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Friday, October 1, 1999
 
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
 
~   Richard Bach
 
 
Saturday, October 2, 1999
 
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion,
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who,
in the midst of the world,
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
 
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
Sunday, October 3, 1999
 
So let us not grow weary in doing what is right,
for we will reap at harvest time,  if we do not give up.
So then, whenever we have an opportunity,
Let us work for the good of all…
 
~ Galatians 6
 
 
Monday, October 4, 1999
 
It is for the sake of Love
that the Universe sprang into existence,
and for the sake of Love that it is kept going. 
[God decided to play a game with Himself for] 
his conscious enjoyment of his own divinity.
 
~  Meher Baba
 
 
Tuesday, October 5, 1999
 
The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody
can never come to a place of fulfillment
unless people begin to think of each other
as potential brothers and sisters.
 
~  Malidoma Some`
 
 
Wednesday, October 6, 1999
 
When you have totally surrendered,
everything you do will be meditation.
 
~  Yogaswami
 
 
Thursday, October 7, 1999
 
Calmness of mind does not mean you should stop your activity.
Real calmness should be found in activity itself. 
 
~  Shunryu Suzuki
 
 
Friday, October 8, 1999
 
Sitting quietly, doing nothing,
Spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
 
~  Zenrin
 
 
Saturday, October 9, 1999
 
All you want is to be happy.
All your desires, whatever they may be,
are of longing for happiness.
Basically, you wish yourself well….
Desire by itself is not wrong. 
It is life itself , the urge to grow in knowledge and experience.
It is the choices you make that is wrong.
To imagine that some little thing – food, sex. power, fame –
Will make you happy is to deceive oneself.
Only something as vast and deep as your real self
Can make you truly and lastingly happy.
 
~  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
 
 
Sunday, October 10, 1999
 
When you seek God,
Seek Him in your heart.
 
~  Yûnus Emre
 
 
Monday, October 11, 1999
 
The fragrance of blossoms soon passes;
The ripeness of fruit is gone in a twinkling
Our time in this world is so short,
Better to avoid regret:
Miss no opportunity to savor the ineffable,
 
~  Loy Ching Yuen
 
 
Tuesday, October 12, 1999
 
The supreme purpose and goal for human life…is to cultivate love.
 
~  Ramakrishna
 
 
Wednesday. October 13, 1999
 
No one purifies another.
Never neglect your work for another’s,
However great his need.
Your work is to discover your work
And then with all your heart
To give yourself to it.
 
~  Words of the Buddha, The Dhammapada 12
 
 
Thursday, October 14, 1999
 
Develop interest in life as you see it;
In people, things, literature, music ~
The world is so rich,
Simply throbbing with rich treasures,
beautiful souls and interesting people…
 
~  Henry Miller
 
 
Friday, October 15, 1999
 
When you leave this world
material riches will be left behind;
But every good that you have done will go with you.
 
Life should be chiefly service. 
Without that ideal, the intelligence that God has given you
is not reaching out toward its goal. 
When in service you forget the little self,
you will feel the big Self of Spirit.
 
~  Paramahansa Yogananda
 
 
Saturday, October 16, 1999  
 
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
To be in company, even with the best is soon wearisome and dissipating.
I love to be alone…
 
~  Henry David Thoreau
 
 
Sunday, October 17, 1999
 
You and I must come forward and share the joy of loving.
Bur we cannot give what we don’t have.
That’s why we need to pray.
And prayer will give us a clean heart,
And with a clean heart can see God in each other.
And if we see God in each other
We will be able to live in peace.
 
~  Mother Teresa
 
 
Monday, October 18, 1999
 
To confine our selves to terrestrial matters 
would be to limit the human spirit.
 
~  Stephen Hawking
 
 
Tuesday, October 19, 1999
All roads lead to paradise if you know how to walk ~
If you know you are walking to paradise
While walking through paradise
With paradise inside you.
 
~  Luisah Teish
 
 
Wednesday, October 20, 1999
 
The flute of the Infinite is played without ceasing,
   and its sound is love:
When love renounces all limits, it reaches truth.
How widely the fragrance spreads!
It has no end, nothing stands in its way.
The form of this melody is bright like a million suns:
Incomparably sounds the vina, the vina of the notes of truth.
 
~  Kabir
 
 
Thursday, October 21, 1999
 
There is neither in Heaven nor on earth
  anything sweeter than love,
  nothing stronger,
  nothing loftier,
  nothing happier,
  nothing more precious;
  for love is born of God.
 
~  Thomas à Kempis
 
 
Friday, October 22, 1999
 
You are destined for enlightenment.
Cooperate with your destiny,
Don’t go against it,
Don’t thwart it.
Allow it to fulfill itself.
 
~  Nisargadatta
 
Saturday, October 23, 1999
 
Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit
that was yours at birth and that can be yours again.
That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness
with the world around you, is still within you.
 
~  Deepak Chopra
 
 
Sunday, October 24, 1999
 
Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratitude:
We are thankful and rejoice in the experience
Of the truth that He is Love.
 
~ Thomas Merton
 
 
Monday, October 25, 1999
 
To attain Knowledge,
add things every day.
To attain Wisdom,
remove things every day.
 
~   Lao Tzu
 
 
Tuesday, October 26, 1999
 
The decisive question for us is:
Are we related to something infinite or not? 
This is the telling question of our lives. 
Only if we know that the thing which really matters
is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities,
and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance.
 
~  C.G. Jung
 
 
Wednesday, October 27, 1999
 
And how, you ask, are we to walk the spiritual path?
We answer:
Say little and love much;
Give all; judge no man;
Aspire to all that is pure and good.
 
~  White Eagle
 
 
Thursday, October 28, 1999
 
Love the moment…
And the energy of that moment
Will spread out beyond all boundaries.
 
~  Corita Kent
 
 
Friday, October 29, 1999
 
The heart and mind can find peace and harmony
by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self
as supreme effulgent life.
 
~ Patanjali
 
Saturday, October 30, 1999
 
This is what you shall do:
Love the earth and the sun and the animals;
despise riches, give alms to everyone who asks;
stand up for the stupid and crazy, 
devote your income and  labor to others;
hate tyrants;
argue not concerning God;
have patience and indulgence toward the people…
re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book;
dismiss what insults your very soul,
and your very flesh shall become a great poem.
 
~  Walt Whitman
 
 
Sunday, October 31, 1999
 
To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act
because true happiness depends upon a revolution in ourselves.
It is a radical change of view that liberates us
so that we know who we are most deeply
and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.
 
~  Sharon Salzberg
 
 
 
 

 
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