Early Morning Thoughts! – Part XLI

Dear Friends

Part XLI – Some early morning thoughts:

The Absolute is indefinable, nameless, formless, wordless, soundless, although when it comes into expression it is known by different Names!

. In truth we are not earthly beings we are cosmic beings: all we have to do is to examine carefully our physical, mental and spiritual makeup!

. Every beauty seen here by perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come! – Michelangelo

. Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game! – Goethe

. If you want to build a ship don’t herd people to collect wood or assign tasks, teach them to long for the Sea’s endless immensity! – Antoine de St Exupéry

. We are made of star stuff. Most atoms heavier than hydrogen were created in interiors of stars and expelled into space. – Carl Sagan

. God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars! – Martin Luther, German Reformist

. Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music! – George Carlin

. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment! – Buddha

. To see a World in a grain of sand, and a Heaven in a wild flower, hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour! – William Blake

. Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued is always just beyond our grasp but if we will sit down quietly may alight upon us! – Nathaniel Hawthorne

. Masterly Inactivity: One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say! – Will Durant

. To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement. – Bertrand Russell

. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe! – Albert Einstein

. I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section?’ She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose! – George Carlin

. Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed! – Blaise Pascal

. There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. – John Astin

. Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different after they are expressed, a little distorted…foolish! – Hermann Hesse

. There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity! – Rod Sterling

. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence! – Carl Sagan

. I’m only a 4D creature. Haven’t got a clue how to visualise infinity. Even Einstein hadn’t. I know because I asked him! – Sir Patrick Moore

. You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering! – Henri-Frédéric Amiel

. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope! – Dr Martin Luther King, Jr

. Some people see things that are and ask Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask Why not? Others have to go to work! – George Carlin

. The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time! – Friedrich Nietzsche

. Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be! – Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

. Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing! – Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

. The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for! – Dr A K Chalmers, They Shall Be Free

. Everyone is precious in the cosmic perspective. If one disagrees with you, let him live. In a 100bn galaxies we will not find another! – Carl Sagan

. We must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty! – Mahatma Gandhi

. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure! – Napoleon Hill

. An individual’s not started living until he can rise above narrow confines of individual concerns to broader concerns of all humanity. – Dr Martin Luther King, Jr

. Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. – Arthur Rubinstein

. Noble Path: Right View.Right Thought.Right Speech.Right Behaviour.Right Livelihood.Right Effort.Right Mindfulness.Right Concentration. – Buddha

. Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire, uttered or unexpressed; the motion of a hidden fire that trembles in the breast. – Viscount Montgomery

. I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had absolutely no other place to go. – Abraham Lincoln

. The child is father of the man: and I could wish my days to be bound, each to each by natural piety. – William Wordsworth

. Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill! – Buddha

. One of the paradoxes of creativity: in order to think originally, we must familiarise ourselves with the ideas of others! – George Kneller

. The first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he’s in the right! – Cato

. Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts! – Margaret Lee Runbeck

. See how nature trees flowers grass grow in silence; see stars moon sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to touch souls. – Mother Teresa

. It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence! – Seneca

. Silence is the language of God all else is poor translation! – Rumi

[ENDS]

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