That Is Life. Quotes
The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.
You don't always have to teach the the corrective lesson. Sometimes you can teach the lesson of patience and non-engagement.
Your dream is only possible through a clear intention and patience.
After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself.
We are all tired of the stress.
We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.
Patience, increasing patience, Is all we needTo be victoriousIn the battlefield of life.
He who coordinates his thoughts with his actions controls his own destiny.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Just as we know when we strike a metaphorical nerve with someone, we also know when we tap into what inspires them.
That's the value of the artist... Even when they aren't aware, they're dreaming our dreams for us.
We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.
I dare to dream a dream, for tomorrow I shall make it my reality!
If you teach success, you will taste success!
An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.
Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.
Sometimes love can be both the punishment and the crime.
Work becomes worship when you dedicate it to God and perform it with an awareness of his presence.
We can worship God imperfectly, but we cannot worship him insincerely.
It is not always convenient or comfortable, and sometimes worship is a sheer act of the will--a willing sacrifice.
...small bits of our day are profoundly meaningfulbecause they are the site of our worship. The crucible of our formation is in the monotony of our daily routines.
Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life. He deserves to be at the center of your life.
I needed to decide if I would still worship God if he allowed Matt to lose his eye.
Fear uncovers the impossible, while faith reveals the possible.
When we make the unfamiliar familiar, make the unknown known, make the uncomfortable comfortable, and believe the unbelievable, we can then expect the unexpected.
Maybe every once in a while we can take a break from doing everything faster and quicker to reflect on who we are and where we are going.
The problem with baggage is that it affects other people's trips.
You need to own the treasures you find in your soul.
The road to the heart is not a long, linear path, but this turning. There is no race or competition, just me and God going deeper, carving a canyon to the soul.
Hard work is the engine that produces success. Hard work is success in realization.
The only possible match for someone who doesn't know how to receive is someone who doesn't know how to give.
Values are like a pilot’s flight plan . . . without them you’re flying blind.
How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value.
Evolving and bettering yourself is wonderful, but not if the set of standards and values you adopt smothers you into oblivion in the process.
Believe it or not, you and your enemies want many of the same things and share values.
Be a peacemaker who values peace and takes peace everywhere you go.
Our value is mirrored back to us through success only when we share the treasure we already are.
Love is the compass which keeps every other value from becoming lost.
You will either have value, or be grist for the mill — nothing more.
Violence is rather a strange phenomenon that can be compared to fire, once out of control it’s loyal to no one, not even to the person who started it.
One who has a deaden conscience can never live within the confinements of the law.
It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.
The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.
Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves.
Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone.
Love surrounds, softens and tires violence and force.