Great intuition is born when rationality steps aside to allow true creativity and new ideas to emerge from the Collective Unconscious in the Present moment. There is a Spiritual gift in the quality of being able to live in the present moment when the Innocent spontaneity of childhood survives in the minds of our great scientists, artist, innovators and is ever present as a creative potential within us all.
Socrates:
“I call myself a Peaceful warrior…. because the battles we fight are on the inside.”
Plutarch – 46AD – 119AD
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela – 1928 – 2013 – South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, philanthropist. Imprisoned for 27 years – 18 of them on notorious Robben Island. President of South Africa 1991 – 1997. (highly recommend the film: ‘Invictus’ – starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon)
“We are born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in Everyone.”
“I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.”
”If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”
“Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.”
“As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”
“I was made, by law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for, because of what I thought, because of my conscience.”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
“A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.”
“lead from the back – and let others believe they are in front.”
“Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.”
“There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.”
“One of the most difficult things is not to change society – but to change yourself.”
Albert Einstein:
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
“Once we accept our limits we go beyond them.”
“The Intuitive Mind is a sacred gift and the Rational Mind its Faithful Servant. But we have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the Gift.”
Mahatma Gandhi:
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
William W. Purkey:
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching. Love like you’ll never been hurt. Sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.”
Carl Jung:
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside dreams. Who looks inside awakens.”
Aberjhani:
“You were born a Child of Light’s Wonderful secret – You return to the magnificence you have always been.”
Aristotle:
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“Happiness is the meaning and purpose of Life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“The beginning of philosophy is wonder.”
“Confidence is a characteristic of a person of hope.”
Jean-Jacque Rousseau – 1712 – 1778 – Swiss Philosopher, writer, composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe and the development of modern political economic and educational thought.
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of the imagination is boundless.”
“It is difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
“Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?”
“Trust your heart rather than your head.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin – 1881 – 1955 – French philosopher and palaeontologist – theory that man is evolving mentally and socially towards a final Spiritual Unity:
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are Spiritual Beings having a Human Experience.”
“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”
“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of LOVE and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
“The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.”
“Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfil them for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.”
“Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the Universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.”
“Let man live at a distance from God, and the Universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God and immediately all around him – the elements, even the irksome or the inevitable, organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.”
“What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.”