I am not a human being having a spiritual experience:

I am a spiritual being having a human experience.

Thoughts on living

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and dance with the Earth in all her glorious colors

~ Henry David Thoreau

Dance like nobody’s watching
Love like you’ve never been hurt
Sing like nobody’s listening
Live like it’s heaven on earth

Mark Twain

Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music

- Friedrich Nietzsche

The midnight earth sends incense up, sweet with the breath of prayer,

Go out beneath the naked night and get religion there.

— Sam Walter Foss

Any reasonably intelligent person can make things bigger, and more complex, and more violent. It takes genius to move in the opposite direction.

May I deal with honour

May I act with courage

May I achieve humility

Dick Francis, Straight

Once you make a decision, the Universe conspires to make it happen.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schoepenhauer

We must pay respect to water, and feel love and gratitude, and receive vibrations with a positive attitude. Then, water changes, you change, and I change. Because both you and I are water

- Dr. Masaru Emoto

Thoughts on life

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Gandhi

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Confucius

To understand others is wisdom; to understand oneself is enlightenment.

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb; that's where the fruit is.

It’s not that the Irish are cynical. It’s rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

Brendan Behan

A matter of perspective?
When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are -

Cary Grant

A frightening thought?
Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

RESEARCH SHOWS THAT:
Chocolate makes your clothes shrink

To avoid sickness, eat less
To prolong life, worry less.

Chu Hui Weng

Thoughts on happiness

Whoever is happy will make others happy too

- Mark Twain

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

- Dale Carnegie

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do

- Mother Teresa

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift.

- Abraham Lincoln

Free bungee jumps for politicians (no strings attached)

Caroline Carver, Dead Heat

If you're being chased by a police dog, try not to go through a tunnel, then on to a little seesaw, then jump through a hoop of fire. They're trained for that.

Milton Jones at the Underbelly
Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Thoughts on service

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile

Albert Einstein

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Albert Schweitzer

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Alex Noble

I slept and dreamed that Life was joy,
I woke and found that Life was Service,
I served and discovered that Service was joy.

Unknown

Remember to remember - Unknown