By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
Come to the edge.We might fall.Come to the edge.It's too high!COME TO THE EDGE!And they cameand he pushedand they flew...
Christopher Logue, written for a
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Peter McWilliams
As much as we like to think that we are independent-minded, free-willed, autonomous individuals, the fact remains that some part of us is still susceptible to programming.Programming can happen to anyone. Intelligence, education, common sense, belief, or convictions offer little protection. All it takes is repetition (the slow route) or vulnerability (the fast route) and, eventually, we're hooked. Master programmers - from cult leaders to cigarette companies to government agencies - do both, as often as possible, whether you like it or not.Ironically, the more immune to programming you think you are, the more susceptible you become.
Peter McWilliams, Life 102: What
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles Austin Beard
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts--spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back -- length of life.
Rose Kennedy
Two halves have little choice but to join;And yes, they do make a wholebut two wholes when they coincide...That is beauty.That is love.
Peter McWilliams, (quoted by mar
Opusculum paedagogicumThe pears are not viols,Nudes or bottles.They resemble nothing else.They are yellow formsComposed of curvesBulging toward the base.They are touched red.They are not flat surfacesHaving curved outlines.They are roundTapering toward the top.In the way they are modelledThere are bits of blue.A hard dry leaf hangsFrom the stem.The yellow glistens.It glistens with various yellows,Citrons, oranges and greensFlowering over the skin.The shadows of the pearsAre blobs on the green cloth.The pears are not seenAs the observer wills.
Wallace Stevens, Study of Two Pe
The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Miss Mehi
A late lark twitters from the quiet skies:And from the west,Where the sun, his day's work ended,Lingers as in content,There falls on the old, gray cityAn influence luminous and serene,A shining peace.
William Ernest Henley
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
Isadora Duncan
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Zig Ziglar
Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.
Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.
You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.
You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
The way you see people is the way you treat them.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Every choice you make has an end result.
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.
The Chinese pianist Liu Chi Kung was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution, during which time he had no access to a piano. When he returned to giving concerts again after he was released, his playing was better than ever. Asked how this was possible since he had not practice for seven years, he replied: I did practice, every day. I rehearsed every piece I had ever played, note by note, in my mind.
Bernie Zilbergeld
People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.
Adam Zimbler
There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.
Martin Zimet
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
Johann Georg Zimmermann
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
We will not know unless we begin.
Howard Zinn
Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.
Jon Kabat Zinn
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
William Zinsser
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
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