Interlude: An Internet Retreat "Thought of the Day"

Our separation from each other is an illusion of consciousness.
Albert Einstein

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear but around in awareness.
James Thurber

Soft sweet speech is the expression of genuine Love. Hate screeches, fear squeals, conceit trumpets, but love sings lullabies; it soothes, it applies balm. Practice the vocabulary of love.
Sathya Sai Baba

We see ourselves as broken, and then set out on a long and frustrating journey to fill our emptiness. But it is not fixing that we require; it is awakening.
Alan Cohen

Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor…Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
Mother Teresa

In-between stimulus and response is a space. In that space lies our power and freedom to choose. How we wield those choices determines our happiness.
Steven R. Covey

You don't create your mission in life. You detect it.
Victor Frankl

Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
H. G. Wells

You may follow one stream. Know that it leads to the Ocean, but do not mistake the stream for the Ocean.
Jan-Fishan

The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions.
Ram Dass

Habit is the best of servants, or the worst of masters.
Nathaniel Emmons

Put from your belief that "I have have been wronged," and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
Marcus Aurelius

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Charles Mayes

To teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
Tryon Edwards

For as long as every man holdeth this right, of doing anything he liketh, so long are all men in the condition of war.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo Buscaglia

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander Time; for that's the stuff Life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

Past Thoughts of the Day from Interlude: An Internet Retreat

Our separation from each other is an illusion of consciousness.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear but around in awareness.

Soft sweet speech is the expression of genuine Love. Hate screeches, fear squeals, conceit trumpets, but love sings lullabies; it soothes, it applies balm. Practice the vocabulary of love.

We see ourselves as broken, and then set out on a long and frustrating journey to fill our emptiness. But it is not fixing that we require; it is awakening.

Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor…Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

In-between stimulus and response is a space. In that space lies our power and freedom to choose. How we wield those choices determines our happiness.

You don't create your mission in life. You detect it.

Our true nationality is mankind.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

You may follow one stream. Know that it leads to the Ocean, but do not mistake the stream for the Ocean.

The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions.

Habit is the best of servants, or the worst of masters.

Put from your belief that "I have have been wronged," and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

To teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

For as long as every man holdeth this right, of doing anything he liketh, so long are all men in the condition of war.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander Time; for that's the stuff Life is made of.