"Faith is to believe what you not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
- Saint Augustine
Thoughtfull Quotes
When Mother Teresa received her Nobel Prize,
she was asked the question, "What can we do to
promote world peace?" She replied...
"Go home and love your family."
-- Mother Teresa
"You must be the change you
wish to see in the world."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right."
- Ezra Taft Benson
"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean."
- Dag Hammarskjold
"We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever one may think about the content of this presentations, I simply like the artistic way they are made. I hope you enjoy them too.
http://www.pathways-to-peace.com
she was asked the question, "What can we do to
promote world peace?" She replied...
"Go home and love your family."
-- Mother Teresa
"You must be the change you
wish to see in the world."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right."
- Ezra Taft Benson
"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean."
- Dag Hammarskjold
"We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever one may think about the content of this presentations, I simply like the artistic way they are made. I hope you enjoy them too.
http://www.pathways-to-peace.com
Open up your mind and heart to new experiences of consciousness.
"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you.
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight.
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway."
"Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family.
If we realy want to love we must learn how to forgive.
Yesterday is gone. Tommorow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
~ Mother Teresa http://www.ewtn.com/motherteresa/words.htm
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you.
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight.
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway."
"Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family.
If we realy want to love we must learn how to forgive.
Yesterday is gone. Tommorow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
~ Mother Teresa http://www.ewtn.com/motherteresa/words.htm
"Modern Psychology Is Inescapably Demonic"
"Notwithstanding modern psychology's claim to help people become more loving, considerate, and personable, that its very basis is mechanistic and humanistic renders it inescapably demonic, as is apparent in its emphasis on the individual's potential for self-actualization by looking within, rather than turning for help to guru and Krsna and understanding that real self-actualization means to identify oneself as a servant of guru and Krsna."
-- Bhakti Vikas Swami
November 29, 2005 in -ology, Mental Health, Social Sciences http://www.siddhanta.com/2005/11/modern_psycholo.html
In my opinion such a statement is complitely nonsensical. Since when is a "humanistic" science or approach to the problems of someones life "inescapably demonic"?
"All what we are is the result of what we have thought."
-- Buddha
"Notwithstanding modern psychology's claim to help people become more loving, considerate, and personable, that its very basis is mechanistic and humanistic renders it inescapably demonic, as is apparent in its emphasis on the individual's potential for self-actualization by looking within, rather than turning for help to guru and Krsna and understanding that real self-actualization means to identify oneself as a servant of guru and Krsna."
-- Bhakti Vikas Swami
November 29, 2005 in -ology, Mental Health, Social Sciences http://www.siddhanta.com/2005/11/modern_psycholo.html
In my opinion such a statement is complitely nonsensical. Since when is a "humanistic" science or approach to the problems of someones life "inescapably demonic"?
"All what we are is the result of what we have thought."
-- Buddha
"A life that is unexamined is
a life not worth living"
- Socrates
"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced"
, Soren Kierkegard
"He who is contented with contentment is always contented"
- Lao Tzu
"In twenty years’ time
you will be more disappointed
at what you didn’t do
than at what you did do"
- Mark Twain
a life not worth living"
- Socrates
"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced"
, Soren Kierkegard
"He who is contented with contentment is always contented"
- Lao Tzu
"In twenty years’ time
you will be more disappointed
at what you didn’t do
than at what you did do"
- Mark Twain
- Chanakya Pandit"Grandfather, look at our brokenness. We know that in all creation only the human family has strayed from the Sacred Way. We know that we are the ones who are divided and we are the ones who must come back together to walk in the Sacred Way. Grandfather, Sacred One, teach us love, compassion, and honor that we may heal the earth and heal each other."
- The Ojibway people of Canada
"Do not believe in anything (simply) because you have heard it.
Do not believe in traditional ideas (simply) because they have been handed down for many generations.
Do not believe in anything because it is spoken or rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything (simply) because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that a thing agrees with reason and is conductive to the good
and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live by it." - Lord Buddha, Kalama Suta
"There is an almost sensual longing for communion with others who have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality almost impossible to describe . . . The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire."
- Teilhard de Chardin
"There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance." - J.W. Goethe
"If I am to carry on the enquiry by myself, I will first of all remark that not only I, but all of us should have an ambition to know what is true and what is false in this matter, for the discovery of the truth is common good. And now I will proceed to argue according to my own notion. But if any of you think that I arrive at conclusions which are untrue you must interpose and refute me, for I do not speak from any knowledge of what I am saying; I am an enquirer like yourselves, and therefore, if my opponent says anything which is of force, I shall be the first to agree with him."
- Socrates
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- The Ojibway people of Canada
"Do not believe in anything (simply) because you have heard it.
Do not believe in traditional ideas (simply) because they have been handed down for many generations.
Do not believe in anything because it is spoken or rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything (simply) because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that a thing agrees with reason and is conductive to the good
and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live by it." - Lord Buddha, Kalama Suta
"There is an almost sensual longing for communion with others who have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality almost impossible to describe . . . The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire."
- Teilhard de Chardin
"There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance." - J.W. Goethe
"If I am to carry on the enquiry by myself, I will first of all remark that not only I, but all of us should have an ambition to know what is true and what is false in this matter, for the discovery of the truth is common good. And now I will proceed to argue according to my own notion. But if any of you think that I arrive at conclusions which are untrue you must interpose and refute me, for I do not speak from any knowledge of what I am saying; I am an enquirer like yourselves, and therefore, if my opponent says anything which is of force, I shall be the first to agree with him."
- Socrates
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"Wir können dem lieben Gott danken dass es so war" - We can return thanks to God that it became so (nice).
- Franz Beckenbauer´s gratitude, in the TV news today, to all who participated to the good management and success of the soccer World Cup 2006 in Germany.
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/m ... _id=152069
http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/photo?slug= ... t&prov=afp
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/trave ... ravelphoto
- Franz Beckenbauer´s gratitude, in the TV news today, to all who participated to the good management and success of the soccer World Cup 2006 in Germany.
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/m ... _id=152069
http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/photo?slug= ... t&prov=afp
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/trave ... ravelphoto
"The person who aspires to be a bhakta must be cheerful. In the Western world, the idea of a religious man is that he never smiles, that a dark cloud must always hang over his face, which, again, must be long-drawn, with the jaws almost collapsed. People with emaciated bodies and long faces are fit subjects for the physician, they are not yogis. It is the cheerful mind that can persevere. It is the strong mind that can hew its way through a thousand difficulties."
- Vivekananda
- Vivekananda
Open up your mind and heart to new experiences of consciousness.
"Most people are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path; no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide."
~ Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
"Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace starts within each one of us."
~ Dalai Lama
"When you walk across the fields with your mind focused, pure and holy, then all the stones, and all the growing things and all the animals, the sparks of their soul come out and cling to you."
~ Hasidic saying
"Religion without science or philosophy is sentiment. And philosophy without religion is mental speculation.
So they must be combined together." ~ A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami quoting Rabindranath Thagore who said:
"Religion without philosophy is sentiment"
http://religion.krishna.org/Articles/2000/08/00069.html
~ Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
"Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace starts within each one of us."
~ Dalai Lama
"When you walk across the fields with your mind focused, pure and holy, then all the stones, and all the growing things and all the animals, the sparks of their soul come out and cling to you."
~ Hasidic saying
"Religion without science or philosophy is sentiment. And philosophy without religion is mental speculation.
So they must be combined together." ~ A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami quoting Rabindranath Thagore who said:
"Religion without philosophy is sentiment"
http://religion.krishna.org/Articles/2000/08/00069.html
The Lecture: a Powerful Tool for Intellectual Liberation
Excerpts from an article by K. Stunkel - for full article click here http://www.wmich.edu/grad/gatraining/TAmanual.htm
"The teacher's role is to transmit laboriously acquired assets to students and to open intellectual doors hitherto closed. The student's role is to pay attention, benefit from superior knowledge and experience, study diligently, and participate fruitfully when the moment is ripe. This role is not static, for the goal of authoritative instruction is to bring students to a point of independence and mastery from which they can proceed on their own. Assuming that the professor and student do what is expected of them, the student will grow in confidence and be able to "interact" at progressively higher levels of readiness. The thoughtful lecture, moderated by a judicious use of dialectic, is a powerful instrument for intellectual liberation.
Those eager for students to control their own learning might bear in mind that self-instructed minds are a rare breed. Self-instruction is possible, but only with exceptional motivation and self-discipline. Seldom does one encounter a Lewis Mumford, who never graduated from college but took scholarship and authorship by storm, or a Srinivasa Ramanujan, whose mastery of number theory sprang from the blue and mystified leading mathematicians. http://www.usna.edu/Users/math/meh/ramanujan.html
While professors are surely able to learn from students from time to time, a professor who enters a classroom of tyros and says, "Let us learn from one another" is afflicted with role confusion. Students may be full of themselves for an instant, but are likely to find in the context of subject matter how little of consequence they have to exchange. Collaboration implies there is something, rather than just someone, with which to collaborate -- including accurate, relevant knowledge, a critical mindset, preliminary study, and personal discipline. Previously uninstructed students are not likely to have those assets in usable abundance.
Hostility toward lecturing is part of a recent general assault on most forms of legitimate authority. Authoritative instruction requires hierarchy, and in these egalitarian times, hierarchy is a dirty word. But all good teaching and learning must accept a hierarchical frame of reference. Arithmetic must come before calculus. Basic facts about the Reformation must come before analysis of its causes. Drawing 101 must precede Drawing 102. Writing intelligible English sentences must come before writing a novel like Ulysses. Greek verb forms must be mastered before Plato can be translated.
We cannot grasp everything at once. The full light of knowledge is perceived in stages. Aside from geniuses who spring full-blown into the world (a Bernini, a Mozart, a Gauss), most of us are obliged by reality to climb toward understanding one rung at a time, with occasional skips for the very bright and clever. Learning is hierarchical even if imparted dialectically, for all subjects are better entered at the beginning than at the end. Teachers resistant to that simple truth about teaching and learning will flounder and will confuse their students. The value of a good lecturer is to know where to begin, what to include and leave out, and by what stages to lead a student to mastery of a subject."
Excerpts from an article by K. Stunkel - for full article click here http://www.wmich.edu/grad/gatraining/TAmanual.htm
"The teacher's role is to transmit laboriously acquired assets to students and to open intellectual doors hitherto closed. The student's role is to pay attention, benefit from superior knowledge and experience, study diligently, and participate fruitfully when the moment is ripe. This role is not static, for the goal of authoritative instruction is to bring students to a point of independence and mastery from which they can proceed on their own. Assuming that the professor and student do what is expected of them, the student will grow in confidence and be able to "interact" at progressively higher levels of readiness. The thoughtful lecture, moderated by a judicious use of dialectic, is a powerful instrument for intellectual liberation.
Those eager for students to control their own learning might bear in mind that self-instructed minds are a rare breed. Self-instruction is possible, but only with exceptional motivation and self-discipline. Seldom does one encounter a Lewis Mumford, who never graduated from college but took scholarship and authorship by storm, or a Srinivasa Ramanujan, whose mastery of number theory sprang from the blue and mystified leading mathematicians. http://www.usna.edu/Users/math/meh/ramanujan.html
While professors are surely able to learn from students from time to time, a professor who enters a classroom of tyros and says, "Let us learn from one another" is afflicted with role confusion. Students may be full of themselves for an instant, but are likely to find in the context of subject matter how little of consequence they have to exchange. Collaboration implies there is something, rather than just someone, with which to collaborate -- including accurate, relevant knowledge, a critical mindset, preliminary study, and personal discipline. Previously uninstructed students are not likely to have those assets in usable abundance.
Hostility toward lecturing is part of a recent general assault on most forms of legitimate authority. Authoritative instruction requires hierarchy, and in these egalitarian times, hierarchy is a dirty word. But all good teaching and learning must accept a hierarchical frame of reference. Arithmetic must come before calculus. Basic facts about the Reformation must come before analysis of its causes. Drawing 101 must precede Drawing 102. Writing intelligible English sentences must come before writing a novel like Ulysses. Greek verb forms must be mastered before Plato can be translated.
We cannot grasp everything at once. The full light of knowledge is perceived in stages. Aside from geniuses who spring full-blown into the world (a Bernini, a Mozart, a Gauss), most of us are obliged by reality to climb toward understanding one rung at a time, with occasional skips for the very bright and clever. Learning is hierarchical even if imparted dialectically, for all subjects are better entered at the beginning than at the end. Teachers resistant to that simple truth about teaching and learning will flounder and will confuse their students. The value of a good lecturer is to know where to begin, what to include and leave out, and by what stages to lead a student to mastery of a subject."
Open up your mind and heart to new experiences of consciousness.
"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."
"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity."
~ John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton (1834"“1902), British historian.
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"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity."
~ John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton (1834"“1902), British historian.
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/qu ... 2782;_ylt=
"No matter which direction you think your life may be heading, never loose sight of your dreams."
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