Friday, October 10, 2008


Even though you may mean well, the tone of your voice conveys more effect than the words you speak.


Think about this: Sometimes our love is a cover-up of our hate.


Isn’t it interesting: Dense, unenlightened people brag about their simplistic notions, equate elitism with intelligence, are confident that they are the only ones who have the truth, and yet are unknowingly grounded in ignorance?


Are you angry with your spouse? Maybe it’s because you are really angry with yourself.

Never make an important decision while you’re in a bad mood. Moods are transient and temporary. Don’t take this lightly, now. For many people this is a hard lesson to learn.


There is too much false interpretation of the invitation by many psychologists to accept ourselves. Yes, we must accept ourselves, but don’t use that as an excuse to not change ourselves.


Many people who are often offended by others have already offended themselves.


Don’t you think it’s about time to get rid of all those compulsions and hang-ups that have been stalking you and governing your life for so many years?


Death is not the ultimate evil although evil ones are deluded into thinking it is. No, the ultimate evil is the failure to love.


The most accomplished and the most applauded are not always the wisest and best.


It is far more important to genuinely love a person than it is to solve a problem.


I have learned by sad experience that education and learning, books and prolific readings, university degrees and certificates, accomplishment and honors, talent and applause, high I.Q and knowledge, position and power, notoriety and fame – none of them individually or in the aggregate, lead to happiness. Nor do they lead to assurance! All of them – every single one and all – eventually leave us and become but a vague memory, and we stand alone only with who we are.


The time in which we walk up and down in the earth is a gift of life to us. The legacy we leave behind is our gift to the gift. And thus one of our purposes in life is to be a giver of gifts.


Sometimes, when in solemn hours we nurse our sadness because we think others whom we love has let us down, it may in actual fact be because we have let ourselves down.


If we have learned to love others, but not ourselves, we have still not learned to love.

1 comment:

Lynette said...

Cool picture of pinecones. We might also add the highest paid to that list of people who are not the wisest or best. In fact, many of the highest paid, i.e. movie stars and sports figures, are sometimes among the least wise or good.