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Your Karmic Footprint

500 Ideas
for Creating your Destiny

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy

500 Ideas to Create Your Destiny

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................... 4 ACTION ....................................................................................................................................................... 5 ADVERSITY................................................................................................................................................ 6 ART ............................................................................................................................................................... 7 CHARACTER (VIRTUE)........................................................................................................................... 8 CHANGE...................................................................................................................................................... 9 CONSCIOUSNESS, AWARENESS ...................................................................................................... 10 EDUCATION (LEARNING) .................................................................................................................. 12 GOD/SPIRIT ............................................................................................................................................. 13 HUMAN CONDITION ........................................................................................................................... 15 HUMOR ..................................................................................................................................................... 21 KARMA...................................................................................................................................................... 24 LEGACY ..................................................................................................................................................... 26 LOVE........................................................................................................................................................... 26 LIVING TRANSFORMATION ............................................................................................................. 27 LOVE........................................................................................................................................................... 35 MASS CONSCIOUSNESS ..................................................................................................................... 36 NATURE .................................................................................................................................................... 37 NEW WORLD ........................................................................................................................................... 37 PRAYER & MEDITATION .................................................................................................................... 38 PROSPERITY ............................................................................................................................................ 39 PURPOSE................................................................................................................................................... 39 RELIGION ................................................................................................................................................. 43 RULES FOR BEING HUMAN ............................................................................................................... 44 SERVICE .................................................................................................................................................... 45 THE DESTINY OF EARTH .................................................................................................................... 49 THINKING & DISCRIMINATION ..................................................................................................... 51 TIME ........................................................................................................................................................... 52 TRUTH ....................................................................................................................................................... 53 UNCONSCIOUS ...................................................................................................................................... 54 WORD ........................................................................................................................................................ 54 WORLD (EARTH) .................................................................................................................................... 55

500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy

Introduction
Welcome to a collection of remarkable ideas. A common element for the following quotes is that many express a level of consciousness that stimulates awareness, self-realization and transformation. Our overall orientation is growth and those ideas, perspectives and insights that contribute to individuals reaching their personal potential, regardless of where they are on the path. Use this as a companion to Your Karmic Footprint let it encourage the creation of your legacy. Good reading. We welcome your contributions and will be happy to add those we deem appropriate to future editions.

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Action
"I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow." -Julia Cameron We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. -Frank Tibolt You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. -Mahatma Gandhi Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. -Dale Carnegie The road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. - Dag Hammarskjold Dreams grow holy put in action. -Adelaide Procter Many a false step was made by standing still. -fortune cookie It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. -Robert Louis Stevenson A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. -Rita Mae Brown If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. -John Quincy Adams

500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. - John Ruskin

Adversity
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower. There is little that anyone can do when tests and deep distress and anxiety overwhelm a disciple, except to stand by in love, send healing thoughts and invoke the inner strength of the soul that the vehicles can be used. - Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going. -Beverly Sills To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity." -William Arthur Ward Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The greater the obstacle, the greater the glory in overcoming it; and difficulties are but the maids of honor to set off the virtue. -Moliere The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize . . . my capacities. -Jose Ortega Y Gasset The discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away. -Mevlana Rumi

500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy I know God will not give me anything I cant handle. I just wish he didnt trust me so much. -Mother Teresa Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you were looking for. -Joseph Campbell The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. -The Dalai Lama We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. -John W. Gardner The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize . . . my capacities. -Jose Ortega Y Gasset Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world. -Mary Wollstonecraft God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. -C. S. Lewis

Art
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. -John Ruskin Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. -Carl Jung

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. -Aristotle Life is a great canvas; throw on all the paint you can. -Danny Kaye I call architecture frozen music. -Goethe

Character (Virtue)
A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow. -Friedrich Nietzsche Character is bigger that intellect. -Ralph Waldo Emerson The measure of mans real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. -Thomas Babington Macaulay If we are strong, our character will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help. -John F. Kennedy Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. -George Bernard Shaw The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy Integrity has no need of rules. -Albert Camus Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln, widely attributed, but apocryphal In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. -Mohandas Gandhi This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. -William Shakespeare, Polonius speaking in Hamlet (1600) Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. -Louise Hay A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the worlds torrent. -Goethe It is only our deeds that reveal who we are. -Carl Jung It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs. -Confucius Continuous effort not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential. -Winston Churchill A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers. -Jean Paul Richter

Change
When you are through changing, you are through. -Bruce Barton

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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning." -Gail Sheey To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. -Henri Bergson When we can no longer change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. -Viktor Frankl Faced with the choice between changing ones mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. -John Kenneth Galbraith Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. -Orson Swett Marden The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -Blaine Lee It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. -W. Edwards Deming

Consciousness, Awareness
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. -William Blake The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not - which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams. -Carl Jung I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody. -Lily Tomlin What we see depends mainly on what we look for. -John Lubbock Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible." -Mohandas K. Gandhi

Every level of consciousness has its own perspectives and laws. -Lincoln Welles Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. -Sir James Dewar You see things; and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say, Why not? - George Bernard Shaw Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. -Simone Weil Consciousness ... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits ... A river or a stream are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, or consciousness, or of subjective life. -William James

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The development of the human being is but the passing from one state of consciousness to another. It is a succession of expansions, a growth of that faculty of awareness that constitutes the predominant characteristic of the indwelling Thinker. It is the progressing from consciousness polarised in the higher self, ego or soul, thence to a polarisation in the Monad, or Spirit, till the consciousness eventually is Divine. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) We are streams of consciousness, existing beyond space and time, occasionally defined by the material expression taken at any point. -Lincoln Welles A moment's insight may be worth a life's experience. -Oliver Wendell Holmes Your world is as big as you make it. -Georgia D. Johnson It is the expansion of consciousness and the production of increased sensitivity and perceptive awareness, which is the goal of all divine and hierarchical effort. The goal is not for betterment of material conditions. These will automatically follow when the sense of awareness is steadily unfolded. The future of humanity is determined by its aspiration and ability to respond to the idealism which is today flooding the world. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey)

Education (Learning)
Education is ... hanging around until youve caught on. -Robert Frost Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) Experience teaches only the teachable. -Vernon Law

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy One does not find oneself' by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine . . . who one is and wants to be. - May Sarton Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -Mahatma Gandhi Dont let your learning lead to knowledge, let your learning lead to action. -Jim Rohn I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand. -Chinese Proverb Two major ideas should be taught to the children of every country. They are: the value of the individual and the fact of the one humanity. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) Good advice often works best when preceded by a bad scare. -Unknown The only true voyage of discovery . . . consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes." -Marcel Proust, "Remembrance of things Past" We dont receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. -Marcel Proust Doubt grows with knowledge. -Goethe

God/Spirit
God is a verb. -Buckminster Fuller

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences. -William James One of the toughest things to do is wait on Spirit. It has its own timetable and isnt concerned with the needs and desires of our personality. -Lincoln Welles God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. -Ralph Waldo Emerson God is self-revealing and beyond all form, yet present and innate within all form. God is silence, still, serene, peaceful, unmoving, all-inclusive, everywhere present, all knowing by virtue of being All That Is. -David R. Hawkins I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world. -Albert Einstein The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge From the unreal lead me to the Real. From darkness lead me to Light. From death lead me to Immortality. Alcyone (At the Feet of the Masters) Form is the school of hard knocks for Spirit forcing Spirit to perfect itself. -Lincoln Welles God Transcendent eternally exists, but can only be seen and known and correctly approached, by God Immanent immanent in individual man, to groups and nations, in organized forms and in religion, in humanity as a whole, and in the planetary Life Itself. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Mary Baker Eddy

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy I have no desire to have God on my side. Rather, I want to do all that I can to be on his side. -Abraham Lincoln Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. -Ben Stein In attempting to describe Pure Being or God, and in the effort to arrive at some understanding of the nature of divinity, the formula of negation has been evolved. God is not this; god is not that; God is no-thing; God is neither time nor space; God is not feeling or thought; God is not form or substance. God simply IS. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) The Spirit shall look out through Matters gaze, And Matter shall reveal the Spirits face And all the earth become a single life. -Sri Aurobindo

Human Condition
Temptation usually comes in through a door that has been deliberately left open. -Arnold Glasow The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. -William Blake Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. -Sir Laurens van der Post The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. -Eldridge Cleaver Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them. -Franklin P. Jones

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Ninety-five percent of people are busy attempting to change effects. Something happens which they do not like and they try to change the situation. They soon find that they are simply changing one form of distress for another. The other five percent are busily engaged with causes. They know that in order to make any permanent change it is the cause which they must seek. They soon find that the cause is within their control. It is the five percent that do the thinking, and the 95 percent which merely accept the thoughts of others. -Charles F. Haanel

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. -Aldous Huxley By holding, man loses; by relinquishing, he gains; by seeking to grasp that which he has, it must and will inevitably disappear. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas A. Edison To a pig, a sty has good vibes: This only means that when something feels good, it is merely compatible with your existing energy and thought patterns. It will not serve you beyond where you are now. -Lincoln Welles The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there--you build yourself. -Ursula LeGunn Humankind cannot stand very much reality. - T. S. Eliot

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy The trouble with this world is that the ignorant are certain, and the intelligent are full of doubt. -George Bernard Shaw A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. -Sir Winston Churchill Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole in one. -Horizons magazine If you see in any given situation only that which everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. -S. I. Hayakawa Insisting on perfect safety is for people who dont have the balls to live in the real world. -Mary Shafer We receive what we give. If we try to control others and circumstances, we end up controlled ourselves. If this bugs you, youve got a chance. -Lincoln Welles A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers. -Jean Paul Richter There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. -Alfred Korzybski You can be sincere and still be stupid. -Charles F. Kettering We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people. -Arthur Schopenhauer The world is governed more by appearance that by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as it is to know it. -Daniel Webster

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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. -Dante Gabriel Rossetti Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past. -Maurice Maeterlinck My dad used to say, you wouldnt worry so much about what people thought of you if you knew how seldom they did. -Dr. Phil McGraw No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. -Mary Wollstonecraft A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. -Thomas Mann The concrete man has but one interest - to be right. That to him is the art of all arts, and all means are fair which help him to it. -William James Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. -Herbert Spencer The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -Henry David Thoreau Our chief want is life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. -Ralph Waldo Emerson All of the significant battles are waged within the self. -Sheldon Kopp It is easy to be glamoured by the beauty of ones own ideals and vision, and by the supposed rectitude of ones own position, and yet all the time be influenced subjectively by love of personal power, individual ambition, jealousy of other workers, and the many traps which catch the feet of the unwary disciple. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey)

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A man is a god in ruins. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of it members.... The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Our greatest foes, whom we must chiefly combat, are within. -Cervantes Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -Grandma Moses Peace will be the result of understanding and sharing, and not the origin of them, as the pacifists so often imply. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) A stupid mans report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. -Bertrand Russell You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. -Eric Hoffer To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. -Ralph Waldo Emerson A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks th Lord wud do if He knew th facts in th case. -Finley Dunne To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. -Miguel de Unamuno Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. -George Bernard Shaw

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice. -Anatole France Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their souls resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Greater emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. -William James Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. -Henry Brooks Adams Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life. -Germaine Greer Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy Power selfishly used, exhausts its user, and evokes a display of power antagonistic to him; he is thereby destroyed, because he has destroyed. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) Bless your uneasiness as a sign that there is still life within you. -Dag Hammarskjold Consciously or unconsciously, you always get what you expect. -Dr, Robert Anthony The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom. -John Stuart Mill I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? -Hermann Hesse Excuses are your lack of faith in your own power. -Dr. Robert Anthony

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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. -William Shakespeare

Humor
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles, because rogues sometimes take a rest. -Alexandre Dumas You can observe a lot by watching. -Yogi Berra If you get to thinkin youre a person of some influence, try orderin around somebodys elses dog. -Will Rogers Humour is a prelude to faith and Laughter is the beginning of prayer. -Reinhold Niebuhr The best way to get through whatever challenge you face is by firing up a sense of humor and pressing on. -James Kirkwood Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today its called golf. -Will Rogers

How Enlightened Are You? A Test: Well. . .

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy If you can live without caffeine or nicotine; If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains; If you can resist complaining; If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you any time; If you can take criticism and blame without resentment; If you can ignore friends' limited educations and never correct them; If you can treat the rich and poor alike; If you can face the world without lies or deceit; If you can conquer tension without medical help; If you can relax without liquor; If you can sleep without the aid of drugs; If you can have no prejudice against creed, color, religion, gender, sexual preference, or politics then you have almost reached the same level of spiritual development as your dog. -Anonymous

Zany Zen Never test the depth of the water with both feet. It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. If you think nobody cares if youre alive, try missing a couple of car payments. If you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, youre a mile away and you have their shoes.

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in his boat and drink beer all day. Dont squat with your spurs on. Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance. Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield. Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side and a dark side and holds the universe together. There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works. We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse. Everyone has a photographic memory; its just that some dont have film. Should atheists get insurance for acts of God? I feel like Im diagonally parked in a parallel universe. Plan to be spontaneous. A day without sunshine is like, night. The sooner you fall behind the more time youll have to catch up. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks and mail orders. Everyone is somebody elses weirdo. I asked the bookstore clerk where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. We are not young enough to know everything. Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world. -Steven Wright, et al We're all one. And each of us is totally unique just like everybody else. I've created the ultimate meditation tape. It's blank. I travel on the higher planes all the time, and up there you want to lose your baggage. -Swami Beyondananda

Karma
The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet. -Reinhold Niebuhr Everyone is a Child of his past. -Edna G. Rostow The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. -Florence Shinn Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing. -Paul Valery The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. -Henri Bergson Life is the sum of all your choices. -Albert Camus

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A man gradually identifies himself with the form of his fate; a man is, in the long run, his own circumstances. -Jorge Borges The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. -Milan Kundera Accidents to individuals are the result, usually, of an explosion of force, and those explosions are caused by the hatreds and the unkind thoughts and the critical works of those involved in the accident. - Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do. -Mother Maribel A bit of the fragrance clings to the hand that gives the flowers. -Chinese Proverb That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate. -Carl Jung That which wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. -Edmund Burke Youll begin to transcend karma when you accept it. -Lincoln Welles All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experiences than in that of probable causes of future experience. -William James The soul grows by its constant participation in that which transforms it. -Gregory of Nyssa

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Legacy
What we leave behind is not engraved in stone monuments but woven into the lives of others. -Pericles He is immortal, not because he along among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. -William Faulkner He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternitys sunrise. -William Blake The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same. -Franz Schubert

Love
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable. -Mohandas Gandhi

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This is the potency, latent in every human heart which was described by St. Paul as Christ in you, the hope of glory (Col. I.27), and is that which, under evolutionary law, brings a man eventually unto the Kingdom of God and unto the stature of the fullness of Christ. (Eph. IV.13) -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey)

Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause. -Mary Baker Eddy O World, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. -George Santayana No man has ever been saved by theology, but only by the living Christ, and through the awakened consciousness of the Christ within each human heart. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. -Anne Frank I Am the Christ My message is simple Love one another Love this beautiful planet Act accordingly. Bless each of you.

Living Transformation
Every step of the way has to be carved out by a man himself, and there is no short or easy road out of darkness into light. - Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey)

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Live life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders & says "Oh Sh.t she's awake. -unknown Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass, It is about learning to dance in the rain. -unknown If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures, let him begin the long, solitary process of perfecting himself." -Robertson Davies Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it. -Martin Luther King If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. -William A. Ward We must be willing to get rid of the life weve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. -Joseph Campbell Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. -Frank Outlaw All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. -Walt Disney You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. -Jack London The power of imagination makes us infinite. -John Muir Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself. -Erich Fromm

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -T.S. Eliot The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. -Mark Caine There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going. -Beverly Sills Keep your own counsel. Its amazing how many people will offer an opinion an opinion that is relevant only to their own limited perspective and based upon little insight beyond themselves. -Lincoln Welles Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -Martin Luther King Jr. Monks, what is the noble truth about the way that goes into the cessation of suffering? Just this noble eight-fold way, namely, right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. -The Buddha

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. -George Washington Carver The cry of the neophyte is: Tell me. Tell me. Then I will change. I will accept anything that is said, but tell me. The cry of the disciple is: Aid the work. Forget yourself. The world needs you. - Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey)

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy A way can be a guide, but not a fixed path: Names can be given, but not permanent labels. -Two Te Goodness and altruism grow out of realisation and service, and holiness of character is the outcome of those expansions of consciousness which a man brings about within himself through strenuous effort and endeavour. - Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. -Goethe Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something. -Thomas A. Edison Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Speak not of what you hear, but what you feel; for true knowledge is of the heart. -Lincoln Welles Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. -Simon Weil Be not in any way discouraged, brother of old, if you find the upward way stiff and hard to climb. You are in good company and are not alone. - Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) The less he spoke, the more he heard, O, if men were all like that wise bird! -Punch Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will to live. -Albert Schweitzer

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. -Reinhold Niebuhr (The Serenity Prayer) The reactions of others are not your responsibility. It is your responsibility to give them strength and detachment. Shoulder not, therefore, responsibilities which are not yours. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible. -Mohandas Gandhi 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 The spiritual aspirant must swim upstream, against the current of habit, familiarity and ease. -Eknath Easwaran Nothing contributes more to the peace of soul than having no opinion at all. -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg May the force be with you! -George Lucas Everything is laid out for you. Your path is straight ahead of you. Sometimes its invisible, but its there. You may not know where its going But you have to follow the path. Its the path to the Creator. Its the only path there is. -Chief Leon Shenandoah Toto, Ive a feeling were not in Kansas anymore. -Noel Langley (The Wizard of Oz)

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -Carl Jung God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable. -Unknown It is the effort that counts. The results will be inevitable, and commensurate with the effort. - Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) If you want small changes, work on your behavior; if you want quantum-leap changes, work on your paradigms. -Stephen R. Covey We battle duality until unity emerges. -Lincoln Welles One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. -Leonardo da Vinci You have two choices: Your commitment versus your fear. -Sammy Davis Jr. The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels. -Maria Montessori Nothing is ever achieved without giving something up. -Judith M. Barwick We all have the power to change our lives; and in doing so change the lives of those around us. -Charles Dickens A Chinese general put it this way: If the world is to be brought to order, my nation must first be changed. If my nation is to be changed, my hometown must be made over. If my hometown is to be reordered, my family must first be set right. If my family is to be regenerated, I myself must first be. -Purnell Bailey

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy Let the world teach you. It is a reflector of the self. -Lincoln Welles We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. -Carl Jung When we can no longer change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. -Viktor Frankl We can rarely know where someone else is on the path, so its best not to judge or form conclusions. Often the greater the development, the greater the challenge may be taken on in a given life experience. -Lincoln Welles Whenever you are able, have a look inside yourself to see whether you are unconsciously creating conflict between the inner and the outer, between your external circumstances at that moment -- where you are, who you are with, or what you are doing and your thoughts and feelings. Can you feel how painful it is to internally stand in opposition to what *is*? When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war. -Eckhart Tolle

If you want small changes, work on your behavior; if you want quantum-leap changes, work on your paradigms. -Stephen R. Covey Give what you need. -Lincoln Welles If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures, let him begin the long, solitary process of perfecting himself." -Robertson Davies

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is one's self. -Aldous Huxley If there is anything that we wish to change in our children, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. -Carl Jung People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson It is an orderly universe and the suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives, it is tying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson. -Peace Pilgrim Persist. Failure never prevents success. Difficulties develop the strength of the soul. The secret of success is ever to stand steady and to be impersonal. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) Dare to be naive. -Buckminster Fuller The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -William James Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. -William James If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. -Carl Jung We dont receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. -Marcel Proust We stumble and fall consistenly, even when we are most enlightened. -Thomas Merton

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. -Carl Jung Crisis is inherent in spiritual growth, for if the lower self, the personality, remains in control, little change and growth will occur. -Lincoln Welles We cannot become what we need to be by remaining where we are. -Max De Pree One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield. -Buddha

Love
We cant form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do. -Rumi It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a Heaven in Hells despair. -William Blake

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration. -Byron Katie The cause of all sorrow and woes is desire - desire for that which is material. ... No man liveth unto himself, and no nation either, and ... the goal of all human effort is loving understanding, prompted by a love for the whole. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. -Joseph Joubert Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -Plato When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. -Jimi Hendrix The way to be comfortable is to make others comfortable, the way to make others comfortable is to appear to love them, the way to appear to love them, is to love them in reality. -Jeremy Bentham Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. -Marianne Williamson

Mass consciousness
Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side. -Thomas B. Reed Realty is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -Albert Einstein

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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -George S. Patton Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. -Eric Hoffer

Nature
Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round; In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves. -Jean-Jacques Rousseau What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put into this world to rise above. -James Agee (African Queen)

New World
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. -R. H. Tawney

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All great truths begin as blasphemies. - George Bernard Shaw What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly. -Lao Tzu The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next. -Matthew Arnold When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. -Tuli Kupferberg You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mohandas Gandhi As we adjust our belief, we 'recreate' our world. -CG Walters Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Prayer & Meditation

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. -Kahlil Gibran

Spirit is a small voice waiting to be heard amongst the cacophony of our lower nature, especially the lower mind. Meditation, whatever form it takes, is intended to still the noise, so that we can hear. -Lincoln Welles

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Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you cant imagine. -Kathleen Norris

Prosperity
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things. -Eric Butterworth Anyone who tells you money cant buy happiness never had any. -Samuel L. Jackson Capital as such is not evil, it is its wrong use that is evil. -Mohandas Gandhi The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. -Bertie Charles Forbes

Purpose
We detect rather than invent our mission in life. -Viktor Frankl

Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. -Leo Rosten

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy Mans ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy that he live in accordance with his own nature. -Seneca Stop looking for your purposeBE IT! -Wayne Dyer Would you tell me please which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat. I dont much care where Then it doesnt matter which way you go, said the Cat. -Alices Adventure in Wonderland

Goals are great, destiny is greater. -Lincoln Welles Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising to tempt you to believe that your critics are right. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Heres a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If youre alive, it isnt. -Richard Bach I shall be telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference/ -Robert Frost How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you - for that is the meaning of your life. -Martin Buber

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy Be content with your duty and the immediate service which will lead you a step further upon the way to which you are ordained, and this way you can travel rapidly and with eager feet, or slowly and with lagging steps. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -William Jennings Bryan Everybody's got a great plan until the first punch. -Mike Tyson Aude aliquid dignum -Dare something worthy. This is the true joy in life: The being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. The being a force of nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. -George Bernard Shaw Good must ultimately triumph, but the Hierarchy does not know what the immediate future holds for humanity, because men determine their own destiny. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) Real happiness is not obtained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -Helen Keller Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. -Mother Teresa Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -Goethe A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. -Chinese Proverb Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Your work is to discover your work and then with all you heart to give yourself to it. -Buddha I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult. -E. B. White Were on a mission from God. -Elwood Blues If you dont know where youre going, youll probably not wind up there. -Forrest Gump Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. -Washington Irving Perseverance is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. -Henry W. Longfellow If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. -Albert Camus Figure out who you are and then do it on purpose. -Dolly Parton Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind. You can then make a conscious choice to be present rather than to indulge in useless thinking. You can invite Presence into your life, that is to say, make space. With the grace of awakening comes responsibility. You can either try to go on as if nothing has happened, or you can see its significance and recognize the arising of awareness as the most important thing that can happen to you. Opening yourself to the emerging consciousness and bringing its light into this world then becomes the primary purpose of your life. -Eckhart Tolle

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things. -Mother Teresa

Religion
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. -G.K. Chesterton (The Indian) sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are Gods. -Ohiyesa I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized, on this earth, capable of becoming the true man, master of his fate and captain of his soul. -Nehru The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. -Dante Gabriel Rossetti My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests. -George Santayana It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. -C. K. Chesterton I maintain Christianity is a life much more than a religion. -R. M. Moberly

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. -Samuel Butler Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. -George Bernard Shaw Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. -Fred Allen He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge The spiritual pathway to enlightenment is unique. It is not the same as practicing a religion. Religions tend to emphasize historical events, their geographic locations, and past cultures with political alliances. -David R. Hawkins A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. -Havelock Ellis The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. -William Shakespeare Going to church does not make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a car. -Lawrence J. Peter

Rules for Being Human

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around. 2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid. It makes no difference. You will learn lessons.

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy 3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The failed experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately works. 4. A lesson is repeated until learned. A lesson will be presented to you various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson. 5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned. 6. There is no better than here. When your there has become a here you will simply obtain another there that will again, look better than here. 7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself. 8. What you make of life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources that you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours. 9. The answers to lifes questions are inside of you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust. 10. You will get what you ask for. It may not be what you wanted, but it will be what you asked for. UPON ENTERING THIS LEVEL OF EXISTENCE YOU WILL FORGET ALL OF THE ABOVE. -source unknown

Service
Service can be briefly defined as the spontaneous effect of soul contact. Service is not a quality or a performance; it is not an activity towards which people must strenuously strive, nor is it a method of world salvage. This distinction must be clearly grasped, or else our whole attitude to this momentous demonstration of the success of the evolutionary process in humanity will be at fault. Service is a life demonstration. It is a soul urge, and is as much an evolutionary impetus of the soul as the urge to self-preservation or the reproduction of the species is a demonstration of the animal soul. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey)

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy Worry is less work than doing something to fix the worry. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes. -P.J. ORourke Service is the rent that we pay for our room on earth. -Lord Halifax Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. -Marion Wright Edelman If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. -Booker T. Washington You ask what your service is to be. That, my brother, will grow out of your meditation. It is not for me to tell you what activity your personality must follow; it is your own soul which must do so. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) To give without reward of notice has a special quality of its own. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart. -Arabic Proverb To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. -Douglas Adams We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. - Marian Wright Edelman It is every mans obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. -Albert Einstein I have never met an unhappy giver. -George Adams

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. -John Wooden Work is done by action and not by talking. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) There are two ways of spreading light; to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton In our work there is no great or little task, only obedience to the next duty, whatever that may be. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) You cannot possibly do everything that you see needs to be done; therefore, do that which will bring about the greatest amount of good to the greatest number of seeking souls. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -Sir Winston Churchill To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. -Douglas Adams Out of duty, perfectly performed, will emerge those larger duties which we call world work; out of the carrying of family responsibilities will come that strengthening of our shoulders which will enable us to carry those of the larger group. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) Its admirable to want to help the world. But to best help someone, you have to understand them and to understand others, you have to first understand yourself. So do what your are moved to do but at the same time, prepare yourself so you can develop the clarity to know how to exert the right leverage, in the right place, at the right time. Then your actions will carry the power to make an effective difference. -Dan Millman

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. -Benjamin Disraeli Youre either part of the solution or part of the problem. -Eldridge Cleaver The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. -George Eliot By thinking intensely of the good of others, by devoting yourself to their service, you will purify your heart by that work and through it you will arrive at the version of Self which penetrates all living things. -Vivekananda To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. -Anatole France Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -Ralph Waldo Emerson I dont know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know. The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. -Albert Schweitzer It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. -Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest growth will be achieved through service. This is a natural giving of energy which will draw forth more. By de-emphasizing the lower nature, it will eventually loose its grip. -Lincoln Welles Don't spend your precious time asking Why isn't the world a better place? It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is How can I make it better? To that there is an answer. -Leo Buscaglia

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy O Lord, give me a heart I can pour out in thanksgiving. Give me life So I can spend it Working for the salvation of humanity. -Shiekh Ansari I urge upon each and all ... the necessity for renewed effort to fit themselves for service by a conscious and deliberate effort to develop the intuition and to achieve illumination. Every human being who reaches to goal of light and wisdom, automatically has a field of influence which extends both up and down, and which reaches both inwards to the source of light, and outwards into the fields of darkness. When he has thus attained, he will become a conscious centre of life giving force, and will be so without effort. He will stimulate, energise, and vivify to fresh efforts all lives that he contacts, be they his fellow aspirants, or an animal, or a flower. He will act as a transmitter of light in the darkness. He will dispel the glamour around him, and let in the radiance of reality. - Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey)

The Destiny of Earth

The outcome of good is inevitable. It is, however, a question of a slow or a rapid realisation and liberation from the great world illusion, and to this end every aspirant is begged to work strenuously and to lend his aid. Every man who liberates himself, who sees clearly, and who releases himself from the glamour of illusion, aids in the Great Work. - Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. -Ralph Waldo Emerson In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -Al Rogers

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy Humanity is destined to go beyond suffering, but not in the way the ego thinks. One of the egos many erroneous assumptions, one of its many deluded thoughts is I should not have to sufer. Sometimes the thought gets transferred to someone close to you: My child should not have to suffer. That though itself lies at the root of suffering. Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego. The man on the cross is an archetypal image. He is every man and every woman. As long as you resist suffering, it is a slow process because the resistance creates more ego to burn up. When you accept suffering, however, there is an acceleration of that process which is brought about by the fact that you suffer consciously. You can accept suffering for yourself, or you can accept it for someone else, such as your child or parent. In the midst of conscious suffering, there is already the transmutation. The fire of suffering becomes the light of consciousness. -Eckhart Tolle The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change admit order. -Alfred North Whitehead I would like to remind you that the fact that you see the world picture as one of outstanding chaos, of striving ideologies and warring forces, of the persecution of minorities, of hatreds which are working out into a furious preparation for war, and of world anxiety and terror does not really mean that you are seeing the picture as it is in reality. You are seeing what is superficial, temporal, ephemeral, and entirely concerned with the form aspect. The Hierarchy is primarily occupied, as you know well, with the consciousness aspect and with the unfoldment of awareness, using form as a means only for the accomplishment of its designs. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) I see on an immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality of the Nature Providence is best; that man is man because he is as free to do evil as to do good; that life is as free to develop hostile forms as to develop friendly; that power waits upon him who earns it; that disease, wars, the unloosened, devastating elemental forces have each and all played their part in developing and hardening man an giving him the heroic fiber. -Accepting the Universe, John Burroughs The Plan, as it is sensed by the world disciple, in the attempt to work and cooperate with it, is only the sensing of that portion of it which concerns the human consciousness. We have not yet been able to catch even a glimmer of the vastness of the synthetic Plan for evolutions other than human, both

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy superhuman and subhuman; nor can we grasp the fabric of Gods ideal as it underlies the sum total of the manifested processes, even upon our little planet. All we really know is the fact of the Plan, and that it is very good; that we are enfolded within it, and subject to it. - Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey)

Thinking & Discrimination

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think. -George Bernard Shaw A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -Ralph Waldo Emerson The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -George Bernard Shaw The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The firstrate mind is only happy when it is thinking. -A.A. Milne The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives. -Louise Hay You can observe a lot by watching. -Yogi Berra Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies. -Buckminster Fuller

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. -Ralph Waldo Emerson If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. -Woodrow Wilson Most men do not as yet distinguish with accuracy between themselves as the THINKER, persistent in time and space, and the vehicle through which they think, which is ephemeral and transient. - Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) Discrimination is essential. Question, challenge, demand truth but be willing to accept it when it comes. Its not always what we want to hear. -Lincoln Welles All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves for less in the guise of effects of past experiences than in that of probable causes of future experience. -William James Freedom is the right to be wrong; not the right to do wrong. -John Diefenbaker We naturally associate democracy...with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos. -John Dewey

Time
Time has no divisions to mark it passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. -Thomas Mann

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance. -Will Rogers Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. -Thomas Edison

Truth
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce itself hundredfold. -Theodore Parker Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always. -Albert Schweitzer The truth shall set you free, but first it will piss you off. -Findley Eversole Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth. -Kahlil Gibran Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view. -Obi Wan Kenobi An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. -Henri-Frederic Amiel Why shouldnt truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -Mark Twain If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. -Rene Descartes All great truths begin as blasphemies. -George Bernard Shaw

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Unconscious
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good; not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classic sense of the world, divine. -Carl Jung We are near awakening when we dream that we dream. -Novalis The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach. -Carl Jung The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. -Sigmund Freud

Word
No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others. -Goethe The basis of all manifested phenomena is the enunciated sound, or the Word spoken with power, that is, with the full purpose of the will behind it. Herein, as is known, lies the value of meditation, for meditation produces eventually that inner dynamic purpose and recollection, or that internal ideation which must invariably precede the uttering of any creative sound. -Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey)

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What weve got here is failure to communicate. -Frank Pierson (Cool Hand Luke) The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of it faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power ... imagination. -Coleridge In the use of words comes limitation, and a clouding of the idea; words literally veil or hide thoughts, detract from their clarity, and confuse them by expression. - Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey)

World (Earth)
The earth is an organism within a greater one, and this fact needs wider recognition. The sons of men upon this planet so often view the whole system as if the earth were in the position of the sun, the centre of the solar organism. - Djwhal Khul (Alice A. Bailey) From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. -Sir James Jeans If a man would move the world, he must first move himself. -Socrates This world we live in is but thickened light. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Much of this world we live in is a construct suited to this set of circumstances. The same systems and laws do not necessarily exist elsewhere or at all levels. -Lincoln Welles

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500 Ideas to Create Your Legacy Now, my suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer that we can suppose... I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming. -John Haldane The universe began when nothing saw itself in the mirror. -Tor Norretranders The Earth is both a laboratory and an asylum. It is unique. -Lincoln Welles

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About the collector

Steve Kellogg

With over 35 years as student, teacher, writer, teacher, trainer and server oriented to living spiritual truth in everyday life. He has been a group leader, minister/priest and head of a metaphysical church. Experienced in assisting others to optimize their spiritual potential. As the author (writing as Lincoln Welles) of five books and manuals containing exclusive and original information based upon years of inner work. In his expansive career, Steve has been an architect, community planner, professional consultant, seminar leader, copywriter and speaker. He resides in Phoenix, Arizona. See Steves latest e-book:

Your Karmic Footprint How Thoughts & Feelings Create Destiny

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