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The Moon Cannot Be Stolen:
A thief entered the little hut of a Zen Master,
but discovered there was nothing to steal.
The Zen Master discovered the thief.
"You have come a long way to visit me," he told the prowler,
"and you should not return empty-handed.
Please take my clothes as a gift."
The thief was bewildered,
but he took the clothes and slunk away.
The Zen Master sat naked, watching the moon.
"Poor fellow," he mused,
"I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon."
- Traditional Zen Koan
I am not the same having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass-
grows in silence; see the stars,
the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
When I admire the wonders of a sunset
or the beauty of the moon,
my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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We return thanks to our mother,
the earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines
for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters,
the beans and squashes, which give us life.
We return thanks to the bushes and trees,
which provide us with fruit.
We return thanks to the wind,
which, moving the air, has banished diseases.
We return thanks to the moon and the stars,
which have given us their light when the sun was gone.
We return thanks to our grandfather He-no,
that he has protected his grandchildren from witches and reptiles,
and has given us his rain.
We return thanks to the sun,
that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in whom is embodied all goodness,
and who directs all things for the good of his children.
- Iroquois traditional
Shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss,
you'll land among the stars.
- Les Brown
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
Yeah we all shine on, like the moon,
and the stars, and the sun.
- John Lennon
The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
Do not let your fire go out.
- Ayn Rand
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
Count your blessings - not your troubles.
- Dale Carnegie
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is a journey, not a destination.
- Ben Sweetland
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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