Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.
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Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man's despair may become, as long as he continues to be a man his very humanity continues to tell him that life has a meaning.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.
When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.
When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea. In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.
In a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but should instead buy or license processes or inventions (i.e. patents) from other companies. In addition, internal inventions not being used in a firm’s business should be taken outside the company.
Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.
If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by_x000D_ all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the_x000D_ people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality,_x000D_ or worse still, as if it were their job to be nice to you, you put_x000D_ yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.
Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
The world remains ever the same.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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