Gratitude is heaven itself. William Blake

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson

To receive, you must be active. Keep in mind your purpose.

“A Spiritual Warrior looks for the most efficient and effective way to accomplish something -- the most direct way is a living truth.”
― John-Roger, Spiritual Warrior: The Art of Spiritual Living

“To receive, you must be active. Keep in mind your purpose. You will receive in direct proportion to your clarity of vision, your definiteness of purpose, the steadiness of your faith, and the depth of your gratitude.”
― John-Roger, Spiritual Warrior: The Art of Spiritual Living

I am convinced that all of the negative things we hear or do, or that other people do, boil down to two primary motivations: I want to give love and I want to receive love. Then why not, right this moment, steel ourselves against failure, against subterfuge, against deception, and cut straight to love? John-Roger, Spiritual Warrior: The Art of Spiritual Living

Once you love the enemy inside, once you embrace it, that enemy will transform and yield its power to you. John-Roger, Spiritual Warrior: The Art of Spiritual Living

“The darkness transformed the moment you accepted it, and all the power that was blocking you before now becomes the power of ascension, of upliftment. When you feel really negative and you talk about it—not as a victim but as a way of facing the enemy and loving it—you are saying, “Out of God come all things.” All things. That includes the negative things, too. Negative doesn’t mean bad; we make things bad by judging them.” ― John-Roger, Spiritual Warrior: The Art of Spiritual Living

Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is. Richard P. Feynman

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Richard P. Feynman 

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

 Richard Feynman

You do not find a happy life. You make it.

Richard Feynman

The only way to great happiness and deep satisfaction is to do something you love to the best of your ability.

Richard Feynman

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Richard P. Feynman 

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.

 Richard P. Feynman 

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Students don't need a perfect teacher. Students need a happy teacher, who's gonna make them excited to come to school and grow a love for learning.

The goal of teaching should not be to help the students learn how to memorize and spit out information under academic pressure. The purpose of teaching is to inspire the desire for learning in them and make them able to think, understand, and question.

You won't learn anything if you think you know everything already.

Basically, the dumber you are, the smarter you think you are and vice versa.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

Genius doesn’t come from knowing all the answers—it comes from embracing uncertainty and following where it leads.

If you have a theory, you must try to explain what’s good and what’s bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty.

Great teaching is like jazz—it’s spontaneous, responsive, and deeply connected to the moment.

Education is not about filling your mind with facts; it’s about sparking curiosity and fostering the ability to think critically.

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

Students should be made to think, to doubt, to communicate, to question, to learn from their mistakes, and most importantly have fun in their learning.

If your theory doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. It doesn't matter how beautiful it is.

Learning is the art of turning information into insight.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

Educate yourself about things. Study hard what interests you the most. Don't worry about what others think of you, that's none of your business. Train your mind to think, doubt, and question. That's how you grow.        

Richard Feynman 

    

With freedom, flowers, books, who could not be perfectly happy? Oscar Wilde

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Glimmers or Golden Moments

 My Great-Grandfather called them GOLDEN MOMENTS.

Glimmers are those tiny, seemingly insignificant moments when you feel a sense of joy, pleasure, peace, and gratitude. They’re often catalyzed by simple, daily things like petting an animal, taking a hot shower, or listening to the rain outside your window. Article

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. Harold Bloom

Tartle: This is a common word in Scottish parlance but one unknown to most English speakers outside of the highlands. This nearly onomatopoeic word describes that panicky hesitation just before you have to introduce someone whose name you suddenly can't remember.