The difference between being knowledgeable and being enlightened is that one who is knowledgeable leads the way with a torch, while an enlightened one is a torch.
Anthony de Mello
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it's true.
Robert Oppenheimer
In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Carl Buechner
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
Francois de Sales
Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.
Baal Shem Tov
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
William Grimshaw
Reflect that life, like every other blessing, derives its value from its use alone.
Samuel Johnson
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
Cicero
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
Leonardo da Vinci
It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume
Enlightenment is a rare combination of innocence and intelligence, having words for expression and, at the same time, being very silent. In that state, the mind is fully in the present moment. Whatever is necessary is revealed to you in such a natural and spontaneous way, you just sit and the song of the nature flows through you.
Sri Sri Ravishankar
We all came into this world gifted with innocence, but gradually, as we became more intelligent, we lost our innocence. We were born with silence and as we grew up, we lost the silence and were filled with words. We lived in our hearts and as time passed, we moved into our heads.
Now the reversal of this journey is enlightenment. It is the journey from the head back to the heart, from words back to silence; getting back to our innocence in spite of our intelligence. Although very simple, this is a great achievement. Eckhart Tolle
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Joyce Brothers
Friendship is a mysterious power: you show your friend your weakness, and somehow you are both the stronger.
Martin Amis
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls... A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
Mother Teresa
Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound. Rebuild those plans and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Hyman Judah Schachtel
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
From contentment with little comes happiness.
African Proverb
All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
Edwin Markham
The surest sign of spiritual progress is a total lack of concern about progress. There is an utter absence of anxiety about anything like liberation and a sort of hollowness in one's being, a kind of looseness and involuntary surrender to whatever might happen.
Ramesh Balsekar
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.
William Jennings Bryan
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.
George Santayana
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharial Nehru
As for me, I know of nothing else but miracles.
Walt Whitman
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma Gandhi
It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised; the mosquito is swatted.
Catherine O'Hara
Hah! The Dark Side -- Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Yoda in Star Wars, Episode One: The Phantom Menace
The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.
Geoffrey Madan
When we leave this world, how much we have loved will be our true legacy. It is the only thing we will leave behind and carry with us.
Anne Siloy
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese proverb
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
Thomas Paine
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
Igor Stravinsky
Think of all sentient beings as buddha, but keep your hand on your wallet.
Tibetan Saying
Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
Vincent van Gogh
By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern for their welfare, we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source of all problems, and enhance our sense of kindness which is a natural source of goodness.
The Dalai Lama
It's amazing how much you can hear when no one is saying anything.
Elaine St. James in Inner Simplicity
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
Saadi of Shiraz
The greatest obstacle to progress is not the absence of knowledge, but the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel Boorstin
When I dare to be powerful -- to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
Henry Miller
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
Frank Crane
You can't separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcom X
Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we're so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act.
Ram Dass
Knowledge is like light, use it and it grows brighter, ignore it and it fades away.
Alexander Everett
Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.
Werner Erhard
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
John Hanley
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
John Atkinson
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton
If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.
Brian Tracy
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Hasidic Saying
When you are no longer compelled by desire or fear . . . when you have seen the radiance of eternity in all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.
Joseph Campbell
The difference between being knowledgeable and being enlightened is that one who is knowledgeable leads the way with a torch, while an enlightened one is a torch.
Anthony de Mello
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it's true.
Robert Oppenheimer
In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Carl Buechner
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
Francois de Sales
Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.
Baal Shem Tov
The tenacity of a habit is usually in proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
©2017 Tom Barrett