It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

Think about death. You do not know how much time remains to you. And remember that if you do not become different, everything will be repeated again, all foolish blunders, all silly mistakes, all loss of time and opportunity – everything will be repeated with the exception of the chance you had this time, because chance never comes in the same form.You will have to look for your chance next time. And in order to do this, you will have to remember many things, and how will you remember then if you do not remember anything now?

Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is the mechanical – mechanical attitudes, mechanical intentions, mechanical thoughts, mechanical desires.

Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he is a machine, and having fully realized this, he may find the ways to cease to be a machine. First of all, what man must know is that he is not one; he is many. He has not one permanent and unchangeable “I” or Ego. He is always different. One moment he is one, another moment he is another, the third moment he is a third, and so on, almost without end.

I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except by an entirely new road, unlike anything hitherto known or used by us. But where this new or forgotten road began I was unable to say. I already knew then as an undoubted fact that beyond the thin film of false reality there existed another reality from which, for some reason, something separated us. The ‘miraculous’ was a penetration into this unknown reality.

P.D. Ouspensky

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This is an excerpt from: “Baba Is Here” by Graciela Busto

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For yesterday is but a dream.
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today, well lived,
Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore, to this day.

Sanskrit Proverb

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Hurt people hurt people, that is how pain patterns are passed on. Generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness, greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.
Yehuda Berg

The whole of spiritual life is to meet our edge and soften (again, again and again).
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

It is easy to judge. It is more difficult to understand. Understanding requires compassion, patience and a willingness to believe that good hearts sometimes choose poor methods. Through judging we separate. Through understanding we grow.
Doe Zantamata

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Don Miguel Ruiz

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
Brene Brown

When one sits in the Hoop Of The People, one must be responsible because all of Creation is related. And the hurt of one is the hurt of all. And the honour of one is the honour of all. And whatever we do affects everything in the universe.
Black Elk [Hehaka Sapa] Lakota chief

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Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Indian Proverb

Be so busy improving yourself that you have no time to criticise others.
Chetan Bhagat

The future depends on what we do today.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play, it is free will.
Jawaharal Nehru

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.
Swami Vivekananda

Link to many more Indian Proverbs
https://graciousquotes.com/indian-proverbs/

45 Thought-Provoking Native American Proverbs

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1. Never look for love, love will find you.

2. Love is even more beautiful than all the hills and lakes of Scotland.

3. Love is like a rock – it endures for ever.

4. Nothing in the world can ever equal love.

5. Everyone falls in love at least once in a lifetime, and it is always a unique, wonderful and spiritual experience.

6. To look at the stars in the sky at night is always exciting and romantic wherever you are in our world.

7. Love can strike at any time in a blinding flash – it is so powerful that no-one can fight it.

8. Love can change in time, but true love never changes.

9. Love travels at the speed of light.

10. Love always seems so far beyond the horizon, but it is really much closer than anyone imagines.

11. Never give up on love. It could be waiting for you just around the corner.

12. Forever is a very long time, but true love lasts even longer.

13. Love truly makes the world go round and the universe as well.

14. When you fall in love, you want to sing with the birds, dance with the fairies, jump over the moon. It is truly the most glorious feeling in the whole wide world.

15. I write about the wonderful glorious moment when men and women fall in love, which is a time in everyone’s life that can never be forgotten and is treasured forever.

16. Love knows no barriers of time, space or age.

17. Love has inspired great poets, artists and architects throughout the ages. Love can inspire anyone to greater heights than could ever be possibly imagined.

18. Love, love, love, is all that matters in this world and the next.

19. Eternal love – I have always believed that real true love lasts beyond this life and into the next.

20. Those who sincerely seek true love will always be rewarded.

21. Love is the reason for living, and it is certainly the reason for everything else in the universe as well.

Future reading

Here are some good facts about Barbara Cartland, who wrote 723 novels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Cartland

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Rossevelt

More information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_in_a_Republic

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Gratitude

Be grateful for the kindly friends that walk along your way,
Be grateful for the skies of blue that smile from day to day,
Be grateful for the health you own, the work you find to do,
For round about you there are men less fortunate than you.

Be grateful for the growing trees, the roses soon to bloom,
The tenderness of kindly hearts that shared your days of gloom,
Be grateful for the morning dew, the grass beneath your feet,
The soft caresses of your babes and all their laughter sweet.

Acquire the grateful habit, learn to see how blessed you are,
How much there is to gladden life, how little life to mar!
And what if rain shall fall to-day and you with grief are sad,
Be grateful that you can recall the joys that you have had.
Edgar Albert Guest

Useful Links, Further Reading on Gratitude

Printable Gratitude Worksheet
https://happiermindjournal.com/pages/printable

30 Day Gratitude Challenge (pdf)
https://www.rochester.edu/human-resources/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Gratitude_30day_checklist.pdf

Osho on Gratitude

Osho on Gratitude

Gratitude Quotes
https://www.countryliving.com/life/g28564406/gratitude-quotes/

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