"I just don't want to do or say anything else that's gonna be remotely moronic." Rory Gilmore "I'm afraid once your heart is involved, it all comes out in Moron." Lorelai Gilmore -Gilmore Girls, Season 1, Episode 7.
"The question is not, "Have you moved off your center?" The question is, "How quickly can you regain it?" For many years we have been studying the principles of spiritual truth. Now is the time to put them into practice. When things are going well, it is easy to find Inner Peace. When things seem chaotic, it is harder. The strength we build by claiming divine order when it is utterly unapparent is paramount. Spiritual mastery is gained in times just such as these." - Alan Cohen "When you are secure in who you are, you set the trend for your own life, and do not look to others to tell you how to live. When you know that every truth you seek is available within you, you will not place someone else's idea of how you should live, above your own." - Alan Cohen "We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter." - Denis Diderot "Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, that when they speak truth they are not believed." - Laertius Diogenes
I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else. - James Lee Burke
An oddly unpleasant experience this morning at the eye doctor's office, of all places, made me think of this: Nobody has ever won an argument with a customer. - Bruce Williams
That may be because "The customer is always right." Although, I can kind of disprove that with my personal experience. A customer once accused me of short changing her by £10. I knew I hadn't, and the manager checked the till. I was right, and she was wrong. She didn't get an extra £10, or anything else.
"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury, have always seemed to me contemptible." - Albert Einstein "Truth is what stands the test of experience." - Albert Einstein "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters." - Albert Einstein
"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. - George Eliot "The truth is that in the most profound relationships our deepest fears come up for healing. They come up because we feel safe enough to look at the shadowy aspects of ourselves and begin to integrate them into our awareness." - Paul Ferrini "All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus called it, are moulding your destiny for good or evil; in fact, the truth is that the whole of our life's experience is but the outer expression of inner thought." - Emmet Fox
I've read the New Testament, but I can't recall Jesus calling anything a "Secret Place" except possibly when he enjoined his followers to pray to God in secret, rather than making a public show of it. (Westboro Baptist people, take note.) It's in Matthew 6:6. Am I missing something?
Just checked many versions of the bible. No Jesus reference to a secret place as another name for one's mind or consciousness. Though I found a few in the old testement about a secret place in a person's soul. I theorise Emmet Fox has a non-orthodox spirituality regarding Jesus. Perhaps also, it might be found in the Gnostic bible...I never checked that one as you won't find that version on any mainstream christian site. When I read that quote I simply ignore the Jesus and 'Secret Space' reference as I find it doesn't add to the concept of thoughts dictating one's life.
"Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall!" - John Dickinson, The Liberty Song, 1768 I do so enjoy the highlighted part. "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods, or no God." - Thomas Jefferson, notes on the state of Virginia, 1782.
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody will see it." - Gandhi "Even if you are in a minority of one, the truth is still the truth." - Gandhi "To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself." - Ghandi
"No herd of other beasts, gathered together, has so ugly a voice as Man." -- C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
I believe that's a reference to Aesop's fairy tale of the Four Oxen and The Lion, though a similar phrase shows up in the bible a few times.
"The only thing you need for a bacon sandwich, is more bacon. Add even more Bacon to the Bacon atop the Bacon and boom, baconzilla™" - Best bud from Norway.
And yet, arriving in Puerto Rico is marked by a stunning normalcy. Disembarking is easy. No customs for you. Your money spends here. Your cell phone works. Beautifully. Renting a car is easy. Driving is not. Still, people drive on your side of the road. At night, in a sports bar, you find men and women, semi-circled in front of huge flatscreens, watching an NBA game while arguing Major League Baseball. And French fries are good everywhere you go. It’s not particularly American, but it’s America without any doubt. Welcome to Puerto Rico. You are home. - Tom Chiarella, writing in Golf magazine.
"Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth." - Kahlil Gibran "Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love." - Kahlil Gibran