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” THE GREATEST RISK IS NOT TAKING ONE! ”
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QUOTES & POETRY ~
The Gift of Wise Words
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Optional Quotes you may wish to read
These are some poetry-inspired ideas
that 'Inform' us here at Spiritual Adulthood.
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“If you do not see Godliness
in the next person you meet,
you need look no further.” ~ Gandhi
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“La vraie générosité envers l’avenir
consiste à tout donner au présent.”
“True generosity towards the future
is to give everything to the present.”
~ Albert Camus
To measure you by your smallest deed
is to judge the ocean by the frailty of it’s foam.
To judge you by your failures is to cast blame
upon the seasons for their inconsistencies.
~ Kahlil Gibran
What good you do is of little significance,
But it is very important that you do it.
BE the change you want to see in the world.
“If you do not see Godliness
in the next person you meet,
you need look no further.” ~ Gandhi
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“La vraie générosité envers l’avenir
consiste à tout donner au présent.”
“True generosity towards the future
is to give everything to the present.”
~ Albert Camus
To measure you by your smallest deed
is to judge the ocean by the frailty of it’s foam.
To judge you by your failures is to cast blame
upon the seasons for their inconsistencies.
~ Kahlil Gibran
What good you do is of little significance,
But it is very important that you do it.
BE the change you want to see in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
~ Mother Teresa
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“You yourself,
as much as anyone in the entire Universe,
deserves your OWN affection, care and love.
deserves your OWN affection, care and love.
You can explore the whole universe
looking for someone who is more deserving
of your love and affection than you are yourself…
and you will not find that person anywhere.
and you will not find that person anywhere.
To be maximum effective ~
the Practice of Loving-Kindness
must absolutely begin with yourself !”
the Practice of Loving-Kindness
must absolutely begin with yourself !”
~ The Buddha
They drew a circle that shut me out —
Calling me a heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win —
We drew a circle that took them in.
They drew a circle that shut me out —
Calling me a heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win —
We drew a circle that took them in.
~ Edwin Markham “Outwitted”
Do not look back in Anger —
or forward in Fear —
but around in Awareness.
Do not look back in Anger —
or forward in Fear —
but around in Awareness.
~ James Thurber
At night make me fearlessly
At night make me fearlessly
one with the darkness ~
In the morning make me
In the morning make me
optimistically one with the light
~ Wendell Berry
You may want to hi-lite, copy, paste and send
You may want to hi-lite, copy, paste and send
the Rilke quote below to people you know…
some of the wisest guidance you’ll ever read,
some of the wisest guidance you’ll ever read,
and put to your own personal use or offer to others.
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♦ here it is ~
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.
Try to love the ‘Questions’ themselves -
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♦ here it is ~
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.
Try to love the ‘Questions’ themselves -
like locked rooms and like books
that are written in a foreign language.
Do not, just right now, seek for the 'Answers'.
The ‘Answers’ which cannot now be given to you -
because you would not be able to actually ‘live’ them.
And the point is to ‘live’ everything -
Do not, just right now, seek for the 'Answers'.
The ‘Answers’ which cannot now be given to you -
because you would not be able to actually ‘live’ them.
And the point is to ‘live’ everything -
experiencing everything.
At present, you need to live the Questions themselves.
Perhaps you will then gradually, without even noticing it,
live along some day into the true Answer. Your answer.”
~ Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet” Paris 1908
At present, you need to live the Questions themselves.
Perhaps you will then gradually, without even noticing it,
live along some day into the true Answer. Your answer.”
~ Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet” Paris 1908
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"One easily-made, common mistake
is to think that 'your' reality is THE reality.
You must always be prepared to bravely
You must always be prepared to bravely
leave your reality for a greater one."
~ Amaji Meera
“Whatever the Question ~
“Whatever the Question ~
Love and Kindness is the Answer!”
~ The Dalai Lama
“La vraie generosite envers l'avenir
~ The Dalai Lama
“La vraie generosite envers l'avenir
consiste a tout donner au present.”
“True generosity towards the future
“True generosity towards the future
is to give everything to the present.”
~ Albert Camus
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'Darkness' -
no matter how ominous and intimidating -
Darkness is not a 'thing' or a 'force' –
Darkness is not a 'thing' or a 'force' –
it is merely the absence of Light.
Darkness is merely the absence
Darkness is merely the absence
or concealment of the Good.
So 'Light' need not combat and overpower
darkness in order to displace it.
Simply, where Light is, darkness is not.
A thimbleful of Light will therefore
banish a roomful of darkness.
One need not 'defeat'
So 'Light' need not combat and overpower
darkness in order to displace it.
Simply, where Light is, darkness is not.
A thimbleful of Light will therefore
banish a roomful of darkness.
One need not 'defeat'
the 'Darkness' in the world –
One need only bring to Light
One need only bring to Light
its potential for Goodness.
~ The Lubavitcher Rebbe
~ The Lubavitcher Rebbe
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~ Maimonides more than 800 years ago said:
a single deed,
a single word,
even one single thought,
has the power to TIP the scales
and bring redemption to your world.
no matter how dark the world
may seem or feel ~
Light is just a single action away.
a single deed,
a single word,
even one single thought,
has the power to TIP the scales
and bring redemption to your world.
no matter how dark the world
may seem or feel ~
Light is just a single action away.
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"If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other."
that we belong to each other."
~ Mother Teresa
"Wise, clear understanding is key
to the dissolution of all ignorances --
Then be kind whenever possible.
It is always possible."
"Wise, clear understanding is key
to the dissolution of all ignorances --
Then be kind whenever possible.
It is always possible."
~ The Dalai Lama
“Who was born first, 'You' or 'The World'?
As long as you give first place to ‘The World’
-- you are bound by it.
Once you realize, beyond all trace of doubt,
that the ‘world’ is in you --
-- and not 'you' in the world,
right then and there, you are out of it.
Of course, your body remains in the world
and 'of' the world,
but YOU are not >d-e-l-u-d-e-d<>
“Who was born first, 'You' or 'The World'?
As long as you give first place to ‘The World’
-- you are bound by it.
Once you realize, beyond all trace of doubt,
that the ‘world’ is in you --
-- and not 'you' in the world,
right then and there, you are out of it.
Of course, your body remains in the world
and 'of' the world,
but YOU are not >d-e-l-u-d-e-d<>
You are free !
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
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