The Magic of Optimism
Posted: January 20, 2012 Filed under: Inspirational Gems | Tags: Alice Herz Sommer, Happiness, Optimism, Tony Robbins 8 Comments »I couldn’t resist sharing this link with you! If you need a little inspiration, you’ll find it here.
108 year-old concentration camp survivor, Alice Herz Sommer, shares the magic of optimism in an interview with Tony Robbins. Alice wrote her memoir at the age of 104: A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer. Her motto: “Everything is a present.”
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Tasting Our True Essence
Posted: January 15, 2012 Filed under: Inspirational Gems, Mindfulness & Awareness | Tags: Buddhism, Compassion, Nature of Mind, Spirituality 4 Comments »Inspiration:
“An effortless compassion can arise for all beings who have not realized their true nature. So limitless is it that if tears could express it, you would cry without end. Not only compassion, but tremendous skillful means can be born when you realize the nature of mind. Also you are naturally liberated from all suffering and fear, such as the fear of birth, death and the intermediate state. Then if you were to speak of the joy and bliss that arise from this realization, it is said by the buddhas that if you were to gather all the glory, enjoyment, pleasure and happiness of the world and put it all together, it would not approach one tiny fraction of the bliss that you experience upon realizing the nature of mind.”
- Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche
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35 Inspiring Quotes from Albert Einstein
Posted: November 3, 2011 Filed under: Inspirational Gems, Quotations | Tags: Einstein, Quotes 45 Comments »
Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955), the famous theoretical physicist, developed the theory of relativity and is considered the father of modern physics. The nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer shared his impressions of Einstein by saying, “He was almost wholly without sophistication and wholly without worldliness . . . There was always with him a wonderful purity at once childlike and profoundly stubborn.”
Due to his brilliance Einstein was often called upon to offer opinions on topics beyond the realm of physics; thus the wide range of inspired quotations.
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
“Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.”
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
