A bad memory can be a good companion
A bird only stays aloft through the power of its own wings
A dream can sustain you through a lifetime of realities.
A gardener has to learn to let go of the flower. If he holds it too tight he crushes it
A gathering of like minds will rarely produce new ideas
A good general fights for peace, not for victory
A good heart is better than a good mind.
A heart full of love is better than a bank account full of money
A little mischief may lead to a lot of trouble
A little time spent harmonising with your soul and the energies of Spirit is better than none at all
A man bent on comparison will never straighten out his life.
A man who knows how little he knows is well. A man who knows how much he knows is sick
A man who seeks strength for power exhausts himself. A man who seeks strength to serve has the power of the universe
A man with outward courage dares to die. A man with inward courage dares to live
A multitude of laws breeds a multitude of thieves
A positive attitude sees opportunities not obligations.
A relationship should warm you not burn you.
A relationship which starts in dependency will end in resentment
A river cannot flow without a fall
A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing that nothing is lost
A true master knows that he isn't
A willing horse will always be saddled
A wise man makes more opportunities than he finds.
A wise man puts aside 10% of what he earns and 90% of the free advice.
Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together; but do so with all your heart.
Advice is something the wise don't need and fools won't take.
Almost perfect is better than almost never.
Always a choice, always a voice.
Always being right is a state of being wrong
An agenda moves you from awareness to intention.
An apprentice hacking with the master's axe may slice his own hand
An exchange of differences is more interesting than an exchange of similarities
As want can reward you, so wealth can bewilder
As you sow, so shall you reap
Aspire to the highest within yourself - accept nothing less
Attunement is the blending of two willing energies
Awareness colours perspective.
Be at one with all living things which, having arisen and flourished, return to the quiet from whence they came
Be careful of the "i" when loving with turns into living with
Believe not all you hear and tell not all you believe.
Better a half forgotten dream than a long remembered nightmare.
Better conceived in inspiration than contrived in desperation
Better to display dignified ignorance than to demonstrate foolish stupidity
Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.
Big problems are best faced while they are still simple
Care, be fair and be humble and you are close to the core of life
Celebrate difference, not indifference
Change is inevitable. Resisting change will inevitably exhaust you.
Change is the seedbed of progress
Changing what is without is easier than changing what is within
Clever performances come dear or cheap, goodness comes free
Contentment drowns in a sea of expectation.
Copying others should not be an end in itself, or it will end you self
Curb your tongue and your senses and you are beyond trouble; let then loose and you are beyond help
Dark clouds are sunbeam makers
Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.
Development has a natural sequence.
Do common things uncommonly well.
Do not ask for guidance if you are not willing to move your feet.
Do you add to someone's burden or lighten it?
Do you experience life through what you feel or what you think?
Do you give a hug or share one? Go the whole hug!
Do you lift someone up or put someone down?
Do you listen or wait to speak?
Do you seek how to help others be better, or how to be better than them?
Do you work tirelessly or tire worklessly?
Do your biggest smiles come from your thoughts or your feelings?
Do your dreams shape your realities? Or do your realities shape your dreams?
Does the best teacher share his own life force with his students? Or enable them to find their own?
Don't beat yourself up, be upbeat about yourself
Don't put corks in bottles; the feelings that can't hurt you are the ones you let go
Each man has his own true morality. No two men have the same true morality.
Earthly life is a series of opportunities, don't miss any episodes
Earthly life is Spirit "doing time"
Embrace change and your life will be filled with adventures and rewards. Resist change and you will exhaust yourself fighting battles you can never win.
Emptied you can hold, torn you can mend
Enjoyment and obsession make uncomfortable bedfellows
Enlightenment is the realisation of the divine within
Enthusiasm makes the ordinary extraordinary.
Eternity is his who goes straight round the circle
Even if you have nothing you can still share a smile
Every lesson in life has something of value
Every light casts its own shadow.
Everyone has a story, but many have no listeners
Existence is the course of many rivers flowing into the same sea
Experience is the darkness which brightens our light.
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
Extraordinary acts are done from the heart. Extraordinary lives are lived with love.
False teachers of life use flowery words - look for the root below the tapering
Family are those you carry in your heart, not those you carry on your back……
Feeling good is the bottom line
Following instructions is easier than following your heart, but less fulfilling
Force may win the day but lose the destination
Friendship is a searchlight which shines bright through the fog of insecurity.
Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
Give a man praise he'll remember your for days. Give a man dignity and he'll remember you in eternity.
God is more likely to talk to you if He knows you are listening
Goodness can only grow in the soil of humility
Gratitude is attitude of mind, ingratitude is slack of mind
Grief is when our Earthly heartstrings are stretched beyond our Earthly reach.
Growth requires a transfer of energy - get moving!
Growth requires movement
Hands that seek to give are never empty. Hands that seek to take are never full.
Happiness depends on what you can give, not what you can get.
Happiness is an inside job
Happiness is the aspect not the subject
Harmony is chaos taking a breather.
He who dies rich has missed many opportunities.
He who looks outside, dreams. He who looks inside, awakens.
He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Hidden rewards are his who hides not his destination.
High hopes and low self esteem are not a matching pair
Hope has a tracking device on your soul
Hope is a kite that seeks its own wind.
How hard is it to speak a few kind words?
How often do your thoughts consider your feelings?
However finished it may seem, your work continues as long as you live
I'd rather be driven mad, than driven sad
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
If a memory is still painful, you haven't learned its lesson.
If love tugs, you are holding the rope too hard
If the view from your window is grim, try standing on the outside looking in
If there is no warmth in your heart, others will not gather round you to warm themselves.
If you always enjoy your dreams disappointment will always come too late.
If you always enjoy your dreams reality can never hurt you.
If you always sow the same seeds, you always get the same crops.
If you are not stretched how will you become bigger?
If you believe in yourself, you have no need of praise
If you can find what you have in common with others, you have an uncommon ability
If you do not celebrate your achievements, how can you encourage others to celebrate theirs?
If you do not clip your tongue, someone may clip your ears
If you don't understand the "why", you'll soon tire of the journey.
If you expect things to happen they probably will
If you feel like getting even, odds are you'll overdo it.
If you find another person interesting, you spend time with them and try to get to know them better. How interesting must God be? Yet how many of us spend time with Him to get to know Him better?
If you have an opinion on everything you have stopped listening
If you have to shout to promote your religion, it is not speaking for itself.
If you jump off a cliff, you'll find out how far you are from reality
If you let others lead, you may end up somewhere you don't want to be
If you never assume importance you never lose it
If you ride a tiger you can never get off
If you run out of ideas, try walking
If you say yes too soon, you may have to say no
If you teach your students your wisdom - it is still yours and it will fade. If you help them find their own wisdom, it will be theirs forever.
If you wish to display your authenticity - don't seek with others to have complicity
If you wish to trade with God, you must first open an account and make a deposit
If your way appears to be the only way, you're not listening
If you're not receiving enough love, you may not be giving enough either
If you're waiting for success, you'd better be patient
If you’ve taken for granted, you've taken too much.
Ignorance is an opportunity not a state of bliss.
Ignorance is the gateway to understanding
I'm the difference between possible and impossible
Imagination is the lifeblood of genius.
Important things in your life need calculators, things you need can be counted on one hand.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king
In true spiritualism you reach the people, you don't preach the people
Inspiration succeeds. Intimidation succumbs.
Intention without action is only a dream.
Interesting people attract attention. Interested people attract appreciation.
Is contentment having more or needing less?
Is it more important to seek the answers - or ponder the question?
Is your life about what you want, or what you feel?
It is better to be fired up with enthusiasm than consumed by the flames of hatred
It is better to be the one who opens a book, than the one who closes it
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
It is better to seize an opportunity than be seized by an obligation.
It is easier to change how you look at something, rather than changing the things you look at
It is easier to follow your inspiration than to follow your heart. It is easier to follow your heart than to lead from your soul.
It is not what we plan but what we do that counts.
It is sensible to make terms, foolish to be a stickler
It's not the answers which are important - it is the questions.
It's what you do with your life that matters, not the manner of your passing
Keeping a confidence builds bridges, breaking a confidence destroys them
Kind words cost little but accomplish much.
Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known
Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life.
Learn to listen, then listen to learn.
Let reality catch up with your dreams.
Life is but a passing story, soul development a journey to glory
Life is made up of many moments, some peaceful, some full of strife.
Life on its way returns into a mist its quickness is its quietness again
Like attracts like, yet opposites also attract
Listen with the ears of Spirit. It's whispers will be the loudest voice you will ever hear
Listening and hearing are not the same
Listening with your ears you can hear what is said. Listening with your heart you can hear what is not.
Look for faults and you will surely find them
Losing what you are worth is better than losing your self worth
Love for all you're worth…..then take out an overdraft
Love is defined by the pain caused when it is threatened. Love is strengthened by the efforts made to overcome the pain
Loving others is easy, loving yourself is not
Marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Men have sight. Women have insight.
Men who have hardened are kin of death. Men who stay gentle are kin of life
Money that comes without effort leaves without satisfaction.
Most miracles are performed by an individual with a big heart and a caring spirit.
Motives are everything
No God, no peace. Know God, know peace.
No man enriches himself without enriching others.
No one is so empty they cannot fill another with hope
Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.
Occupy your mind or someone else may
One moment of patience may ward off a great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
Open hearts rarely live with closed minds
Open rebuke is better than secret hatred.
Open wounds heal faster than closed ones
Others may help you find your path, but you must walk it
Pain is the best teacher and love the best paymaster
Participation is more rewarding than anticipation
Passion should make you want to get out of bed as well as into it.
Peace does not seek to still the ripples on the pond, it celebrates them
Peace in the world can start with peace in your heart, all you have to do is make a start
Peace is where your soul leads you, not where your soles lead you
People become more loveable when they are loved.
People never tire of someone who is not bent on comparison
People who know little say much. People who know much say little.
People who look for problems will find them. People who look for solutions will find them. Which would you rather be?
Perfection is not doing extraordinary things - it is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Power as an end in itself will end yourself
Rainbows shine brightest against a dark sky
Rather light a candle than complain about the darkness.
Real words are not vain. Vain words are not real
Reincarnation is block release for the soul
Religion should be viagra for the soul
Religion should celebrate your links to heaven, not criticise your lack of them
Ritual begets stagnation not evolution - break free!
Saying that you don't have time to meditate is a lot like saying you are too busy driving to stop for fuel - eventually it will catch up with you
Say what you'll do then do what you say.
Saying what you think requires you should think about what you say
See death as the door of Heaven opening not the door of life closing.
Seek not to find the treasure - but to enjoy the search.
Service is the passport of the spirit
Sex is not an essential part of intimacy, but intimacy is an essential part of sex
Sharing a problem doesn't transfer ownership
Sharpening your wit is better than sharpening your sword
Sing your own song
Something assumes importance only if you give it
Sometimes you have to travel far to find out what is already within
Spirit is master over matter
Spiritual growth is a matter of partnership
Staggering is better than swaggering
Success and failure are the same horse with different riders.
Suffering is the seedbed for appreciation
Teamwork makes the dream work
That given in love with no expectation of return, shows that unconditionally passion doth burn
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
The difference between faith and belief is trust.
The difference between happiness and unhappiness is choice.
The greatest master knows that he isn't…..
The heart holds the language of the soul
The journey is the destination.
The lust for power will lead to the loss of it
The only thing that can hurt you is your resistance to change
The past should be a stepping stone for the future, not a millstone round your neck
The pebble on the beach becomes smooth because it has experienced the rise and fall of many high and low tides
The right way for you to find God is the one which yields results
The smallest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions
The strongest truth uses the simplest words
The true essence of spirit is to be flowing, to be free
The wisdom in your words is rarely as great as the wisdom in your heart.
There are no unimportant people, only people whose importance hasn't been recognised.
There are ten commandments for the wise. Nine say "Be silent!" One says "Say little!".
There are two aspects to your life - good times and lessons.
There is no isolation, all is One
There's an "L" of a difference between bending and blending.
Time on Earth is a life sentience
Those who fall can only look up; those who climb high can only look down
Those who fear most have most to fear.
Those who have all the answers have forgotten the importance of the question
Those who have to resort to fear, to the true way of life are nowhere near.
Those who judge us don't matter, those who matter don't judge us
Those who spend their time counting their money rarely have time to count their blessings
Through gentleness and calmness many things will be brought to you
To feel punctured you must have been a bubble
To know what is good you must also know what is not
To serve Spirit is to celebrate your personality, not extinguish it
True happiness is an inner experience.
Truth carries its own light
Watch and learn: adapt and apply.
We all have the same light shining within us, but some have trouble finding the switch
We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting.
We see miracles as out of the ordinary - but look also for the miracles in the ordinary - a breath, a flower, a smile, a new life.
What doesn't move my heart, doesn't move my body
What is good is the essence of life itself.
What is is the was of what shall be
What is more soft, more yielding than water, yet it cleaves the obstinate stone
What is the difference between feeling good and feeling good about yourself?
What touches your heart is with you all your life. What touches your soul is there for eternity
Whatever horizon you reach, seek to go beyond it
Whatever you attach yourself to prevents you from moving freely.
When it rains, does it dampen your spirits or freshen your resolve?
When money passes between you and a friend, that friendship there will surely end.
When the fruit is ripe it falls from the tree
When the soul awakes the ego quakes
When there is no other alternative, you have already found the answer
When there is no way out, look for a way in
When you do good, you'll feel good.
When you lose all the things you value, you learn to value life itself.
Where there is change there is life.
Where there is love there is no separation
Who do you learn most from, your friends or your enemies?
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience comes from foolishness.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
Yearning without learning leads to burning in its turn.
Yield and you need not break
You attract what you give out, so be careful what you give
You can love someone you don't necessarily like.
You can never possess a friend, but you can always possess friendship.
You experience your life through your self worth.
You will experience many terrible things in your life, and some of them may actually happen!
Your body is you connection to Earth, your spirit is your connection to God.
Your family are the ones you carry in your heart, not the ones you carry on your back.
Your heart may be sad for what it once had, but your soul rejoices in what it still has.
Your life is better spent helping others see the light, not dazzling them with yours
Your life may be short or long; your personality may be weak or strong, but your love should be unending
Your mind should help your soul find its path to progression, not distract it from its course
Your religion should empower you not imprison you.
