Saturday, November 28, 2015

The sculptor Michelangelo was once asked how it was that he could create such beautiful works. "It's very simple," he answered. "When I look at a block of marble, I see the sculpture inside it. All I have to do is remove was doesn't belong." The master says: "There is a work of art each of us was destined to create. That is the central point of our life, and  - no matter how we try to deceive ourselves - we know how important it is to our happiness. Usually, that work of rt is covered by years of fear, guilt and indecision. But, if we decide to remove those things that do not belong, if we have no doubt as to our capability, we are capable of going forward with the mission that is our destiny. That is the only way to live with Honor."

(Paulo Coelho, 1947 -   )

Friday, November 27, 2015

It is not the conscious changes made in our lives by men and women - a new job, a new town, a divorce - which really shapes them, like the the chapter headings in a biography, but a long, slow mutation of emotion, hidden, all-penetrative; something by which they may be so taken up that the practical outward changes of their lives in the world, noted with surprise, scandal or envy by others, pass almost unnoticed by themselves. This gives a shifting quality to the whole surface of life; decisions made with reason and the tongue may never be made valid by the heart.

(Nadine Gordimer, 1923 - 2014)

Thursday, November 26, 2015

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile.

(Deepak Chopra, 1946 -   )

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time, but if you have come because of your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.

(Lila Watson, 1940 -   )

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them.

(E>L> Konigsburg, 1930 - 2013)

Monday, November 23, 2015

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

(Pierrw Teilhard de Chardin, 1881 - 1955)

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on-in our bodies, in our feelings, in our minds, and in the world. Each day 40,000 children die of hunger. The superpowers now have 50,000 nuclear warheads, enough to destroy our planet many times. Yet the sunrise is beautiful, and the rose that bloomed this morning along the wall is a miracle. Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To pratice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects. Please do think we must be solemn in order to meditate well, we have to smile a lot.

(Thich Njat Hanh, 1926 -    )