“ The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of the great spiritual laws of life. (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, February 18, 1954)”
“I didn t know I had it in me. There s more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We re capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.”
“If you were determined to get enjoyment out of every moment, you would learn to do whatever it took. What it takes is not listening to negative thoughts, yours or anyone else s. Disregarding negative thoughts isn t hiding our head in the sand, but simply not allowing the negative to clutter and influence over our experience of the present moment. The moment is never improved or helped by negativity, although we are programmed to think our negative thoughts, worries, and fears serve a useful function. When you really examine this idea, however, you see that negativity doesn t serve. Focusing on negativity and fears doesn t make anyone a better person, nor does doing that help us function better in the world. In fact, the truth is quite the opposite.”
“Without awareness, we are not truly alive.”
“All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.”
“Eu que me aguente comigo e com os comigos de mim.”
“In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger s embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them?”
“A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn t got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.”
“Who can say for certain that he is sincere, who can say for certain that he believes? In the midst of of our deepest emotions we are acting a comedy with ourselves; within us one self is always mocking another self. - priscilla and emily lofte”
“Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. In these days of specialization there are too few people who have such a deep understanding of two departments of our knowledge that they do not make fools of themselves in one or the other.”
“The fact that we re all different is the one thing we all have in common.”
“I d been so fascinated by the notion, that I d forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I d been asleep, dreaming.”
“Oversimplifying is the first grave mistake we make when confronted by complexity; overconfidence is the second. And there is a third: based on our overconfidence in our oversimplified conclusions, we overreact.”
“The reality of life does not change who you are, it only changes your perspective.”
“i believe your tragedies, your losses , your sorrows ,your hurt happen for you not to you. And i bless the thing that broke you down and cracked you open because world need you open.”
“What would I look like if everything that I am, no secrets, was put on paper? Would I be horrifying?”
“When we move, we are in a way de-structured by our movement toward something: we are both here and at the same time not here because we re already in the process of going elsewhere, if you see what I mean. To stop de-structuring yourself, you have to stop moving altogether. Either you move and you re no longer whole, or you re whole and you can t move.”