Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who refused the dessert cart.
...how then, shall we live...?
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or as heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Life is now, every moment, no matter if the world be full of death. Death triumphs only in the service of life.
~ Henry Miller ~
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
~ Christian Furchtegott
Gellert ~
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
~ Chinese proverb ~
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
~ D. Elton Trueblood ~
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
~ Heraclitus ~
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
~ Joseph Campbell ~
Happiness cannot be found through great effort and will power, but is already there, in relaxation and letting go.
~ Lama Gendun Rinpoche ~
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To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance and benefit of others, by expressing, in the world of forms, truth, love, purity and beauty, this is the sole game which has any intrinsic and absolute worth. All other happenings, incidents and attainments can, in themselves have no lasting importance.
