Sunday

Transformational Truth 10:

When we experience the pain of another person, we instinctively want to take away that pain. But by taking away the other person’s pain, we also take away his or her opportunity to grow. To be truly compassionate, we must be able to share another person’s suffering and pain — knowing there is nothing we can do to relieve it and that we are not responsible for it, and yet knowing and understanding what that pain feels like.

~ John Gray

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

- Demosthenes

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

-Mahatma Gandhi

“Acting in concert we do make a difference in the quality of our lives, our institutions, our environment and our planetary future. Through our cooperation, we manifest the essential spirit that unites us amongst our diverse ways.”

– Avon Mattison

"I will give you a talisman. Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? Will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find your doubts and yourself melting away."

—Mahatma Gandhi

"Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now"

- Goethe

"Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before."

- Audre Lorde

"Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart."

- William Shakespeare

"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened."

- Anatole France