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Thomas Merton, The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia
If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world. Then share your peace with everyone, and everyone will be at peace.
If you are at peace share it with everyone
Dwight Currie, How We Behave At the Feast
Charity means sharing. It means cutting your cake into as many slices as you can, and then inviting everyone to join you at the feast.
You'll be surprised how much better everything tastes.
Inviting everyone to join you at the feast
Michael Berg, The Secret
1. The only way for us to achieve fulfillment is by achieving oneness with the Creator, the source of all joy and fulfillment.
2. Oneness with the Creator is achieved by becoming like Him in our essence — for spiritual oneness is accomplished through similarity of spiritual form.
3. The Creator's essence is one of sharing. Therefore, to become like Him, we need to transform our essence and nature from that of receiving to that of sharing.
Achieving oneness with the Creator
Margaret Fuller, Frederic Brussat's Twitter Collection
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Let others light their candles
Stephen Levine, Untrain Your Parrot and Other No Nonsense Instructions on the Path of Zen
What might it be like to awaken each day into an increasing sense that being loving is even more important than being loved?
Being loving is even more important than being loved
Tracy Cochran, Jeff Zaleski, Transformations
Moreover, as jaguar points out, learning and giving instruction come easily in cyberspace, secondarily because of its vast databases but primarily because of the willingness of most people online to share and to help out.
The willingness of most people online to help out.
Bernard Glassman, Rick Fields, Instructions to the Cook
After I'd been studying with my teacher, Maezumi Roshi, for about three years, he asked me to give introductory talks at local colleges. I told him that I wasn't ready. I didn't know enough. But he wouldn't accept that. He said that you'll never get to that place where you think you have enough clarity to teach — but that's not a problem, because teaching is really learning.
Having enough clarity to teach
Paramahansa Yogananda, How to Be Happy All the Time
A few years ago, I had a fine musical instrument, an esraj from India. I loved to play devotional music on it. But a visitor one day admired it. Unhesitatingly I gave it to him. Years later someone asked me, "Weren't you just a little sorry?" "Never for a moment!" I replied. Sharing one's happiness with others only expands one's happiness.
Sharing one's happiness with others
Vernon Ruland, Imagining the Sacred
We must love them both —
Those whose opinions we share,
Those whose opinions we don't share.
They've both labored in the search for Truth
and have both helped us in finding it.
We must love them both
Joel Goldsmith, Spiritual Healing
The only reason there is for living is love. It sounds strange, but it is true. There is no other reason for staying on earth than the opportunity to love, and anybody who has experienced this knows that there is no joy like loving: no joy like sharing, bestowing, understanding, and giving, all of which are but other names for love.
The only reason there is for living is love