Thought Of The Day

"I'm fulfilled in what I do...I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes--the finer things in life--would make you happy. My happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense."

(Coretta Scott King)

Thought Of The Day

"The goal to be sought is a world where well-being extends to all in the fullest, richest way possible... brought about by a mode of creative ethical living that includes all of us as moral equals, inspiring and uplifting us all, nourished by the creative energy we experience as spirituality..."

(Martin Prozesky)

Thought Of The Day

"True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time."

(Dalai Lama)

Thought Of The Day

"It is not by meticulous care in avoiding all contaminations that we can keep our [spiritual body] clean and give it grace, but by urging it to give vigorous expression to its inner life in the very midst of all the dust and heat and hurts."

(Rabindranath Tagore)

Thought Of The Day

"The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us..."

( Morihei Ueshiba)

Thought Of The Day

"I cannot hold up any book and say, 'Here. This is what I believe.' I do not know of any church where I would feel at home. But I do believe that what people call God refers to something real... I would even go so far as to say that this God of mine makes demands. To learn, to teach, to engage. To be aware of and respect the world around me. To acknowledge that there are things greater then myself and to be humble in their presence."

(Dan Jackson)

Thought Of The Day

"It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty."

(Gerard Manley Hopkins)

Thought Of The Day

"The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action."

(Andre Gide)

Thought Of The Day

"You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit."

(Alice Walker)

Thought Of The Day

"I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence."

(Saul Bellow)

Thought Of The Day

"Whatever you have forgotten, you can remember. Whatever you have buried you can unearth. If you are willing to look deep into your own nature, if you are willing to peel away the layers of not-self you have adopted in making your way through the tribulations of life, you will find that your true self is not as far removed as you think."

(Meredith Jordan)

Thought Of The Day

"Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being... Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual."

(David Steindl-Rast)

Thought Of The Day

"To seek the living manifestation of spiritual and ethical values themselves, regardless of the label they come under, is to discover unexpected kinship... In this view, faith is no longer a matter of a allegiance to a specific community or identity, but a ceaseless search for the beautiful ways to realize the human potential in every given age and place."

(Mohja Kahf)

3.4

Happy B-day to me!

Thought Of The Day

"Authentic spirituality awakens the soul, reconnects us with the sacred, and fills us with the passion of life. Spiritual development is not about religious rituals and practices; it is about waking up to the wonder of life."

(David N. Elkins)

Thought Of The Day

"The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting."

(Theodor Reik)

Reading: A Tale of Two Cities

I've just read A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

Penguin Readers - Level 5.

Reading: Round the World in Eighty Days

I've just finished Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne.

Penguin Readers - Level 5

Reading: Black Beauty

I've just finished Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (text adaptation by John Escott).

Stage 4 - Oxford Bookworms Library - Human Interest

Thought Of The Day

"To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness,

it is necessary to have deserved it."

(Victor Hugo)

Thought Of The Day

"Happiness depends...

Less on exterior things than most suppose."

(William Cowper)

Reading: Pride and Prejudice

I've just read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Oxford Bookworms - Stage 6

Thought Of The Day

"I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do."

(Anna Howard Shaw)

Thought Of The Day

"Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour."
(Thomas Jefferson)

It ends tonight

Your subtleties
They strangle me
I can’t explain myself at all.
And all the wants
And all the needs
All I don’t want to need at all.

The walls start breathing
My minds unweaving
Maybe it’s best you leave me alone.
A weight is lifted
On this evening
I give the final blow.

When darkness turns to light,
It ends tonight,
It ends tonight.

A falling star
Least I fall alone.
I can’t explain what you can’t explain.
You're finding things that you didn’t know
I look at you with such distain

The walls start breathing
My minds unweaving
Maybe it’s best you leave me alone.
A weight is lifted
On this evening
I give the final blow.

[Chorus]
When darkness turns to light
It ends tonight,
It ends tonight.
Just a little insight won't make this right
It’s too late to fight
It ends tonight,
It ends tonight.

Now I’m on my own side
It’s better than being on your side
It’s my fault when you're blind
It’s better that I see it through your eyes

All these thoughts locked inside
Now you’re the first to know

When darkness turns to light
It ends tonight,
It ends tonight.
Just a little insight won't make this right
It’s too late to fight
It ends tonight,
It ends when darkness turns to light
It ends tonight,
It ends tonight.
Just a little insight won't make this right
It’s too late to fight
It ends tonight,
It ends tonight.
Tonight, Insight
When darkness turns to light,
It ends tonight.

Thought Of The Day

"Why go further and further,
Look, happiness is right here."
(Goethe)

This is really beautiful ... true love

Are you reaching your potential???

Reading: 2001 - a Space Odyssey

Today I read 2001: a Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke.

Penguin Readers - Level 5

One more mistake ...

Aqui ó!

I want them ... all of them