Shoop's Fav Quotes

Quotations I want to remember...
I who remain as God created me would lose the world from what I thought it was. For I am real because the world is not.
A Course in Miracles
Through the return to simple living comes control of desires.
In control of desires stillness is attained.
In stillness the world is restored.
Lao Tzu
The small man builds cages for everyone he knows.
While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low,
Keeps dropping keys all night long for the beautiful rowdy prisoners.
Hafiz, 14th century Sufi poet

mnmlist in 50 words:

Stop buying unnecessary things.
Toss half your stuff, learn contentedness.
Reduce half again.

List 4 essential things in your life,
stop doing non-essential things.
Do these essentials first each day, clear distractions
focus on each moment.

Let go of attachment to doing, having more.
Fall in love with less.

Leo Babauta, mnmlist.com

A new world order is a one-world government in which all identity is blurred or erased; a world in which corporate economists will become the new gods. Much of the struggles and strife worldwide are exacerbated by the United Nations, which is really doing the opposite of bringing peoples together.

Instead of a United Nations, we should have an international SunDance every year in which every country sends two representatives, a man and a woman, to dance for beauty and restoration of the Earth.

A message from Thunder Strikes, Nagual Elder and Medicine Chief of the Deer Tribe Metis Medicine Society
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
To enter into an intimate relationship is to be swept up in a play of self and other, a ceaseless dance of shifting polarities.
John Welwood
To enter into an intimate relationship is to be swept up in a play of self and other, a ceaseless dance of shifting polarities.
John Welwood
You are not your thoughts. You do not own your thoughts. They are not what makes you you.
Universal Light
If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches.
Rainer M Rilke
The point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live your way some distant day into the answers.
Rainer M Rilke
I want to make something really, really, good - make something I would love, and want to tell people about. Then once it’s made, I’ll put it out into the world and find a way to make it work.
Skellie, skelliewag.org
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And each man kills the thing he loves,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword.
Paulo Coelho, The Valkyries
Our egos are not where we are bad but where we are wounded.
Marianne Williamson