Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.
- Topic: Peace, Work
- Location: Caribbean Sea
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.
Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.
I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
For great and low there's but one test: 'Tis that each man do his best.
No ascent is too steep for mortals. Heaven itself we seek in our folly.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
