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Archive/May 1999

Saturday, May 1, 1999

It is difficult to make a man miserable
while he feels he is worthy of himself
and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

~ Abraham Lincoln

 

 

Sunday, May 2, 1999

Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.

For once on the face of the earth,
let’s not speak in any language,
let’s stop for a second,
and not move our arms so much.

It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines;
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness…

~ Pablo Neruda

Monday, May 3, 1999

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake,
not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn,
which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep….

~ Henry David Thoreau

Tuesday, May 4, 1999

The Higher Self
is realized by not doing anything,
but by refraining from doing anything,
by remaining still and being simply what one really is.

~ G. V. Subbaramayya

 

Wednesday, May 5, 1999

Overcome any bitterness that may have come to you
because you were not up to the magnitude
of pain that was entrusted to you.
Like the mother of the world who
carries the pain of the world in her heart,
each one of us is part of her heart, and therefore
endowed with a certain measure of cosmic pain.
You are sharing in the totality of that pain.
You are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.

~ Pir Vilayat Khan

Thursday, May 6, 1999

If you see good in people,
you radiate a harmonious loving energy
which uplifts those who are around you.
If you can maintain this habit,
this energy will turn into a steady flow of love.

~ Annamalai Swami

Friday, May 7, 1999

Try to be at peace with yourself
and help others share that peace.
If you contribute to other people's happiness,
you will find the true goal,
the meaning of life.

~ The Dalai Lama

Saturday, May 8, 1999

Waking in the morning

Time smiles in my hand.

This dawn

Lasts all day.

 

~ Deena Metzger

Sunday, May 9, 1999

The soul that has come from above is received

and is reared and taken care of by the mother;

and therefore the mother is its best friend….

 

As the Brahmin says,

the first Guru is the mother.

 

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

Monday, May 10, 1999

The gloom of the world
Is but a shadow;
Behind it,
Yet within reach,
Is Joy.
Take joy.

~ Fra Giovanni

Tuesday, May 11, 1999

 

From joy springs all creation,

By joy it is sustained,

Towards joy it proceeds,

And to joy it returns.

 

~ Mundaka Upanishad

Wednesday, May 12, 1999

 

In every human being

there is a special heaven

whole and unbroken.

 

~ Paracelsus

Thursday, May 13, 1999

 

What is the ground of this uneasiness of ours;

of this old discontent?

What is the universal sense

of want and ignorance,

but the fine innuendo

by which the soul makes its enormous claim?

 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday, May 14, 1999

We cannot live only for ourselves.
A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men;
and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads,
our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

~ Herman Melville

 Saturday, May 15, 1999

Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued,

is always beyond our grasp, but which,

if you will sit down quietly,

may alight upon you.

~  Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sunday, May 16, 1999

 

No coward soul is mine,

No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere:

I see heavens glories shine,

And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.

 

~ Emily Bronte

Monday, May 17, 1999

 

The soul that is without suffering

does not feel the need of knowing

the ultimate cause of the universe.

Sickness, grief and hardships

are all indespensable elements

in the spiritual ascent.

 

~ Anandamayi Ma

Tuesday, May 18, 1999

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.

~ Albert Einstein

Wednesday, May 19, 1999

God is Love;
His plan for creation
can be rooted only in love.
Does not that simple thought,
rather than erudite reasonings,
offer solace to the human heart?
Every saint who has penetrated
to the core of Reality has testified
that a divine universal plan exists
and that it is beautiful and full of joy.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Thursday, May 20, 1999

Heaven is a palace with many doors
And each may enter in his own way…

~ Hindu saying

 

Friday, May 21, 1999

You need seek God neither below or above.
He is no farther away than the door of the heart.

~ Meister Eckhart

Saturday, May 22, 1999

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful;
for beauty is God’s handwriting ~ a wayside sacrament.
Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower,
and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday, May 23, 1999

When the righteous man searches
for the nature of all things,
he makes his own admirable discovery:
that everything is God’s grace.
Every being in the world,
and the world itself,
manifests the blessings and generosity of God.

~ Philo

Monday, May 24, 1999

There is only one success:
to be able to spend your life in your own way,
and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

~ Christopher Darlington Morley

 

Tuesday, May 25, 1999

One does not become enlightened
by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.

~ C.G. Jung

Wednesday, May 26, 1999

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.
One can find it, live it, be fortified by it,
Do wonders through it,
But one cannot communicate and teach it.

~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

Thursday, May 27, 1999

 

We are separated from the mystery,

the depth, the greatness of our existence.

We hear the voice of that depth,

but our ears are closed.

 

~ Paul Tillich

Friday, May 28, 1999

 

At the end of the way is freedom.

Until then, patience.

 

~ Gautama Buddha

Saturday, May 29, 1999

 

When your mind stops racing,

it is naturally kind instead of rude,

naturally loving instead of selfish.

 

~ Eknath Easwaran

Sunday, May 30, 1999

Every perfection in this life

has some imperfection attached to it,

and there is no knowledge in this world

that is not mixed with some blindness or ignorance.

 

~ Thomas a` Kempis

Monday, May 31, 1999 (Memorial Day)

No man is an island, entire of it self;
Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,
As well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were;
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind;
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.

~ John Donne

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