Wisdom

"Science & Love have progressed "either" ways with growth of violence!"

"They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom."

"You will either have value, or be grist for the mill — nothing more."

"Be a peacemaker who values peace and takes peace everywhere you go."

"A world without esoteric knowledge is a poorer place and we as a humanity pay the price for the loss of its principles."

"How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to ‘draw the line,’ and we showed up with an eraser?"

"Service is the highest form of worship."

"Therefore, God elected the people of Israel to reveal authentic worship and the pursuit of ultimate wisdom so he could reinstate order to a chaotic world."

"Gnosticism is undeniably pre-Christian, with both Jewish and gentile roots. The wisdom of Solomon already contained Gnostic elements and prototypes for the Jesus of the Gospels... God stops being the Lord of righteous deed and becomes the Good One... A clear pre-Christian Gnosticism can be distilled from the epistles of Paul. Paul is recklessly misunderstood by those who try to read anything Historical Jesus-ish into it. The conversion of Paul in the Acts of the Apostles is a mere forgery from various Tanakh passages... [The epistles] are from Christian mystics of the middle of the second century. Paul is thus the strongest witness against the Historical Jesus hypothesis... John's Gnostic origin is more evident than that of the synoptics. Its acceptance proves that even the Church wasn't concerned with historical facts at all."

"Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with what comes from our mouth."

"Equally, it does not mean that Christian beliefs cause more distortion than other ideological beliefs. This emerged with particular clarity in engaging with the opinion that Jesus did not exist. This view is demonstrably false. It is fuelled by a regrettable form of atheist prejudice, which holds all the main primary sources, and Christian people, in contempt. This is not merely worse than the American Jesus Seminar, it is no better than Christian fundamentalism. It simply has different prejudices."

"However it—or the kind of extreme individualistic epistemology it embraces—can lead historians to an overly skeptical approach particularly to those sources that were intended to recount and inform events of the past, that is, testimony in this restricted sense. Particularly in Gospels scholarship there is an attitude abroad that approaches the sources with fundamental skepticism, rather than trust, and therefore requires that anything the sources claim be accepted only if historians can independently verify it….."

"There's a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between."

"As long as we still draw breath, we each have the power to bring change into the world."

"My life is never perfect, but life is always a beautiful thing. I choose to see the beauty out of it. I choose to make it wonderful. I choose to love life and it loves me back in return. I may only have one life to live, but if I do it right, once is enough."

"Our minds thirst for anything that reminds us of the deepest wisdom of the soul."

"A leader creates a new way to success for followers and inspires them to follow him toward the ultimate purpose."

"If your vision inspires others to see their dreams and your actions motivate them to realize it, then you are a leader."

"A friend is he who can feel your heart's beating and dance with it when it is joyful, cry with it when it is torn, and inspire when it is in need."

"Grant me the wisdom to know when to keep trying and when to stop wasting time, the patience to keep going with the 1st, and the courage & serenity to let go of the 2nd."