OCTOBER WHISPERS FROM THE
OTHER SIDE
October 1
I
will not stand in my own way!
Epictetus
October 2
There
is something more to life, and that is LIFE.
October 3
Just because the message may never be received
does not mean
it is not worth sending.
Segaki
October 4
It is impossible for a man to begin to learn
that which he
thinks that he knows.
Epictetus
October 5
Time alone relieves the foolish from sorrow,
but reason the wise.
Epictetus
October 6
You are here to learn love and humility.
The sooner you
learn them the sooner you can leave.
October 7
We
outgrow one stage of life but to fit ourselves for another.
Joel Goldsmith
October 8
There
fore never seek your work in one place and progress in another.
Epictetus
October 10
THINKING
cannot make anything true.
Joel Goldsmith
October 11
Truth
is the highest thing that man may keep.
Chaucer
October 12
And
Jesus said unto him, “If you can! All
things are possible to him who believes.” Immediately the father of the child cried
out with tears and said, “I believe; help thou my unbelief!”
Mark 9 23-24
October 13
The important thing is for you to know the
truth.
But
remember that not being known doesn’t stop the truth
from being
true.
Richard Bach
from Illusions
October 14
Gentleness is stronger than severity,
water
is stronger than rock
and love is stronger than force.
Hesse’s
Siddhartha
October 15
As long as man has someone or something to cling to
he will not
find God.
Joel Goldsmith
October 16
Live never to be ashamed if
anything
you do or say is published around the world
even if what
is published is not true.
Richard Bach
from Illusions
October 17
To cheat oneself out of love
is
the most terrible deception;
it is an
eternal loss for which
there
is no reparation, in either time or in eternity.
Kierdegaard
October 18
He has shown you, oh man, what is good;
and
what does the Lord require of you
but to do
justice, and to love kindness,
and
to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8
October 18
What kind of people are these who despise my
ways?
Are
they wise or foolish?
If they are
wise, why do you fight with them?
If
they are fools, why do you care about them?
Epictetus
October 19
There
is neither good nor evil because there is only God.
October 20
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty
of your selfishness.
Listen to it
carefully.
Richard Bach
from Illusions
October 21
Until
a person realizes the futility of seeking things,
he will not be
fulfilled.
October 22
There is a land of the living
and
a land of the dead,
and the bridge
is love,
the only survival, the only meaning. Thomas Wilder
October 23
It is not what we become aware of that is
important,
But
how the mind interprets that of which we are aware
and what we do
with it.
October 24
What is mine?
What is not mine?
What is given to me?
What
does God will that I do now?
What does He not will? Epictetus
October 25
The Soul is a much better thing than all the
others you possess.
Can you then
show me in what way you have taken care of it?
For it is not likely that you, who are so wise
a man,
inconsiderately
and carelessly allow
the most valuable thing that you possess
to be
neglected and to perish.
Epictetus
October 26
Whatever
the soul longs for, will be attained by the spirit.
Thoughts and
Meditations by Kalil Gibran
October 27
Argue
for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.
Richard Back
in Illusions
October 28
Reflect more carefully,
know thyself,
consult divinity,
without
God attempt nothing;
For if He shall advise you,
be
assured that He intends you to become great
or to receive
many blows.
Epictetus
October 29
For
yesterday I was blind,
and
today’s vision could not see.
Yet
tomorrow I will find,
the
same is true and will always be.
October 30
Fear comes from what you expect; but grief from
that which is present. (Epictetus)
There is therefore no fear without expectations
and no grief if
“I am always content with that which happens;
for I think what God chooses is better than what I choose.” (Epictetus)
October 31
Take there fore no thought for the morrow:
for
the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.
Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof.
Matthew 6:34