Saturday, Noverber 21, 2015

By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

(Mattieu Ricard, 1946 -    )

Friday, November 20, 2015

Spiritual empowerment is evidenced in our lives by our willingness to tell ourselves the truth, to listen to the truth when it's told to us, and to dispense the  truth as lovingly as possible, when we feel compelled to talk from the heart.

( Christina Baldwin, 1946 -    )

Thursday, November 19, 2015

At every moment in every person's life there is work to be done, always work to be done, some of it small, some of it Great. The Great Work, in a sense, always has to do with changing the world, and, as a necessary predicate to that, understanding the world. You rise every morning aware that you are called to this work. You won't live to see it finished. But if you can't hear it calling, you aren't listening hard enough. It's always calling, sometimes in a big voice, sometimes in a quiet voice.

(Tony Kushner, 1956 -   )

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

The "Seven Social Sins" Knowledge without character, Science without humanity, Wealth without work, Commerce without morality, Politics without principles, Pleasure without conscience, Worship without self-sacrifice.

(Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 - 1948)

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

(Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906 - 1945)

Monday, November 16, 2015

In a world more and more polluted by the lying of politicians and the illusions of the media, I occasionally crave to hear and tell the truth...Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know, because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy.

(Francine du Ppessix Gray, 1930 -      )

Sunday, November 15, 2015

To love is the greatest thing in life, it is very important to talk about love, to feel it, to nourish it, to treasure it, otherwise it will soon be dissipated, for the world is very brutal. If while you are young you don't feel love, if you don't look with love at people, at animals, at flowers, when you grow up you find that your life is empty, you will be very lonely, and the dark shadows of fear will follow you always. But the moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

( Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1895 - 1986 )