INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading”.
-Lao Tse-

“I am committed to truth, not consistency”.
-Mahatma Gandhi-

“The pure, unadulterated love on one person can nullify the hatred of millions”.
-Mahatma Gandhi-

“Everywhere man is confronted with fate,
with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering”
-Viktor E. Frankl- (“Man’s Search for Meaning”)-

“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how”
-Nietsche-

“Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers;
powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing;
forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused
and put into action.”
-Orison Swett Marden-

“When you change the way you look at things,
the things you look at change”
-Dr. Wayne W. Dyer-

“There is no happiness, happiness is the way”
-Dr. Wayne W. Dyer-

“You have to contemplate yourself
as surrounded by the conditions which you wish to produce”
-Dr. Wayne W. Dyer-

“We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves”
-Orison Swett Marden-
“Healing is not forcing the sun to shine,
but letting go of that which blocks the light”
-Stephen and Ondrea Levine-

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
What is essential is invisible to the eye”
-Antoine De Saint-Exupéry-

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars”
-Walt Whitman-

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible”
-Arthur C.Clarke-

“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men,
and men are great only if they are determined to be so”
-Charles de Gaulle-

“When written in Chinese, the world ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters
-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity-”
-John F. Kennedy-

“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves”
-Thomas A. Edison-

“Each of us inevitable; each of us limitless
–each of us with his or her right upon the earth;
each of us allow’d the eternal purports of the earth;
each of us here as divinely as any is here.”
-Walt Whitman-

“The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart”
-Mencius-

“A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark”
-Dante-

“You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone
who will never be able to repay you”
-John Wooden-

“We are what we repeatedly do”
-Aristotle-

“Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one”
-Socrates-

“Take away the cause, and the effect ceases”
-Miguel de Cervantes-

“Nothing happens unless first a dream”
-Carl Sandburg-

“Determination is the wake-up call to the human will”
-Anthony Robbins-

“There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion”
-Carl Jung-

“Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits”
-Antonio Machado-

“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure
instead of having pain and pleasure use you.
If you do that, you are in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you”
-Anthony Robbins-

“To fall in love is to love the coincidences, and to love,
is to fall in love with the differences”
-Jorge Bucay & Silvia Salinas- (Book: “Amarse con los Ojos Abiertos”)

STORYTELLING

“A Cup of Tea

Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, poet, and peacemaker, wrote about how to enjoy a good cup of tea.

We have to be fully attentive to the present in order to enjoy a cup of tea. Only when being aware of the present, our hands will feel the warmth of the cup. Only in the present we will perceive the aroma of the tea, we will feel the taste, and we will appreciate the uniqueness. If we are obsessed with the past, or worried about the future, we will miss the opportunity to enjoy a good cup of tea. When we look in the interior of the cup, the content will have disappeared.

It is the same with life. If we don’t live fully in the present, life passes fast and we will miss it. We would have lost the sensations, the aromas and scents, the uniqueness and beauty, and we will feel that life happened too fast.

The past is already gone. Let’s learn from it and leave it behind. The future has not even arrived yet. Let’s make plans for the future, but not wasting time worrying about it.

When we stop worrying about what has not happened yet, we will live in the present. Only then, we will start to experience the JOY OF LIVING.”
-Brian Weiss-

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A Handful of Mustard Seed:

The Dalai Lama in his book “The Art of Happiness” (1998) tells a story that explains how to understand human suffering:

“In the time of the Buddha, a woman named Kisagotami suffered the death of her only child. Unable to accept it, she ran from person to person, seeking a medicine to restore her child to life. The Buddha was said to have such a medicine.
Kisagotami went to the Buddha, paid homage, and asked, “Can you make a medicine that will restore my child?”
“I know of such a medicine”, the Buddha replied. “But in order to make it, I must have certain ingredients.”
Relieved, the woman asked, “What ingredients do you require?”
“Bring me a handful of mustard seed”, said the Buddha.
The woman promised to procure it for him, but as she was leaving, he added, “I require the mustard seed be taken from a household where no child, spouse, parent, or servant has died”.
The woman agreed and began going from house to house in search of the mustard seed. At each house the people agreed to give her the seed, but when she asked them if anyone had died in that household, she could find no home where death had not visited –in one house a daughter, in another a servant, in others a husband or parent had died. Kisagotami was not able to find a home free from the suffering of death. Seeing she was not alone in her grief, the mother let go of her child’s lifeless body and returned to the Buddha, who said with great compassion, “You thought that you alone had lost a son, the law of death is that among all living creatures there is no permanence”.

-Dalai Lama in his book “The Art of Happiness”,1998-

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