Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.
- Topic: Listening, Power, Solitude
- Location: Valley of Fire State Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.
At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.
Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
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Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
Listening is a magnetic and strong thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
We doctors know a hopeless case if—listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door.
You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
