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Powerful Wise Words
For Living Meaningfully, Effectively, and Well
1) In Offering Thanks, We Give Ourselves, and That is a Greater Gift Than the Original Present.
“The interdependence of gratefulness is truly mutual. The receiver of the gift depends on the giver. Obviously so. But the circle of gratefulness is incomplete until the giver of the gift becomes the receiver: a receiver of thanks. When we give thanks, we give something greater than the gift we received, whatever it was. The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.” — David Steindl-Rast, Benedictine Monk
2) The Dissolving of a Hundred Thousand Aspects of Ego is Needed to Fully Know Enlightenment.
“You and I; You should wish to have a hundred thousand sets of moth wings, So you could burn them away one set a night”. - Rumi, 13th-century Persian Poet, Faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi Mystic
3) Solitude Reveals Something Grander Than Man.
“It is very dissipating to be with people too much. Ah! I need solitude! I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the…
