"A kind word can warm three months of winter." Japanese proverb

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are but princesses that are waiting to see us act just once with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest essence, something helpless that needs our love." Rainer Maria Rilke

“If we take people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat them as if they were what they ought to be, we help them to become what they are capable of becoming.” Goethe

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion." The Dalai Lama

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." Burton Hills

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." the Buddha

old native american prophecy

when the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. they will be known as the "warriors of the rainbow".

"If we wish to understand the nature of reality, we have an inner hidden advantage: we are ourselves a little portion of the universe and so carry the answer within us."
- Jacques Boivin

whatever you are THINKING, it really doesn't matter, everything is already a-okay. your words, your inner dialogue, is just cosmic foo foo. your "answers" (a.k.a. analyses) are never a lasting thing.
be mindful.
stop the regressive looping. put an end to repressive thinking.

aleister crowley said:

"There are three ways to increase your intelligence:

1. Continually expand the scope, source, intensity of the information you receive.

2. Constantly revise your reality maps, and seek new metaphors about the future to understand what's happening now.

3. Develop external networks for increasing intelligence. In particular, spend all your time with people who are smart or smarter than you. We assume that you are the Intelligence Agent from your gene pool, so you will seek Intelligence Agents from other gene-pools who will stimulate you to get smarter.

brave new world exerpt

"...Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God."

two resonating aphorisms of the baal shem tov

Your fellow is your mirror. If your own face is clean, so will be the image you perceive. But should you look upon your fellow and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.

I asked the Moshiach, "When will you come?" and he said to me: "When your wellsprings shall spread to the outside."

favorite nietzsche quote

Those who were dancing were thought insane by those who did not hear the music.

cosmic confliction

The Spectrum of Reality encompasses both that which we can see and measure, as well as that which we can neither see nor measure. If graphed, our human senses detect only about 5% of reality. Scientists can measure, perhaps, another 10%, above and below our sensory range. The remaining 85% is the non-physical. It has been called quasi-physical, supernatural, mystical, spiritual, astral, and/or celestial.

worthy advice for knowledge-seekers

Studying "spiritual" matters is always connected to a consciousness-related process. Every individual must be mentally prepared to confront himself with truth, and he should also get the chance to work for this preparedness himself.

The awesome respect for all life is an awesome attitude towards life that harbors only within itself the key to knowledge, truth and all realization.

Never let yourself be enticed—because of sheer enthusiasm for truth or a craving for recognition, among other things—to perform propaganda or missionize in order to win or convince other people of your own learnings. In doing so you can do great harm to yourself as well as to others.

Do not turn the study of lessons into a secret or impart a feeling into the fellow-man that he has not progressed far enough in order to understand this or that. Such behavior would not only represent an unjustified self-exaltation of the own person but also a lack of respect and awe for another individual. Likewise one should always bear in mind that one isn’t all-knowing and that one’s own understanding of lessons is always more or less limited.

It should be considered by everyone that oneself and the fellow-men are led astray with half- or false-truth and, because of this, the path to and the finding of truth is impeded.

Of course, no person shall hide his light under a bushel, and if any information is necessary or appropriate, or if interested people ask questions, then obviously they can get explanations—within reasonable limits and according to one’s best skill and abilities. Consequently, if one is talking about their learnings it shall always be in a general manner and according to one’s own understanding. Talking about all cognitions, assumptions etc. right from the start should be avoided.