© Silver Lining Of Your Cloud 2014
Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Service
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I
acted and behold, service was joy. ~Rabindranath Tagore
If you want to awaken all of humanity,
then awaken all of yourself.
If you want …to eliminate
suffering in the world,
then eliminate all that
is dark and negative in yourself.
Truly, the greatest gift you have to give
is that of your own self-transformation
~Lao Tzu
When it comes to our activism, we have to ask ourselves if we are divided.
Do we see an enemy? If so, then we are not seeing things in their true light
and are part of the problem we are trying to solve. ~Adyashanti
If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away
by the current–how can he help others across? ~Sutta Nipata
It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to
love and let love do what it will. ~J. Krishnamurti
Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes
the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality:
to be in service to the silence of the heart. ~Adyashanti
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones
among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found
how to serve. ~Albert Schweitzer
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment. ~Anthony Robbins
Every has a purpose in life…a unique gift or special talent to give to others.
And when we blend this talent with service to others, we experience the
ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all
goals. ~Deepak Chopra
Because of love
I have become
a giver of light.
~Rumi
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us
every day. ~Sally Koch
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can
know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to
serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. ~Igor Stravinski
Your soul mission is your reason for being, your life purpose. It’s your calling
in life–who you feel called to be, what you feel called to do. Mission is an
energy that flows through you–a drive, voice, or passion that you cannot
ignore…It’s what you know in your heart you must live if you are to
experience inner peace and harmony. ~Alan Seale
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out
to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. ~Clarissa Pinkda Estes
The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins
with a smile. ~Mother Theresa
My life belongs to the world. I will do what I can. ~James Dickey
And when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one
another, and to God. ~Kahlil Gibran
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart. ~Pearl
S. Buck
See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self;
then you can care for all things.
~Tao-Te Ching
Until we become selfless to our own selfish desires, we cannot truly give
ourselves for the welfare of others. ~Radhanath Swami
Detachment means not to be caught by the glamor of the physical, emotional
or mental possessions you may have. As a person detaches, he becomes more
involved in life in such a way that he is not involved in personal interests but
in doing something good for the whole world. ~Torkom Saraydarian
One of the most beautiful inquiries is, “What does my life serve?” This is a
big question. It’s not asking, “What form is my service taking?” It doesn’t
particularly matter what form our service takes when we are serving the
silence of the heart. The only thing that’s important is, “What is my life really
serving? ~Adyashanti
Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes
the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality:
to be in service to the silence of the heart. ~Adyashanti
Everything and everyone has their own life to live, and we can’t just wipe
away their suffering because our hearts are open. Although we would love to
have everyone wake up and be happy, part of the heartbreak is accepting this
moment, this world, just as it is. ~Adyashanti
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you
without diminishing your degrees of freedom? ~Buckminster Fuller
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our
automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to
humanity. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. ~Edward
Everett Hale
Service doesn’t start when you have something to give–it blossoms naturally
when you have nothing left to take. ~Nipun Mehta
Every noble life leaves its fibre interwoven forever in the work of the world.
~John Ruskin
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me,
what can it be? ~Vincent Van Gogh
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save:
they just stand there, shining. ~Anne Lamott
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. ~Mother Theresa
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate. He who loves finds the gate
open. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
Respond to every call that excites your Spirit. ~Rumi
Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes
gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference in our
own lives and those of others. ~Sharon Salzberg
Respond to every call that excites your Spirit. ~Rumi
Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes
gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference in our
own lives and those of others. ~Sharon Salzberg
When it comes to our activism, we have to ask ourselves if we are divided.
Do we see an enemy? If so, then we are not seeing things in their true light
and are part of the problem we are trying to solve. ~Adyashanti
You cannot be happy unless you are serving the truth of your being, however
that service looks. ~Gangaji
I do not ask to see,
I do not ask to know,
I ask only to be used.
~Unknown
The essence of spirituality and mysticism is readiness to serve the person next
to us. ~Hazrat Inayat Khan
Do not be concerned with the fruit of your action—just give attention to the
action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. ~Eckhart Tolle
Detached action is unselfish work. ~Bhagavad Gita
By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage
peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another. ~Ram Dass
Respond to every call that excites your Spirit. ~Rumi
Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes
gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference in our
own lives and those of others. ~Sharon Salzberg
When it comes to our activism, we have to ask ourselves if we are divided.
Do we see an enemy? If so, then we are not seeing things in their true light
and are part of the problem we are trying to solve. ~Adyashanti
You cannot be happy unless you are serving the truth of your being, however
that service looks. ~Gangaji
I do not ask to see,
I do not ask to know,
I ask only to be used.
~Unknown
The essence of spirituality and mysticism is readiness to serve the person next
to us. ~Hazrat Inayat Khan
Do not be concerned with the fruit of your action–just give attention to the
action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. ~Eckhart Tolle
Detached action is unselfish work. ~Bhagavad Gita
By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage
peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another. ~Ram Dass
In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are
wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it. ~Marianne
Williamson
