Happy is the person who lives in conditions suited to their temperament, but more perfect is the one who knows how to adapt their temperament to any conditions.
"Every thought we have creates our future."
Louise Hay
"Nervously thinking about the future, people forget about the present, so they live neither in the present nor for the future. They live as if they would never die, and when they die, they realize that they never lived."
Confucius
"Throw the garbage out of your head. Garbage is everything that hides from you the only thing that matters—the moment... Here. Now. And when you are here and now, you will be amazed at what you can do and how you can do it." Socrates
"Just as a lotus, sweet-smelling and pleasing to the mind, can grow on a heap of refuse thrown onto a major road, so a disciple of the truly enlightened stands out through wisdom among the blindly mediocre, among beings akin to refuse."
Buddha Shakyamuni
"Learn as though you constantly felt a lack of knowledge, and as though you were always afraid of losing what you know." Confucius.
"The more you learn, the more you understand how little you know." Albert Einstein
"People lived, built, and died. Civilizations flourished and collapsed. Perhaps ours, too, will cease to exist one fine day. Then why do we live? What is all this for?
– That is a philosophical question. Not every mind is capable of finding an answer to it—and, having found one, understanding it. Perhaps someone created us, the planets, and the stars. Or perhaps it all organized itself somehow, although much suggests otherwise. Perhaps the Creator of all things is simply playing, or perhaps there is a plan. In any case, to understand what all this is for, as you put it, one must operate with concepts and knowledge of another level—the level of the Creator. But if you manage to do that, you will become the Creator's equal, and this question will probably cease to trouble you. But people are restless beings; they want to know "why" and "how." If we assume that the Creator made us this way, then knowledge must have a purpose."
"Do not fear God—fear yourself. You are the creator of your blessings and the cause of your misfortunes. Hell and heaven are within your own soul."
Pierre Mareschal
"Should we seek happiness in a luxurious palace?
Or would it be better to seek it in the wise Creator?
Everyone chooses their own road to happiness,
And we will learn at the end whether the choice was right!"
Maria Nogaeva
"The order in the Universe unfolding before our eyes itself testifies to the truth of the greatest and most exalted statement: 'In the beginning was GOD.'" Arthur Compton
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
The Gospel according to John
"It is wrong to say: ‘There is no God’; it is more accurate to say: ‘I have no God’; for you can see for yourself that many people around you feel the presence of God. You speak as a blind person would say, ‘There is no light in the world.’"
Nicholas of Serbia
«Live in search of God—and God will not abandon you». (Leo Tolstoy)
«We should be grateful to God for creating the world in such a way that everything simple is true, and everything complex is false». (Hryhorii Skovoroda)
Quieter. Even quieter... He is closer than breath...
*Sergey Veretennikov, poem/song "I Close My Eyes"
My God does not like many words, He loves the quiet silence of lovers,
Who have torn a thousand shackles from themselves,
And been carried upward by their consciousness.
My God is silent. He listens to the hearts
In which consciousness is awakening.
And their voice is universal silence, Like a quiet whisper without beginning or end. ....
*Sergey Veretennikov "My God"
Post automatically merged:
continuation of Sergey Veretennikov's poem "My God"
(book "A Little More Than Silence", pp. 16–17)
.... My God does not love the gloom of icons,
Nor those who weep on their knees before them.
He does not know slaves as His children—
He loves only those who live in joy.
Holy joy—the elixir of life,
Nourishing those who live in darkness,
And those who walk toward radiant light
Through this mortal and cruel world.
My God does not love arrogant importance.
He is with those who give away, drop by drop—
All of themselves, to all people and the universe.
Only with them does He drink from the cup of Life.
He welcomes them as His friends,
Says His finest words to them,
Looks at them with a tender smile,
And understands everything perfectly without words...
And He watches as an earthly mother watches,
After staying awake all night, a sleeping child,
Guarding it from bad dreams. And often holding still,
Catching its barely audible breath.
My God flees from the knowing and the clever
To distant forests and mountain peaks.
From destructive, noisy cities,
From those to whom disgrace has become dearer.
He flees from everyone so swiftly that you cannot catch Him.
You cannot even touch His shadow.
And you will grasp at emptiness—and there will be nothing
In your hand. You will only drive away
The last hope of meeting once more
The Lord of the heart—of the highest ether,
The King of kings and Lord of the world,
With whom the heart will find love...
But He comes Himself. Ready to serve.
When you give yourself in service to the Whole.
Then you will become His master, Having traveled your difficult and harsh path.
"Чем больше я занимаюсь изучением природы, тем более пребываю в благоговейном изумлении пред делами Творца." Луи Пастер
"Я не обязан верить, что тот же Бог, который одарил нас чувствами, здравым смыслом и разумом, требует, чтобы мы отказались от их использования." Галилео Галилей
"В сравнении с Библией все человеческие книги, даже самые лучшие, являются только планетами, заимствующими весь свой свет и сияние от Солнца." Роберт Бойль
Не наше дело предписывать Богу, как ему следует управлять этим миром."
Нильс Бор
"Закон единения с природой — это основной принцип учения даосизма, в котором утверждается, что надо быть в гармонии и не противостоять основным законам Вселенной. Следуйте естественной природе вещей и не вмешивайтесь. Никогда не предъявляйте претензий Природе и не противопоставляйте себя ей. Управляйте ею, следуя её законам."
"Каждый, кто серьёзно занимается наукой, убеждается в том, что в законах природы присутствует некий дух, и этот дух выше человека. По этой причине занятия наукой приводят человека к религии."
Альберт Эйнштейн
"Если в жизни ты сообразуешься с природой, то никогда не будешь беден, а если с людским мнением, то никогда не будешь богат."
Эпикур
"Мы, люди, — странный народ. Мы стесняемся обнаруживать свои эмоции перед ближними, даже если хорошо знаем друг друга, — а часто и перед самими собой. Поэтому каждый из нас будет чувствовать себя в одиночестве — настолько, что даже не сможет увидеть лица соседей."
Эрих Мария Ремарк "Приют грёз"
Через 20 лет вы будете больше разочарованы теми вещами, которые вы не делали, чем теми, которые вы сделали. Так отчальте от тихой пристани. Почувствуйте попутный ветер в вашем парусе. Двигайтесь вперед, действуйте, открывайте!
"Изменения - это всегда страшно. Но никто не изменит за вас вашу жизнь. Вы понимаете, какой должны сделать выбор, но несмотря на страх, движетесь вперед. Это главное правило успеха."
"Дойдя до конца, люди смеются над страхами, мучившими их вначале."
Пауло Коэльо
"Главная причина страданий — в неуёмности человеческих желаний.
Однако эти желания не ведут к счастью. Они либо неисполнимы, и это приносит печаль, либо исполняются, и тогда мы убеждаемся в эфемерности своего счастья, а страх потери лишает его смысла. Но мы продолжаем желать вновь и вновь, и именно эта ненасытная жажда толкает нас от одной вереницы страданий к другой."