Great Throughts Treasury

"The Gods throw the dice, and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not. They don't care if when you go, you leave behind a lover, a home, a career or a dream. The Gods don't care whether you have it all, whether your every desire can be met through hard work and persistence. The Gods don't want to know about your plans and hopes. Somewhere they're throwing the dice and you get chosen. From then on, winning and losing is only a question of luck."

"The girl would grow up marked by tragedy and, when she was twenty, would use her own suffering to help alleviate that of others. She would eventually do work of such vital importance that it would have an impact all over the world."

"The great aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love. Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with."

"The Good and Evil have the same face. Everything depends on when they cross the path of every human being."

"The grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things."

"The great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the master of the things that try to enslave us."

"The great craziness of men and women is precisely that: love."

"The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions."

"The greatest pleasure is not sex, it's the passion that is practiced. When this action is intense, sex intervenes to complete the dance, but he is never the main point."

"The greatest manifestation of the miracle of God is life."

"The guard kept rolling life is not a human struggle in the search for pleasure, but their efforts to release all the things that they think are important."

"The happier people can be, the unhappier they are."

"The happiest people are able to be so miserable he is."

"The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others."

"The history of one man is the history of all human beings."

"The heart decides, and what it decides is all that really matters."

"The humility of a warrior is not the same humility as that of a servile man. The warrior does not lower his head to anyone, and nor does he allow anyone to bow before him. The servile man, on the other hand, kneels before anyone he believes to be more powerful, and demands that the people under his command behave in a similar fashion before him."

"The human being is happiness, does not necessarily mean the misery of others."

"The lack of attention to the smallest details can completely destroy a man?s life."

"The language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart, it was love."

"The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected."

"The ideal conditions that you are looking for don?t exist. We shall never be able to get rid of certain defects. The trick lies in knowing that despite all your flaws you have a reason for being here, and you have to honor that reason."

"The 'insane' always believe in first impressions."

"The impression returned of Infinity and Eternity walking hand in hand; you only had to look for one of them, for example, the limitless universe, to feel the presence of the other, Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the Present, where all of life's secrets lie."

"The Listening Exercise: Relax. Close your eyes. Try for several minutes to concentrate on all of the sounds you hear in your surroundings, as if you were hearing an orchestra playing its instruments. Little by little, try to separate each sound from the others. Concentrate on each one, as if it were the only instrument playing. Try to eliminate the other sounds from your awareness. When you do this exercise every day, you will begin to hear voices. First, you will think that they are imaginary. Later, you will discover that they are voices of people from your past, present, and future, all of them participating with you in the remembrance of time. This exercise should be performed only when you already know the voice of your messenger. Do this exercise for ten minutes at a time. ? Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage"

"The little joke can make the cup of suffering flooding!!"

"The Lord is listening to the prayers of those who cry out to him to forget hatred, but a deaf ear for prayer who want to get rid of love!"

"The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love."

"The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him. I always wondered why He did that, and now I know the answer: when we are on high, we can see everything else as small. Our glory and sadness lose their importance. Whatever we conquered or lost remains there below. From the heights of the mountain, you see how large the world is, and how wide its horizons."

"The loss of any human being was disturbing to her. Though now I'm convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone does not have the true experience of freedom: having the most important things in the world without you master!"

"The magic moment of the day helps us change, makes us go for our dreams. We will suffer, we will have difficult times, we will face many disappointments... but everything is temporary, and non-marking. And in the future we can look back with oy Proud faith. Poor are those who are afraid to take risks. Because that might not ever disappoint, nor have disappointments, and suffer like chasing a dream. But looking back, because I always look back-hear heart that says, What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What did you do with the talents that you entrusted your Master? The buried at the bottom of a cave, because you were afraid of losing them. So this is your heritage. Sure you've wasted your life."

"The man does not like because he wants you to do good, or to help, or to protect someone. If so dealt with, observe your neighbor as mere objects, and themselves seen as generous and wise person. It has nothing to do with love. To love means to achieve communion with each other and discover the divine spark in him."

"The man can never stop dreaming. The dream and soul food, as the food and nourishment of the body."

"The Messenger Ritual: 1. Sit down and relax completely. Let your mind wander and your thinking flow without restraint. After a while, begin to repeat to yourself, ?Now I am relaxed, and I am in the deepest kind of sleep.? 2. When you feel that your mind is no longer concerned with anything, imagine a billow of fire to your right. Make the flames lively and brilliant. Then quietly say, ?I order my subconscious to show itself. I order it to open and reveal its magic secrets.? Wait a bit, and concentrate only on the fire. If an image appears, it will be a manifestation of your subconscious. Try to keep it alive. 3. Keeping the fire always to your right, now begin to imagine another billow of fire to your left. When the flames are lively, say the following words quietly: ?May the power of the Lamb, which manifests itself in everything and everyone, manifest itself also in me when I invoke my messenger. (Name of messenger) will appear before me now. 4. Talk with your messenger, who should appear between the two fires. Discuss your specific problems, ask for advice, and give him the necessary orders. 5. When your conversation has ended, dismiss the messenger with the following words: ?I thank the Lamb for the miracle I have performed. May (name of messenger) return whenever he is invoked, and when he is far away, may he help me to carry on my work. ?Note: On the first invocation ? or during the first invocations, depending on the ability of the person performing the ritual to concentrate ? do not say the name of the messenger. Just say he. If the ritual is well performed, the messenger should immediately reveal his name telepathically. If not, insist until you learn his name, and only then begin the conversation. The more the ritual is repeated, the stronger the presence of the messenger will be and the more rapid his actions."

"The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far."

"The Man with dignity is not measured by the number of friends around him, which at the height of his success, but his ability... not to forget those who helped him when his need was greater."

"The mirror reflects the true picture: it does not distort anything, because do not think. Pondering - therefore wrong."

"The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes."

"The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us."

"The model only serves to show how others defined their own realities."

"The moment we place ourselves on the same level as some vile adversary, we will fighting in the dark, and the only winner will be the Lord of Darkness."

"The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we're used to living in a different way. Finally we discover, to our surprise, that God wants us to be happy, because He is the Father."

"The more you're willing to give, the more you get in return."

"The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac."

"The moments that precede sleep are very similar to death. We are filled by a torpor and it is impossible to know when the 'I' takes on a different form. Our dreams are our second life. I am incapable of going through the doors that lead us to that invisible world without a shiver."

"The most difficult thing in this world is to adopt the spirit and attitude of a warrior. It is no use being sad, complaining, feeling unjustly treated, and believing someone is doing something negative. No one is doing anything, and certainly not to a warrior."

"The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage."

"The more meetings that satisfy the curiosity does not always occur on tables in restaurants luxury fireplace."

"The more people have the opportunity to be happy that they are unhappy."

"The most important experiences of men are those who run it to the limit; the only way we learn, because that requires all our courage."