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This thread is for inspirational quotations, poems and short stories.

If there is something that has touched your soul, led you to a higher path or given you strength in a time of adversity, then please add it here.

If it has helped you, the chances are it will help others too - and to help each other along is the calling of every soul.

Into the light...

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'Where mercy, love and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too'

http://holy-lance.blogspot.com

All this talk of religion, but it's how you live your life that is the all-important thing.

If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.

And when your time is up, if you can leave the earth a better place than you found it, then yours will have been a life well lived.

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'Where mercy, love and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too'

http://holy-lance.blogspot.com

INVICTUS

by

William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.

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'Where mercy, love and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too'

http://holy-lance.blogspot.com

Is there anyone upon the earth who is glad that you have lived?

(From 'The Shining Paths' by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki)

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'Where mercy, love and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too'

http://holy-lance.blogspot.com

"Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9% of everything you think,
And everything you do,
Is for your self,
And there isn't one."

Wei Wu Wei

"Do you realise that when you give a schilling to a beggar you are giving it to yourself?
Do you realise that when you help a dog over a stile you yourself are being helped?
Do you realise when you kick a man when he is down, you are kicking yourslef?
Give him another kick, you deserve it!"

Wei Wu Wei

"Never forget, what your looking for is what is looking."

Wei Wu Wei


Okay, I'm done with Wei .... for now. Such a delightful figure, so much understanding on non - dulaity ... so much wisdom.

Just one more to come, but not from Wei ....

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

~ Jiddu krishnamurti

(PS: would be interesting if we simply quoted ourselves .... ) All the seeming "authority" which we depend and invest in keeps us from discovering our own innate wisdom .... however much we love the intelligence of Wei and Krihnamurti and many others. Ultimately, we must arrive at the same place ourselves.

"You can lead a horse to water ....... "

And thanks for the suggestion. I love the post/invitation .... a bit of a breath of fresh air around these parts!

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Vegetarian: Old Native American word meaning really bad hunter.

"Tastes like chicken!"

Author unknown

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I can have oodles of charm....... when I want to.

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Vegetarian: Old Native American word meaning really bad hunter.

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented - Elie Wiesel

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'Where mercy, love and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too'

http://holy-lance.blogspot.com

So many gods, so many creeds
So many paths that wind and wind
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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'Where mercy, love and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too'

http://holy-lance.blogspot.com