Quotations in weekly The Edge 2009, 2010

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• Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, today is a gift; that’s why it is called: Present. Anonymous
• Friendship is like a bank account: you can’t continue to draw on it without making deposits. Stephen Covey
• We have come too far, and we have sacrificed too much to disdain the future now. John F. Kennedy
• Apply discernment instead of judgement; discernment opens a channel for grace.Caroline Myss
• The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
• Hope is a quality of the soul and does not depend on what happens in the world. Vaclav Havel
• Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber
• There is only one moment in time when it is essential to awaken. That moment is now.The Buddha
• Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best. Unknown
• Just as a bicycle chain may be too tight, so may one’s carefulness and conscientiousness be so tense as to hinder the running of one’s mind. William James
• A solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. Maya Angelou
• Every child comes into the world with the message that God does not despair of man. Rabindranath Tagore
• The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting. The Husia People, Africa
• I slept and dreamt that life was joy; I awoke and saw that life was service; I acted and behold, service was joy. Rabindranath Tagore
• The quieter you become the more you can hear. Ram Dass
• It is cynicism and fear that freezes life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free. Harry Emerson Fossdick
• The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Russell
• One must be as humble as the dust before he can discover truth. Mahatma Gandhi
• Sporadic insights are not enough in order tEveno be transformed; we must pursue a single question to its very end. Reshad Field
• What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? Marianne Williamson
• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  Separateness is an illusion. Danaan Parry
• Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
• The soul of the world is knit together by the harmony of music. Plato
• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. Sebastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort
• Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without his thumb on the scale. Byron Langfeld
• Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved on our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Reinhold Niebuhr
• Even from a dark night songs of beauty may be born. Maryanne Radmacker-Hershey
• Let meditation be my guide, let calmness lead the way. Danaan Parry
• I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like Silence, listening to silence. Thomas Hood
• Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. Reinhold Niebuhr
• Only when I respect the sacredness of all life shall I be truly free. Danaan Parry
  What it lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do. Aristotle
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Mark Twain
• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King jr.
• If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to humans as it really is: infinite. William Blake
• What we see depends mainly on what we look for. Sir John Lubbock
• “Well”, said Pooh, “ what I like best”, and the he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were , but he didn’t know what it was called. A.A. Milne
• Him to whom you pray is closer to you than the neck of your camel. Muhammad
• If you think you are too small to be effective, you never slept in one room with a mosquito. (Nancy Wiltink, heard somewhere)
• Silence is also speech. Fulfulde proverb, Africa
• One does not discover new land without consenting to loose sight of the shore for a very long time. André Gide
• The healing of the earth and the healing of the human spirit has become one and the same thing. Jonathan Porritt
• It’s better to want what you don’t have than to have what you don’t want. Caroline Myss
• Our freedom is but a light that breaks through from another world. Nikolai Gumilev
• There is no time; or isthere nothing but time? M. Vasalis (Dutch poet)
• You can only be lost if you are trying to get somewhere. Ram Tzu
• Nothing real can be threatened; nothing unreal exists. A Course in Miracles
• Simply joy is mine if I but slow my pace. Danaan Parry
• Growing old is unevitable, growing up optional. Anonymous
• The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. Marianne Williamson
• What you perceive in others you are strengthening in yourself. A Course in Miracles
• Positive lessons are not always taught in a positive way. Unknown
• Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth. Caroline Myss
• Life is not a spectator sport. Unknown
• By serving the world we can save it. Arnaud de Waij
• The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. Zeno of Elea
• If you would understand the invisible look carefully at the visible. Talmud
• Life is what happens while you’re making other plans. John Lennon
• Use spirit to know the future; use wisdom to store the past. I Ching
• All knowing is remembering. Plato
• The longest journey is from the head to the heart. John Hanagan
• Don’t seek happiness, seek your own true nature. Danaan Parry