Resource Inspirational Quotes Thread

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His Face Is Everywhere
MAY THE LORD of Love, who projects himself
Into this universe of myriad forms,
From whom all beings come and to whom all
Return, grant us the grace of wisdom.

He is fire and the sun, and the moon
And the stars. He is the air and the sea,
And the Creator, Prajapati.

He is this boy, he is that girl, he is
This man, he is that woman, and he is
This old man, too, tottering on his staff.
His face is everywhere.

He is the blue bird, he is the green bird
With red eyes; he is the thundercloud,
And he is the seasons and the seas.
He has no beginning, he has no end.
He is the source from which the worlds evolve.

From his divine power comes forth all this
Magical show of name and form, of you
And me, which casts the spell of pain and pleasure.

Only when we pierce through this magic veil
Do we see the One who appears as many.

Two birds of beautiful plumage, comrades
Inseparable, live on the selfsame tree.
One bird eats the fruit of pleasure and pain;
The other looks on without eating.

Forgetting our divine origin,
We become ensnared in the world of change
And bewail our helplessness. But when

We see the Lord of Love in all his glory,
Adored by all, we go beyond sorrow.

What use are the scriptures to anyone
Who knows not the one source from whom they come,
In whom all gods and worlds abide?
Only those who realize him as ever present
Within the heart attain abiding joy.

~~ From the Shvetashvatara Upanishad

 

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"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."
― Kahlil Gibran

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
― Kahlil Gibran

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."
― Kahlil Gibran

"I have found both freedom and safety in my madness;
the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood,
for those who understand us, enslave something in us."
― Kahlil Gibran

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself"
― Khalil Gibran

"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair"
― Khalil Gibran

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind;
yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
― Kahlil Gibran

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
― Kahlil Gibran

"We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side."
― Khalil Gibran

"You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
― Kahlil Gibran

 

[todienomore]

"Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken."

 

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[carac]

I'm not sure this is so much inspirational but I think it's good advice on healing

 

[ToniFoxGirl!!]

There's a few from a band I like that used to help me get through dark times:

I need not find purpose but will it. I do so on a foundation of impossible love.

Something dimly lights my way, violent faith in better days

They don't really help anymore but maybe they'll help someone else

 

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[apearl]

I got one! Its by one of my favorite poets, mary oliver. :) (please give this a read!)


Dogfish (excerpt end of the poem)
Mary Oliver


the dogfish tore open the soft basins of water.

You don't want to hear the story
of my life, and anyway
I don't want to tell it, I want to listen
to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.

And anyway it's the same old story--
a few people just trying,
one way or another,
to survive.

Mostly, I want to be kind.
And nobody, of course, is kind,
or mean,
for a simple reason.

And nobody gets out of it, having to
swim through the fires to stay in
this world.

And look! look! look! I think those little fish
better wake up and dash themselves away
from the hopeless future that is
bulging toward them.

And probably,
if they don't waste time
looking for an easier world,

they can do it.

 

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The Soul has materialized a Body and a Mind in a particular way at a particular time in order to manifest a particular expression of a Singular Reality. We are the living answer to the question,

"What would God do now?"

~ Neale Walsch

 

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Do not love half lovers
Do not entertain half friends
Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death

If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
Do not silence yourself to say something
And do not speak to be silent

If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance

Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes

Half the way will get you no where
Half an idea will bear you no results

Half a life is a life you didn't live,
A word you have not said
A smile you postponed
A love you have not had
A friendship you did not know

The half is a mere moment of inability
but you are able for you are not half a being
You are a whole that exists to live a life
not half a life.

~ Khalil Gibran

 

[LivingForTheMoment]

Freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life or of others, and knowing how to give; sacrifice in the name of love.

- Andrei Tarkovsky

 

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You are perfect as you are, only the mind could invent such silly judgments, Everything, as it Is, is Perfect.

 

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It goes without saying that not each and every case of depression is to be traced back to a feeling of meaninglessness, nor does suicide in which depression sometimes eventu-ates- always result from an existential vacuum. But even if each and every case of suicide had not been undertaken out of a feeling of meaninglessness, it may well be that an individual's impulse to take his life would have been overcome had he been aware of some meaning and purpose worth living for.

If, thus, a strong meaning orientation plays a decisive role in the prevention of suicide, what about intervention in cases in which there is a suicide risk? As a young doctor I spent four years in Austria's largest state hospital where I was in charge of the pavilion in which severely depressed patients were accommodated—most of them having been admitted after a suicide attempt. I once calculated that I must have explored twelve thousand patients during those four years. What accumulated was quite a store of experience from which I still draw whenever I am confronted with someone who is prone fo suicide, I explain to such a person that patients have repeatedly told me how happy they were that the suicide attempt had not been successful; weeks, months, years later, they told me, it turned out that there was a solution to their problem, an answer to their question, a meaning to their life.


"Even if things only take such a good turn in one of a thou sand cases," my explanation continues, "who can guarantee that in your case it will not happen one day, sooner or later?


But in the first place, you have to live to see the day on which it may happen, so you have to survive in order to see that day dawn, and from now on the responsibility for survival does not leave you."

- Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

 

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it is what it is

 

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"Accept every moment as though you had chosen it."
~ Eckhart Tolle, Power of Now

 

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You don't hate yourself.
You hate not being yourself.

 

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