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Friday, January 31, 2025

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you. - Robert Anton Wilson You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances, but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself. - Joy Page We can never obtain peace in the outer... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. - Confucius As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. - Henry David Thoreau If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Trust in the Light. Darkness is not a force - it is merely the absence of light. Observe that the darkness disappears when a light is brought to a dark place. Sadness is similar - when joy is brought to suffering, the sadness disappears. Open yourself to the Light! Hold back nothing. All the world's... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Your mother really did know the secret to a better world: "Play nicely together. Don't fight." Compromise is the worst way to address human differences, except for all the others. (modeled on Churchill's quote, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.") The alternative... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, January 27, 2025

Truly, I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. - Jesus (Matthew 25:40) Do to others as you would have them do to you. - Luke 6:31 (the "Golden Rule") Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Henri de Lubac Life is defined more by its risks than by its samenesses. - Mary Anne Radmacher Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D.... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, January 25, 2025

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. - William James Change your thoughts, and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale Attitude is Everything. - Charles Swindoll Whatever happens to you, your attitude determines the quality... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, January 24, 2025

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear,... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 23, 2025

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.- Bodhidharma He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.- Lao Tzu Find out what you don't want to know about yourself, what you're afraid of. - Linda Evans How strange that, although we dwell within ourselves, we... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. - Arthur Schopenhauer Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made. - Darren L. Johnson I can do nothing but be reverent before everything called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is... Sign in to see full entry.

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