"Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or
accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."
**Danny Thomas**
THE LAW OF ONE
We are all one.
When one is harmed, all are harmed.
When one is helped, all are healed.
Therefore, in the name of who I AM,
and I am one with all;
I ask that ONLY THAT WHICH IS THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL CONCERNED happen here and now, and through all time and space.
I give thanks that this is done.
SO BE IT!
"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of
kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no
logical end."
- Scott Adams
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"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
~Jean Jacques Rousseau
I THANK thee that I am none of the wheels of power but I am one with the living creatures that are crushed by it.
Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean,
we can't separate ourselves from one another.
We are all part of a vast sea of love,
one indivisible divine mind.
Marianne Williamson
"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and
take without forgetting."
**Elizabeth Bibesco
“To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and sing it to them when they have forgotten.”
**Thomas Chandler**
"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."
~ Kahil Gibran
"We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we
become increasingly resentful and afraid,
or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder.
We always have the choice."
~Dalai Lama~
Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.
**Og Mandino in "The Gift of Acabar**
"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them."
~Francis Bacon
"There is no they, only us. We're part of a large fellowship called "the
human race."
We all hurt the same. We all love the same.
We all bleed the same.
We all need understanding and care."
~ "Keep It Simple" daily meditation book
"One kind word can warm three winter months."
~Japanese Proverb
"A human being is part of the whole, called by us "universe," limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a prison,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons close to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty."
~Albert Einstein
We are one, after all, you and I.
Together we suffer,
together exist, and forever will recreate each other.
~Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
All works of love are works of peace.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong
to each other.
~ Mother Teresa~
“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”
~ Eskimo Proverb
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Kahlil Gibran
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.
By Mohandas K. Gandhi:
Silver Birch's teachings ;
" If you help only one soul to find itself, if you comfort only one mourner, if you heal only one sick person, then the whole of your earthly life is justified. How privileged you are to be aware of the tremendous power that is around and about you, that enfolds you, guards you, directs you and ensures that you will continue to unfold your latent divinity and the gifts which are your cherished possession."
"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
**Confucius**
"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Hope" is the thing with feathers-- That perches in the soul-- And sings the tune without the words
And never stops--at all"
Emily Dickenson
"Hope is like a bird that senses dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark."
Author unknown
"One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories."
Rebecca Falls
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
~Epictetus
"Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging."
~Deepak Chopra
"Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore."
~Hindu Proverb
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
~Helen Keller
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
~ M.L.King
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
"What are you doing for others?""
~Martin Luther King Jr*.
"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
~Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Music
"Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
***~Plato***
"There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up."
~ Bernard Meltzer
"Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside."
~Quoted in Believe:
A Christmas Treasury by Mary Engelbreit
"Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others.
This in itself is rare,
but they also imply a great deal of thinking about others
without the thoughts being criticisms.
This is rarer still."
~ E.W. Faber
19th century playwright
Unending Love
~ by Rabindranath Tagore
I seem to have loved you
in numberless forms,
numberless times...
in life after life,
in age after age,
forever.
My spellbound heart has made
and remade the necklace of songs,
that you take as a gift,
wear round your neck
in your many forms,
in life after life,
in age after age,
forever.
"WE are One species.
We are starstuff"
-Carl Sagan-
*Heal the past*
"What you bring forth out of yourself from the inside will save you.
What you do not bring forth out of yourself from the inside will
destroy you."
Gospel of Thomas
The darkness has never been able to suffocate the
light, just as the light has always illuminated the
darkness.
So, with these two truths, may we all strive for,
seek, and live within the light. May the glow we emit,
even to those not yet ready to see, be warmed and
comforted by it. May our light be a beacon to guide
others to a path of virtue and compassion. May we be
as the sun, the life bringer to all life. May we
penetrate even the most obscure places and the
shadows, aspiring that not a single being left overlooked.
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate".
By Albert Schweitzer
My Song
by Rabindranath Tagore
This song of mine will wind its music around you,
my child, like the fond arms of love.
The song of mine will touch your forehead
like a kiss of blessing.
When you are alone it will sit by your side and
whisper in your ear, when you are in the crowd
it will fence you about with aloofness.
My song will be like a pair of wings to your dreams,
it will transport your heart to the verge of the unknown.
It will be like the faithful star overhead
when dark night is over your road.
My song will sit in the pupils of your eyes,
and will carry your sight into the heart of things.
And when my voice is silenced in death,
my song will speak in your living heart.
*A LIGHTWORKER PRAYER*
I ask that spirit walk with me this day
And that I have the courage
To carry this truth within me in all that I do.
To full stand in my own truth
And power is to honor the spirit within
Help me today to re-member
Both who I am and who I am not.
Who I am is magnificent,
Yet to carry a facade of who I am not
Only detracts from that magnificence.
To accept the truth of my own limitations,
Clears the path to carrying my true power.
I know that holding my power is only possible When I am not afraid of being vulnerable.
This day I will balance my ego
By checking it often
And see my true motivations.
I accept the power that is rightfully mine
And will to use it to create
Home on this side of the veil.
I ask that I may allow spirit to emanate
From me to all who choose to look upon me,
That I may be a perfect mirror
So that they may see the God within themselves
Help me to touch their hearts
With my love
And allow them to re-member
Home and who they really are
As I re-member who I am.
As spirit walks with me this day
I remember to give thanks for the gift of spirit on my shoulder.
May I always use it to the highest good of all concerned.
I vow to enjoy this day to it's fullest and to laugh at every opportunity.
This day I will play the wonderful Game
And I will carry the vibrations of Home in every move on the Gameboard.
This day I will Re-member.
AMEN
St. Jafree's Prayer
Just for today...
May you know that who you really are is a divine infinite being that cannot die.
May you understand that each positive action you choose returns back to you multiplied.
May you realize that you are a powerful manifesting being who can create anything your heart desires.
May you give generously to others from a place of trust
and knowing this is an infinite abundant Universe.
May you radiate your love like the Sun with everyone you encounter.
May you become a trust-a-holic who can easily let go of any fear that arises.
May you experience total freedom from your ego/mind and whatever thought patterns it is addicted to.
May you be filled with gratitude and be truly thankful for the smallest of blessings in your life right now.
May you enlighten others with your simple sweet divine presence
And allow this lightness to radiate to others as laughter, appreciation and love.
May you always find great peace at the center of the cyclone of life....
How can I serve today?
"God has no other hands than ours."
-- Dorothee Solle
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be
answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last.
The spring rains will come again
A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach
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"God has not called us to see through each other, but to see each
other through."
~ Author Unknown
"Never deprive someone of hope ,
it may be all they have."
--Unknown
Hope is a waking dream.
~Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings
~Elie Weisel
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
~Albert Schweitzer~
Movies
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.â€
~ Mother Teresa
CHEROKEE PRAYER BLESSING
May the warm winds of heaven
Blow softly upon your lodge.
May the Great Spirit,
Bless all who enter there.
May your mocassins
Make happy tracks
In many snows,
And may the rainbow
Always touch your shoulder.
Fruit From The Light
Frank Howell
The Child Angel
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Let your life come amongst them like a flame of light, my child,
unflickering and pure, and delight them into silence."
"Come and take your seat in the bosom of the limitless, my child.
At sunrise open and raise your heart like a blossoming flower,
and at sunset bend your head and in silence
complete the worship of the day."
Television
The best portion of a good man's life is his
little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and
of love.
- William Wordsworth
I have never met a person whose greatest need was
anything other than real, unconditional love. You
can find it in a simple act of kindness toward
somone who needs help. There is no mistaking
love. You feel it in your heart. It is the
common fiber of life, the flame that heals our
soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to
our lives. It is our connection to God and to
each other.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Books
Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though....
That's the problem.
~Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?
~Pierre Troubetzkoy
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.
**~Chief Seattle of the Suquamish Tribe,
From letter to President Franklin Pierce
"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."
~William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922
The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"
~Jeremy Bentham
"We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace." ~Albert Schweitzer, The Philosophy of Civilization
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"Go now, therefore, and teach ye all nations. Teach that what you do for another, you do for your Self, and what you fail to do for another, you fail to do for your Self. Do unto others as you would have it done unto you, because it is being done unto you! That is the Golden Rule. And now you understand it completely."
- Neale Donald Walsch, Friendship with God p. 374
"Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments."
***The Talmud ***
I Respect the Golden Rule!
"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life".
**Albert Schweitzer**
Three things in human life are important.
The first is to be kind.
The second is to be kind.
And the third is to be kind.
**By Henry James**
"You are here to serve others, to be a light for them, to participate in their lessons and to help heal humanity. You are also here to serve yourself, to heal your karma, to enable your soul's growth and reconnect to the Source. Your challenge is to find a balance between serving others and yourself so that you can accomplish the tasks that you established for yourself in this lifetime and even go beyond that. How you view your role in serving others is an important part of this process."
** URIEL HEALS By Jennifer Hoffman** .
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless."
***Mother Teresa ***
The highest state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies
~ Sri Aurobindo ~
“My religion is simple.
My religion is kindnessâ€
***H.H. the Dalai Lama***.
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
***The Dalai Lama***
"In Compassion lies the world's true strength."
***~Buddha***
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
***Pierre Teilhard de Chardin***
"You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the hear of time, love of one for another."
"No act if kindness ,
no matter how small,
is ever wasted"
***-Aesop***
The Path to Eternal Life
Oh Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love,
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
And it is in dying that we are born
To eternal life.
***- St. Francis of Assisi***
Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things pass away:
***Saint Theresa D'Avila***.
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
**Mother Teresa**
The Lord's Prayer in Arabic
Thanks RANA!
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
***~Leo Buscaglia***
"Blessed is he who speaks a kindness; thrice blessed is he who repeats it."
**~Arabian Proverb**
"Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch.
It is anything that lifts another person."
I. Thou shalt love and honour the Earth for it blesses thy life and governs thy survival.
II. Thou shalt keep each day sacred to the Earth and celebrate the turning of its seasons.
III. Thou shalt not hold thyself above other living things nor drive them to extinction.
IV. Thou shalt give thanks for thy food, to the creatures and plants that nourish thee.
V. Thou shalt educate thy offspring for multitudes of people are a blessing unto the Earth when we live in harmony.
VI. Thou shall not kill, nor waste Earth's riches upon weapons of war.
VII. Thou shalt not pursue profit at the Earth's expense but strive to restore its damaged majesty.
VIII. Thou shalt not hide from thyself or others the consequences of thy actions upon the Earth.
IX. Thou shalt not steal from future generations by impoverishing or poisoning the Earth.
X. Thou shalt consume material goods in moderation so all may share the Earth's bounty.
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
***Richard Bach***
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold service was joy.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The Purpose of Life - Sri Sri Ravi Shanka
Our first and foremost commitment is to do service in the world. If there is fear in your life, it is because of a lack of commitment. If there is confusion in your life, it is because of lack of commitment. The very thought, 'I am here in this world to do service', dissolves the "I" and when the "I" dissolves, worries dissolve. Service is not something you do out of convenience or for pleasure. The ultimate purpose of life is to be of service. An uncommitted mind is miserable. A committed mind may experience rough weather but will reap the fruits of its toil. When you make service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear and brings focus and purposefulness in your mind, action and long term joy -- and maybe short term problems!
"Look up and not down. Look forward and not back.
Look out and not in, and lend a hand."
~Edward Everett Hale
The Blessed Mother Mary is my resource of peace and compassion, she always signs and points on the direction of her Divine son, My Master, Christ.
"Memorare", o piisima Virgo Maria, non esse auditum a saeculo, quemquam ad tua currentem praesidia, tua implorantem auxilia, tua petentem suffragia esse derelicta. Nos tali animati confidentia ad te, Virgo Virginum, Mater, currimus; ad te venimus; coram te gementes peccatores assistimus. Noli, Mater Verbi, verba nostra despicere, sed audi propitia et exaudi. R. Amen.
"Et benedictus
Et benedictus fructus ventris
Ventris tuae"
Namaste !
Thank you Saint Joseph, For your presence in my life
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world".
Albert Schweitzer
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
~William Shakespeare
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I am interested to meet people with good hearts and clear souls that are willing through cooperation change and be the change we all want to see in this world. We are all ONE.
This Page is a personal journey with an open invitation. A journey of discovery in learning more about my world around me and myself through breaking down the individual walls we are prone to develop in this individual society we live within. Committing to doing not so random random acts of kindness each day. I invite you to share in what I learn, and if you dare...... to join me.
"The Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, summarizes the miracle of life more beautifully than science can explain it.
He says:
"The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass, and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment."
Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.
***Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ***
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
***Richard Bach ***
You give but little... when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself... that you truly give.
***Kahlil Gibran***
When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
~***Rabindranath Tagore***
"If you haven't any charity in your heart,
you have the worst kind of heart trouble."
**Bob Hope
Chief YellowHawk's Prayer
O Great Spirit, Whose voice I hear in the winds,
and whose breath gives life to all the world,
hear me, I come before you, one of your children.
I am small and weak. I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes
ever behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have made,
my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may know the things you
have taught my people,
the lesson you have hidden in every leaf and rock.
I seek strength not to be superior to my brothers,
but to be able to fight my greatest enemy, myself.
Make me ever ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes,
so when life fades as a fading sunset,
my spirit may come to you without shame.
Chief YellowHawk
"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."
***Sophocles***
**"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it."**
**** Rabindranath Tagore****
The first peace, which is the most important,
is that which comes from within the souls of people
when they realize that their relationship...
Their oneness with the universe and all its powers,
and when they realize that at the center of the universe,
dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center
is really everywhere...
For, It is within each of us. Black Elk
Everything in the universe has a vibration, including our thoughts.
. We create EVERYTHING that shows up in our lives. Our thoughts are our creative power.
. By the Law of Attraction, the universe is always matching the vibrational signal we're offering.
. Our feelings are our Internal Guidance System letting us know when we should change what we're focusing on.
When we truly understand how this works and start consciously creating what's showing up in our lives, we will be amazed at what we're capable of. That's when life becomes a constant miracle.
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Ashes&Snow
This is my prayer to thee, my Lord -
strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart.
Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows.
Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service.
Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might.
Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles.
And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love.
GITANJALI, XXX VI 4
Rabindranath Tagore
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice."
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
British lexiographer
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"We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark."
***Whoopi Goldberg***
The Souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of Lights; Each takes a Taper, often only a spark, to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls are rare fortune, are detained longer and have time to grab a handful of Tapers, which they weave into a Torch. These are the Torch-Bearers of humanity, its Poets, Seers, and Saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, towards the Light. They are the lawgivers and the Saviors, the Light-Bring..ers, Way- Show..ers and Truth-Tell..ers, and without them, Humanity would Loose its way in the Dark.....
Sorry if I have a TWISTED sense of humor. This is an obnoxious attempt to get more blog subscribers. Basically just taking a break from writing my novel. Hope it interests you.
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