WORDS ON MARBLE
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing
Abraham Lincoln
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime;
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
Kadlidasa
Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves.
"To manifest your hearts desires you must BE what your heart
desires."
"If your body holds any hidden fears or negative
feelings about your dreams you will find it hard to manifest.
Allow your soul to give your body what it needs for you to BE
all that you desire to be!"
"Sometimes it is as simple as changing even one limiting belief. Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs. Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be."
"Ask yourself the question, 'If I could be anything in this world, and be guaranteed success, what would I be?' Then start being that today in the small ways that you are able. Pretend and imagine shopping like that person, breathing like that person, making decisions like that person. Then build a bridge from here to there with real actions and steps."
"You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it.
Sidney and Suzanne Simon