Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go out and do it.

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Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go out and do it.

Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Thurman

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. Some are ready to change and others are not.

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't.It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. James Gordon.

We are all recovering, all the time, from something or someone!

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We  are all recovering, all the time, from something or someone!!

Love  R R  June 2013

“For a positive outlook,

Keep your heart & mind open to happiness.

Practice makes perfect.”

We are the Creators of our World

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Aridi Fractal 1X008

We blame others for our sorrows and misfortunes, not perceiving that we ourselves are the creators of our world.
 Bowl of Saki, June 6, 2013 by Hazrat Inayat Khan
. Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
 Externally we are a single being, but internally we are a world. As vast as is the world around us, so vast is the world within. Asif says, 'The limitation of the sky and land cannot be compared with man's heart. If man's heart be wide, there is nothing wider than this.' All can be accommodated in it; heaven earth, sun, moon, all are reflected in it. It becomes itself the whole. This world becomes as one chooses to make it. If man only knew that! But since he does not know that, the world is not heaven, but has become its opposite. We blame others for our sorrows and misfortunes, not perceiving that we ourselves are the creators of our world; that our world has an influence upon our life within as well as upon our life without. http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VII/VII_17.htm

The world is a magical place full of people waiting to be offended by something

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Attitude is the principle thing in life.

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Attitude is the principle thing in life. It is not the conditions in life which change life for us, but mostly it is our * attitude toward life and its conditions * upon which depends our happiness or unhappiness.  ~ Bowl of Saki, June 3, 2013, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

The Journey is the Destination

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Who knows where life will take you, the road is long & in the end the journey is the destination.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.

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Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.

Norman Vincent Peale

Truth and Perceived Truth

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Obviously "truth" is meaningless to some people. They would rather blame someone, some thing, some time or some place: anything other than themselves. I have been the recipient of this all my life. And there is nothing I can do about it
but live my life "to the best of my ability." 

Dear God please show me The Way.

TRUTH

"I agree with you about truths and perceived truths, just like with our estrangements.  Everyone experiences things in their own way, and then their perceptions and misconceptions become their reality. And that's why it's so hard for any resolutions or reconciliations to occur (especially long term) and especially without professional help, courts of law, etc.

P.M. / K.A. 

"positive reassurances aren't so helpful, if they are part of mixed messages."

Truth and Perceived Truth

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Obviously "truth" is meaningless to some people. They would rather blame someone, something, some time or some place: anything other than themselves. I have been the recipient of this all my life. And there is nothing I can do about it
but live my life "to the best of my ability." 

Dear God please show me The Way.

TRUTH

"I agree with you about truths and perceived truths, just like with our estrangements.  Everyone experiences things in their own way, and then their perceptions and misconceptions become their reality. And that's why it's so hard for any resolutions or reconciliations to occur (especially long term) and especially without professional help, courts of law, etc.

P.M. / K.A. 

"positive reassurances aren't so helpful, if they are part of mixed messages."

How to live magnificently in this world

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One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love. ~ Leo Tolstoy

 

I don't know how to do either, but it's good to read it here.

Maybe that day will come even for people like me. ~ CT

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.  Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Desiderata by Max Ehrmann 1927

Desiderata by Max Ehrmann 1927 (v2)

Desiderata by Max Ehrmann 1927, text & info

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Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be critical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.              

 ~  Max Ehrmann 1927 


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wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderata

Desiderata (Latin: "desired things") is a 1927 prose poem by American writer Max Ehrmann. Largely unknown in the author's lifetime, the text became widely known after its use in a devotional, subsequently being found at Adlai Stevenson's deathbed in 1965, and after spoken-word recordings in 1971 and 1972. ... 


American writer Max Ehrmann (1872–1945) wrote the prose poem Desiderata in 1927.^[1] In 1956, the Reverend Frederick Kates, rector of Saint Paul's Church in Baltimore, Maryland, included Desiderata in a compilation of devotional materials for his congregation. The compilation included the church's foundation date: "Old Saint Paul's Church, Baltimore A.D. 1692." Consequently, the date of the text's authorship was (and still is) widely mistaken as 1692, the year of the church's foundation.^[1][2]

When Adlai Stevenson died in 1965, a guest in his home found the Desiderata near his bedside and discovered that Stevenson had planned to use it in his Christmas cards. Subsequently, the poem became widely known.^[1]

The text was widely distributed in poster form. Calling it “Spock Thoughts”, Leonard Nimoy recited the poem on his 1967 album, “Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock’s Music from Outer Space”. His rendition is not the only one to change the 2nd to last sentence from “Be Cheerful” to “Be Careful”.

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(fix other posts to reflect "cheerful" instead of "careful?" I like "careful," actually.

Mask, by Margaret Anne Keller

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"Mask" At heart I am a stricken thing--you would not think so, would you? And if you looked for such deceit--you could not find it, could you? For I have clothed my heart in mirth with brilliant colors flying. But deep inside my funny heart, a little child is crying. ~ Margaret Anne Keller

Now I lay me down to sleep

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Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. Lord be with me through the night and keep me 'till the morning light. Classic children's prayer from the 18th century (1700's)

True Affluence is having what you need and knowing the difference

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True Affluence is having what you need and knowing the difference between want and need. ~ Catherine Todd

True Affluence is Not Needing Anything

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"True Affluence is Not Needing Anything" ~ Gary Snyder

#2: "True affluence is having everything you need, and knowing the difference between want and need." ~ Catherine Todd

See more wonderful quotes at Gratefulness.org 

A bird does not sing because she has an answer. She sings because she has a Song.

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A bird does not sing because she has an answer. She sings because she has a song. ~ Chinese proverb.

Seeking Love, by Rumi

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~ Rumi

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Posting Poems, Sayings, Prayers (transferred from EstrangedStories.com)

I have received many beautiful sayings and quotes from people on EstrangedStories.com and am now collecting and posting them here. Send more anytime, and please: Enjoy! 21 April 2013