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| ISBN-13: | 9781475941180 |
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| Publisher: | iUniverse, Incorporated |
| Publication date: | 09/26/2012 |
| Pages: | 234 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.69(d) |
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PROVERBS and EPIGRAMS
Brief Ideas with Great PowerBy PIETRO GRIECO
iUniverse, Inc.
Copyright © 2012 Pietro GriecoAll right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4759-4116-6
Chapter One
REALITYConsciously or unconsciously, you create your own reality. Do it for a constructive purpose.
COMPASSION
A compassionate heart calms all tempests.
SPIRITUAL THINKER
The best way to be a spiritual thinker is not to think. Just be, and smile.
REALITY
Reality never is a naked truth. Reality is a representation.
THOUGHT
Most thoughts we think to be original are but repetitions of old thoughts. To have a new thought is truly a phenomenon.
COSMIC
We do not live in a material world. We live in a cosmic consciousness.
PILGRIMAGE
Life is a continuous pilgrimage into the depth of our own heart.
WHOLENESS
The whole is composed and sustained by opposite forces.
SILENCE
Silence and emptiness obliterate time and space.
MOVEMENT
Without movement, the universe collapses.
TRUTH
To know truth, you must investigate the assumptions behind your own thoughts and your ways of thinking.
THOUGHT
It can rain on your head but never in your mind. Thoughts never get wet.
HAPPINESS
Happy are those who can be satisfied with what they have.
REALITY
Reality is an invisible machine building our world in each instant.
PLENITUDE
Emptiness is the source of plenitude.
PERSEVERANCE
Wise is the intelligent person who, though failing time after time, keeps his calm and persists.
HAPPINESS
Happiness is abundant to the simple.
TECHNOLOGY
When technology is speedier than humanity, chaos is near.
HARMONY
The one who is in harmony with the whole will find it easy to find peace with the parts.
HARMONY
Light and darkness are the same in two different moments.
ENERGY
Life is energy. How you channel it will determine health or illness, happiness or despair.
WISDOM
Doing nothing is wiser than doing a lot of harm.
PEACE
If you do not fight for peace in your consciousness, you will fight wars with others.
GRATITUDE
Gratitude is the gate of supply, peace, and paradise.
JUSTICE
Pursuing peace is better than pursuing war, but pursuing justice and love is even better.
MEDITATION
Meditate and be at one with the wind and the birds. The wind will take away your thoughts, and the birds will fill you with joy.
BEING
Nobody can expel heaven from your heart except you.
EMPATHY
Often we feel bad for others when they don't understand us; seldom do we feel bad for ourselves when we don't understand others.
SPIRITUALITY
What we search for spiritually—as in science—has been there all the time.
FUTURE
As we keep knocking periodically on the future invisible wall, one day it opens, and bliss reveals itself.
NATURE
You discover the wonder of the world when you see the world through the wonder of life in and around you.
WORDS
It is always easier to criticize than to do the work.
PARADISE
There is no paradise on Earth unless you transform your place into a paradise.
WORDS
Among all human inventions, the word is the most powerful to injure or to heal.
VIOLENCE
At the end, weapons will destroy those who possess them.
VIOLENCE
Weapons will own the owner.
BODY
Love your body! It is the best vehicle you have.
PRAYER
Prayer is an anchor launched into the future.
EMPATHY
Feel empathy for all those in need, and do what your heart tells you to do.
PERSEVERANCE
It is not intelligence but perseverance and the right path that win the prize.
BEING
No man is very far away from his own being.
PATIENCE
Prisons are full of intelligent people who didn't have the patience to take the right way.
GOVERNMENT
A good government makes people happy when it is not ruining their future.
REALITY
When Max Plank received the Nobel Prize, he said, "There is a mind that is the matrix of all matter." But we look for the consciousness that is the matrix of mind, reality, and unreality.
BODY
Punishing the body does not heal the soul.
SPIRITUALITY
When there are interferences with God, the main problem is the ego.
CONNECTION
We are always connected to the Big Mind. However, we don't know how clear the connection is and how much energy we let pass through the connection.
CONNECTION
Cause and effect are parts of the same problem.
PERSEVERANCE
On propitious days, it is not wise to waste the hours.
INTENTION
Intention works through the field of connectivity to reach the source.
CONNECTION
In a blissful moment, we realize the sacred connection is like one between a man and a woman in loving intimacy, mystical and mysterious.
HAPPINESS
In life, there is no way to happiness because happiness is the rough way in life.
LOVE
Senses are not the abode of love; they are only ways to make it visible.
SPIRITUALITY
Don't buy a policy insuring your eternity because, if eternity exists, you will have paid in vain, and, if eternity doesn't exist, nobody will be there to pay you.
FRIENDSHIP
Friends are those with whom you can disagree openly.
HAPPINESS
If we do not find happiness, we have to change our way of seeing because when we change our way of seeing, things change.
CONSCIOUSNESS
Yes, the observer changes the object observed—logically—in his or her own consciousness.
CONNECTION
After a glance, how can one avoid being drowned in the other's eye?
SPIRITUALITY
Everyone has a high responsibility to treasure his or her divinity.
SPIRITUALITY
We are spiritual beings having a divine experience or a confused human one.
SPIRITUALITY
If you want to feel good in all that you do, you should be tuned in to the fountain of all goodness.
SORROW
Sorrow will not leave the one who embraces it often.
CONNECTION
Recognizing the best in others will bring out the best in us.
SPIRITUALITY
Good and God can be used as synonyms. If you really want to feel good, you have to feel God, experience God, and live God.
PRAYER
When you pray, pray for your friends and your foes; for the infinite parent, both are his children.
RESPECT
Respecting authority doesn't mean blind obedience.
COMPASSION
Is it possible to feel good when there is so much war, poverty, perversion, violence, and injustice? It doesn't matter how bad you feel, how much you suffer, or how much sickness you sense, never will you improve an ill person or a wounded world.
HAPPINESS
Improve the world; feel happy and do good deeds.
COMPASSION
You cannot be poor enough to improve the situation of the poor.
JOY
For a prisoner, joy is freedom. For the sad one also, joy is freedom.
CONNECTION
What is happening to you is happening to your world.
REALITY
What is real is only what we have been taught to accept as real.
REALITY
Reality is what our senses have been educated to perceive.
REALITY
When people give their values of truth to the perception of the world, they call it reality.
FREEDOM
To be authentic, freedom must destroy even the most subtle chains of slavery, but it has to be a slave of justice and harmony to be effective.
BEING
Concentrate on the surrounding conditions you want to produce, and avoid excuses for not living a fruitful life.
NATURE
Nature is happy with no ambitions and no morality.
CONNECTION
What we think of as obstacles are our own limitations in connecting with the source of infinite possibilities.
NATURE
Nature is in harmony respecting the whole and the parts of the great form.
LOVE
One of the greatest challenges for love is to do what is right to do: respect and live the truth even if it hurts.
CREATIVITY
Positive stress concentrates energy to be used in inspirational and creative actions.
IMAGINATION
Imagination has no limits.
BEING
We already are the whole accomplished being we want to be; we have just to demonstrate it.
VIOLENCE
Promoting killers as heroes does not generate an advanced, peaceful humanity.
SANCTITY
Saints appeared in the worst periods of history because they were needed.
CHILDHOOD
Can we expect children to be saints when they are growing in an environment contaminated by crime, noisy music, bad food, dogmatic religions, and biases of official propaganda waged against their own interests?
CONNECTION
It is possible to change the energy of life by reconnecting to the energy of the spirit.
VIOLENCE
In advanced countries, before the age of fourteen, young people have seen at least fourteen thousand simulated murders. Do so many killings surprise you?
WORDS
First, watch the way you talk to yourself and then to others.
EDUCATION
Never teach children through fear in order to manipulate them because they will do the same when they are adults.
PATIENCE
The best way to face violence is through nonviolence and unlimited patience.
TIME
While youth moves in virtual time, politicians crawl in their historical time.
SPIRITUALITY
The field of connection to the source responds according to how we feel and talk mentally.
CONNECTION
For the source, there is no separation, nor walls, between our thinking and the field of connection.
WISDOM
Intelligence depends on knowledge; wisdom relies on prudence.
FUTURE
The future knows how to respond and fulfill your desire according to the intentions with which you connect to it.
PATIENCE
When things don't work from the start, think from the perfect end, and the outcome will be right.
CONNECTION
See yourself always connected because this is the way it already is.
THOUGHT
We follow the old concept of "as a man thinks, so is he" because thoughts are energy in motion.
HARMONY
When we are in harmony, we are at one with the source, the future, and the eternal presence.
FRIENDSHIP
Friends are those in front of whom we can think aloud; they can laugh about our stupidity, and we can laugh at ourselves too.
BEING
You can be the maximum of your being. Don't limit it. Let it be.
INTENTION
Have the clear intention to live with a loving purpose, and the purpose will unfold.
SPIRITUALITY
You are inspired when you are really breathing in spirit.
CREATIVITY
When sudden inspiration touches the dormant forces of your being, be ready to let creativity flow.
NATURE
The most precious things—life, air, and the sky—are free.
BEING
When you are at one with the future, which is infinite, you will envision the vastness of your being.
SPIRITUAL THINKER
Spiritual thinkers neither prohibit nor push; they only show luminous ideas.
FUTURE
It is impossible to think of the future and the vastness of its creativity. That is why the future comes to us drop by drop.
MUSIC
Never think to die with the music of life still in you. Sing and let your music play.
SPIRITUALITY
In agony or ecstasy, remind your unique self that one human lifetime is only a short parenthesis in eternity. Then be free to open the parenthesis and see the infinite.
PURPOSE
Live a life with the higher purpose you can follow, and be grateful for the small achievements of each day.
KINDNESS
Instead of being upset by those who bring problems, offer benevolence and abundant blessing to them.
BEING
You can never lose a simple thing. You brought nothing small into this life, and nothing small will you take away.
KINDNESS
Being a recipient of acts of kindness releases more endorphins, increasing peace and happiness in you and others. Be a giver!
BEING
To be—even for an infinitesimal moment—is not a small thing.
BEING
Staying in your doing is the grace of being active in the full meaning of life.
KINDNESS
Loving kindness increases our health, strengthening the immune system of the whole community.
TIME
To stay in the now means to stay frozen in the prison of ephemeral time.
TIME
Be and let time vanish.
BEING
We are more than what we think. We are what we love, what we create, and what we can transcend.
KINDNESS
Givers and receivers of acts of kindness increase their well-being and the well-being of the whole society.
SPIRITUALITY
Being connected to Spirit—the source of well-being—makes it possible to create bliss from nothing and all.
COMPASSION
From time to time, let the weak or the disabled one be the winner, the real hero. Then you will feel something beautiful is growing in your soul.
SPIRITUALITY
The provider of endless supply doesn't know about your "I don't have." Notice how much love you can give, how much grace you can manifest, and how much beauty you can express.
SPIRITUALITY
We thank God for each symbol of abundance coming to our life, especially when we don't need it.
PRAYER
With every prayer, create a space of receptivity to collect all that will be supplied as an answer.
SPIRITUALITY
When we are in the sacred space of spirit, all that we need is supplied. Be there!
GRACE
When you are conquered by grace, the universe will conspire with you to provide what you need, even the unexpected.
TRANSFORMATION
Change your life. Love yourself, and change your thinking. But start from higher principles.
KNOWLEDGE
Faulty interpretation of facts produces a lot of suffering.
JUDGMENT
We will be free when we stop interpreting and judging others, thus avoiding being wrongly interpreted and judged, especially in our own mind.
MEDITATION
When you meditate, concentrate on God or your divine self ... or both as one.
DEVOTION
Unseen things will become visible when devotion opens the door of trust.
DEVOTION
Devotion and love for God enlightens its presence in us.
CONNECTION
When we belittle others, we unconsciously lower our own self-worth.
WISDOM
Don't be brilliant five minutes after the opportunity is lost.
PEACE
To create peace, we must feel at peace, and when peace seems impossible, we must create the best conditions to generate peace.
FRIENDSHIP
Honor others, especially if they consider themselves enemies. In the long run, they will transform into friends.
SPIRITUALITY
To pass the threshold into eternal life, we need to give away all our possessions, including our body.
LOVE
We go in spirit as pure soul. This way, we can embrace the one and be at one with love.
TEACHER
For a sensitive student, the lilies of the field or the silent sky can be exceptional teachers.
SPIRITUALITY
When our spirit is at one with the force, an infinite energy replenishes our being effortlessly.
MEDITATION
When the meditation has been deep, we come back from the Mount of Peace and Transfiguration with a face luminously filled with divine light.
MEDITATION
Meditation leaves behind mind and body; thus, our being will be transparent to time and space and conscious of infinite peace and joy.
MEDITATION
Meditation means alignment to perfection with all; then we are at peace with the whole and the parts.
FORGIVENESS
We forgive when we are less critical of ourselves and more compassionate toward others.
BODY
Be happy and grateful for your body. It will allow you to enjoy a greater life.
HAPPINESS
Unhappiness is based on low-level assumptions. These produce twisted thinking, fear, panic, and even rage. Accepting reality as it is lets us navigate at a higher altitude.
FORGIVENESS
When we fail to forgive, we fail to manifest genuine love.
EMPATHY
When we assume to know how other people feel, we may not realize how their burdens may be heavier than anything we might ever have imagined.
DEVOTION
Devotion or suffering can put us on our knees; it depends on us to choose.
WISDOM
If understanding doesn't humble us, then suffering will.
TEACHING
Some teachers teach with words, others teach with silence, and others teach with their lives.
SUFFERING
Pain more than pleasure has guided individuals to a spiritual awakening.
JOURNEY
It is important to know what to seek, but the way we seek will determine failure or success.
MEANING
How we make meaning and create space for new meanings will make the whole difference in our search.
JOURNEY
On Earth, we are all immigrants or aliens. One day, we will have to emigrate to new dimensions. The original ticket already includes the connection to the flight ahead.
REALITY
Go forth peacefully into all possible landscapes. In the quality of seeing, you will create them and find what you expect or not.
SUFFERING
Scars in your soul are the reason for the pain in your brain.
(Continues...)
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