“This process of spiritual attunement is an individual process. Your greatest moments of testing come when you step out of the group action and you are home alone with your own little karmic thoughts – your secret hates, your secret fears, your secret lusts, greeds, avarices. That’s when you need God’s energy and grace the most.”
— John-Roger
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”
— Ursula K. LeGuin
“To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people’s places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.”
— Harry Emerson Fosdick (Founding Pastor of New York’s Riverside Church)
“That which is hateful to you,do not do to your fellow.That is the whole Torah;the rest is the explanation.”
— Talmud (Jewish Wisdom)
“Do not do to others what would anger you if done to you by others.”
— Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
“Do to others as you would have them do to you.”
— Luke 6:31 (the “Golden Rule”)
“Know that the true essence of the Golden Rule is always being compassionate, kind,generous, and being in service to others.Compelling others to behave as you wish them to behave in the name of the Golden Rule is a corruption of a sacred principle.Compassion is the universal standard for moral living.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.”
-– Octavia Butler
“Bad news is bad news because it drops your willingness to carry on.”
-– Meir Ezra