| EINSTEIN QUOTES Only a life lived for others is a life worth while . I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious . I want to know God's thoughts... all the rest are details. Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer. No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it . Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds . Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people . Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts . It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge . Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within . Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty . A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others . We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has , of course , powerful muscles , but no personality. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. I want to know God's thoughts... all the rest are details . It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer . The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift . We should take care not to make the intellect our god ; it has , of course , powerful muscles , but no personality . Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people . A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others . the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious ; it is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Only a life lived for others is a life worth while . I have no special gift . I am only passionately curious . Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts . It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge . Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty . Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within . No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it . Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds . Nothing will benefit human health or increase the chances for survival of life on earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet . To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts. A.H.Almaas People are of different spiritual temperaments and therefore will approach God in different ways. Huston Smith "Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity ." Einstein "Lord make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; to be understood, as to understand, to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive- it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in dying that we are born to eternal life." Francis of Assisi "Blessed are those who prefer others before themselves." Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Baha'u'llah, 71 "Hurt not others in ways that youyourself would find hurtful." Udana-Varga, 5:18 "Always treat others as you would like them to treat you." Jesus, Matthew 7:12 "Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you." Analects 15:23 "This is the sum of all duty: do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you." Mahabharata 5:1517 "No one of you is a believer until you desire for another that which you desire for yourself" Sunnah "In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, regard all creatures as you would regard your own self." Lord Mahavir 24th Tirthankara "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor, That is the entire Torah; all the rest is commentary." Talmud, Shabbat 31a "Respect for all life is the foundation" The Great Law of Peace "Be not estranged from another forGod dwells in every heart." Sri Guru Granth Sahib "Human nature is good only when it does not do unto another whatever is no good for its own self." Dadistan-i-Dinik, 94:5 "Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world." Gérard de Nerval, Aurélia, 1855 "What dreaming does is give us the fluidity to enter into other worlds by destroying our sense of knowing this world." Carlos Castaneda "A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish." Unknown Scrawl "There is a Spirit who is awake in our sleep and creates the wonder of dreams. He is Brahman, the Spirit of Light, who in truth is called the Immortal. All the worlds rest on that Spirit and beyond him no one can go." Ancient Celtic Scrawl "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible." T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) I am a holder of the paleolithic work ethic... hunt and gather what you need to feed and shelter your people: 2-3 hours a day...Then hang out and tell stories, make art, dream, roll in the hay with your partners, and live in the blazingly bright natural world. Steve Self Nothing will benefit human health or increase the chances for survival of life on earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet . Albert Einstein The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. Albert Einstein Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not easy. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious ; it is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Albert Einstein Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of following my fancies as a butterfly, and was unconscious of my individuality as a man. Suddenly I awoke, and there I lay, myself again.. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming that I am a man. Chuang-Tzu, 3rd century BC I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. George Bernard Shaw The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. Richard Moss, M.D. Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be, the man who thinks, becomes a light and a power. Henry George 1839-1897 Why must people Places & Things jepordize our creativity plus upset the balance of our nature. I hate the feeling of resentment involved and the guilt trip I put on myself about that resentment. WAH! WAH! WAH! --- It's so hard to get ON with all that shit in my head. What I really need is an insignificant other. Someone that's not figuring me out so I don't have to go figure what they figured. It's like cat and mouse. Kitty eats mouse and gets worms over and over and over. Kitty has no guilt and I have to clear up the damned worms - so! Bad Example! Where was I going with this? NOT THERE! Don't make me..... |
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