Speaking truth by Jesa MacBeth/The Art of Giving by Wilfred A. Peterson/Inspiring life quotes by Paul Bowles,J W Goethe/ Inspiring love and goodness quotes by Rumi,Carl Jung,Andras Angyal,Buddha,John O'Donohue

Quotes on life,Gratitude,Mindfulness,Serenity



Music:
Feelings - FRANCIS GOYA



Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think
of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens
a certain number of times, and a very small number, really.
How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon
of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part
of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life
without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not
even that. How many more times will you watch the full
moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
By Paul Bowles

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter.
Who would think that those branches would turn green
again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Quotes On love and goodness

Fine Art by Roi James

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests
as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit
hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways
with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern
for all beings.
Buddha


If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own
natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand
and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy
and a little more tolerance toward oneself can only have good
results in respect for our neighbors, for we are all too prone
to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict
upon our own natures.
Carl Gustav Jung

Love is not 'blind' but visionary:
It sees into the very heart of its object
And sees the 'real self' behind and in the midst
Of the frailties and shortcomings of the person.
Andras Angyal

Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding
is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home.
Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel
understood, you feel free to release yourself into
the trust and shelter of the other person's soul.
John O'Donohue

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.
Rumi

SPEAKING TRUTH
By Jesa MacBeth


It is possible to speak truth in anger.
When so done, people tend to hear the anger and not the truth.

It is possible to speak truth in arrogance.
When so done, people tend to hear the arrogance
and not the truth.

It is possible to speak truth in deceitful ways.
When so done, people tend to sense the deceit
and take the truth for more deceit.

It is possible to speak truth in loving kindness.
When so done, people tend to hear the love and the truth.
Or so it seems in my experience.

The Art of Giving
by Wilfred A. Peterson



We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart:
Love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy,
tolerance, forgiveness.

We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the mind:
Ideas, dreams, purposes, ideals, principles,
plans, projects, poetry.

We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the spirit:
Prayer, vision, beauty, aspiration, peace, faith.

We give of ourselves when we give the gift of words:
Encouragement, inspiration, guidance.

Emerson said it well:
"Rings and jewels are not gifts,
but apologies for gifts.
The only true gift is a portion of thyself."

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