Bilbo the Rover Posted January 15, 2008 Author Share Posted January 15, 2008 Any thought provoking quote of a spiritual nature is always welcome here Legacy ! Thank you ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarlaxle 56 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.- Lewis Carroll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilot of the Storm Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’99 If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience…I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked….You’re not as fat as you imagine. Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday. Do one thing everyday that scares you Sing Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours. Floss. Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself. Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements. Stretch Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t. Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone. Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children,maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. Enjoy your body, use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.. Dance…even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room. Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them. Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly. Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel. Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders. Respect your elders. Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out. Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85. Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth. But trust me on the sunscreen… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted January 15, 2008 Author Share Posted January 15, 2008 ^^ Thanks Gents ! Two wonderful additions ! Pilot, what a priceless nugget of wisdom ! I love it ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idunn Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! ~ Wordsworth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted January 15, 2008 Author Share Posted January 15, 2008 Beautiful Idunn, kinda reminds me of a quote that goes something like " In birth we lose the knowledge of a heavenly existence, and thus die, in death we return to oneness with all things, and are thus reborn." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzyMerkin Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 ... I am the day I am the light and that is why I got things to do in the morning and work to do at noon I have to go with the wind and the water to push open windows throw open doors to break down walls and illuminate all the corners I may not remain here we will meet again later tomorrow we'll see each other today I got many battles to win today I got many shadows to fight and extinguish today I cannot be with you I got to fulfill my obligation as light to come and go in the streets in houses and in people to destroy the darkness I need to spread myself until everything will be day until everything will be clarity and happiness on earth Pablo Neruda - Ode to Clarity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idunn Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Beautiful Idunn, kinda reminds me of a quote that goes something like " In birth we lose the knowledge of a heavenly existence, and thus die, in death we return to oneness with all things, and are thus reborn." Yes, same idea. Wordsworth didn't believe we lost the knowledge at birth, though. He believed that children know their spiritual origins intimately, but that life and our assigned roles in life (the part we are forced to play) draws us farther and farther from that divine knowing the older we get. He also believed that intimate connection to our "home" remains in nature, and that nature stimulates a "remembering" even in the adult (though it often isn't recognized for what it is, by then). O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 "While I was young, when I burned with the love of God, I thought I would convert the whole world to God. But soon I realized that it would be more than enough to convert the people who lived in my town, and I made an effort for a long time, but was not successful. Then I realized that my agenda was still too ambitious, and I focused on the people in my household. But I could not convert them either. Finally I realized: I must work on myself, if I’m really going to have something to offer God. But I didn’t even accomplish this." - Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idunn Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Remind yourself constantly of all the physicians, now dead, who used to knit their brows over their ailing patients; of all the astrologers who so silently predicted their client’s doom, the great commanders who slew their thousands, as if they themselves were gods who could never die. Recall one by one each of your acquaintances; how one buried another, only to be laid low himself and buried in turn by a third, and all in so brief a span of time. Observe, in short, how transient and trivial is all mortal life; yesterday a drop of semen, tomorrow a handful of ashes.” ~Marcus Aurelius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 Remind yourself constantly of all the physicians, now dead, who used to knit their brows over their ailing patients; of all the astrologers who so silently predicted their client’s doom, the great commanders who slew their thousands, as if they themselves were gods who could never die. Recall one by one each of your acquaintances; how one buried another, only to be laid low himself and buried in turn by a third, and all in so brief a span of time. Observe, in short, how transient and trivial is all mortal life; yesterday a drop of semen, tomorrow a handful of ashes.” ~Marcus Aurelius A great quote, wonderful addition "I", keep 'em coming ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 "I live my life in growing rings which move out over the things around me. Perhaps I'll never complete the last, but that's what I mean to try. I'm circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I've been circling thousands years; and I still don't know: am I a falcon, a storm or a great song." (My favorite from Rainer Maria Rilke ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOJO Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 No matter how much I protest, I am totally responsible for everything that happens to me in my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOJO Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 The universe supports the reality of your beliefs absolutely. When you believe you must struggle for abundance, then it will bring about situations that are conducive to struggle; when you believe you cannot experience love without pain, the universe will give you exactly that - love with pain; when you believe it takes time for an illness to heal - then so it will. There is not a single force opposing you, there is only ONE force supporting you absolutely. It is called LOVE, the force that birthed you, that created you in its own image. This love is so magnanimous it will give you exactly and absolutely whatever it is that your reality entails. Change your beliefs and you change your reality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idunn Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Disillusioned words like bullets bark As human gods aim for their mark Made everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without looking too far That not much Is really sacred. ~Bob Dylan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 ^^ What great additions ! the great thing about this thread is that we can come together and share these thought provoking tidbits, I've leaned so much since I started this thread ...Thanks again to both of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idunn Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 I've only been on this forum a short while, Bilbo , but I've really come to love this thread as well. I appreciate having a space where I'm free to meditate on what has been posted, rather than feel compelled to comment on what is being posted. Forces a certain inner silence within me that is oft times lacking. Very often here, I jump to comment on something, and it's as though a sage is standing over me with a stick... ::whack:: strive to be still! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 "Everything on earth is beautiful, everything, except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity." -Anton Chekhov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattmc1973 Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 I keep coming back to Abe Lincoln, because he was so thoughtful and eloquent... "Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattmc1973 Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." Abraham Lincoln "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." Abraham Lincoln Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 Fitting given the times we're living in...a little peace would be nice. We can only do our best to spread peace, and hope.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 " The wonder of the world , the beauty and the power, the shapes of things, their color, lights and shades, these I saw. Look ye also while life lasts." - Gravestone Inscription, Cumberland, England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo the Rover Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 "The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed." - Jiddu Krishnamurti "The ultimate aim of the quest . . . must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but wisdom and power to serve others." - Joseph Campbell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idunn Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. ~Hermann Hesse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59LesPaul Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 " Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?" - Mary Sarton Because sometimes it is a strength. Feelings can be exploited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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