Quotes on humor and truth

Chandogya Upanishad 3.13.7
There is a light that shines beyond all things on Earth, beyond us all, beyond the heavens, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens.
This is the light that shines in our heart.

“They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, tr”
Kahlil Gibran quotes

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A New Year’s Resolution: Refry your memory and get rid of resentments...

Eknath Easwaran (link)

tonnie_rocca wrote:

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A New Year’s Resolution: Refry your memory and get rid of resentments...

Eknath Easwaran (link)

Very good....

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
Thomas Merton quote

“To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell”
Thomas Merton quote

“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.”
Soren Kierkegaard quotes

Simone de Beauvoir
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth ... I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
Simone de Beauvoir

‎"Never be bullied into silence. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
~Harvey Fierstein

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
- Stendal

"I don't want the truth. I want something I can tell Parliament!" - Jim Hacker.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou

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Eknath Easwaran
Being Patient with Ourselves

"Just as it is good to be patient with others, it is good to be patient with ourselves. We can all be haunted by our past mistakes, by the amount of time and energy we have wasted, but we must accept ourselves with all our strengths and weaknesses."

tonnie_rocca wrote:

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Eknath Easwaran
Being Patient with Ourselves

"Just as it is good to be patient with others, it is good to be patient with ourselves. We can all be haunted by our past mistakes, by the amount of time and energy we have wasted, but we must accept ourselves with all our strengths and weaknesses."

Very good and so true..Thank you Tonnie..

Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.)
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

David McArthur & Bruce McArthur, The Intelligent Heart
Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it. Through the power and intelligence of the heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the situation more effectively.

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Coming home...

The ache for Home lies in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
Maya Angelou

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"It's sad that, in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers"...
Unknown

Apropos for today---
Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott,

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Fudge, your avatar is a jewel, almost better than the original, please keep it for a while, sooo mysterious...

“Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true”
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes

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Quoting myself LOL...

In London 2010, at the booksigning, I declared Susan my unconditional love by saying: "Thank you for being who you are"...

Simple but so true, I think.

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi quotes (Persian Poet and Mystic, 1207-1273)

“People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen. When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she's angry. Angry people need to criticize as an outlet for their anger. That's why you must reject unkind criticism. Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish. Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day.”
Barbara Sher quotes (American business owner, career counselor, author)

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To cite quotes reveals is the insight that real wisdom can be captured in very few words...

"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe."

Abraham Lincoln

fudgemeister wrote:

"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe."

Abraham Lincoln

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Wise man, Mr. Lincoln!!

“Capital must protect itself in every possible way, both by combination and legislation. Debts must be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible. When, through the process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of government applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers. These truths are well known among our principal men who are now engaged in forming an imperialism to govern the world. By dividing the voter through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance. It is thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.”

— Montagu Norman, Governor of The Bank Of England
addressing the United States Bankers' Association, NYC 1924

The jewel of the soul is priceless, and yet it is being squandered like this, in exchange for a mere shell.”

Sri Guru Granth Sahib quote

"The supreme truth is established by total silence, not logical discussion and argument. He alone sees the truth who sees the universe without the intervention of the mind, and therefore without the notion of a universe."
-- Maharamayana