empowerment & inner transformation…
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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in... Continue Reading →
"Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old." - Ralph Waldo Emerson *** "It is not length of life, but depth of life." -... Continue Reading →
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. - Benjamin Franklin (Amazing that Nichiren Daishonin said something very similar to this. I will try to find the exact statement but need time and I will re-post this quote when I find it.)
"True love should be transformative, a process that amplifies our capacity to cherish not just one person but all people. It can make us stronger, lift us higher and deepen us as individuals. Only to the extent that one polishes oneself now can one hope to develop wonderful bonds of the heart in the future."... Continue Reading →
“We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the... Continue Reading →
“The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight.” — Michael Lind, To Have... Continue Reading →
“You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” - C.S. Lewis Don't ask me why but for some strange reason this quote always makes me think of this quote: When you devote yourself to achieving your goal, you will not be bothered by shallow criticism. Nothing important can be accomplished... Continue Reading →
“Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.” - Unknown (but I believe this quote is from a song by a band called Reed).
Daisaku Ikeda from June 18th World Tribune January 19th Address Excerpts: Many of you here may fondly remember the novel I Am a Cat by the Japanese author Soseki Natsume. For a change of pace, let me talk a little about it. […] We also find this passage in Soseki’s novel: “All studies undertaken by... Continue Reading →
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes." [.] "What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life." [.] "Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search... Continue Reading →
Mr. Toda once said to a young woman, "If you aren't going to create happiness in the place were your are now, where else are you going to find it?" We must develop inner strength. We need to transform ourselves and become people who aren't defeated by life's struggles. The English poet John Milton wrote,... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 