SOUL AFLAME!

[knightofalbion]

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 inspired you, the chances are it will inspire others too and to help each other along is the duty of every soul.
Into the light!

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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Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better

• Albert Einstein

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference

• Robert Frost

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Start early to instil in your students awareness that they are on this earth to help and serve others; that is as important to pass onto them as knowledge

• Albert Schweitzer

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Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life

• Norman Cousins

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If you want to awaken all humanity, first awaken all of yourself; if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative within yourself.
Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation

• Lao Tzu

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There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.

• Rumi

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By hating that person you have lost something very sweet in yourself

• Sri Chinmoy

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Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life

• King Solomon

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'The greatest treasure is within'

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'I remember your kindness'

Be remembered ...

[gatewalker]

No More Leaving

At
Some point
Your relationship
With God
Will
Become like this:

Next time you meet Him in the forest
Or on a crowded city street

There won't be anymore

"Leaving."

That is,

God will climb into
Your pocket.

You will simply just take

Yourself

Along!

~ Hafiz

[missqwerty]

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain

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Sometimes I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine and injustice when He could do something about it, but I'm afraid He might ask me the same question

• Unknown

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'Faith without charity is dead. Love is the fulfilling of the Law.'

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Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy

• Jesus

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We build too many walls and not enough bridges

• Sir Isaac Newton

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Takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.
If you think about that, you'll do things differently

• Warren Buffett

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Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moment and know that everything happens for a reason

• Albert Schweitzer

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Legacy of love:
"The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind"

• Albert Schweitzer

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That is your legacy on this earth when you leave this earth: how many hearts you touched

• Patti Davies

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A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world

• Kahlil Gibran

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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

• Kahlil Gibran

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children

• Kahlil Gibran

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Some of you say "Joy is greater than sorrow" and others say "Nay, sorrow is the greater".
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed

• Kahlil Gibran

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'There is no greater bar to spiritual progress than hardness of heart' ...