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Insight of the week archive

Spiritual and inspirational quotes. The Insight of the Week was established in late June, 2004 by Hamid Shibata Bennett, LMT, licensed massage therapist in Gresham & Portland, Oregon. The quotations come from Hamid's library of readings and meanderings through the spiritual world. May you find a glimmer of truth in these words, leading you ever closer to the beauty of your self-realization. Namasté.

insight2006

December 23rd, 2006
Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace. -Buddha

November 27th, 2006
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. -Socrates

November 16th, 2006
Whatever you do in life, do the very best you can with both your heart and mind. -Lakota saying

October 31st, 2006
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. -Greek proverb

Ocdtober 19th, 2006
Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow. -Sarah Ban Breathnach

October 9th, 2006
He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts. -Swami Vivekananda

September 24th, 2006
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. -Henry David Thoreau

September 12th, 2006
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust

August 26th, 2006
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. -Dr. Suess

August 11th, 2006
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. -Sutta Nipata

August 4th, 2006
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. -Oscar Wilde

July 27th, 2006
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln

July 18th, 2006
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. -Joseph Campbell

July 12th, 2006
Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. -Saint Francis De Sales

July 2nd, 2006
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -ee cummings

June 28th, 2006
There is no religion higher than service. -Silver Birch

June 20th, 2006
You cannot do meditation, you can be only be in meditation. It is not a question of doing something, it is a question of being. It is not an act, but a state. -Osho

June 12th, 2006
When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. -Hsin Hsin Ming

June 8th, 2006
Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is Love, enjoy it! -Sri Sathya Sai Baba

May 28th, 2006
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. -Thomas Jefferson

May 23rd, 2006
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. - Buddha

May 15th, 2006
Each of you have that spark of eternity that was never born and never dies within you. -Joe Miller

May 8th, 2006
Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound. -Hafiz

May 2nd, 2006
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. - Matin Luther King

April 24th, 2006
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -Albert Einstein

April 17th, 2006
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -Henry David Thoreau

April 9th, 2006
There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now. -Buddha

March 13th, 2006
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. -Henry David Thoreau

March 7th, 2006
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. -Ray Bradbury

February 26th, 2006
Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments. -The Talmud

February 20th, 2006
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

February 13th, 2006
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. -Rabindranath Tagore

February 5th, 2006
You can only know yourself by earmarking the traces of God's being in your personality. -Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

February 1st, 2006
We start our lives trying to be teachers; it is very hard to learn to be a pupil. -Hazrat Inayat Khan

January 22nd, 2006
There are beautiful wild forces within us. Let them turn the mills inside and fill sacks that feed even heaven.- St. Francis of Assisi

January 17th, 2006
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. -The Dalai Lama

January 8th, 2006
The calm soul knows more than anything this world can offer from her beautiful womb. -St. John of the Cross

January 1st, 2006
So fragile this petal the earth, as fragile as love. -Mira

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2915 NE Broadway, Suite C ~ Portland, OR 97232
1450 NW 5th CT ~ Gresham, OR 97030
ABMP ~ OR Lic. #301 ~ 503-975-1259

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