#ene

Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.” (p.157) ↗

— Piero Ferrucci

#life

For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it. ↗

— Les Claypool

#bored #couple #general #i #just

Genetic code is a divine writing. ↗

— Toba Beta

#creation #divine #dna #genetic #god

Music in general is looking for something new overall. ↗

— Les Claypool

#looking #music #new #overall #something

Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree? ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#politeness #thoughtfulness #life

Since then her life had been peaceful and happy. She had allowed herself to be worshipped by that strangely captivating lover of hers, whose passionately willful temperament, tempered by that persistent, sunny gaiety, she had up to now only half understood. ↗

— Emmuska Orczy

#diogenes #laughing-cavalier #scarlet-pimpernel #series #life

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#generosity #good #goodness #help #muhammad-ali

Being generous often consists of simply extending a hand. That's hard to do if you are grasping tightly to your righteousness, your belief system, your superiority, your assumptions about others, your definition of normal. ↗

— Patti Digh

#normal #offering-help #open-mindedness #support #life

Don’t say bad words; don’t interrupt people; don’t shove; don’t steal; don’t lie. To the child, all these prohibitions appear identical (“It’s not nice”). The distinction between the ethical and the aesthetic will come only later, and gradually. Politeness thus precedes morality, or rather, morality at first is nothing more than politeness: a compliance with usage and its established rules, with the normative play of appearances—a compliance with the world and the ways of the world. ↗

— André Comte-Sponville

#life

Meditation expands our inner being. The inner being is like a small, individual river flowering towards the Ocean. In meditation, I feel how my inner being expands into an inner ocean, which is part of everything, which is one with Existence. Through the inner being, we come in contact with the inner ocean, the undefined and boundless within ourselves, where we are one with life. We realize that God is part of life. We realize that God is not a person, but the consciousness that is part of everything. We find God in a flower, in a tree, in the eyes of a child or in a playful dog. Through discovering our inner being, we discover that we are also part of the flower, the child or the dog. We realize that God is everywhere. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#consciousness #dog #existence #flower #god