If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive.
If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.The Bhagavad Gita
Wisdom is knowing we are all one
Love is what it feels like
And compassion is what it acts likeEthan Walker
In the following transformational and spiritual aphorisms sages, thinkers, luminaries, and awakened individuals put into words thought-patterns that resonate with the truth of a more objective Reality than that which is constructed by the cultures in which we grow up in and are influenced by. Looking around us, we can see that there is a lack of true leadership (or very little authentic leadership, in more realistic terms) within the forefront of societies and cultures we all find ourselves in. When there is a lack of true motivational and inspirational leadership, we have to look to those profound visionaries and awakened individuals of times past to gather growth-encouraging insights that will help us in our self-growth and enlightenment.
When the future looks bleak and the motivation to excel and advance seems pointless, we can look up to those who have lived and are still alive, who possess that inner wisdom which they had realized through their own personal experiences of an enlightened state of awareness. The transformational and spiritual aphorisms that such guiding lights to humanity express to us can raise our level of hope once more to the domain of energy that makes us more proactive. Reignited excitement and passion can drive us closer to the successes we imagined and dreamed would come true. We are all capable of incredible feats. Sigue leyendo
Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.
Osho Rajneesh
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.”
1. Change yourself.
If you change yourself you will change your world. If you change how you think then you will change how you feel and what actions you take. And so the world around you will change. Not only because you are now viewing your environment through new lenses of thoughts and emotions but also because the change within can allow you to take action in ways you wouldn’t have – or maybe even have thought about – while stuck in your old thought patterns.
“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.”
2. You are in control.
You can choose your own thoughts, reactions and emotions to pretty much everything. You don’t have to freak out, overreact of even react in a negative way. Perhaps not every time or instantly. Sometimes a knee-jerk reaction just goes off. Or an old thought habit kicks in.
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
And as you realize that no-one outside of yourself can actually control how you feel you can start to incorporate this thinking into your daily life and develop it as a thought habit.
3. Forgive and let it go.
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
You realize that forgiving and letting go of the past will do you and the people in your world a great service. And spending your time in some negative memory won’t help you after you have learned the lessons you can learn from that experience. You’ll probably just cause yourself more suffering and paralyze yourself from taking action in this present moment. Sigue leyendo
“Most Merciful shows mercy to those who have mercy on others. Show mercy to those on earth,and the One above the heaven will show mercy to you.”
- Prophet Mohammed
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet”
-Albert Einstein
“If a man eats meat, he will take on the qualities of the animal he eats and once those qualities enter , the man’s anger, his hastiness, and his animal qualities will increase. If he does not kill anything on the inside, he will not kill anything on the outside.”
- Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
“Our food is not just food: it is you. What you eat, you become. If you eat something which is fundamentally based on murder, on violence, you cannot rise above the law of necessity. You will remain more or less an animal. The human is born when you start moving above the animals, when you start doing something to yourself which no animal can do. Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can fly — so that the flight from the alone to the alone becomes possible. The lighter the food, the deeper goes the meditation”
– Osho
“If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.”
– The Buddha, Surangama Sutra
“Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.”
- Pythagorus
“It is significant to note that those who live on vegetarian food are less prone to diseases, whereas non-vegetarians are subject to more diseases. Why? Because animal food is incompatible with the needs of the human body.”
-Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Would you kill your pet dog or cat to eat it? How about an animal you’re not emotionally attached to? Is the thought of slaughtering a cow or chicken or pig with your own hands too much to handle? Instead, would hiring a hit-man to do the job give you enough distance from the emotional discomfort? What animal did you put a contract out on for your supper last night? Did you at least make sure that none went to waste and to take a moment to be grateful for its sacrifice?”
-Anonymous
“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”
-Leonardo da Vinci
For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
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You can never enter the same river twice
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Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work
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Joseph Campbell was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: “Follow your bliss.”
Campbell’s ideas regarding myth and its relation to the human psyche are dependent on the work of Carl Jung, whose studies of human psychology, as previously mentioned, greatly influenced Campbell. Campbell’s conception of myth is closely related to the Jungian method of dream interpretation, which is heavily reliant on symbolic interpretation. Jung’s insights into archetypes were in turn heavily influenced by the Bardo Thodol (known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead). In his book The Mythic Image, Campbell quotes Jung’s statement about the Bardo Thodol, that it “belongs to that class of writings which, because of their deep humanity and still deeper insight into the secrets of the human psyche, make an appeal to the layman seeking to broaden his knowledge of life…
Sigue leyendo
We were afraid and turned the lights on. That’s exactly what we can keep on doing: a bit of light shed on that fear will allow us to see it clearer and will dissolve the source of our anxiety. As the old proverb says, “life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It is all about dancing in the rain!“
Sigue leyendo
The best and shortest road towards knowledge of truth is Nature.
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For every joy there is a price to be paid.
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What you are doing does not matter so much as what you are learning from doing it.
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It is better not to know and to know that one does not know, than presumptuously to attribute some random meaning to symbols.
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Exuberance is a good stimulus towards action, but the inner light grows in silence and concentration.
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The only active force that arises out of possession is fear of losing the object of possession.
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Experience will show you, a Master can only point the way.
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Man, know yourself… and you shalt know the gods.
You can’t punish yourself into change. You can’t whip yourself into shape. But you can love yourself into well-being.
Susan Skye
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world — that is the myth of the atomic age — as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.
Marcus Aurelius
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie Curie