Al David Quotes
The Christian life doesn't work because we are such great followers. It works because Christ is such a great Leader.
Meditation is a spiritual human activity like mourning, fasting, or praying, and is not limited to one religious group while remaining unavailable to others. (103)
When we create an environment where our spirit is in sync with the Divine Spirit, then we should be on the lookout for good, positive, helpful thoughts and ideas from a source beyond ourselves. p23.
Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.
It’s fairly simple. When can we pray? All the time. When should we praise God? Whenever we pray.
Our vision of the heavenly realm...can sustain us through the most difficult of days and circumstances. It births hope amidst hardship and nurtures faith amidst opposition.
You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
Human beings are not made to take shortcuts, ... You're to live your life, moment by moment. Your life isn't here to entertain you - it's to be lived.
As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.
One never knows when one is going to get ambushed into learning something.
Simply put: Epistemic games recreate in game form the things that people do in the real world to learn to think in innovative and creative ways about problems that matter.
If you do not learn to think today, tomorrow someone else will do and will wangle you.THE WOMAN THAT USED TO PLAY HIDE AND SEEK, a story by David Cotos.
Arrogance and a teachable spirit are mutually exclusive.
When we leave this life, we only get to take two things: the love we received and the lessons we learned.
Life is a learning experience and this is a very peaceful method of accepting the reality you face…”What will I learn?
Meditation provides the tools not only to abide more comfortably in the present, but also to observe rather than engage with unhappiness-creating thoughts.
Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit, " said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.
Why that was the stars, my little ones, ' growled Kar, lifting his proud eyes to the endless heavens. 'For in the beginning, there was light.
It is the photographing of ordinary things, in extraordinary light, that produces extraordinary photographs.
Now she’s lit by the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night
...in that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light...
It was a mistake, " you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
Trust, like the lubricant in an engine, is noticed only when it is gone and the motor has seized up.
You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.
Every relationship is governed by motive, capability and reliability and these three factors become the core components of the trust equation
Trust is an ethereal quality. Like oxygen or light we notice it only by its absence.
We trust strangers not because they are always trustworthy but because we want to believe in a world where they are.
A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?
Life at the edge of the world, it was felt, could go on forever.
The presence of Knowledge Based Trust in organizations gives rise to a high level of interpersonal trust amongst their members and creates cohesive units out of a loose bunch of people.
When something is as fundamental as trust the danger is that everyone thinks they understand what it is and therefore fail to define it.
Trust is what monetizes the attention economy.
Be cohesive in your dealings. Trust built on and from mutual support, facilitating communication and encouraging coordination can be rewarding.
Trust those you love, and that love you in return, " she said. "It will hurt more if they betray you, but at least you'll still know joy." - Zusa
Marketing effectively, in a semantic web, revolves around those three ‘little’ requirements: Trust, Authority, Reputation.
... if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.
Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.
People who are unwilling to talk about deep personal issues do not trust their own emotions.
The strange part about a person’s lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves.
We are hard-wired to engage with those we trust, and this hard-wiring has led to a constant push for greater interaction and connection on the Web.
There are two ways of thinking. One is living life based on fear. The other is trusting. Letting go and allowing trust to control our lives takes mental gymnastics.
Jealousy has less to do with how a person feels towards you and more to do with how he feels about himeself. It is an unhealthy emotion rooted in insecurity.