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If the hole we've dug ourselves into is consumerism, it doesn't particularly help that your shovel is green
To change everything -- we need only stop seeing "this moment" and start seeing "the Uplifting Richness of the Universe, expressed as this moment".
Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Come come my conservative friend, wipe the dew from your spectacles. Can't you see the world is moving?
People used to explore the dimensions of reality by taking LSD to make the world look weird. Now the world is weird & they take Prozac to make it look normal
Many people will come in and out of your life that will cause you pain, it is your choice to let them continue
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
" I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."
Routines are made for people who are afraid of change.
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or principle.
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
You cannot change the past in the future, unless you begin in the present.
We are not innocent children victimized by a big bad world; if our world is big and bad, we made it that way. This is what the Buddha taught. The “other” is the child's boogeyman, the projection of our own fears onto a terrifying object of our imagination, which in turn terrorizes us. Our ignorance is not seeing that we are the other. We cannot afford to confuse innocence with this ignorance. Violence is not a permanent, immutable, fixed object. It is a state of mind, an expression of ignorance, with no more solid substance than a cloud. We cannot make a frontal attack on violence. Even protecting ourselves from it fuels its boogeyman existence. But the Buddha taught that we can change. This was his good news: that there is a way to alleviate suffering by freeing our minds from greed, anger, and ignorance. Yet until we apprehend the ways in which we are Oklahoma City, the bombs and the baby bears, the victims and the violators, we will continue to blame “them,” all the while proclaiming our innocence and evading our responsibilities.
The Lord is beyond one frame of reference. The Lord's love is beyond one religion or philosophy. The Lord is beyond religion. One need not subscribe to any particular religion or philosophy to receive The Lord's love and guidance. Something big is coming that will show the world. A simple idea that will change the way humankind perceives and understands The Lord.
Steele Horse
Wind in my hair astride my steed
Ancient memories of great prairies
Abundant with Buffalo
Majestic mountains
Gold grass waving
Freedom in the wind
Over ancient lands
Colors magnificent
Warrior pride
The days of wild ponies a memory
The horse is steel
The spirit lives
The ancestors in the wind call my name.
Marianne Goldweber
Live life for today, tomorrow is never promised, and you cant change the past
We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
sometimes a glance, a few casual words, fragments of a melody
floating through the quiet air of a summer evening, a book
that accidently comes into hands, a poem or memory-
laden fragrance may bring about the impulse
which changes & determines our life.
One person who is able to lift you and inspire you will change your life more than one thousand people who pull you down.
Words: they can't be changed, rewound, or taken back, they make their mark signing into the guestbook of history
