In the business world, the rear view mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
They that know no evil will suspect none
You see behind the masks and beneath the fears to the beauty within every heart.
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second.
There is a voice within which occasionally gets our attention and tries to remind us of how good and beautiful we are. It calls us from a time long ago when we first arrived for our journey in and through time and space. Those first moments were filled with pure joy, pure play, pure adventure. Whenever you meet someone today with a pure, innocent and trusting heart let them remind you of yourself during those first early years. They invoke the purity of your own heart, and invite you to be innocent again. It also shows you one of the greatest keys to real relaxation. It is the truth that we are all pure in heart...forever. It is only what we accumulate and learn from the world around us that blocks and clogs our heart. All evil is learned and can be unlearned. All depression is the result of the illusion that we have lost something, when in truth, we cannot lose what is of true value to us, the eternal qualities of our own spirit, our own self. In a quiet moment today, listen for your hearts call. It will tell you everything is really fine, there is no need to struggle, and that you are beautiful just as you are...and you will be again!
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, its what you are expected to give -- which is everything.
If I recognise that whatever is happening in the great drama of life is beneficial, then my courage will never fail.
Russia is no longer our enemy and therefore we shouldn't be locked into a Cold War mentality that says we keep the peace by blowing each other up. In my attitude, that's old, that's tired, that's stale
