WEEK 45.1 – (NOV 8 – NOV 14TH) THE GREATEST LOVE
“Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh
“If you wonder if you’re having a spiritual awakening, you probably are. The true awakening takes place within. When we awaken to our true nature, we realize we are and have always will be free.” – David Scott
“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.” ― Rumi
“We do not sit in meditation to become expert meditators. We sit in meditation to become better at living a rich and beautiful life. Spiritual knowledge is fruitful only when it is applied into our daily lives. Talking the talk can be easy, but walking the walk, know that can be very difficult indeed.” – David Scott
“The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam in it.”- Sri Nityananda
“You learn who you are by unlearning who they taught you to be.”- Nikki Rowe
“In order to save myself, I must destroy first the me I was told to be.” – The Dreamer
“There is no greater wealth in this world than peace of mind.”
“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.”
“Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.”
“Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
“Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Awakening is not changing who you are but discarding who you are not.” – Deepak Chopra
“You cant wake up someone pretending to be asleep. Once you awaken you will have no interest in judging those who still sleep.” – David Scott
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein
“When you own your breath, no one can steal your peace”
“If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.” – Gail Sheehy
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”- Edith Wharton
“Your heart must become a sea of love. Your mind must become a river of detachment.” – Sri Chinmoy
“Every night, when I go to sleep, I die. Every morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”- Mahatma Gandhi
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” – Louis L’Amour
“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?”- Rumi
“The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted…. As you begin to be grateful for what most people take for granted, the vibration of gratitude makes you more receptive to good in your life.” – Michael Bernard Beckwith
“True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems, but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice, and to learn.”- Richard Carlson
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Alva Edison
“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.” – Maya Angelou
“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.” – Maya Angelou
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela
“A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” – Nelson Mandela
“A bird does not sing because it has answers, it sings because it has a song.” – Maya Angelou
“A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.” ~Laurie Helgoe
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” ~Karen Kaiser Clark
“Striving for excellence motivates you, striving for perfection demoralizes you.”
“If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles.” ~Wayne Dyer
“Don’t be afraid of the dark, for that is when the light within you shines the brightest.” David Scott
“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.” – Eckhart Tolle
“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by ‘I was hungry and you gave me to eat, I was naked and you clothed me, I was homeless and you took me in.’ Hungry not only for bread – but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing – but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks – but homeless because of rejection.” ~Mother Teresa
Knowledge comes can goes, but wisdom lingers. “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” – Socrates
“A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” – Saint Basil
“Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.” – Anna Taylor
“Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.” – Byron Katie
“Falling in love with yourself first doesn’t make you vain or selfish – it makes you indestructible.”
“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Demonstrate love by giving it, unconditionally, to yourself. And as you do, you will attract others into your life who will love you without conditions.”
“Love yourself. Enough to take the actions required for your happiness. Enough to cut yourself loose from the drama-filled past. Enough to set a high standard for relationships. Enough to feed your mind and body in a healthy manner. Enough to forgive yourself. Enough to move on.” – Steve Maraboli
“You are a light that cannot darken. You are a soul that shines through. You are the eternal amid the movement. You are awakening. You are love.”
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha