Life

Your Life Journey

Complete spiritual maturity is never achieved in a day, or in a year, or even in a lifetime. The journey toward spiritual maturity is a process that continues, moment by moment and day by day, throughout every stage of life. Every chapter of life has its opportunities and its challenges, and if we are wise, we continue to seek God’s guidance as each new stage unfolds. When we do so, we allow the Creator who made us to keep remaking us.

If we cease to grow, either emotionally or spiritually, we do ourselves and our loved ones a profound disservice. But if we focus our thoughts and attune our hearts to the will of God, we’ll make each new day another stage in the spiritual journey.

Five steps to an Enthusiastic Life

1. Stop deprecating yourself.
2. Stop thinking about yourself all the time.
3. Recall the words of Goethe:”He who has a firm will moulds the world to himself.”
4. Have an overriding goal in your life.

The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death when it is meaningful to do so. Technology has to support these goals. If not, it may even be counterproductive. ~ Dr Joel J. Nobel, co-founder, Emergency Care Research Institute

5. Stop wasting your mental energy on complaining. Grumbling is the death of love. ~ Marlene Dietrich

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. ~ Helen Keller

The way to live is to be. ~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

There is a time to succeed in life and a time to make a success of your life. ~ Brigitte Bardot’s favourite saying of a La Rochefoucauld

Totally without hope one cannot live. 
To live without hope is to cease to live.
Hell is hopelessness. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Principles:The choice is between a clock and a compass
We are not in control of our lives; principles are. This idea provides a key insight into the frustration people have had with the traditional ‘time management’ approach to life.

This approach to running our lives has been likened to a clock, as we time how we live each part of our day, endeavouring to make it more and more efficient. Rather than offering you another clock, the principle approach to running our lives provides us with a compass.

There is something more important than knowing how fast you are going — we need to know where we are going.

It’s much more a matter of what you do and why you do it, than how fast you get it done.

Practise moderation in all things; do not be overzealous — adopt moderation as your life principle. ~ Confucius, Analects

Looking For Fruit All The Time
It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, it may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that does not mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

Learning From Mahatma Gandhi
I claim to be no more than an average man with less than average abilities. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Smile
Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other — it does not matter who it is — and that will help you grow up in greater love for each other. ~ Mother Teresa

Looking At The Wrong Door
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~ Alexander Graham Bell

The Limitation of Competition
Learn to create, not compete.

No survival of our globe without a global ethic. ~ Hans Kung

Every human being must be treated humanely. Have respect for life. Violence may not be a means of settling differences with others.

Have Respect for Life. Violence may not be a means of settling differences with others.

• All people have a right to life, safety and the free development of personality in so far as they do not injure the rights of others.
• No one has the right physically or psychically to torture, injure, much less kill, any other human being.
• And no people, no state, no race, no religion has the right to hate, to discriminate against, to ‘cleanse’ to exile, much less to liquidate a ‘foreign’ minority which is different.

Deal honestly and fairly. Greedy people lose their ’souls’ — that which makes them human.

• No one has the right to rob or dispossess in any way whatsover any other person.
• Further, no one has the right to use her or his possessions without concern for the needs of society and Earth.

Speak and act truthfully. Every human being has a right to truth and truthfulness. 
No woman or man, no institution, no state or church or religious community, has the right to speak lies to other humans.

Respect and love one another. Responsibility for your partner’s happiness.
No one has the right to degrade others to mere sex objects, to lead them into or hold them in sexual dependency.