“Good is everything that promotes and increases
the life force:
bad is
everything that hampers and lessens it.”
African
oral tradition
“The
true source of rights is duty”
Mahatma
Gandhi
“Fear is
one of the greatest problems in life. A mind that is caught in fear lives in
confusion,
in conflict, and therefore must be violent
distorted and aggressive.”
Krishnamurti
“If the
branch is to flower, it must honor its roots.”
Titinga
Frederic Pacere
“The things that matter most in our lives are
not fantastic or grand.
They are
the moments when we touch one another”
Jack
Kornfield
“We all
have something in common, which is the craving for intimacy. Intimacy is a
sacred thing.”
Sobonfu Some
“The true essence of humankind is kindness…
it
is essential if one wishes to be a genuine human being, to have a good heart.”
The 14th Dalai Lama
“You
cannot paint white on white or black on black. Everyone needs the Other in
order to be seen.
Manu Dibango
“The
soul is consciousness. It shines as the light within the heart.”
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
“When you speak of adopting a wider
perspective,
that
includes working cooperatively with other people.”
The 14th
Dalai Lama
“All of
spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others to
life’s situations.”
Jack
Kornfield
“We gain our freedom when we realize our most
true nature.
An artist gains his artistic freedom when he discovers the true
ideal of art”
Rabindranath Tagore
“The body
of a man is very small compared with the spirit that inhabits it.”
African oral tradition
“To
understand pleasure is not to deny it…pursue it knowing that a mind that is all
the time seeking pleasure must inevitably find its shadow in pain. They cannot
be separated, although we run after pleasure and try to avoid pain.”
Krishnamurti
“Peace of mind is rooted in affection and
compassion”
The 14th Dalai Lama
“You can’t stop the waves but you can learn to
surf.”
Joseph Goldstein
“There are no solutions in this fridge”
Overeaters Anonymous