cool quotes

[tulc]

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
-Robert Heinlein

 

[praying]

While Jesus walked on earth he worked many miracles and taught about love, peace, goodness and true joy - attributes of His heavenly Father and attributes of mankind when reconciled with God. He came to encourage a relationship not a religion. In fact, the maddest Jesus ever got was when religious merchants had turned the church from a house of prayer into a marketplace. He was so insistent that we know God - he literally staked his life on it. His death and resurrection assured us of a relationship with Creator God in this life and beyond - the relationship desired by God from the beginning of time. Religion can be just a bunch of rules but a relationship? Now, that is an adventure worth investigating!

Today's Daily Wisdom

 

[savvy]

My very favorite:
"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."

 

[tulc]

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
-HL Menken

 

[Lady Di-USA]

To err is human; To forgive is Divine.

 

[Lady Di-USA]

My favorite sayings:

I'm a Kings kid; and, God does not make junk.

May you know the grace and peace of Jesus.

 

[freespirit2001]

" Men cannot discover new oceans, unless they have courage to lose sight of the shore."

---Andre Gide


"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."

---Latin Proverb


"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of truth and knowledge, will be shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

---Albert Einstein

 

[Lady Di-USA]

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.

John Homer Miller

 

[freespirit2001]

"Anyone can become angry---that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way---that is not easy."





---Aristotle

 

[freespirit2001]

"The intervals between the events, are more significant than the events themselves."

---Albert Einstein

 

[tulc]

If all men abandon you and even drive you away by force, then when you are left alone fall on the earth and kiss it, water it with your tears and it will bring forth fruit even though no one has seen or heard you in your solitude. Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness...And if two of you are gathered together--then there is a whole world, a world of living love. Embrace each other tenderly and praise God, for if only in you two His truth has been fulfilled.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

[tulc]

Love
Love bade we welcome; but my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
If I lacked anything.

"A guest," I answered, "worthy to be here."
Love said, "You shall be he."
"I, the unkind, ungrateful? Ah, my dear,
I cannot look on thee."
Love took my hand and smiling did reply,
"Who made the eyes but I?"

"Truth, Lord, but I have marred them; let my shame
Go where it doth deserve."
"And know you not," says Love, "who bore the blame?"
"Ah, dear, then I will serve."
"You must sit down," says Love, "and taste my meat."
So I did sit and eat.
-George Herbert

 

[Lady Di-USA]

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisable to the eye.


God bless and peace...

 

[freespirit2001]

If all men abandon you and even drive you away by force, then when you are left alone fall on the earth and kiss it, water it with your tears and it will bring forth fruit even though no one has seen or heard you in your solitude. Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness...And if two of you are gathered together--then there is a whole world, a world of living love. Embrace each other tenderly and praise God, for if only in you two His truth has been fulfilled.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

I think of the quotes you have quoted from Edgar Allen Poe, and others, especially some mid-eastern sages, tulc, and I'm so greatful for all your words of wisdom and guidance you share with us in this thread---"Cool Quotes"...
... somehow I think of Poe's "Tamerlane" tulc, when I think of you...Thanks so much again!

 

[freespirit2001]

Love
Love bade we welcome; but my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
If I lacked anything.

"A guest," I answered, "worthy to be here."
Love said, "You shall be he."
"I, the unkind, ungrateful? Ah, my dear,
I cannot look on thee."
Love took my hand and smiling did reply,
"Who made the eyes but I?"

"Truth, Lord, but I have marred them; let my shame
Go where it doth deserve."
"And know you not," says Love, "who bore the blame?"
"Ah, dear, then I will serve."
"You must sit down," says Love, "and taste my meat."
So I did sit and eat.
-George Herbert

"The Cross on the Mountain" Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)http://art.gothic.ru/paint/friedrich/index_e.htm

 

[freespirit2001]

"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

When evildoers assail me, uttering slanders against me;
My adversaries and foes, they shall stumble and fall.

Though a host encamp against me, my heart shall not fear;
Though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.

One thing have I asked of the Lord, that I will seek after;
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.

For He will hide me in His shelter in the day of trouble;
He will conceal me under the cover of His tent,
He will set me high upon a rock.

And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies round about me;
And I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy;
I will sing and make melody to the Lord...."

"I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living!
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage;
Yea, wait for the Lord!"

Psalm 27:1-6,13-14

 

[tulc]

A man came to the Prophet, begging of him something, and the Prophet said, "Have you nothing at home?" He said, "Yes, there is a large carpet, with one part of which I cover myself, and spread the other, and there is a wooden cup in which I drink water." Then the Prophet said, "Bring me the carpet and the cup." And the man brought them, and the Prophet took them in his hand, and said, "Who will buy them?" A man said, "I will take them at one silver piece." He said, "Who will give more?" This he repeated twice or thrice. Another man said, "I will take them for two pieces of silver." Then the Prophet gave the carpet and cup to that man, and took the two pieces of silver, and gave them to the helper, and said, "Buy food with one of these pieces, and give it to your family, that they may make it their sustenance for a few days; and buy a hatchet with the other piece and bring it to me." And the man brought it; and the Prophet put a handle to it with his own hands, and then said, "Go, cut wood, and sell it, and let me not see you for fifteen days." Then the man went cutting wood, and selling it; and he came to the Prophet, when verily he had got ten pieces of silver, and he bought a garment with part of it, and food with part. Then the Prophet said, "This cutting and selling of wood, and making your livelihood by it, is better for you than coming on the day of resurrection with black marks on your face."
-Muhammad

 

[freespirit2001]

"All I do to my disciples is to free them from their own bondage, by any means their case may need. Whether you are bound by a gold chain or an iron one, you are in captivity. Your virtuous activities are your gold chain, your evil ones the iron one. He who shakes off both the chains of good and evil that imprison him....he has attained the Supreme Truth."

Frederick Franck

 

[freespirit2001]

THE NATURE OF JOY

"Happiness is a fulfillment of the past patterns, of hopes, of aims....Happiness is mediated, so far as we can tell, by the parasympathetic nervous system, which has to do with eating, contentment, resting, placidity. Joy is mediated by the opposing system---the sympathetic, which does not make one want to eat, but stimulates one for exploration. Happiness relaxes one; joy challeges one with new levels of experience. Happiness depends generally on one's outter state; joy is an overflowing of inner energies and leads to awe and wonderment. Joy is a release, an opening up; it is what comes when one is able genuinely to "let go."

Happiness is associated with contentment; joy with freedom and an abundance of human spirit...Joy is new possibilites, it points towards the future. Joy is living on the razor's edge; happiness promises satisfaction of one's present state, a fulfillment of old longings. Joy is the thrill of new continents to explore; it is an unfolding of life.

Happiness is related to security, to being reassured, to doing things as one is used to and as our fathers did them. Joy is a revelation of what was unknown before. Happiness often ends up in a placidity on the edge of boredom. Happiness is success. Joy is the stimulating discovery of new continents emerging within oneself.

Happiness is the absence of discord; joy is the welcoming of discord as the basis of higher harmonies. Happiness is finding a system of rules which solve our problems; joy is taking the risk that is necessary to break new frontiers...

The good life obviously includes both joy and happiness at different times. What I am emphasizing is the joy that follows rightly confronted despair. Joy is the experience of possibility, the consciousness of one's freedom as one confronts one's destiny. In this sense, despair, when it is directly faced, can lead to joy...."

Rollo May Freedom and Destiny

 

[Lady Di-USA]

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its troubles. It empties today of its strength.