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Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell.
Not being guilty, you will have the freshness
of dewdrops in the early morning sun,
you will have the freshness of lotus petals in the lake,
you will have the freshness of the stars in the night.
Once guilt disappears you will have
a totally different kind of life, luminous and radiant.
You will have a dance to your feet
and your heart will be singing a thousand and one songs.
- Osho
By plucking her petals,
you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof
A jug fills drop by drop.
- The Buddha
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
Zen says that if you drop knowledge -
and within knowledge everything is included;
your name, your identity, everything,
because this has been given to you by others -
if you drop all that has been given by others,
you will have a totally different quality to your being: innocence.
This will be a crucifixion of the persona, the personality,
and there will be a resurrection of your innocence.
You will become a child again, reborn.
- Osho
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University
and learned within 24 hours to be ready
to speak at the drop of a hat,
and I learned something more, the trustees were expected
to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside.
The bravest man is who can see the world
without the barrier of the mind, just as it is.
It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful.
There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior -
there are no distinctions.
- Osho
Individually, we do have our crises -
mostly from unexpected directions,
but so have all people from all ages.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually
there would be no wars and no poverty.
I have made myself personally responsible
for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
- Anais Nin
It is not our place to know the mind of God.
Spirit knows what is best in the long run -
best for each of us individually,
and best for humanity as a whole.
This is often very difficult to accept
when we see war and disease in the world
and experience physical and emotional suffering
in ourselves, our family, and our friends.
I consider this belief in God's infinite power
and ultimate wisdom to be the true test of faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action is our greatest weapon against fear.
Left to molder, fear grows upon itself,
but in the face of action,
fear is left in the dust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most of the shadows of life are caused
by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach,
but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect,
we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
- Anthony Robbins
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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