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Carlos
Castaneda
Worry
and think before you make a decision, but once you make it,
be on your way free from worries or thoughts. There will be
a million other decisions still awaiting you. That's the warrior's
way.
"You
see, like Madame Ludmilla, every one of us, young and old
alike, is making figures in front of a mirror in one way or
another. Tally what you know about people. Think of any human
being on this earth, and you will know, without the shadow
of a doubt, that no matter who they are, or what they think
of themselves, or what they do,
the result of their actions is always the same: senseless
figures in front of a mirror."
Take
responsibility for every thought and action - have no doubts
or remorse.
Acts
have power when the person knows his acts may be his last
battle on earth.
We
either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong.
The amount of work is the same.
Paulo
Coelho (...some
of the essences of his book "The Alchemist")
"I'm
going to guide you across the desert," the alchemist said.
"I want to stay at the oasis," the boy answered. "I've found
Fatima, and, as far as I'm concerned, she's worth more than
treasure." "Fatima is a woman of the desert," said the alchemist.
"She knows that men have to go away in order to return. And
she already has her treasure: it's you. Now she expects that
you will find what it is you're looking for."
"Well,
what if I decide to stay?" "Let me tell you what will happen.
You'll be the counselor of the oasis. You have enough gold
to buy many sheep and many camels. You'll marry Fatima, and
you'll both be happy for a year.
You'll learn to love the desert, and you'll get to know every
one of the fifty thousand palms.
You'll watch them as they grow, demonstrating how the world
is always changing. And you'll get better and better at understanding
omens, because the desert is the best teacher there is.
"Sometime during the second year, you'll remember about the
treasure. The omens will begin insistently to speak of it,
and you'll try to ignore them. You'll use your knowledge for
the welfare of the oasis and its inhabitants. The tribal chieftains
will appreciate what you do. And your camels will bring you
wealth and power.
"During
the third year, the omens will continue to speak of your treasure
and your Personal Legend. You'll walk around, night after
night, at the oasis, and Fatima will be unhappy because she'll
feel it was she who interrupted your quest. But you will love
her, and she'll return your love. You'll remember that she
never asked you to stay, because a woman of the desert knows
that she must await her man. So you won't blame her. But many
times you'll walk the sands of the desert, thinking that maybe
you could have left...that you could have trusted more in
your love for Fatima. Because what kept you at the oasis was
your own fear that you might never come back.
At that point, the omens will tell you that your treasure
is buried forever.
"Then,
sometime during the fourth year, the omens will abandon you,
because you've stopped listening to them. The tribal chieftains
will see that, and you'll be dismissed from your position
as counselor. But, by then, you'll be a rich merchant, with
many camels and a great deal of merchandise. You'll spend
the rest of your days knowing that you didn't pursue your
Personal Legend, and that now it's too late. "You must understand
that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend.
If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love...the
love that speaks the Language of the World."
John
Coltrane
"Over
all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is
give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things
that he knows of and senses in the universe. . . That's what
I would like to do. I think that's one of the greatest things
you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The
musician's is through his music."
"All
a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature,
and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws."
"My
music is the spiritual expression of what I am -- my faith,
my knowledge, my being ... When you begin to see the possibilities
of music, you desire to do something really good for people,
to help humanity free itself from its hangups ... I want to
speak to their souls."
Albert
Einstein
"Great
spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds.
The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who
refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses
instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."
T.S.
Eliot
"We
shall not cease from exploration.
And
the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"Nature
never became a toy to a wise spirit."
"Do
something, it matters little or not at all whether it be in
the way of what you call your profession or not, so it be
in the plane or coincident with the axis of your character."
"To
laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of
honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To
appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the
world a bit better, whether by a child, a garden patch or
a redeemed social condition, to know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
Ephides
"Und
wer Verstehen sucht, versteht sich selbst noch nicht. Wer
Anerkennung braucht, ist vom Erkenntnislicht noch weit. Er
muß noch viele Wege wandern, und findet's nie, denn in der
Harmonie hat jeder seinen Klang und seine eigene Melodie im
Weltgesang. Der Klang des andern, und sei er noch so rein,
ist nicht der seine, den muß er alleine, aus seines Herzens
tiefster Quelle heben, den kann er nicht erlernen, nur erleben."
Epitectus
Wrong
choice opens us to the possibility of correction. Not choosing
opens us to nothing.
The
key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose
presence calls forth your best.
Does
a man drink much wine? Do not say that this bad, but that
he drinks much.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
The
two most important things parents can pass on to their children
are roots and wings.
Nine
requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work
a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength
to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough
to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to
toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see
some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be
useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the
things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning
the future.
One
ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if
possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
To
think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the
world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
"Until
one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative
( and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance
of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the
moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves
too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never
otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from
the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen
incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man
could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can
do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power
and magic in it. Begin it now".
"Wer
sich selbst und andre kennt, wird auch hier erkennen:
Orient und Okzident sind nicht mehr zu trennen.
Sinnig zwischen beiden Welten sich zu wiegen lass ich gelten;
Also zwischen Ost und Westen sich bewegen, sei's zum besten."
It
is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my
daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power
to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture
or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor,
hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides
whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person
is humanized or dehumanized. If we treat people as they are,
we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be,
we help them become what they are capable of becoming."
A
correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
A
man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and
see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly
cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which
God has implanted in the human soul.
A
man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
A
noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold
on to them.
A
person hears only what they understand.
A
person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself
marked out its proper limitations.
A
really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
A
useless life is an early death.
Against
criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he
must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield
to him.
All
intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary
is only to try to think them again.
All
the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my
heart is all my own.
All
theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life
springs ever green.
All
things are only transitory.
All
truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of
times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over
again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
An
unused life is an early death.
As
soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Austere
perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose,
for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
Be
generous with kindly words, especially about those who are
absent.
Beauty
is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise
would have been hidden from us forever.
Beauty
is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance,
but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different
utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature
herself.
Certain
flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if
old friends lacked certain quirks.
Character
develops itself in the stream of life.
Correction
does much, but encouragement does more.
Daring
ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten,
but they may start a winning game.
Death
is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a
good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Deeply
earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with
the public.
Destiny
grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give
us something beyond our wishes.
Devote
each day to the object then in time and every evening will
find something done.
Do
not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart
is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Dream
no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts
of men.
Every
author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if
it be against his will.
Everybody
wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Few
people have the imagination for reality.
First
and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
For
a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard
himself as greater than he is.
Freedom
consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but
in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting
it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment,
prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are
worthy to be on a level with it.
Hatred
is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step
from envy to hate.
You
will always find it strongest and most violent where there
is the lowest degree of culture.
He
is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his
home.
He
who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
He
who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or
he is quite unworthy of it.
Begin
at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what
is inside you.
I
call architecture frozen music.
If any many wish to write in a clear style, let him be first
clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style,
let him first possess a noble soul.
In
art the best is good enough.
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the
former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter
lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
It
seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune
are closely united.
Knowing
is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must
do.
Let
everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world
will be clean.
Love
and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Love
does not dominate; it cultivates.
Magic
is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make
anything happen.
Nothing
is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Objects
in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position
to tell their own story.
People
have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing
others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness
represented and reflected back to them.
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their
appearing to him, everybody sees them.
The
decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The
two keep pace in their downward tendency.
The
formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief
aim.
The
most original of authors are not so because they advance what
is new, but more because they know how to say something, as
if it had never been said before.
The
person born with a talent they are meant to use will find
their greatest happiness in using it.
The
person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous
in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect,
in almost nothing.
The
really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they
can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder
they come to grief.
The
right man is the one that seizes the moment.
The
soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
The
unnatural, that too is natural.
The
world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers
and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks
and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit
- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
There
is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.
There
is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's
self on lies and fables.
Thinking
is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into
action is the most difficult thing in the world.
We
are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
We
cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have
them and love them as God has given them to us.
We
do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds;
our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Whatever
liberates our spirit without giving us self-control is disastrous.
Whether
a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in
writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the
discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on.
Wood
burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes
famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Hermann
Hesse
"There's
no reality except the one contained within us. That's why
so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside
them for reality and never allow the world within them to
assert itself."
"He
pondered deeply, like diving into a deep water he let himself
sink down to the ground of the sensation, down to the place
where the causes lie, because to identify the causes, so it
seemed to him, is the very essence of thinking, and by this
alone sensations turn into realizations and are not lost,
but become entities and start to emit like rays of light what
is inside of them." (Siddharta)
"Dieser
Empfindung, die ihn ganz erfüllte, sann er im langsamen Dahingehen
nach. Tief sann er nach, wie durch ein tiefes Wasser ließ
er sich bis auf den Boden dieser Empfindungen hinab, bis dahin,
wo die Ursachen ruhen, denn Ursachen erkennen, so schien ihm,
das eben ist Denken, und dadurch allein werden Empfindungen
zu Erkenntnissen und gehen nicht verloren, sondern werden
wesenhaft und beginnen auszustrahlen, was in ihnen ist."
(Siddharta)
Carl
Gustav Jung
"There
can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy
into movement without emotion."
"Everything
that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding
of ourselves."
"A
person who campaigns vigorously, even fanatically, against
what he regards as sin and immortality is fighting his own
shadow."
"What
is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate."
"People
will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid
facing their own soul."
Serge
Kahili King
HUNA
is a very ancient, pragmatic philosophy that grew out of an
exceptionally keen observation of life by Polynesian masters,
or kahunas, of esoteric knowledge. Huna wisdom may be applied
to anything, but it seems particularly well suited to accomplishing
goals, achieving success, and turning dreams into deeds. The
nature of Polynesian language and mode of thought enabled
those ancient masters to condense this philosphy into seven
principles of clear and profound insight.
1- IKE is the Hawaiian word that represents the first
principle, translated into English as "The world is what you
think it is." How you feel depends on how you think.
What this means in terms of achievement is that in order to
manifest what you want the most important factor is belief.
Not just wishful thinking or intellectual opinion, but deep-down,
rock-solid, unquestioned knowing. Anything less will produce
results that are less, and this is why so many people get
mixed results when they set out to manifest a dream.
2-
KALA, the second principle, says that "There are no limits."
Everything hears what you say and feels what you feel. In
practical terms, this is a reminder that the universe is infinite,
that anything is possible if you can figure out how to do
it, and that everything you do influences the world around
you. KALA has additional meanings of forgiving and releasing,
indicating the importance of removing guilts, resentments
and tensions that interfere with the free flow of energy toward
your objective.
3-
MAKIA means that "Energy flows where attention goes."
What you want is more important than what you don't want.
Whatever you give your attention to is attracted to you, and
the more focused your attention is, the stronger the attraction.
The catch is, the attraction occurs whether your attention
is positive or negative. The practical use of this principle
involves something that many people find extremely difficult:
defining your dream and clarifying your goals.
4-
MANAWA says that "Now is the moment of power." Things
don't happen yesterday and they don't happen tomorrow; they
only happen right now. Remembering past inadequacies will
either keep you from moving ahead or reinforce the behavior
that led to them; worrying about future failures will also
either keep you from moving ahead or reinforce the behavior
that will lead to them. Dreams can only be manifested in the
here and now by acting in the here and now. You cannot do
anything yesterday, and you cannot do anything tomorrow. Here
is where it's at.
5-
ALOHA is a principle that says "To love is to be happy
with." In terms of manifesting it means two things. First,
the more you are at peace with what you presently have, the
easier it will be to change it. Second, the more you love
your dream - the more it excites you - the easier it will
be to manifest it. Many people have dreams that are born out
of fear. They want to manifest prosperity because they are
afraid of poverty, or they want to manifest peace because
they are afraid of war. This fifth principle indicates that
the best way to manifest prosperity is to love prosperity,
and the best way to manifest peace is to love peace. ALOHA,
the fifth principle, means that "to love is to be happy
with." The more happy you are, the more lucky you are.
As you share this energy you become attuned to the Divine
Power that the Hawaiians call mana. And the loving use of
this incredible Power is the secret for attaining true health,
happiness, prosperity and success. This is the most powerful
technique in the world, and although it is extremely simple
it may not prove easy, because you must remember to do it
and you have to do it a lot. It is a secret which has been
given to humanity over and over again, and here it is once
more in another form. The secret is this: Bless everyone and
everything that represents what you want! That's all there
is to it.
6-
MANA is the sixth principle and it says that "All power
comes from within." There's always something you can do. It
tells us that there is no power outside of us - no person,
being, object or circumstance - that has any power over us.
By our own decision and belief we can act like others have
more power over our life than we do, but the power to do that
comes from within also. God (or the Universe, or Infinite
Intelligence, or whatever name you prefer) doesn't act upon
us, but through us. If you have a dream, says this principle,
you have the power to make it come true. Of course, you also
have the power to make it difficult, or easy.
7-
PONO, the last principle, says that "Effectiveness is
the measure of truth." Always do what works (and if what you
do doesn't work, do something different).What matters is what
works, and the means determines the end. If you want joyful
results from manifesting your dream, then you will have to
use joyful means. This principle also says that if one technique
doesn't work then try another, and if one plan doesn't work
then change plans. It is the end result that counts, not the
result of one technique or plan. In Huna we use many techniques
from many sources, because this is a system of ideas, not
techniques. If it works, it's Huna.
more
from Serge Kahili King...
"The
feeling of love, belonging is the most important one"
(from a conversation in Vienna, Mai/ 02)
1)
Success is getting what you want, enjoying it and sharing
the benefits. Prosperity is having enough to share. From there
on, it is just a matter of degree.
2)
The process of succeeding and prospering is very simple: Do
something, get a reaction, do something else.
3)
Fear is the only problem, love the only solution.
4)
Our desire for acceptance makes us obey or create restrictive
rules for our own behavior.
5)
Money is no more, and no less a symbol for goods and services.
It is just easier to carry around than pigs and cows.
6)
Tithing is a way of sharing resources and expanding prosperity.
You get back to according how it makes you feel, not to how
much you give.
7)
In practical terms, money comes from people, and people pay
for what they want, which is always some form of love or power.
8)
Some people will love you for your money, some people will
love you regardess of your money and some people will not
love you at all, no matter what.
9)
Anything is possible if you can figure out how to do it.
10)
The whole point of a purpose or a goal is to help you focus
your energy in order to increase your effectiveness. If you
do not want to increase your effectiveness there is no point
in having a purpose or a goal.
11)
One of the best ways you can do to increase success and prosperity
is to bless that which already exists.
12)
People do not fail, only plans fail. People can quit and plans
be changed.
13)
When we feel powerless, we seek power; when we feel loveless,
we seek love. When we feel powerful, we simply act; when we
feel loved, we simply love.
14)
There is a basic human urge to solve puzzles and problems,
and when there aren't enough around we make them up.
15)
Success and prosperity are states of feeling, and you can
create those states regardless of external circumstances.
Yehudi
Menuhin
"Music
creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon
the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed,
and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous"
"I
can only think of music as something inherent in every human
being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit."
"Life
is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it.
If we make nothing of it, someone else will and we will be
his slave."
"A
way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the
mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself."
"A
society without its dreamers can never be free."
Mother Teresa: The Final Analysis
"People
are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...Forgive
them anyway!
If
you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
...Be kind anyway!
If
you are successful, you will win some false friends and some
true enemies; ...Succeed anyway!
If
you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; ...Be honest
and frank anyway!
What
you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
...Build anyway!
If
you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; ...Be
happy anyway!
The
good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; ...Do
good anyway!
Give
the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; ...Give
the world the best you've got anyway!
You
see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It
was never between you and them anyway."
Prentice
Mulford
The
more you get into the thought current coming from the Infinite
Mind, making yourself more and more a part of that mind (exactly
as you may become a part of any vein of low, morbid, unhealthy
mind in opening yourself to that current), the quicker are
you freshened, and renewed physically and mentally. You become
continually a newer being. Changes for the better come quicker
and quicker. Your power increases to bring results. You lose
gradually all fear as it is proven more and more to you that
when you are in the thought current of Infinite good there
is nothing to fear. You realize more and more clearly that
there is a great power and force which cares for you. You
are wonderstruck at the fact that when your mind is set in
the right direction all material things come to you with very
little physical or external effort. You wonder then at man's
toiling and striving, fagging himself literally to death,
when through such excess of effort he actually drives from
him the rounded-out good of health, happiness and material
prosperity all combined.
Pablo
Neruda
"I
don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow
of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark
things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries hidden
within itself the light of those flowers, and thanks to your
love, darkly in my body lives the dense fragrance that rises
from the earth. I love you without knowing how, or when, or
from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don't know any other way
of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate
that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that
when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close."
(Sonnet XVII).
Anais
Nin
There
are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality
by imagination, as I try to do.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete
and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire
it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments,
cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only
the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning,
an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each
person.
We
don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Osho
"The
mind is a great philosopher. And life is not a philosophy,
life is a reality. And philosophy is an escape from reality;
philosophy means thinking. Life is - there is no question
of thought. You can simply jump into it. The ancient pond
a frog jumps in the sound Just like that, you can jump into
this ancient pond of life. You can know it only by jumping
into it. There is no other way to know life; thinking about
it is the surest way to miss it."
Never become a believer, never become a follower, never become
a part of any organization, never become a part of any religion,
never become a part of any nation. Remain authentically true
to yourself. Don't betray yourself." (Osho Bodhidharma:
The Greatest Zen Master, #10)
"Awareness
without love is too cold. Love without awareness is too hot.
The middle way is slowly showing itself as we wear out all
our extremes from having had the nerve to experiment."
(from a horoscope, www.osho.com)
"Psychologists
say that there is a very deep-rooted fear of success in the
human mind. It looks absurd when you hear for the first time
that man is afraid of success, but when you ponder over it,
slowly slowly it dawns on you that it has some deep relevance.
Man is afraid of success, because if he succeeds, then what?
That is the fear: then what? So in a subtle way he tries to
succeed and yet creates such obstacles that he cannot succeed.
On one hand he tries to succeed, on the other hand he disturbs
his own success so the game can go on. Just think of a day
when you have succeeded and all that you desired has been
attained, all that you always longed for is in your hands.
Then what? -- that is the fear.
Then
what will you do? -- because all doing is searching, all doing
is desiring, all doing is possible because there are goals
which we have not attained yet. One is occupied, happily busy.
Just think of it a moment and even in thinking you will start
trembling inside: if all is fulfilled, then what? Would you
like to succeed to that point? And when you think about that
you will see the point of what psychologists mean when they
say there is a deep-rooted fear of success. And it does not
happen only as far as the inner success is concerned: outer
success also. It almost always happens that when a person
is at the last rung of succeeding, something goes wrong. And
he thinks something has gone wrong from the outside, no. He
does something -- he takes a wrong step, he moves in an opposite
direction. He blames god and he blames fate and he blames
society and others, but if you search deep down you will find
that people fail only when they were just going to succeed.
There
seems to be that deep fear which at the last moment says to
them 'What are you doing? Avoid it.' It is very unconscious.
They fail, and then they are busy again. That's how people
keep themselves busy; life in and life out they keep themselves
busy. This is called the wheel, the samsara, in the East;
this is the world. That's why people don't go into the heart,
which is the closest point to go to. They go on great journeys
and pilgrimages, but they don't search within. Somewhere,
hidden, they know perfectly well that if they search there
they are bound to find it -- then what? But sannyas means
dropping that fear of success. The goal is very near...and
within everybody's grasp." (The Madman's Guide to Enlightenment,
Chapter 13)
Wilhelm
Reich
"Liebe,
Arbeit und Wissen sind die Quellen unseres Lebens. Sie sollten
es auch beherrschen."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Have
patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and
like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look
for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you
could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything.
At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will
gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing
the answer, some distant day." (Letters to a Young Poet)
"Sie
sind so jung, so vor allem Anfang, und ich mochte Sie, so
gut ich es kann, bitten, lieber Herr Geduld zu haben gegen
alles Ungelöste in ihrem Herzen und zu versuchen, die Fragen
selbst liebzuhaben wie verschlossene Stuben und wie Bücher,
die in einer sehr fremden Sprache geschrieben sind. Forschen
Sie jetzt nicht nach den Antworten, die Ihnen nicht gegeben
werden können, weil Sie sie nicht leben könnten. Und es handelt
sich darum, alles zu leben. Leben Sie jetzt die Fragen. Vielleicht
leben Sie dann allmählich, ohne es zu merken, eines fernen
Tages in die Antwort hinein." (Briefe an einen jungen
Dichter)
"Read
the poem as if you had never seen it before, and you will
feel in your innermost being how very much it is your own."
(Letters to a Young Poet)
Wilma Rudolph
Never
underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the
human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential
for greatness lives within each of us.
Rabindranath Tagore
"The
learned say that your lights will one day be no more", said
the firefly to the stars. The stars made no answer.
"Man
is worse than an animal when he is an animal."
"Love
does not claim possession, but gives freedom."
"For
the game is what it is to the players. The game changes its
aspects according to the personality of its players: for some
its end is the lust of gain, in others that of applause; some
find in it the means for whiling away time and some the means
for satisfying their social instinct."
"Faith
is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."
"You
can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the
water."
"What
is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call
of the Real."
"He
who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds
the gates open."
"Want
of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection
of consciousness. We do not love because we do not comprehend,
or rather we do not comprehend because we do not love. For
love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is
not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at
the root of all creation."
"Let
them live who choose in their own hissing world of fireworks.
My heart longs for thy stars, my God."
"Lucky
was my awakening this morning, for I saw my beloved. The sky
was one piece of joy, and my life and youth were fulfilled.
To-day my house becomes my house in truth, and my body my
body. Fortune has proved a friend, and my doubts are dispelled.
Birds, sing your best; moon, shed your fairest light! Let
fly your darts, Love-God, in millions! I wait for the moment
when my body will grow golden at his touch."
King
Solomon
I.
Align leadership with God. By being in our higher power we
can do great things.
II.
Focus on your primary mission. Kingdoms without vision lack
success.
III.
Gather internal resources and form open trade. Sharing is
a key to success.
IV.
Consolidate leadership and eliminate sources of strife. Success
breeds during peace.
V.
Form strategic alliances to gain resources, skills, and open
trade routes.
VI.
Safeguard your valuable assets. Keep the most valuable assets
of the kingdom in the most cherished of places.
VII.
Rule wisely. Practice integrity in all dealings. Offer wisdom
for wealth or vice-versa.
VIII.
Celebrate Success. Keep morale high by recognizing achievement
of goals.
IX.
Avoid extravagance. Spend what we need to achieve objectives,
but avoid lavish parties.
X.
Keep your agreements. Broken agreements lead to the demise
of the kingdom.
Rudolf
Steiner
Rays
of soul-warmth issue from every manifestation of growth and
development, while everything in the process of decay, destruction,
ruin, gives an impression of cold.
Albert
Schweitzer
"Under
no circumstances I want to be an ordinary, every-day kind
of a person.
I have a right to walk off the beaten path- if I can.
I
want chances, not security. I do not want to become a depressed
citizen who abandoned his dreams and lost his dignity, because
the social system is taking care of him.
I
want to risk something, long for something. And make it real,
make it happen. I want to shipwreck and I want to be successful.
You cannot buy my passion and motivation for a tip.
I rather face the difficulties of life. Rather the excitement
of your own success than the quite numbness of Utopia. I do
not want to trade in my freedom and my self- respect for treats
someone is giving me.
I
have learnt to think for myself and to act for myself. To
look the world straight into the eyes and to confess: This
is my work. This all is meant when we say:I AM A FREE HUMAN
BEING." (Confessions to Life, translation by Thomas Barth)
Nikola
Tesla
"They
laughed in 1896, too when I told them about the cosmic ray.
They jeered 35 years ago when I discovered the rotating field
principle of alternating currents. They called me crazy when
I predicted the radio. And when I sent the first impulse around
the world, they said it couldn't be done."
Henry
David Thoreau
"Read
the best books first or you may not have a chance to read
them at all."
"It
is not enough to be busy. The question is what we are busy
about."
The
price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
"If
a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being reharded as a loafer; but if he spends
his whole day as a speculator, shearing off these woods and
making earth bald before time, he is esteemed an industrious
and enterprizing citizen. As if a town had no interest in
its forests but to cut them down!"
It
is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or
to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful;
but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere
and medium through which we look. To affect the quality of
the day- that is the highest of arts.
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