Today's wisdom

Today's Wisdom From Maya Angelou

If you really believe a thing, you do the thing. You not only just say you believe. There is the Confucian saying that to know and not to do is in fact not to know. A number of people say they know---they know this and they know that and they want this and they want that. They don't really know. See, if a person really knew that what goes around comes around they wouldn't commit evil acts. If they knew it, they say it, they intellectually have embraced it--but to know it means you know it in your bones, you know it. The marrow of your bones is imprinted with that knowledge. You can't do otherwise, when you know it. So Peace Pilgrim knew it and so she did it. 

Maya Angelou
Speaking of the life of Peace Pilgrim
Though it could apply to anyone who walks their walk

Today's Wisdom From Karen Armstrong (feat. Saint Augustine)

"Saint Augustine, founder of the Western Christian tradition said that if a biblical text seems to teach hate and violence we have to give it an allegorical interpretation and make it speak charity even if this distorts the meaning of the original biblical author."

Karen Armstrong

Historian of Religion/ Creator of the Charter of Compassion

Todays Wisdom from Eckhart Tolle

 "It is true that only an unconscious person will try to use or

manipulate others, but it is equally true that only an unconscious person can  be used and manipulated. If you resist or fight unconscious behavior in others, you become unconscious yourself. But surrender does not mean that you allow yourself to be used by unconscious people. Not at all. It is perfectly possible to say “no” firmly and clearly to a person or to walk away from a situation and be in a state of complete inner nonresistance at the same time. When you say no to a person or a situation let it come not from reaction but from insight, from a clear realization of what is right or not right for you at that moment. Let it be a nonreactive no, a high-quality no, a no that is free from negativity and so creates no further suffering."

Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now

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Today's Wisdom from Ram Dass

The definition of Namaste:

"I honor the place in you

in which the entire universe dwells.

I honor the place in you

which is of love, of truth, of light, and of peace.

I honor the place in you where,

if you are in that place in you,

and I am in that place in me,

there is only one of us."

Ram Dass as found in Grist for the Mill

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Today's Wisdom From Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

"Many people believe that what really matters is what a Master says, the wisdom he transmits. They think that if he says nothing they learn nothing. But even if a Master does not say a word, what emanates from him communicates something of his light and strength to you.’

‘I have known the mystical way:
            The heart, feelings, sesnations, love.
 I have known the spiritual way:
            Study and knowledge.
 I have also followed the way of concrete realization
           Through work and exercise of the will.
  I have tried these three ways one after the other,
          and in each I have achieve results.
  And yet, I do not want to follow one or the other: I want all three." 

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

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Today's Wisdom From Mark Shields/ Neo American Gothic

"Last week we saw a white Catholic male Republican judge murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year-old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean American combat surgeon, and this all was eulogized by our African American President."

Mark Shields, PBS

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Today's Wisdom From Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment between those engaged in the furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality almost impossible to describe.

~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Today's Wisdom From Karen Armstrong

"Music, everyday, confronts us with a form of knowing that does not depend on words."
~Karen Armstrong

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Today's Wisdom From Shakespeare

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." 
~"Hamlet." Shakespeare

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Today's Wisdom from Adyashanti

The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
~Adyashanti

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Today's Wisdom from Maya Angelou

When you get, give. When you learn, teach"
Maya Angelou

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Today's Wisdom from Tenzin Gyatso

"My basic belief is that first you need to realize the usefulness of compassion, that's the key factor. Once you accept the fact that compassion is not something childish or sentimental, once you realize that compassion is something really worthwhile and realize its deeper value, then you immediately develop an attraction towards it, a willingness to cultivate it."

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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Today's Wisdom from Martin Luther King, Jr.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Today's Wisdom from Lao Tzu

"To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day." ~Lao Tzu

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Today's Wisdom from Alice Walker

Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.

~ Alice Walker

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Today's Wisdom from Zenrin

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it. -Zenrin

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Today's Wisdom from Mark Twain

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” ~Mark Twain

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Today's Wisdom from Ho’oponopono

I love you. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. ~ Ho’oponopono practice of reconciliation and forgiveness.

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Today's Wisdom from Crow Dog Man

Every move is a prayer. -Crow Dog man

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