If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
In all of his bestsellers, the Divine has told the truth,
custom-tailored to the comprehension of the times.
- Ernest Holmes
The Divine is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom.
The inherent nature of man is ever seeking
to express itself in terms of freedom,
because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
- Ernest Holmes
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
Divine love will meet all human needs
- Mary Baker Eddy
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love
Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
- Rumi
It takes discipline and compassion
to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough
to recognize the divine in another.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I view the Divine and All of Life
from the perspective of Celebration.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
Each and every human being on Earth
has both the responsibility and the privilege
of viewing themselves as Divine beings
with the power to bring about peace.
- James Twyman
Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered.
He consists only of one quality: witnessing.
This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality.
Witness that you are not the body.
Witness that you are not the mind.
Witness that you are only a witness.
As the witnessing deepens,
you start becoming drunk with the divine.
That is what is called ecstasy.
- Osho
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi,
this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912
Namaste is a greeting of unity and acceptance
that recognizes the equality of all,
and pays honor to the sacredness of interconnection.
The sense of Namaste is
"The God in me greets the God in you,
I bow to the divine in you."
While saying Namaste, press the palms of the hands together
in front of the heart and bow the head slightly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
- Ogden Nash
Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Those distractions that turn my attention from
what I thought I was going to do today are not "rat holes";
they are Enchanted Rabbit Holes
with a Magical White Bunny awaiting in each.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
Perspective is both a necessary
and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'd rather see the world from another angle
- Jewel
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A pessimist is never disappointed.
- Jack Cleary
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Unexpected events can set you back or set you up.
It's all a matter of - perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Look closely... See with new eyes...
Don't just pass by what is familiar without a thought.
Pay attention and look closely.
There is beauty - there is discovery -
there in a whole new world hiding
beneath the face of the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Where there is an observatory and a telescope,
we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
- Henry David Thoreau
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is all in our Perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,
and take an insect view of its plain.
- Henry David Thoreau
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
Life is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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