Some Good Ones

In this episode, the Dharma Circle team deep dives into a quote by Ansari of Herat

“Know that when you learn to lose yourself, you will reach the Beloved. There is no other secret to be learned, and more than this is not known to me.” Ansari of Herat

Quotes of the week- 

Monday- 
“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”
- Lin Yutang

Tuesday- 
“Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.”
- Karl Menninger

Wednesday- 
“There are tones of voices that mean more than words.” 
- Robert Frost

Thursday- 
“Know that when you learn to lose yourself, you will reach the beloved. There is no other secret to be learned, and more than this is not known to me.” 
- Ansari of Herat

Friday- 
“The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.”
- Eric Hoffer

Saturday- 
"The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”
- Emerson

Sunday- 
"As oil in sesame seeds, as butter in milk, as water in rivers, as fire in wood, so the Self is found within oneself…” 
- Shvetashvatara Upanishad 1.15

In this episode, the Dharma Circle team deep dives into a quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

“Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”

Quotes of the week- 

Monday- 
“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.” 
- Fred Rogers

Tuesday- 
“Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They’re compassionate because their boundaries keep them out of resentment.” 
- Brené Brown

Wednesday- 
“The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.” 
- Henry David Thoreau

Thursday- 
“Each person must discover [their] own philosophy of life,  and it is not fair or right to impose our codes upon others. It is also our responsibility, however, to share one with another such experiences as may have common value." 
- Manly Palmer Hall

Friday- 
“The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union, the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.” 
- Julia Cameron

Saturday- 
"The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.” 
- Albert Einstein

Sunday- 
“When you get your 'Who am I?' question right, all of your, 'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves” 
- Richard Rohr

In this episode, the Dharma Circle team deep dives into a quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.”

Quotes of the week- 

Monday- 
“After years of being taught that the way to deal with painful emotions is to get rid of them, it can take a lot of reschooling to learn to sit with them instead, finding out from those who feel them what they have learned by sleeping in the wilderness...”  
- Barbara Brown Taylor

Tuesday- 
“When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.”  
- Brené Brown

Wednesday- 
“Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need.”
- Marshall Rosenberg

Thursday- 
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” 
- Joseph Campbell

Friday- 
“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.” 
- David Lynch

Saturday- 
“Rest and activity are the steps of progress.” 
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Sunday- 
“Out of bliss these beings are born, in bliss they are sustained, and to bliss they go and merge again.” 
- Taittiriya Upanishad 3.6.1