"Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will elude you...
"... But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder" -- Henry David Thoreau. Priority request.
Quotes
truth is always present
Attributed is Dr. Hawkins.
"man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life..."
Priority request: [quote from] Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning.
"Nothing is as it can be described..."
"...therefore, all descriptions are what a thing is not" -- Dr. Hawkins, The Eye of the I. Priority request.
"God moves in a mysterious way"
Priority request: God's actions are often not readily understood by humans, appearing inexplicable or unexpected, and sometimes even seemingly contradictory to our expectations, leaving people to trust in God's plan even when they can't fully grasp it.
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery...
"... but today is a gift. That's why it is called present" -- Kung Fu Panda (movie) quote, by request.
“My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?”
Calibration of this mistranslation.
"infinite patience produces immediate results"
From ACIM Text Chapter 5, VI, 12. According to search engines, Wayne Dyer is also given credit?? 🤷♂️
quote by Alan Watts
"Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence." Priority request.
"Get behind me, Satan"
'In the temptation of Jesus, in Matthew 4 and Luke 4:8, Jesus rebukes "the tempter"' -- wikipedia.
yolo, carpe diem
By request. Acronym for "you only live once" contrasted with the Latin for "seize the day."
"If paradise exists, it's here...
"... If God exists, it's in your actions. If the Devil exists, it's in your inactions." Priority request.
"If you have not accepted the past, you have not accepted the present"
Sri Prem Baba quote from his book From Suffering to Joy.
"Statistics are no substitute for truth…
…and in the complexity of bio-behavioral phenomena, proximal antecedents can too easily become classified as ostensible causes" -- Pg. 145 POWER vs. FORCE. Priority request.
"spiritual progress is the result of God's grace and not the result of one's personal endeavors"
Request: [quote] from The Eye of the I, by David R. Hawkins.