The Japanese studies asked people about ‘ikigai’ or whether their life was worth living.

The participants, whose average age was 67, were tracked for around 7 years.

During that time almost 20,000 died.
 
But, amongst those with a strong sense of purpose or high ‘ikigai’, the risk of death was one-fifth lower.

Despite the link between sense of purpose and health being so intuitive, scientists are not sure of the mechanism.

Sense of purpose is likely to improve health by strengthening the body against stress.

It is also likely to be linked to healthier behaviours.

Dr. Alan Rozanski, one of the study’s authors, said:
“Of note, having a strong sense of life purpose has long been postulated to be an important dimension of life, providing people with a sense of vitality motivation and resilience.
Nevertheless, the medical implications of living with a high or low sense of life purpose have only recently caught the attention of investigators.
The current findings are important because they may open up new potential interventions for helping people to promote their health and sense of well-being.”

This research on links between sense of purpose in life and longevity is getting stronger all the time:
  • “A 2009 study of 1,238 elderly people found that those with a sense of purpose lived longer.
  • A 2010 study of 900 older adults found that those with a greater sense of purpose were much less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease.
  • Survey data often links a sense of purpose in life with increased happiness.
No matter what your age, then, it’s worth thinking about what gives your life meaning.”



Read More:

Find out what kinds of things people say give their lives meaning.
Here’s an exercise for increasing meaningfulness
And a study finding that feeling you belong increases the sense of meaning.

The study was published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine (Cohen et al., 2015).




A sense of purpose in life
Link: http://www.spring.org.uk/2015/12/here-is-why-a-sense-of-purpose-in-life-is-important-for-health

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Quotes: Inspiration, Wisdom, Authenticity and Humour





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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~ Dogen Zenji


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Let the waters settle, you will see stars and moon mirrored in your being. ~ Rumi


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The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream. ~ Harry Kemp


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There is no certainty; there is only adventure. ~ Roberto Assagioli


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Silence between friends says that one's presence is enough. ~ Dr Jack Hyles


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With great power, comes great responsibility. ~ Voltaire


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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~ Rev. John Watson (aka Ian MacLaren)


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Uncertainty & mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay & spark creativity. ~ R.Fitzhenry


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The most successful people are those who are good at plan B. ~ James Yorke


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My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn Any hard lesson that may do thee good. ~ Shakespeare


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Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart. ~ Joseph Fort Newton


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The only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth. ~ William Cowper


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A person hears only what they understand. ~ J W von Goethe


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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. ~ Peter Ustinov


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I shut my eyes in order to see. ~ Paul Gauguin


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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. ~ Paul Valery


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There are the dreams we have for our life and there are dreams that life has for us. ~ Marcia Wieder


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You' means to be aware of the universe in the form of you, and 'I' means to be aware of it in the form of I. ~ Shunryu Suzuki


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My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn Any hard lesson that may do thee good. ~ Shakespeare


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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe, is love. ~ Pearl Bailey


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Always have a song on your heart and you will be on a good note. ~ Christina Pagliarulo


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On Having No Head: Zen and the rediscovery of the obvious. ~ Douglas Harding http://bit.ly/aBZ6vy.


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Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it. ~ Guy Finley


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I suggest just being an earthworm - letting go of the desire to radiate love throughout the world. ~ Ajahn Sumedho


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We all need each other. ~ Leo Buscaglia


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Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing. ~ Melinda Haynes


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The monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. ~ Albert Einstein


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So_ _ _ _ Just_ _ _ _ Stop_ _ _ _ Thinking. ~ Anon


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Receiving with grace is beautiful. It allows someone the opportunity to give, and blesses both giver and receiver. ~ Zen Moments


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When you are relaxed, interested, alert, receptive, not judging, open to the mystery, life will unfold before you. ~ Zen Moments


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Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise. ~ Harvey Mackay


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In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. ~ Deepak Chopra


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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ~ Oscar Wilde


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If you always give, you will always have. ~ Chinese Proverb


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To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else. ~ Dalai Lama


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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. ~ JW von Goethe


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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. ~ Oscar Wilde


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When in doubt, be yourself. ~ Anon


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What you resist persists. And only what you look at and own, can disappear. ~ Neale D Walsch


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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh


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My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass. ~ Leslie Grimutter


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Don't let yesterday take up too much of today. ~ Will Rogers


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Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. ~ Rumi


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Take that first step. Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next. ~ Daisaku Ikeda


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Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were. ~ Richard Paul Evans


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What wound did ever heal but by degrees?. ~ William Shakespeare


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Never say more than is necessary. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. ~ Wayne Dyer


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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. ~ Pema Chodron http://goo.gl/rWvz7


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The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation. ~ Tran-Duc Luong


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It is better to be a small stream, than a deep ditch. ~ Chinese Proverb


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Graham Chapman is no more… http://shar.es/skL2O (1989)


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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves. ~ Pema Chodron


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If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. ~ Aristotle Onassis


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Go as far as you can see: when you get there, you'll be able to see farther. ~ J.P. Morgan


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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ~ Langston Hughes


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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. ~ Kahlil Gibran


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We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. ~ Albert Einstein


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You think you can choose God like you choose a pair of shoes? ~ Buddha of Hollywood


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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. ~ St Thomas Aquinas


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The truth is: there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around. ~ Rhonda Byrne


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Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together. ~ Marilyn Monroe


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Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of this moment. ~ Rumi


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The real voyage of discovery lies not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes. Marcel Proust


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Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ~ The Buddha


The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. ~ Mark Twain


We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience. ~ Martin Buber



We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ~ Anais Nin




Live in joy, in love, Even among those who hate. ~ Dhammapada




Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little. ~ Cheng Yen




You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed. ~ Ken Kesey




Non-violence is a sign of strength, self-confidence and truth. ~ Dalai Lama http://goo.gl/wTX07


 


Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. ~ Julia Cameron

 


An enthusiastic heart finds opportunities everywhere. ~ Paulo Coelho




Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~ Malcolm Forbes




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The sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights up the whole sky. ~ Hafiz




When you welcome your emotions as teachers, every emotion brings good news - even the ones that are painful! ~ Gary Zukav


 


Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. ~ W. Clement Stone

 


Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything. ~ Julia Cameron





You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks. ~ Inuit Proverb





When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the Creator. ~ Gandhi


 


Learning never exhausts the mind. ~ Leonardo da Vinci



Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. ~ William S. Burroughs



I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson





If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook. ~ Les Giblin


 


It takes guts to get out of the ruts. ~ Robert H. Schuller


 

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends. ~ Mark Twain



The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. ~ Federico Fellini


 


Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. ~ Goethe





You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue. ~ Mike Murdock





Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind. ~ C Fillmore




A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. ~ Richard Branson


 

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today. ~ Brendan Francis


 


The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope. ~ Samuel Johnson





Do not take lightly small good deeds, for drops of water one by one, in time can fill a giant pot. ~ Patrul Rinpoche

 


Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. ~ Picasso






Buddhist practice is about recognizing the potential of your mind. ~ Zen Moments





When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts. ~ Robert Brault





Love is the beauty of the soul. ~ St. Augustine



All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. ~ Orison Swett Marden






Some people care too much, I think it's called love. ~ Winnie the Pooh
 

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~ Picasso






Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying. ~ Christian Gellert



Before you talk, listen. Before you react, think. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.

 


He that fears not the future may enjoy the present. ~ Thomas Fuller





The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~ Carl Jung





To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can. ~ Arthur Ashe





Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. ~ John Wayne




'To wake in the morning with an idea burning bright inside is the best of all possible worlds' Heather Jansch









The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. ~ Carl Jung
 


To be happy with yourself, you've got to lose yourself now and then. ~ Bob Genovesi

 


Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. ~ Democritus




It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. ~ Winston Churchill



An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~ Bill Vaughan

 


When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear. ~ Mark Twain





The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. ~ Elbert Hubbard




Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ~ Abraham Lincoln
 




A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson





Prepare no one's heart but your own and be kind. ~ Amy Jeanette
 


Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. ~ Euripides


 


Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

 


In a gentle way, you can shake the world. ~ Gandhi http://tinyurl.com/3m5rsd9





When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot, hang on and swing! – Leo Buscaglia


 


Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul. ~ Gandhi http://tinyurl.com/3m5rsd9

 


If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. ~ John Cleese



I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness. ~ Maya Angelou

 


One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song! ~ Woody Guthrie


 




The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question. ~ Tony Robbins




The essence of knowledge is: Having it, to apply it; Not having it, to confess your ignorance. ~ Confucius






The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. ~ Oscar Wilde




World peace must develop out of inner peace. ~ Dalai Lama




One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity. ~ Auguste Renoir





Loving the self involves faith and trust and belief in who you are, and a willingness to take action upon it. ~ Sanaya Roman


If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you', it will be enough. ~ Meister Eckhardt



Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. ~ Marianne Williamson http://goo.gl/Lh4ur


 


Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment. ~ Eckhart Tolle http://goo.gl/Zue2G




Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like. ~ Ajahn Brahm





Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn




It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy. ~ Mother Teresa





Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. ~ Mae West


 


Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~ Robert Frost



Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. ~ Bruce Lee




You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. ~ Winston Churchill







How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment. ~ Eckhart Tolle



Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ~ Stephen Hawking






Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting. ~ Elizabeth Bibesco









Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. ~ Steve Martin





Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ~ Franklin P Jones





Where there is love there is life. ~ Gandhi

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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson









Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. ~ Robert H. Schuller







Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. ~ Wayne Dyer




If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old. ~ James A. Garfield







Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. ~ Francis of Assisi





Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. ~ Winston Churchill








If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~ Cavett Robert





When you are peaceful inside, the world around you begins to mirror your peace. ~ Ralph Marston







Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. ~ Bertolt Brecht




A tree that is unbending is easily broken. ~ Lao Tzu






“Awaken to the Unborn in the midst of everyday life.” Zen Master Bankei











When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you're giving it power. ~ Anthony de Mello








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