Perspective Short: Knowledge (CY)

"Listen and learn and you will be amazed
at what you will teach yourself
about what you already KNOW."

- Elizabeth Alraune (CY)

Perspective Short: Perfection

What if perfection doesn't look
the way we think it should?

What if nothing's perfect
and everything is?

Elizabeth Alraune

Perspective Short: Elizabeth Alraune - They say

Who are 'THEY' and why
do they get to have a say?
~Elizabeth Alraune

Perspective Short: John Nuveen

You can judge your age by the amount of pain
you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
~John Nuveen

Perspective Short: Rob R. Dunn - The Effect of Humans on Extinction & Evolution

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Human habitation has been, and is increasingly,
playing a direct role not only in the extinction
of species, but in their evolution. By our own
ations, we may be accompanied into the future
byever more diverse pests and pathogens, and
may leave behind what we value most - elephants,
tigers, and others of the earth's great megabeasts.

~ Rob R. Dunn

Perspective Short: Elizabeth Alraune - Control

You can't control a damn thing!
You just think you can.

You're probably safer in the
domains you don't think you have
control because there's
no sense of false security.

~ Elizabeth Alraune

Perspective Short: Elizabeth Alraune - Connection

Your soul has touched mine.
And once it did,
I just knew you
and loved you.
~Elizabeth Alraune

Perspective Short: Thich Nhat Hanh - On What's Possible

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"Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Perspective Short: Elizabeth Alraune - Humorous

Repair man: "I've been doing this work 35 years,
and I started when I was 5."

Me: "You must have been a prodigy then."

Perspective Short: Richard Bach - Our Highest Self

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Character comes from following our highest
sense of right, from trusting ideas without
being sure they'll work. One challenge of
our adventure on earth is to rise above dead
systems - wars, religions, nations, destructions -
to refuse to be a part of them, and
express instead the highest selves
we know how to be.

*Richard Bach, One (p.95)

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Could you imagine what a world like this
could be like?

Perspective Short: Elizabeth Alraune - On Loneliness

Are you alone, and feeling lonely, and
thinking that a relationship would be
an answer for that feeling?

Consider this:
I was lonelier in a bad relationship
than I have ever been by myself.

- Elizabeth Alraune

Perspective Short: Jonathan Winters on Success

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
-Jonathan Winters

Perspective Short: Benjamin Disraeli

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The greatest good you can do for another
is not just share your riches but
reveal to him his own.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Perspective Short: Elizabeth Alraune

What good is faith in the "Universe"
if you don't have faith in Yourself?

Having faith in the Universe without
having faith in Yourself is like having
a car with an empty gas tank.

You have a vehicle to get you where
you need to go, but how far will you
be able to travel without fuel? And,
provided you can still get "there,"
how much more time, energy, and effort
will need to be spent to make up for
what was missing?

-Elizabeth Alraune

Perspective Short: Elizabeth Alraune - On Drawing Lines

When one draws lines, there is always a risk of being
on the inside and wanting to be on the outside, or
being on the outside and wanting to be on the inside.
-Elizabeth Alraune

Perspective Short: John Barrymore

You can only be as good as
you dare to be bad.
-John Barrymore

Perspective Short: Senator Ted Kennedy

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"In short, I hope for an America where neither
'fundamentalist' nor 'humanist' will be a dirty
word, but a fair description of the different
ways in which people of good will look at life
and into their own souls."
-Senator Ted Kennedy

 

Perspective Short: The Road to Happiness - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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I love this quote!
You'll see why in a minute.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment
and happiness. Just because they're not on
your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

 

Perspective Short: In Times of Difficulty - H.K. Barclay

When walking through the "Valley of Shadows,"
remember a shadow is cast by a Light.
-H.K. Barclay

 

Perspective Short: Elizabeth Alraune - Beauty

May the beauty within you
cast a shadow on the world today.

-Elizabeth Alraune